Abstract
This paper presents an innovative type of digital library basic architectural service, the Collection Service, that supports the dynamic construction of customized virtual user views of the digital library. These views make transparent to the users the real DL content, services and their physical organization. By realizing the independency between the physical digital library and the digital library perceived by the user the Collection Service also creates the conditions for services optimization.
The paper exemplifies this service by showing how it has been instantiated in the CYCLADES and SCHOLNET digital library systems.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Andreoni, A., Baldacci, M.B., Biagioni, S., Carlesi, C., Castelli, D., Pagano, P., Peters, C.: Developing a European Technical Reference Digital Library. In: Abiteboul, S., Vercoustre, A.-M. (eds.) ECDL 1999. LNCS, vol. 1696, pp. 343–362. Springer, Heidelberg (1999)
Davis, J., Lagoze, C.: The Networked Computer Science Technical Report Library. Technical Report TR94-1595, Department of Computer Science, Cornell University (1996)
Witten, I.H., Bainbridge, D., Boddie, S.J.: Power to the People: End-user Building of Digital Library Collections. In: Proceedings of the first ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries, pp. 94–103. ACM Press, New York (2001)
Bergmark, D.: Collection Synthesis. In: Proceeding of the second ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, pp. 253–262. ACM Press, New York (2002)
Geisler, G., Giersch, S., McArthur, D., McClelland, M.: Creating Virtual Collections in Digital Libraries: Benefits and Implementation Issues. In: Proceedings of the second ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, pp. 210–218. ACM Press, New York (2002)
Lagoze, C., Van de Sompel, H.: The open archives initiative: building a lowbarrier interoperability framework. In: Proceedings of the first ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, pp. 54–62. ACM Press, New York (2001)
French, J.C., Powell, A.L., Callan, J., Viles, C.L., Emmitt, T., Prey, K.J., Mou, Y.: Comparing the performance of database selection algorithms. In: Proceedings of the 22nd annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval, pp. 238–245. ACM Press, New York (1999)
Callan, J., Connell, M.: Query-based sampling of text databases. ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) 19, 97–130 (2001)
Candela, L., Castelli, D.: The Cyclades Collection Service. Technical report, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione Alessandro Faedo, CNR (2003)
Blair, D.C.: The challenge of commercial document retrieval, Part II: a strategy for document searching based on identifiable document partitions. Information Processing and Management 38, 293–304 (2002)
Lagoze, C., Fielding, D.: Defining Collections in Distributed Digital Libraries. D-Lib Magazine (1998), http://www.dlib.org
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2003 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Candela, L., Castelli, D., Pagano, P. (2003). A Service for Supporting Virtual Views of Large Heterogeneous Digital Libraries. In: Koch, T., Sølvberg, I.T. (eds) Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. ECDL 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2769. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45175-4_33
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45175-4_33
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-540-40726-3
Online ISBN: 978-3-540-45175-4
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive