Kepler is an attempt to bridge the gap between established, organization-backed digital libraries and groups of researchers that wish to publish their findings under their control, anytime, anywhere yet have the advantages of an OAI-compliant digital library. We describe an architecture and implementation of the Kepler system that allows an archivelet to be installed in the order of minutes by ...

Federated digital libraries focus on the development of common services over multiple, heterogeneous digital repositories. To offer advanced services for federated digital libraries, there is a need to provide an abstract representation of digital objects stored within a specific repository, maintaining their semantics. In this paper a middleware for the development of federated digital librari...

This paper briefly describes both organizational and technical issues and approaches involved in creating an operational digital library at the University of Crete, found at http://dlib.libh.uoc.gr. We investigate and describe our approaches and experiences, the last few years, on setting in operation a Digital Library with many collections. We had to analyze the library goals and user needs, t...

digital libraries have become an inevitable part of higher education and research institutions. though the exorbitant costs are spent on access and utilization of them, research findings indicates potential users may still be ignoring them. this study assesses influencing factors on acceptance and intention of academic staff of agricultural higher education and research institutions in using of...

Building upon a collection with functionality for discovery and analysis has been described by Lynch as a ‘layered’ approach to digital libraries. Meanwhile, as digital corpora have grown in size, their analysis is necessarily supplemented by automated application of computational methods, which can create layers of information as intricate and complex as those within the content itself. Œis co...

The spread of the knowledge society and the growth of digitalization challenge the current configuration of the physical library space. In coming years the library environment will change radically, irrespective of which kind of library we are talking about. This article focuses on the library’s evolution, and on the spatial and design changes that lie ahead for the traditional library in both ...