Dienst: an architecture for distributed document libraries
Communications of the ACM
The open archives initiative: building a low-barrier interoperability framework
Proceedings of the 1st ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Enforcing interoperability with the open archives initiative repository explorer
Proceedings of the 1st ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Flexible and Extensible Digital Object and Repository Architecture (FEDORA)
ECDL '98 Proceedings of the Second European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
Digital Library: Gross Structure and Requirements (Report from aWorkshop)
Digital Library: Gross Structure and Requirements (Report from aWorkshop)
A Lightweight Protocol between Digital Libraries and Visualization Systems
Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries [JCDL 2002 Workshop]
Building Digital Libraries Made Easy: Toward Open Digital Libraries
ICADL '02 Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries: Digital Libraries: People, Knowledge, and Technology
A system for building expandable digital libraries
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
A new framework for building digital library collections
Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Enhancing semantic digital library query using a content and service inference model (CSIM)
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
FRBR: enriching and integrating digital libraries
Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Representing aggregate works in the digital library
Proceedings of the 7th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Metadata harvesting for content-based distributed information retrieval
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
An architecture for supporting RFID-enhanced interactions in digital libraries
ECDL'10 Proceedings of the 14th European conference on Research and advanced technology for digital libraries
Distribution alternatives for superimposed information services in digital libraries
DELOS'04 Proceedings of the 6th Thematic conference on Peer-to-Peer, Grid, and Service-Orientation in Digital Library Architectures
Analysis and evaluation of service oriented architectures for digital libraries
DELOS'04 Proceedings of the 6th Thematic conference on Peer-to-Peer, Grid, and Service-Orientation in Digital Library Architectures
Customising interfaces to service-oriented digital library systems
ICADL'06 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Asian Digital Libraries: achievements, Challenges and Opportunities
Harvesting for full-text retrieval
ICADL'05 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Asian Digital Libraries: implementing strategies and sharing experiences
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Reusability always has been a controversial topic in Digital Library (DL) design. While componentization has gained momentum in software engineering in general, there has not been broad DL standardization in component interfaces. Recently, the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) has begun to address this by creating a standard protocol for accessing metadata archives. We propose that the philosophy and approach adopted by the OAI can be extended easily to support inter-component protocols. In particular, we propose building DLs by connecting small components that communicate through a family of lightweight protocols, using XML as the data interchange mechanism. In order to test the feasibility of this, a set of protocols was designed based on the work of the OAI. Components adhering to these protocols were implemented and integrated into production and research DLs. The performance of these components was analyzed from the perspective of execution speed, network traffic, and data consistency. On the whole, this work has shown promise in the approach of applying the fundamental concepts of the OAI protocol to the task of DL component design and implementation.