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Definition

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.
Digital Library Federation (DLF) 1998

For more definitions see Defining Digital Library, Cleveland Digital Library

Prototype developed for the University Library

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Publications

[1] 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.
[2] Georg Fessler, Michael Hahsler, Michaela Putz, Judith Schwarz, and Brigitta Wiebogen. Projektbericht ePubWU 2001-2003. Augasse 2-6, 1090 Wien, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, January 2004. [ .pdf ]
[3] 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. [ at the publisher | .pdf ]
[4] 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. [ at the publisher ]

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