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Core : Three Access Levels To Underpin Open Access
3 types of access to open access content
There are three essential types of access to this content, which we will call access levels. We argue that these access levels must be supported by services in order to create an environment in which OA content can be fully exploited. They are: -Access at the granularity of…
Digital libraries beyond search and access
...going "beyond search and access" while not ignoring these functions has already been explored in Lagoze, et al. (2005). The authors argue that digital libraries need to add value to web resources by extending current metadata models to allow establishing and representing…
What Is A Digital Library Anymore, Anyway ?
A graph information model for a digital library
This paper describes an information model for digital libraries that intentionally moves "beyond search and access", without ignoring those basic functions, and facilitates the creation of collaborative and contextual knowledge environments. This model is an information network…
Digital libraries need to distinguish themselves from search engines
In the age of Google, what is a digital library anymore, anyway? Just asking the question is bound to raise passions. Despite our zealous defense of the successful work of the digital library community over the past decade, the amazing success of commercial web search engines…
Limitation of a traditional, record-oriented metadata model for digital libraries
The basic record-oriented data and metadata model employed by most digital (and traditional) libraries has a limited ability to fully model this multi-dimensional information context. First, metadata records, and metadata repositories, primarily represent individual item…
Purpose of a digital library: much more than search engine portals
As suggested by Borgman [14-16], digital libraries should match and indeed dramatically extend traditional libraries. As such, they should be much more than search engine portals. Like any library they should feature a high degree of selection of resources that meet criteria…