Principles for digital library development
Communications of the ACM
Database and Metadata Support of a Web-Based Multimedia Digital Library for Medical Education
ICWL '02 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Advances in Web-Based Learning
Enhancing semantic digital library query using a content and service inference model (CSIM)
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Browsing mixed structured and unstructured data
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Browsing mixed structured and unstructured data
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Metadata architecture for digital library integration
ICCOMP'06 Proceedings of the 10th WSEAS international conference on Computers
The profiles in science digital library: behind the scenes
Proceedings of the 12th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital Libraries
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We describe an approach to the development of a digital library system that is founded on a number of basic principles. In particular, we discuss the critical role of metadata in all aspects of the system design. We begin by describing how the notion of metadata is sometimes interpreted and go on to discuss some of our early experiences in a digital conversion project. We report on the Profiles in Science project, which is making the archival collections of prominent biomedical scientists available on the World Wide Web. We discuss the principles that are used in our system design, illustrating these throughout the discussion. Our approach has involved interpreting metadata in its broadest sense. We capture data about the items in our digital collection for a a variety of purposes and use those data to drive the entire system. Futher, we have designed our overall system architecture such that it can accommodate changes while still ensuring the persistence of the underlying data.