Digital library (DL) increasingly becomes an important learning topic for training librarians and information specialists. However, due to many perspectives, models, and activities developed in DL field, it is difficult for students to develop an initial clear understanding of DL. Current available e-learning environments (such as Blackboard) cannot provide the desired functionalities for suppo...

This paper describes the digital library of historical resources, a research project which involves building a testbed for the purpose of developing and testing new collaborative digital library functionality and presents an initial analysis of the digital library’s public use on the web. The digital library is modeled to focus on serving secondary students information needs in conducting histo...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe the design and development of a digital library at Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT), India, using DSpace open source software. The study covers the structure, contents and usage of CUSAT digital library. Design/methodology/approach – This paper examines the possibilities of applying open source in libraries. An evaluative app...

In this paper I present Garnet, a spatial hypertext integrated to a digital library, and NoteTwig, a spatial hypertext for small-screen use. In both cases, the scope for expression in the hypertext system is limited by usability constraints – potential ambiguity in the first case, and navigation in the second. The lessons learnt to date from these systems, and the problems which I am attempting...

A work environment for the National Archives of Singapore (NAS) digital library is described. The system provides an integrated platform for supporting scholarly tasks such as browsing, querying, organizing and annotating of resources using a spatial metaphor. When complete, the system will allow users to build and share personal collections of resources as well as author new resources of vario...

The British Library is increasingly a digital library. Over past decades, it has built up significant collections of digital content covering a very wide range of content types. In addition to the increasing amounts of digital content acquired by purchase or donation, the Library and its partners have also invested heavily in the digitization of selected collection content, helping to create la...

Digital Libraries play an important role in education; they are beneficial to both instructors and students. Many Web file-based course material systems have been built, but most of them do not have effective management mechanisms. Instead, they often have broken links and do not support metadata. To transfer these course materials from a file repository to an integrated and searchable educatio...

Digital libraries offer much promise for patrons and many challenges for system designers and developers. We envision digital libraries as being more than a relatively permanent and fixed archival collection of digital material to be browsed and queried by information-seeking individuals. A digital library is a versioned (fixed and fluid) and interconnected collection of both permanent and tran...

We formalize the operation of a digital library using denotational semantics for a language that expresses interaction with a digital library. The formalization defines digital objects and their relationship to their metadata, how digital objects are added and removed from digital library collections, how searching is performed on the collections, and how authored interfaces to collections are ...

With the rapid development of the digital libraries, Interoperability is the problem to realize the real information sharing and eliminate the digital information islands. In this paper, the character and requirement of digital library interoperability is discussed. As the limitations of the current technologies in the realization of the large-scale digital library interoperability on the Web, ...