Light-weight communal digital libraries

ABSTRACT

We describe Kepler, a collection of light-weight utilities that allow for simple and quick digital library construction. Kepler bridges the gap between established, organization-backed digital libraries and groups of researchers that wish to publish their findings under their control, anytime, anywhere yet have the advantage of their personal libraries. The personal libraries, or "archivelets", are Open Archives Initiative (OAI) compliant and thus available for harvesting from OAI service providers. A Kepler archivelet can be installed in the order of minutes by an author on a personal machine and a Kepler group server in the order of hours.

REFERENCES

• 1: Carl Lagoze , Herbert Van de Sompel, The open archives initiative: building a low-barrier interoperability framework, Proceedings of the 1st ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries, p.54-62, January 2001, Roanoke, Virginia, United States [doi>10.1145/379437.379449]
• 2: Liu, X., Maly, K, Zubair, M. and Nelson, M. Arc-An OAI Service Provider for Federation. D-Lib Magazine, 7,4 (April 2001).
• 3: Maly, K, Zubair, M. and Liu, X. Kepler-An OAI Service/Data Provider for Individuals. D-Lib Magazine, 7,4 (April 2001).
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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
      H.3.7 Digital Libraries

General Terms:
Design, Documentation, Performance

Keywords:
Documentation, Performance, Design