Cloud computing is a new computing model. The emergence and development of cloud computing have a great effect on the development and application of digital library. Based on the analysis of the problem in the existing digital library, a new digital library platform architecture model based on cloud computing is put forward. The model consists of four lays: infrastructure layer, data layer, man...

Introduction A mediator sits between a user and a variety of data sources. It acts on behalf of the user to provide “one stop shopping” to an organization’s data. An intranet, or digital library, is an excellent example of the need for a mediator because of the myriad of data types that exist in the digital library. A user query such as “What are the three best restaurants in Chicago?” should n...

In this paper, we investigate issues of performance management in Digital Libraries. We defined a management architecture for measuring and monitoring the behavior of digital libraries as they operate, so that we can make performance conclusions using real life digital library load. Our architecture can be easily applied on any digital library system, introducing minimal overhead to digital lib...

One of the long-standing challenges in HCI has been the integration of usability evaluation methods within design practice. In the work reported here, we investigated the question of how to include user concerns within an unstructured, system-focused development process. The project investigated the use of Claims Analysis as a method for assessing the effects of design decisions on users’ exper...

2 IT Development Culture In this paper the authors describe approaches for the development of quality assurance (QA) procedures for a digital library programme. The authors argue that QA procedures are needed in order to ensure that deliverables from digital library programmes will be interoperable and give be easily deployed and repurposed. The adoption of open standards is acknowledged as ess...

The Greenstone Digital Library (GSDL) system, developed by the New Zealand Digital Library (NZDL) Consortium at the University of Waikato is a suite of open-source software for building and distributing digital library collections. At the Thai Computational Linguistic (TCL) Laboratory of CRL Asia Research Center, we plan to implement and host digital libraries in several major Asian languages. ...

Digital libraries are huge and complex information systems. Digital library users are from various backgrounds with diversified information requirements. Digital library users are fed up with the information overload problem due its unsophisticated search features. Digital libraries can be effectively implemented by addressing the information overload problem. Hence, this paper presents newly d...