Digital Libraries and their use on Grid infrastructures

Digital Libraries and their use on Grid infrastructures Pasquale Pagano ISTI-CNR pasquale. pagano@isti. cnr. it

EU Initiatives on DL DILIGENT – Digital Library Infrastructure on Grid Enabled Technology DELOS - Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries Reference Model: http: //www. delos. info/Reference. Model DRIVER - Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research TEL - The European Library 05/09/2021 THE DEATH OF PAPER : DIGITAL LIBRARIES & E-ARCHIVING

Conceptual Framework Digital Library System Common Methodology Usage Management Contents by the DELOS project 05/09/2021 THE DEATH OF PAPER : DIGITAL LIBRARIES & E-ARCHIVING

Conceptual Framework Digital Library System Common Methodology 05/09/2021 Usage Management • Community specific • Designed for specific storage • Repeated efforts Contents • Isolated systems THE DEATH OF PAPER : DIGITAL LIBRARIES & E-ARCHIVING

DELOS: Grand 10 -Year Vision #1 #2 Digital Libraries should enable any citizen to access all human knowledge anytime and anywhere, in a friendly, multi-modal, efficient, and effective way, by overcoming barriers of distance, language, and culture and by using multiple Internet-connected devices The potential exists for digital libraries to become the universal knowledge repositories and communication conduits for the future, a common vehicle by which everyone will access, discuss, evaluate, and enhance information of all forms 05/09/2021 THE DEATH OF PAPER : DIGITAL LIBRARIES & E-ARCHIVING

DL Evolution communication conduit 2005 - … user = Producer & Consumer repository of digital texts + centralized catalogue + search service 1996 few large institutions 05/09/2021 user = consumer many virtual organizations THE DEATH OF PAPER : DIGITAL LIBRARIES & E-ARCHIVING

Conceptual Framework 05/09/2021 Usage Customisation Personalisation Virtualization Management Harvester Wrapper Contents Digital Library Management System Digital Library System User Interface Contents THE DEATH OF PAPER : DIGITAL LIBRARIES & E-ARCHIVING

Conceptual Framework DLMS Methodology Digital Library Management System User Interface (specialised) Customisation Personalisation Virtualization Management Harvester Contents 05/09/2021 Wrapper Contents THE DEATH OF PAPER : DIGITAL LIBRARIES & E-ARCHIVING

Conceptual Framework DLMS Methodology Digital Library Management System User Interface Customisation Personalisation Virtualization Contents 05/09/2021 • Support active communication/collaboration Management Harvester • Designed to be customized for community specific needs Wrapper Contents • Maximum reuse • Distributed interacting systems THE DEATH OF PAPER : DIGITAL LIBRARIES & E-ARCHIVING

Diligent Objective Create a test-bed DIgital Library Infrastructure on Grid-ENabled Technology that allows members of dynamic virtual organizations to create on-demand transient virtual digital libraries based on shared computational, storage, multimedia, multi-type content and application resources 05/09/2021 THE DEATH OF PAPER : DIGITAL LIBRARIES & E-ARCHIVING

s i n o ati iz l a u Virt Diligent Solution Y E K a Adapters + Behaviors Virtual Collections Presentation Harvesting / Wrapping + Aggregation 05/09/2021 THE DEATH OF PAPER : DIGITAL LIBRARIES & E-ARCHIVING

Diligent Solution Consumers Providers DILIGENT DL Infrastructure Service A 3 D processing Service B Service C e ur is Y E a. K Watermarking t c u DLCreation service n i c tr s fra i m a Feature extraction n y Service d. D d an n e p Service E O 05/09/2021 Speech recognition THE DEATH OF PAPER : DIGITAL LIBRARIES & E-ARCHIVING

Service Oriented Vision Diligent is a Digital Library Management System that allows to create and maintain distributed DL It is composed by a federation of services that can be activated on one or more servers It supports plug and play of new services Each service is customizable It supports dynamic and automatic reconfiguration of the services 05/09/2021 THE DEATH OF PAPER : DIGITAL LIBRARIES & E-ARCHIVING

Content Oriented Vision Grid network raw information objects 1 USERS PROVIDERS processing tools heterogeneous content DLs accessing tools 05/09/2021 THE DEATH OF PAPER : DIGITAL LIBRARIES & E-ARCHIVING

Concluding Remarks Myths: Digital Libraries are the “digital analogous” of Libraries Digital Libraries are for Cultural Heritage only Moving from ‘traditional’ DL to DLMS requires a huge technological effort Diligent exploits the Grid technology to enable and empower this evolution 05/09/2021 THE DEATH OF PAPER : DIGITAL LIBRARIES & E-ARCHIVING

Links Projects: Delos – www. delos. info Diligent – www. diligentproject. org Driver - www. driver-repository. eu/ Contacts: Pasquale Pagano – pasquale. pagano@isti. cnr. it Donatella Castelli – donatella. castelli@isti. cnr. it 05/09/2021 THE DEATH OF PAPER : DIGITAL LIBRARIES & E-ARCHIVING