The Alexandria Digital Library (ADL) Project has developed digital library services and collections to support the organization, access, and use of collections of information with the use of geospatial reference [1]. The Project's operational component is the Alexandria Digital Library (ADL), developed under Phase I of NSF's First Digital Libraries Initiative and now operational as part of the ...

In this article we describe support for a digital objects lifecycle, which we have created during our digital library related works. Basing on our experiences from WBC digital library, we intend to show how a properly constructed lifecycle can extend the functionality of digital libraries for both library readers and librarians responsible for maintaining content gathered in a digital library.

Libraries have promoted classic literature as digital document that are difficult to be displayed in their original forms. These digital documents are now accessed through the Internet. However, such digital documents are available for reading only, not for citing nor editing. In this paper, we propose a data model for users to extract and edit digital documents from a digital library. The prop...