— Next generation Digital Libraries (DLs) will offer an entire ensemble of systems and services designed to help users to easily find and access the information they are looking...
—Traditional search systems are usually based on keywords, a very simple and convenient mechanism to express a need for information. This is the most extended way of searching th...
Through scenarios in the popular press and technical papers in the research literature, the promise of the Semantic Web has raised a number of different expectations. These expect...
Daffodil is a front-end to federated, heterogeneous digital libraries targeting at strategic support of users during the information seeking process. This is done by offering a va...
In order to support various requirements from the user’s perspective, digital library (DL) systems may need to apply a large variety of services, such as query services for a spe...