Foundations of a Multidimensional Query Language for Digital Libraries

  • Authors:
  • Donatella Castelli;Carlo Meghini;Pasquale Pagano

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ECDL '02 Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

A query language for Digital Libraries is presented, which offers access to documents by structure and sophisticated usage of meta-data. The language is based on a mathematical model of digital library documents, centered around a multilevel representation of documents as versions, views and manifestations. The core of the model is the notion of document view, which is recursive, and captures the content and structure of a document. The metadata representation distinguishes between formats and specifications, so being able to accommodate different meta-data formats, even for the same document. A query is a logical formula, and its result are the digital library documents satisfying the user query.