Communications of the ACM
Dienst: an architecture for distributed document libraries
Communications of the ACM
What are digital libraries? Competing visions
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue on progress toward digital libraries
The open archives initiative: building a low-barrier interoperability framework
Proceedings of the 1st ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Open digital libraries
Streams, structures, spaces, scenarios, societies (5s): A formal model for digital libraries
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Streams, structures, spaces, scenarios, and societies (5s): a formal digital library framework and its applications
International Journal on Digital Libraries
DelosDLMS - the integrated DELOS digital library management system
DELOS'07 Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Digital libraries: research and development
A grid-based infrastructure for distributed retrieval
ECDL'07 Proceedings of the 11th European conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
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A reference architecture for a given domain provides an architectural template which can be used as a starting point for designing the software architecture of a system in that domain. Despite the popularity of tools and systems commonly termed "Digital Library", very few attempts exist to set the foundation governing their development thus making integration and reuse of third party assets and results very difficult. This paper presents a reference architecture for the Digital Library domain characterised by many, multidisciplinary and distributed players, both resource providers and consumers, whose requirements evolve along the time. The paper validates this reference architecture by describing the structure of two current systems, DILIGENT and DRIVER, facing the problem to deliver large-scale digital libraries in two different contexts and with diverse technologies.