Conference Circuit: Building the digital library

Building a Digital Library of Web News

We introduce a new information system for organization of a Digital Library of news articles found on the Web, with automatic topic classification. We present our strategies to deal with different update frequencies of news Web sites, the classification methodology, the data model for storing news articles, measurements on the data retrieved and finally results of classification of this type of...

Building a Digital Library of Newspaper Clippings: The Laurin Project

The field of digital libraries has been attracting a lot of research efforts during the last years. Many interesting projects have been started, dealing with the various open issues arising in the field. However, no project has specifically taken into account the problem of building a digital library of newspaper clippings. It is well known that a huge part of cultural knowledge is stored in th...

Building a “FRBR-Inspired” Catalog: The Perseus Digital Library Experience

Building the Czech Digital Mathematics Library upon DSpace System

The paper describes the process of building the Czech Digital Mathematics Library (DML-CZ) upon DSpace System. At first, the DML-CZ will be briefly introduced. Then we will describe DSpace system and its architecture together with Manakin—a system for building user interface above DSpace. The first technical part of the paper will be about mapping DML-CZ structure onto DSpace structures and abo...

The Talia library platform Rapidly building a digital library on Rails

Talia is a web-based distributed digital library and publishing system, designed for scholarly research in philosophy. Talia is based on semantic web technology; it’s being developed with the Ruby on Rails web framework. Rails is a relatively new environment, which allows developers to easily create well-structured web applications. By combining its power with semantic web technology and levera...