Virtual Libraries, Virtual Communities. Twenty First Annual IATUL Conference 2000, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 3-7 July 2000. (The CD-ROM is available from IATUL [URL:http://www. ...

This paper charts a research agenda on systems-oriented issues in digital libraries. It focuses on the most central and generic system issues, including system architecture, user-level functionality, and the overall ...

Libraries give access to the intellectual contents of a work regardless of its physical form. Digital library initiatives give access to information that has no real physical form. This article explores considerations of ...

Article included in Part 2 of a special issue devoted to the theme: Metadata and organizing educational resources on the Internet. Ancient sculpture is fragmentary. Some sculptures exist only in pieces, others have been ...

Presents a Web-based digital music library based on a 3-tier architecture. The primary goal is to manage efficiently distributed mp3 file collections. The proposed methodology makes use of the metadata existing inside the ...

The purpose of this research is to address the need for a definition of metadata descriptors for use in enhancing the accuracy of bibliometric instruments of scholarly evaluation, such as the impact factor. Design/method ...

The purpose of this article is to describe CDSware (CERN Document Server Software), a software developed at CERN. Design/methodology/approach – CDSware supports the creation of electronic preprint servers, Online Public ...

Aims to present the authors’ efforts towards the development of a digital library environment supporting research at the Medical School of Athens University, Greece. D esign/m ethodology/approach — The digital library ...

The 13th European Conference on digital libraries (ECDL 2009) was hosted this year on the beautiful Greek island of Corfu, from the 27th of September to the 2nd of October. Lively and crammed with information and events ...