The essential quality of information in a digital library is accessibility. Full text search is not enough for some collections, more can be done. Historical collections, for example, contain dates, and it would be useful to historians to be able to search by them. However, these dates occur anywhere within the text of historical documents, and to be searched they must be extracted from the doc...

This paper provides a report of work in progress to implement integrated access to multiple digital collections that are described using a variety of metadata formats. Using the emerging resource discovery and digital library management system, ENCompass, a team at Cornell University Library is experimenting with a new discovery system model. The model uses simple, “pidgin” metadata at the coll...

This paper aims to study the open source integrated library management systems,,i.e. Koha and NewGenLib, to inform librarians about what considerations to make when choosing an open source integrated library management system (ILMS) for their library. The paper provides a detailed comparative analysis of both types of software, i.e. Koha and NewGenLib which are undertaken in the study. Both typ...

Aggregation, harvesting, personalization techniques, portals, service provision, etc. have all become buzzwords. Most of them simply describing what librarians have been doing for hundreds of years. Prior to the Web few people outside the libraries were c oncerned about these issues, a situation which today it is completely turned upside down. Hopefully the new actors on the arena of knowledge ...

Invenio is a free comprehensive web-based document repository and digital library software suite originally developed at CERN. It can serve a variety of use cases from an institutional repository or digital library to a web journal. In order to fully use full-text documents for efficient search and ranking, Solr was integrated into Invenio through a generic bridge. Solr indexes extracted full-t...

The following authors have contributed to the creation of the DELOS Digital Library Reference Model, a predecessor of " The Digital Library Reference Model " Disclaimer The content of this booklet is the sole responsibility of the DL.org Consortium and does not reflect the views of the European Commission. The DL.org Consortium is not responsible for any use that might be made of the informatio...