When a digital library is decomposed into many geographically distributed repositories,searchefficiencybecomesan issue. Increasing network congestion makes this a compelling issue...
James C. French, Allison L. Powell, Walter R. Crei...
Abstract. This paper examines the issues surrounding distributed Digital Library protocols. First, it reviews three prominent digital library protocols: Z39.50, SDLIP, and Dienst, ...
David Bainbridge, George Buchanan, John R. McPhers...
In China-US Million Book Digital Library, output of the digitalization process is more than one terabyte of text in OEB and PDF format. To access these data quickly and accurately,...
Federated digital libraries are composed of distributed, autonomous, and often heterogeneous information services but provide users with a transparent, integrated view of collected...
Abstract. 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 d...
Carl Lagoze, Dean B. Krafft, Tim Cornwell, Dean Ec...