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Infrastructure-Based Research Digital Libraries

Infrastructure-Based Research Digital Libraries
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Author(s): Leonardo Candela (Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione “Alessandro Faedo” Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy), Donatella Castelli (Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione “Alessandro Faedo” Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy), Paolo Manghi (Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione “Alessandro Faedo” Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy)and Pasquale Pagano (Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione “Alessandro Faedo” Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy)
Copyright: 2013
Pages: 17
Source title: Recent Developments in the Design, Construction, and Evaluation of Digital Libraries: Case Studies
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Colleen Cool (Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, Queens College, USA)and Kwong Bor Ng (Queens College, CUNY, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2991-2.ch001

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Abstract

Digital Libraries have evolved from a digital counterpart of traditional libraries to highly dynamic environments conceived to provide a community with the data and services needed to accomplish its tasks. This trend is particularly frequent in the context of scientific research communities, whose members are scattered among multiple organizations across the world, with requirements that are very large, multi-disciplinary, and evolving with innovation. The realization of such Research Digital Libraries calls for innovative approaches, capable of handling the inherent complexity of such systems while keeping their realization and maintenance costs under sustainable thresholds. Digital Library Infrastructures have been recently proposed as suitable candidates for the realization of Research Digital Libraries. They build on service-oriented infrastructure technologies to offer an environment where organizations can share and exchange their data and service resources to grow in synergy, exploiting an economy of scale approach. This chapter describes the peculiar challenges that designers, developers, and administrators have to face when realizing Research Digital Libraries, and presents the concepts and technologies of Digital Library Infrastructure as possible solutions to these issues.

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