Digital Library as Network and Community Center

A Virrtual Community Library: SICS Digital Library Infrastructure Project

In this project1, we aim to create an agent-based digital library architecture for a Virtual Community Library (VCL) where each user has a personal library and, at the same time, is part of a larger community. The community is dynamically composed of the users’ personal libraries and, through intermediators, other digital libraries. We want to stress the fact that the users participate in a lar...

The digital library as place

Purpose: This paper is a high-level investigation of the physical-conceptual continuum occupied by both digital and physical libraries. Methodology/Approach: A framework is provided for thinking about the notions of place and library. The issue of materials and the ideas they represent is considered. Places for people are considered, including issues of people's sense of place in physical and d...

Development of Indonesia’s National Digital Library Network

This chapter describes various technical and social issues in the development of the Indonesia’s National Digital Library Network (IndonesiaDLN). The success of the network was attributed to the use of the Protocol for Metadata Posting (PMP) to allow member institutions without a permanent Internet connection to join the digital library (DL) network, the use and distribution of open source soft...

Rethinking the Digital Media Library for RIT's The Wallace Center

In 2012, the Digital Preservation Team at Rochester Institute of Technology's The Wallace Center undertook an assessment of its Institutional Repository, the Digital Media Library. The Digital Preservation Team looked at the repository's current performance and requirements for ensuring its future success, and then examined four different philosophical approaches to configuring an IR that are i...

Unraveling the Dynamics of Digital Library Community: A Social Network Analysis approach