Recently, CD has been at least partially used in the study and design of digital library systems [2] [3] [4] [5]. However, CD has not been consistently applied, and few work models have been published. The question remains unexplored how helpful CD can be in the study and development of digital libraries. Might CD make it easier to design digital library systems that are broadly useful? Is it p...

In the era of Big Data, actual demands of collecting large volumes of complex digital information have brought new challenges to digital library software. This scenario calls for the construction of Very Large Digital Library (VLDL). New approaches and technologies are needed to deal with the various issues in designing and developing VLDL. In this paper, we design a plug-in system—PuntStore as...

The Digital Assets Repository (DAR) is a system developed at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, the Library of Alexandria, to create and maintain the digital library collections. The system introduces a data model capable of associating the metadata of different types of resources with the content such that searching and retrieval can be done efficiently. The system automates the digitization process...

This study is a description of how university students perceive digital library services, or the integration of digital library elements within the traditional or hybrid library services in academic libraries. These services were identified through a preliminary study that evaluated the digital services offered by twenty university libraries. The top five university libraries with most services...

Usage and user feedback about a state digital library, in which the developers/designers, content providers, different types of libraries and their staffs, and a variety of user groups represent a loose federation of separate organizations with diverse expectations and needs, are investigated. Through corroboratory evidence from usage statistics of Internet-based database services available thr...

This paper describes some of the challenges the National Library of New Zealand has faced in our efforts to maintain the authenticity of born digital collection items from first transfer to the Library through ingest into our digital preservation system. We assume that assuring the authenticity and integrity of digital objects means preserving the binary objects plus metadata about the objects....

The Domain and Its Origins This is the third time that digital libraries have been the primary focus of a chapter in the Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) and, not surprisingly, it reflects a third perspective. Five years ago, Fox and Urs (2002) reported on the literature of the digital library largely as an engineering construct and a research domain. A few years earl...

This column gives an overview of current trends in digital library research under the following headings: digital library architecture, systems, tools and technologies; digital content and collections; metadata; interoperability; standards; knowledge organisation systems; users and usability; legal, organisational, economic, and social issues in digital libraries.