DelosDLMS - The Integrated DELOS Digital Library Management System
DelosDLMS is a prototype of a next-generation Digital Library (DL) management system. It is realized by combining various specialized DL functionalities provided by partners of the DELOS network of excellence. Currently, DelosDLMS combines text and audio-
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Information Management Systems Research Group, University of Padua (IT) 2 Visual Information Processing Laboratory, University of Florence (IT) 3 Database and Information Systems Group, University of Basel (CH) 4 Information Systems Group, University of Duisburg-Essen (DE) 5 Databases, Data Mining and Visualization Group, University of Constance (DE) 6 Information & Software Engineering Group, Technical University of Vienna (AT) 7 Institute for Information Systems, ETH Z¨ urich (CH) 8 Database and Information Systems Group, University of Constance (DE)
Abstract. DelosDLMS is a prototype of a next-generation Digital Library (DL) management system. It is realized by combining various specialized DL functionalities provided by partners of the DELOS network of excellence. Currently, DelosDLMS combines text and audio-visual searching, offers new information visualization and relevance feedback tools, provides novel interfaces, allows retrieved information to be annotated and processed, integrates and processes sensor data streams, and finally, from a systems engineering point of view, is easily configured and adapted while being reliable and scalable. The prototype is based on the OSIRIS/ISIS platform, a middleware environment developed by ETH Z¨ urich and now being extended at the University of Basel. Keywords: Digital Library Management System, SOA.
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Introduction
The overall goal of the DelosDLMS is the implementation of a prototype of a next-generation Digital Library management system [1]. This system combines text and audio-visual searching, offers personalized browsing using new information visualization and relevance feedback tools, provides novel interfaces, allows retrieved information to be annotated and processed, integrates and processes sensor data streams, and finally, from a systems engineering point of view, is easily configured and adapted while being reliable and scalable. Previous work in the DELOS network has mainly focused on improving Digital Libraries (DLs) by developing independent, powerful and highly sophisticated prototype systems in cooperation of few partners. In addition, a dedicated C. Thanos, F. Borri, and L. Candela (Eds.): Digital Libraries: R&D, LNCS 4877, pp. 36–45, 2007. c Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007
DelosDLMS - The Integrated DELOS DL Management System
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DELOS activity is the definition of a Reference Model for Digital Libraries [2]. The goal of the DELOS integration activities is twofold. First, it aims at integrating these prototype systems as building blocks into OSIRIS/ISIS, an existing middleware environment that was developed at ETH Zurich. The result of the integration – that is, the middleware infrastructure together with all the advanced DL functionality – constitutes the DelosDLMS prototype. Second, DelosDLMS will serve as a partial implementation of the DELOS Reference Model. This paper reports on the integration of DL functionality which includes audio (TU Vienna) and 3D features (Univ. Florence), a new paper-based interface (iPaper from ETH Z¨ urich), a S
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