Metadata for Digital Libraries: Architecture and Design Rationale

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Metadata for Digital Libraries: Architecture and Design Rationale

Background: Stanford InfoBus

Motivation: InfoBus Services

Example Metadata Needs

Architectural Requirements

Related Work

Metadata for Information Objects

Metadata for Search Services

The Metadata Architecture

Attribute Model Proxy

Design Tradeoffs I

Attribute Model Translator

Design Tradeoffs II

Metadata Facility of Search Service Proxy

Design Tradeoffs III

Metadata Repository

Design Tradeoffs IV

Implementation Status

Future Work

Author: Michelle Baldonado, Chen-Chuan K. Chang, Luis Gravano, Andreas Paepcke

Email: michelle@db.stanford.edu, kevin@db.stanford.edu, gravano@db.stanford.edu, paepcke@db.stanford.edu

Home Page: http://www-diglib.stanford.edu/