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A digital library component assembly environment

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SAICSIT '04: Proceedings of the 2004 annual research conference of the South African institute of computer scientists and information technologists on IT research in developing countries

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With the advent of the Internet came the promise of global information access. In keeping with this promise, Digital Libraries (DLs) began to emerge across the world as a method of providing structured information to their users. These DLs are often created using proprietary monolithic software that is often difficult to customise and extend. The Open Digital Library (ODL) project was created to demonstrate that DLs can be built as a network of components instead of as monolithic systems. Although the ODL approach has largely been embraced by the DL community, it is not without a few shortcomings. This paper introduces a graphical user interface and its associated framework for creating DLs from distributed components, consequently addressing a number of the limitations of ODL, as well as presenting a novel and generic approach for creating component-based systems.

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SAICSIT '04: Proceedings of the 2004 annual research conference of the South African institute of computer scientists and information technologists on IT research in developing countries

October 2004

296 pages

Editors:
Gary Marsden
Univ. of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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Paula Kotze
Univ. of South Africa, Pretoria
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Ayodele Adesina-Ojo
Univ. of South Africa, Pretoria

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South African Institute for Computer Scientists and Information Technologists

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October 4 - 6, 2004

Western Cape, Stellenbosch, South Africa

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