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International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries

ECDL 2002: Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries pp 292–308Cite as

OpenDLib: A Digital Library Service System

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OpenDLib is a software toolkit that can be used to create a digital library easily, according to the requirements of a given user community, by instantiating the software appropriately and then either loading or harvesting the content to be managed. OpenDLib consists of a federation of services that implement the digital library functionality making few assumptions about the nature of the documents to be stored and disseminated. If necessary, the system can be extended with other services to meet particular needs. The main focus of the paper is the openness and extendibility of the system. This feature has been obtained by applying a systematic approach to the design of the toolkit. A model of the system architecture has been defined in order to support this approach. The paper presents OpenDLib through this model.

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  1. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Elaborazione dell’Informazione, Pisa, Italy

    Donatella Castelli & Pasquale Pagano

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  1. Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Via Gradenigo 6/a, 35131, Padova, Italy

    Maristella Agosti

  2. Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’ Informazione (ISTI-CNR), Area della Ricerca CNR di Pisa, Via G. Moruzzi 1, 56124, Pisa, Italy

    Costantino Thanos

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Castelli, D., Pagano, P. (2002). OpenDLib: A Digital Library Service System. In: Agosti, M., Thanos, C. (eds) Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. ECDL 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2458. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45747-X_22

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