Information filtering and information retrieval: two sides of the same coin?
Communications of the ACM - Special issue on information filtering
Patron-augmented digital libraries
DL '00 Proceedings of the fifth ACM conference on Digital libraries
Hermes: a notification service for digital libraries
Proceedings of the 1st ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
A Unified Model of Internet Scale Alerting Services
ICSC '99 Proceedings of the 5th International Computer Science Conference on Internet Applications
Awareness Services for Digital Libraries
ECDL '97 Proceedings of the First European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
Information Alert in Distributed Digital Libraries: The Models, Languages, and Architecture of DIAS
ECDL '02 Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
How Does the Observation Strategy Influence the Correctness of Alerting Services?
Datenbanksysteme in Büro, Technik und Wissenschaft (BTW), 9. GI-Fachtagung,
Query Routing in Large-Scale Digital Library Systems
ICDE '99 Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Data Engineering
How to Build a Digital Library
How to Build a Digital Library
Analytical usability evaluation for digital libraries: a case study
Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Proceedings of the fifteenth ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia
Automatic Information Organization and Retrieval.
Automatic Information Organization and Retrieval.
SIFT: a tool for wide-area information dissemination
TCON'95 Proceedings of the USENIX 1995 Technical Conference Proceedings
Dogear: Social bookmarking in the enterprise
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Metadata aggregation and "automated digital libraries": a retrospective on the NSDL experience
Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
FRBR: enriching and integrating digital libraries
Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Design and evaluation of awareness mechanisms in CiteSeer
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Changing paradigm in journals based current awareness services in libraries
Information Services and Use
Enhancing digital libraries using missing content analysis
Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
ICADL 08 Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries: Universal and Ubiquitous Access to Information
Semantic alerting for digital libraries
Proceedings of the 9th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Event-based applications and enabling technologies
Proceedings of the Third ACM International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems
CloudBooks: an infrastructure for reading on multiple devices
TPDL'11 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Theory and practice of digital libraries: research and advanced technology for digital libraries
An integrated alerting service for open digital libraries: design and implementation
OTM'05 Proceedings of the 2005 Confederated international conference on On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems - Volume >Part I
Profile-Based online data delivery
OTM'06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: AWeSOMe, CAMS, COMINF, IS, KSinBIT, MIOS-CIAO, MONET - Volume Part II
Tipple: location-triggered mobile access to a digital library for audio books
Proceedings of the 13th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
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Users of modern digital libraries (DLs) can keep themselves up-to-date by searching and browsing their favorite collections, or more conveniently by resorting to an alerting service. The alerting service notifies its clients about new or changed documents. Proprietary and mediating alerting services fail to fluidly integrate information from differing collections. This paper analyses the conceptual requirements of this much-sought after service for digital libraries. We demonstrate that the differing concepts of digital libraries and its underlying technical design has extensive influence (a) the expectations, needs and interests of users regarding an alerting service, and (b) on the technical possibilities of the implementation of the service. Our findings will show that the range of issues surrounding alerting services for digital libraries, their design and use is greater than one may anticipate. We also show that, conversely, the requirements for an alerting service have considerable impact on the concepts of DL design. Our findings should be of interest for librarians as well as system designers. We highlight and discuss the far-reaching implications for the design of, and interaction with, libraries. This paper discusses the lessons learned from building such a distributed alerting service. We present our prototype implementation as a proof-of-concept for an alerting service for open DL software.