Federated digital libraries are composed of distributed, autonomous, and often heterogeneous information services but provide users with a transparent, integrated view of collected...
Current developments on Service-oriented Architectures, Peer-to-Peer and Grid computing promise more open and flexible architectures for digital libraries. They will open DL techno...
— Digital Ecosystems is the new paradigm for dynamic IT business integration. A Digital Ecosystem consists of institutions that compete, collaborate, and form stable or unstable ...
The integration of bibliographical data today is considered one of the most important tasks in the area of digital libraries. Various available sources of bibliographical informati...
In a federated digital library system, it is too expensive to query every accessible library. Resource selection is the task to decide to which libraries a query should be routed. ...