Abstract
The Digital Libraries area is initially introduced with a report on initial approaches of designing library automation systems that can be considered “ancestors” of present days systems. After having presented the background to the area, the main concepts that underline present digital library systems are introduced together with a report on the efforts of defining the Digital Library Manifesto and the DELOS Digital Library Reference Model. Considerations on a possible way of improving present digital library systems to make them more user-centered are subsequently given. Finally, interoperability and evaluation issues are faced. The presentation ends with a concluding remark.
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The initial European initiative for dealing with digital libraries was the DELOS Working Group, active from January 1996 to December 1999, which was funded by the ESPRIT Long Term Research Programme within the Fourth Framework Programme of the Commission of the European Union, URL: http://delos-noe.isti.cnr.it/home/background.html. Due to the success of the DELOS Working Group in terms of acting as a focal point for the European as well as the world-wide digital library community, the Commission approved funding for an initial DELOS Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries, from January 2000 to December 2002, and later on the DELOS Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries, from January 2004 to December 2007, URL: http://www.delos.info/.
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DELOS, the Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries which operated from 2004 to 2007 in the context of the Information Society Technologies (IST) Program of the European Commission (Contract G038-507618).
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The Databases and Information Systems (DBIS) Group of the University of Basel is taking care of the development of OSIRIS in the context of “OSIRIS next”, a peer-to-peer based open service infrastructure aiming to implement and demonstrate a vision of modern service oriented information systems, URL: http://on.cs.unibas.ch/.
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An overall presentation of the DelosDLMS prototype is available at the URL: http://dbis.cs.unibas.ch/.
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See http://www.cenl.org/, since 2006 the Conference of European National Librarians has been added to the list of International Non-Governmental Organizations (INGO) enjoying participatory status with the Council of Europe.
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At present 48 national libraries of Europe are collaborating with The European Library, an update map of the participating national libraries and information on them are available at the URL: http://search.theeuropeanlibrary.org/portal/en/libraries.html.
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Useful information on the way a partner has to adapt to the technical infrastructure of The European Library environment can be found in the Handbook available at the URL: http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/portal/organisation/handbook/.
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The results of the EC Working Group on Digital Library Interoperability are reported in the briefing paper by Stefan Gradman, entitled “Interoperability. A key concept for large scale, persistent digital libraries” which can be downloaded from the URL: http://www.digitalpreservationeurope.eu/publications/briefs/interoperability.pdf.
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Text REtrieval Conference, URL: http://trec.nist.gov/.
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Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, URL: http://www.clef-campaign.org/.
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INitiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval, from 2002 to 2007 at the URL: http://inex.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de/, onwards at the URL: http://www.inex.otago.ac.nz/.
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NII Test Collection for IR Systems Project, URL: http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/.
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More information on the DIRECT system and on the data collections managed by it can be found at the URL: http://direct.dei.unipd.it/.
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The paper reports on work which originated in the context of the DELOS Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries. The author thanks Costantino Thanos, coordinator of DELOS, for his continuous support and advice.
The reported work has been partially supported by the TELplus Targeted Project for digital libraries, as part of the eContentplus Programme of the European Commission (Contract ECP-2006-DILI-510003) and by EuropeanaConnect Best Practice Network funded by the European Commission within the area of Digital Libraries of the eContentplus Programme (Contract ECP-2008-DILI-52800).
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Agosti, M. (2011). Digital Libraries. In: Melucci, M., Baeza-Yates, R. (eds) Advanced Topics in Information Retrieval. The Information Retrieval Series, vol 33. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20946-8_1
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