This paper presents a novel approach to model-driven development of Digital Library (DL) systems. The overall idea is to allow Digital Library systems designers (e.g. information architects, librarians, domain experts) to easily design such systems by using a visual language. We designed a Domain Specific Visual Language for such a purpose and developed a framework supporting it; this framework...

In this paper we discuss the problem of handling many classification schemes within the context of a single digital library concurrently, which we term multischeming. We discuss how to represent which category describes an object in the digital library in this system, as well as the workings of the browsing process which is performed by the user. We motivate this problem as related to digital l...

actually used in the classrooms. The students who wrote a lot of comments into their digital textbooks tended to receive a higher grade at the end of the course, and also the average number of comments per student within a group achieving the same grade during each lecture had a positive relation in most lectures of the course with their grades in the course. These findings suggest that if both...

In this paper we describe an object oriented document model of a meta system for existing digital library systems. We show how we solve heterogenity of existing systems in the context of linking and annotating existing digital library documents with a slim and simple approach. Our approach is already implemented in the system OMNIS/2, which is an advanced meta system for existing digital librar...

This article analyses the role of libraries and information professionals in a digital library environment. The major focus for discussion is the availability of improved intellectual access to knowledge sources in a digitised world. The author argues that purposeful knowledge organisation, information filtering, and management skills are mandatory a priori elements that support accessibility a...

This article describes the digital music library work at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. At the heart of the project is a music information retrieval workbench for evaluating algorithms and performing experiments used in conjunction with four datasets of symbolic notation ranging from contemporary to classical pieces. The outcome of this experimentation is woven together with strands fr...

The Digital Library Integration Infrastructure (DLII) provides a systematic lightweight approach for integrating digital library collections and services. Digital library systems generally require minimal or no changes to their code. Users see a totally integrated environment. They use their digital library system just as before. They also see extra link anchors. Selecting one generates a list ...

We are presenting a digital engineering library – the Digital Mechanism and Gear Library (DMG-Lib). The existing worldwide knowledge in form of books, drawings, physical models etc. is mostly scattered, difficult to access and does not comply with today’s requirements concerning a rapid information retrieval. Therefore the development of a digital, internet-based library for mechanisms and gear...

Given the lack of standard building component, in several cases digital library applications are built from scratch using ad-hoc approaches to implement all required components. On the other hand, our claim is that the development of ad-hoc software modules for each new digital library is not convenient. It is necessary to define and design standard software components in order to support the d...

The NSDL (National Science Digital Library) is funded by the National Science Foundation to advance science and math education. The initial product was a metadata-based digital library providing search and access to distributed resources. Our recent work recognizes the importance of context – relations, metadata, annotations – for the pedagogical value of a digital library. This new architectur...