A data model for digital libraries

  • Authors:

  • Carlo Meghini;Nicolas Spyratos;Jitao Yang

  • Affiliations:

  • Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto della Scienza e delle Tecnologie della Informazione, Pisa, Italy;Université Paris-Sud, Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique, Orsay, France;Université Paris-Sud, Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique, Orsay, France

  • Venue:
  • International Journal on Digital Libraries
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We present a data model for digital libraries supporting identification, description, and discovery of digital objects. The model is formalized as a first-order theory, certain models of which correspond to the intuitive and practical notion of digital library. We use the model as a yardstick to assess the adequacy of the World Wide Web as a digital library and show why, in its present form, the Web is far from fulfilling this objective, while the Semantic Web does better in that respect.