Going digital: a look at assumptions underlying digital libraries
Communications of the ACM
Making metadata: a study of metadata creation for a mixed physical-digital collection
Proceedings of the third ACM conference on Digital libraries
Collection metadata solutions for digital library applications
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Speical issue on integrating mutiple overlapping metadata standards
Open (source)ing the doors for contributor-run digital libraries
Communications of the ACM
Reusable learning objects: a survey of LOM-based repositories
Proceedings of the tenth ACM international conference on Multimedia
Multimedia and human-in-the-loop: interaction as content enrichment
Proceedings of the international workshop on Human-centered multimedia
Ncore: architecture and implementation of a flexible, collaborative digital library
Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Computing intensions of digital library collections
ICFCA'07 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Formal concept analysis
Viewing collections as abstractions
DELOS'07 Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Digital libraries: research and development
Merging metadata: a sociotechnical study of crosswalking and interoperability
Proceedings of the 10th annual joint conference on Digital libraries
| Hi-index | 0.00 |
Digital libraries have the potential to not only duplicate many of the services provided by traditional libraries but to extend them. Basic finding aids such as search and browse are common in most of today's digital libraries. But just as a traditional library provides more than a card catalog and browseable shelves of books, an effective digital library should offer a wider range of services. Using the traditional library concept of special collections as a model, in this paper we propose that explicitly defining sub-collections in the digital library-virtual collections-can benefit both the library's users and contributors and increase its viability. We first introduce the concept of a virtual collection, outline the costs and benefits for defining such collections, and describe an implementation of collection-level metadata to create virtual collections for two different digital libraries. We conclude by discussing the implications of virtual collections for enhancing interoperability and sharing across digital libraries, such as those that are part of the National SMETE Digital Library.