Digital libraries are organizations that provide the resources, including the specialized staff, to select, structure, offer intellectual access to, interpret, distribute, preserve the integrity of, and ensure the persistence over time of collections of digital works so that they are readily and economically available for use by a defined community or set of communities.
For more definitions see Defining Digital Library, Cleveland Digital Library
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Georg Fessler, Michael Hahsler, and Michaela Putz.
ePubWU - Erfahrungen mit einer Volltext an der
Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien.
In Christian Enichlmayr, editor, Bibliotheken - Fundament der
Bildung, 28. Österreichischer Bibliothekartag 2004, Schriftenreihe der
Oö. Landesbibliothek, pages 190-193, 2005.
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ePubWU ist eine elektronische Plattform für wissenschaftliche Publikationen der Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, wo forschungsbezogene Veröffentlichungen der WU im Volltext über das WWW zugänglich gemacht werden. ePubWU wird als Gemeinschaftsprojekt der Universitätsbibliothek der Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien und der Abteilung für Informationswirtschaft betrieben. Derzeit werden in ePubWU zwei Publikationsarten gesammelt - Working Papers und Dissertationen. In dem Beitrag werden Erfahrungen der über zweijährigen Laufzeit des Projektes dargestellt, u.a. in den Bereichen Akquisition, Workflows, Erschließung, Vermittlung.
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Georg Fessler, Michael Hahsler, Michaela Putz, Judith Schwarz, and Brigitta
Wiebogen.
Projektbericht ePubWU 2001-2003.
Augasse 2-6, 1090 Wien, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, January
2004.
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ePubWU ist eine elektronische Plattform für wissenschaftliche Publikationen der Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, wo forschungsbezogene Veröffentlichungen der WU im Volltext über das WWW zugänglich gemacht werden. ePubWU ist seit Jänner 2002 im Echtbetrieb und wird als Gemeinschaftsprojekt der Universitätsbibliothek der Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien und der Abteilung für Informationswirtschaft betrieben. Dieser Bericht beinhaltet die Erfahrungen aus der 2-jährigen Pilotphase des Projekts.
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Michael Hahsler.
Integrating digital document acquisition into a university library: A
case study of social and organizational challenges.
Journal of Digital Information Management, 1(4):162-171,
December 2003.
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In this article we report on the effort of the university library of the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration to integrate a digital library component for research documents authored at the university into the existing library infrastructure. Setting up a digital library has become a relatively easy task using the current data base technology and the components and tools freely available. However, to integrate such a digital library into existing library systems and to adapt existing document acquisition work-flows in the organization are non-trivial tasks. We use a research frame work to identify the key players in this change process and to analyze their incentive structures. Then we describe the light-weight integration approach employed by our university and show how it provides incentives to the key players and at the same time requires only minimal adaptation of the organization in terms of changing existing work-flows. Our experience suggests that this light-weight integration offers a cost efficient and low risk intermediate step towards switching to exclusive digital document acquisition.
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Andreas Geyer-Schulz, Michael Hahsler, Andreas Neumann, and Anke Thede.
An integration strategy for distributed recommender services in
legacy library systems.
In M. Schader, W. Gaul, and M. Vichi, editors, Between Data
Science and Applied Data Analysis, Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference
of the Gesellschaft für Klassifikation e.V., University of Mannheim, July
22-24, 2002, Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge
Organization, pages 412-420. Springer-Verlag, July 2003.
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Scientific library systems are a very promising application area for recommender services. Scientific libraries could easily develop customer-oriented service portals in the style of amazon.com. Students, university teachers and researchers can reduce their transaction cost (i.e. search and evaluation cost of information products). For librarians, the advantage is an improvement of the customer support by recommendations and the additional support in marketing research, product evaluation, and book selection. In this contribution we present a strategy for integrating a behavior-based distributed recommender service in legacy library systems with minimal changes in the legacy system.
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