Abstract

This paper charts a research agenda on systems-oriented issues in digital libraries. It focuses on the most central and generic system issues, including system architecture, user-level functionality, and the overall operational environment. With respect to user-level functionality, in particular, it abstracts the overall information lifecycle in digital libraries to five major stages and identifies key research problems that require solution in each stage. Finally, it recommends an explicit set of activities that would help achieve the research goals outlined and identifies several dimensions along which progress of the digital library field can be evaluated.

Date

January 1, 1970

Authors

Yannis Ioannidis, David Maier, Serge Abiteboul, Peter Buneman, Susan Davidson, Edward Fox, Alon Halevy, Craig Knoblock, Fausto Rabitti, Hans Schek, Gerhard Weikum

Journal

International journal on digital libraries

Volume

5

Pages

266-274

Publisher

Springer Berlin Heidelberg