Digital Libraries

• Focus on supporting tasks (A User-Centered DB from the CS Literature)
• Naming, archiving, preserving
• Persistent naming (URN: handle vs. PURL)
• Filtering, summarizing, classifying, clustering
• Distribution: repositories, mirroring, replication, caching
• Scaling: content, number of users, number of computers, number of networks
• Interface, visualization
• Commercial angle
  • IBM, Xerox involvement, as well as other DLI partners
  • Rights management: IBM + CWRU, CMU's NetBill
  • Rethinking publishing, libraries
  • Broadening at VT: added CS1604, CS4624