@article{b4155362d67645aea5e791095fda7464,
title = "Digital Libraries for the Next Millennium: Challenges and Research Directions",
abstract = "The unprecedented growth of Internet technologies has made resources on the World Wide Web instantly accessible to various user communities through digital libraries. Since the early 1990s, there have been several digital library initiatives sponsored by government agencies and/or private organizations all over the world. A digital library is a networked system environment that provides diverse user communities with coherent, seamless and transparent access to large, organized, and digitized information resources. This article provides a comprehensive overview of major digital library projects that are currently being undertaken across the globe. We also identify and discuss major challenges and research issues to be addressed in the design and implementation of digital libraries for the next millennium. We believe that digital libraries are ripe with research opportunities, offer many challenges, and will continue to grow in the next several years.",
keywords = "Digital library, Metadata management, Resource harvesting, Resource sharing, Socioeconomic context of digital library, Software agent",
author = "Sudha Ram and Jinsoo Park and Dongwon Lee",
note = "Funding Information: Making of America (MOA) Project (http:// moa.cit.cornell.edu/MOA/moa-main page.html): The MOA Project aims to make a digital library of important United States historical information available over the Internet. The initial phase of this project was funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Charles E. Culpeper Foundation from 1994 to 1996, and was framed around the cooperation between the University of Michigan library and Cornell University library. By making scanned digital images of the complementary journals and monographs from both libraries' 19th century United States history collection, MOA plans to fully capture all signification information and make that information easily accessible on both campuses. Funding Information: SIS-ELS is a digital library funded by National Center for Science Information Systems (NACSIS) of the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports, and Culture in Japan since 1995. The library provides primary information such as catalogue and bibliographic information from Japanese academic journals, especially scientific papers. The primary users are: (1) researchers and postgraduate students in universities, junior and technical colleges in Japan, (2) researchers in inter-university research institutes in Japan, and (3) researchers at academic societies cooperating with NACSIS-ELS in Japan. Funding Information: Cooperative Research Centre for Distributed Systems Technology (DSTC) Project (http:// www.dstc.edu.au/): Started in 1992 and scheduled to finish in 1999, the DSTC project is a collaborative effort funded by the Australian Government's Cooperative Research Centres Program and more than thirty other organizations for the development of a technological foundation for future global distributed systems. Key areas of focus for DSTC are Java, XML, Internet searching, knowledge management, collaborative computing, and security. Funding Information: A new initiative, called Digital Library Initiative— Phase 2 (DLI-2), will be jointly supported by NSF, DARPA, NASA, the National Library of Medicine (NLM), the Library of Congress (LoC), the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and others. Based on the lessons learned from DLI, DLI-2 intends to accelerate development, management, preservation, and accessibility of digital contents and collections. While focusing on operational digital libraries, DLI-2 encourages research on interactions between humans and digital libraries in various social and organizational contexts. Funding Information: Recognizing the role of digital libraries, several federal agencies and private organizations in the United States have launched initiatives to spur the development of digital libraries. Among these initiatives, the Digital Libraries Initiative (DLI) is jointly sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Phase-1 of this initiative consists of six 4-year research projects funded from September 1994 to 1998. The common objectives of these projects are: (1) to advance the means of collection, storage, searching, retrieval and processing in digital form via wide-area communication networks (Cole and Harum, 1995); (2) to improve practices of communities so they are more effective, efficient, and productive (Atkins, 1997); (3) to create a large testbed and acquire substantial cost sharing; and (4) to facilitate the emergence of new communities of discourse, research, and learning (Atkins, 1997).",
year = "1999",
doi = "10.1023/A:1010021029890",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "1",
pages = "75--94",
journal = "Information Systems Frontiers",
issn = "1387-3326",
publisher = "Springer Netherlands",
number = "1",
}