Digital Library Service

A Digital Library Service is a Library Service that restricts itself to Digital Documents.

• AKA: Digital Archive.
• Context:
  • It can (typically) be an Online Service.
  • It is a Documnent-intensive Application.
  • It can range from being a Digital Document Library to being a Digital Reference Library.
  • …
• Example(s):
  • a Digital Document Library, such as:
    • ACM Digital Library.
    • IEEE Xplore DL.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Physical Library Service.
  • EZProxy Service (a URL-Rewriting Service).
• See: Corpus.

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References

2014

• (Fox & Torres, 2014) ⇒ Edward A. Fox, and Ricardo da Silva Torres (editors). (2014). “Digital Library Technologies: Complex Objects, Annotation, Ontologies, Classification, Extraction, and Security.” In: Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services Journal, March 2014.In: Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services Journal, March 2014. doi:10.2200/S00566ED1V01Y201401ICR033

2011

• (Wikipedia, 2011) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_library
  • A digital library is a library in which collections are stored in digital formats (as opposed to print, microform, or other media) and accessible by computers. The digital content may be stored locally, or accessed remotely via computer networks. A digital library is a type of information retrieval system. In the context of the DELOS, a Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries, and DL.org, a Coordination Action on "Digital Library Interoperability, Best Practices and Modelling Foundations", Digital Library researchers and practitioners produced a Digital Library Reference Model which defines a digital library as:

    A potentially virtual organisation, that comprehensively collects, manages and preserves for the long depth of time rich digital content, and offers to its targeted user communities specialised functionality on that content, of defined quality and according to comprehensive codified policies.

    Actually, this document contains a Digital Library Manifesto which introduces the three types of relevant ‘systems’, i.e. Digital Library, Digital Library System, and Digital Library Management System. It describes the main concepts characterising these systems, i.e., organisation, content, user, functionality, quality, policy and architecture. It introduces the main roles that actors may play within digital libraries, i.e., end-user, manager and software developer. Finally, it describes the reference frameworks needed to clarify the DL universe at different levels of abstraction, i.e., the Digital Library Reference Model and the Digital Library Reference Architecture. The first use of the term digital library in print may have been in a 1988 report to the Corporation for National Research Initiatives. The term digital libraries was first popularized by the NSF/DARPA/NASA Digital Libraries Initiative in 1994. These draw heavily on As We May Think by Vannevar Bush in 1945, which set out a vision not in terms of technology, but user experience. The term virtual library was initially used interchangeably with digital library, but is now primarily used for libraries that are virtual in other senses (such as libraries which aggregate distributed content). A distinction is often made between content that was created in a digital format, known as born-digital, and information that has been converted from a physical medium, e.g., paper, by digitizing. The term hybrid library is sometimes used for libraries that have both physical collections and digital collections. For example, American Memory is a digital library within the Library of Congress. Some important digital libraries also serve as long term archives, for example, the Eprint arXiv, and the Internet Archive.
• (Candela et al., 2011) ⇒ L. Candela, G. Athanasopoulos, D. Castelli, K. El Raheb, P. Innocenti, Y. Ioannidis, A. Katifori, A. Nika, G. Vullo, S. Ross: The Digital Library Reference Model. April 2011 (PDF)

2009

• (Renear, 2009) ⇒ Allen H. Renear http://www.lis.illinois.edu/oc/people/bio.html?id=renear
  • Research Interests: How digital documents function as knowledge representation systems: developing models of how documents organize and structure knowledge and then exploring how these models can improve document-intensive applications such as digital libraries, scientific collaboration systems, publishing systems, educational technology, and humanities textbases.

2008

• L. Candela et al. (2008). “The DELOS Digital Library Reference Model - Foundations for Digital Libraries, version 0.98.".

2002

• (Greenstein & Thorin, 2002) ⇒ Daniel I. Greenstein, and Suzanne Elizabeth Thorin. (2002). “The Digital Library: A Biography." Digital Library Federation. ISBN:1933645180.

2000

• (Krichel & Gu Xh, 2000) ⇒ Thomas Krichel, and Guildford Gu Xh. (2000). “Working towards an Open Library for Economics: The RePEc project.” In: PEAK. The Economics and Usage of Digital Library Collections, Ann Arbor.

1999

• (Fox, 1999) ⇒ Edward A. Fox. (1999). “The Digital Libraries Initiative - Update and Discussion.” In: Bulletin of the America Society of Information Science, 26(1).

1988

• (Kahn & Cerf, 1988) ⇒ R. E. Kahn, and V. G. Cerf. (1988). “The Digital Library Project Volume I: The World of Knowbots, (DRAFT): An Open Architecture For a Digital Library System and a Plan For Its Development./" Reston, VA: Corporation for National Research Initiatives.

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