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...

A technical system may be viewed as a locus of knowledge production. Knowledge grows through the design process, as the designer constructs new solutions to problems. Donald Schon (1983, 1990) describes a conversation between the designer and the materials of design, an interaction in which the designer makes a move – either with the actual artifact or with a sketch or other representation of i...

Wide access to large information collections is of great potential importance in many aspects economic, environmental, health, cultural, social, etc. of everyday life. Historical video documentaries hold by national audiovisual archives, constitute one of the most precious from a historical and cultural viewpoint and less accessible cultural information. This paper presents the ECHO (European C...

3) Learning Objectives At the end of the module, student will be able to 1) Explain the basics of Image Retrieval and its needs in digital libraries. 2) Explain the different Image Retrieval types. 3) Classify Content Based Image Retrieval based on various features and differentiate between the techniques being used. 4) Explain the various Image Retrieval systems in existence and evaluation str...

The characteristics of environmental data present a challenge to the providers of this type of information. Both the wide variety of data types and the large size that typify environmental data objects combine to make it especially difficult to manage. Digital library technology shows promise for the management of environmental data. This paper surveys numerous environmental digital library and...

This paper presents a preliminary discussion on some of the results from a survey aimed to explore, describe and explain some of the usability characteristics in digital library evaluation in the Libyan context. The study is framed in the evaluation of a bilingual digital library: The National Oil Corporation (NOC) Digital Library in Libya. It is worth mentioning in this context that this study...

LVis is a joint project aiming at the 2-D and 3-D visualization of search results derived from user queries of digital library collections. This paper gives an overview of the intent of the project, the data mining techniques applied, the visualization metaphors used, and the usability studies planned and undertaken to date.

Conventional digital libraries increasingly support remote access from mobile devices. However, the archetypical mobile user differs from the conventional user in a number of aspects; of these the most important is context. Synonymous with mobile computing is the context concept, and factoring the availability of select contextual elements into the design of digital libraries offers significant...

We describe our approach for acquiring, preserving, organizing and disseminating information in a digital library of news publications.