Metadata is data about data. It is considered an ideal and a very useful solution in describing/managing resources on the Internet. Especially, in the digital library field, metadata plays an important role for integrating digital resources and offering information service. However, from users standpoint, information service offered nowadays by any digital library is unable to satisfy their div...

The digital basin is a complicated heterogeneous distributed system. There are a lot of information resources in it, include data resources, technology resources, system resources, application resources, etc. It is a primary problem needed solve and purpose in the digital basin how integrates this resources, turns it into an organic whole, provides maximum shared. Constructing information resou...

Digital resources are readily available and easily accessible with the rapid development of information and communication technologies nowadays. These digital resources, however, have not been fully utilized as demonstrated in the literature. This chapter presents a study based on an online survey in a university environment aiming to investigate the extent to which digital resources are utiliz...

We envisage a Digital Library not only as an information resource where users may submit queries to satisfy their information need, but also as a collaborative working and meeting space. We will present a personalized collaborative Digital Library environment, where users may organise the information space according to their own subjective view, may become aware of each other, exchange informat...

Nowadays, the construction and application of digital library leads a new era of the way people obtain knowledge and information, and promotes the academic exchanges and social progress. Digital library, however, also involves great risk; hacker attacks become the main threat of the information security of digital library, and may probably cause the loss and damage of the information resources ...

This survey examines the familiarity of students at Virtual University of Shiraz (VUS), as a first virtual institution in Iran, with the concept and importance of digital libraries. To do this research, a descriptive and survey methodology was used. Students of Virtual University of Shiraz in comprise the population of the study. Findings showed that more than 66 percent of distance students ar...

Access to information is necessary, but not sufficient in our digital era. The challenge is to objectively integrate digital resources based on user-defined objectives for the purpose of discovering information relationships that facilitate interpretations and decision making. The Antarctic Treaty Searchable Database (http://aspire.nvi.net), which is in its sixth edition, provides an example of...