Preservable Digital Objects as Building Blocks of Digital Libraries (PDO)

@inproceedings{citeulike:1429579, abstract = {igital libraries are traditionally seen as complex systems, which deal with various data objects. We propose to turn this view around. That is, we propose to define the functional capabilities of digital objects which we intend to administer in a digital library first and consider the digital library to be the sum of the functionalities required by these individual objects. We then describe digital objects, the methods of which have from the beginning be defined to fit the requirements of the ongoing discussions on preservation requirements. That is, any digital library, which is build from objects as the described ones, would implicitly be prepared for long term preservation.}, author = {Day, Michael and Guercio, Maria and Herrmann, Volker and Hofman, Hans and Ross, Seamus and Strathman, Stefan and Strodl, Stephan and Thaller, Manfred }, citeulike-article-id = {1429579}, journal = {DELOS 2007}, keywords = {digital\_objects, digital\_preservation}, posted-at = {2007-07-02 23:21:00}, priority = {3}, title = {Preservable Digital Objects as Building Blocks of Digital Libraries (PDO)}, url = {http://old.hki.uni-koeln.de/people/herrmann/forschung/PDO06-04.pdf}, year = {2007} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:1429579 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1429579 TI - Preservable Digital Objects as Building Blocks of Digital Libraries (PDO) JF - DELOS 2007 N2 - igital libraries are traditionally seen as complex systems, which deal with various data objects. We propose to turn this view around. That is, we propose to define the functional capabilities of digital objects which we intend to administer in a digital library first and consider the digital library to be the sum of the functionalities required by these individual objects. We then describe digital objects, the methods of which have from the beginning be defined to fit the requirements of the ongoing discussions on preservation requirements. That is, any digital library, which is build from objects as the described ones, would implicitly be prepared for long term preservation. KW - digital_objects KW - digital_preservation AU - Day, Michael AU - Guercio, Maria AU - Herrmann, Volker AU - Hofman, Hans AU - Ross, Seamus AU - Strathman, Stefan AU - Strodl, Stephan AU - Thaller, Manfred PY - 2007/// UR - http://old.hki.uni-koeln.de/people/herrmann/forschung/PDO06-04.pdf ER -