Abstract. In this paper, we investigate the issues of performance management in large scale, autonomous and federated digital library systems, performing the tasks of indexing, searching and retrieval of information objects. ...

In this paper we briefly describe an open ordering manipulation system with a WWW interface. The orders concern articles of scientific journals. Customer users can search in data sources from a variety of suppliers for ...

Article included in a special issue devoted to the theme: Pioneering tomorrow's Internet. Selected papers from the TERENA Networking Conference 2000, Lisbon, Portugal, 22-25 May 2000. Digital library objects can be quite ...

Σήμερα, με την τεχνολογία, τα μέσα και την διαθέσιμη πληροφορία, η διάχυση της γνώσης είναι πιο περίπλοκη παρά ποτέ. Οι βιβλιοθήκες, σαν βασικές μονάδες αυτής της διαδικασίας, δεν μπορούν να περιορίζονται μόνο στο υλικό ...