Call for Abstracts
The goal of the workshop is to bring together European developers and users of digital object repository systems in the context of digital libraries. A number of issues that are in the scope of the workshop are the following:
- Models for digital object management, handling and manipulation.
- Representation and manipulation of heterogeneous and complex digital content.
- Collection management capabilities
- Workflows, cataloguing, batch ingestions, etc: critital "every day" DL development issues that the system facilitates
- Means of access, integration and interoperability of digital objects (Web Services, OAI, etc).
- Examples of digital object repository systems at work in digital libraries.
- Needs and experiences of users of digital object repository systems.
- Evaluations and comparisons of digital object repository systems with respect to extensibility, flexibility, scalability, preservation, etc.
Some technical aspects of the workshop topic area are:
- digital object models, behaviours, profiles, and prototypes
- tools for managing and delivering digital content
- multiple views of each digital object
- relationships among digital objects
- web services for access and management
- support for Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
- versioning and audit trail
A list of Digital object repository systems and / or digital library systems of interest is provided below:
- FEDORA, Flexible Extensible Digital Object Repository Architecture
- DSpace, Open Source Digital Repository System
- Greenstone, A Platform for Distributed Digital Library Applications
- EPrints, Eprints Open Access Repository
- aDORe, A Modular and Standards-Based Digital Object Repository
- OpenDLib, A Digital Library Management System Based on a Powerful Document Model
- DAFFODIL, Distributed Agents for User-Friendly Access of Digital Libraries
- MILOS, A Multimedia Content Management System for Digital Library Applications
- CDSware CERN Document Server Open Access Repository
Note that none of the above lists should be considered restrictive in any manner. The workshop aims to cover a variety of practical digital library development issues and how their resolution can (or cannot) be carried out in the context of the digital object repository at hand.
Submission of Extended Abstracts
Authors are invited to submit extended abstracts, which should be written in English and prepared according to the Springer LNCS format guidelines (2 pages maximum). Authors are invited to send their manuscripts as attachments (PDF/PS format) by email to dorsdl@lib.uoa.gr by April 30. Please, note that the submission implies the willingness of at least one of the manuscript authors to register and present the paper. Accepted contributions will be published on the workshop's web site.