Abstract
pub87 The Making of America II Testbed
Project: A Digital Library Service Model
Bernard J. Hurley, John Price-Wilkin, Merrilee Proffitt, Howard Besser
(12/99, 42pp) $15
ISBN 1-887334-72-6
The work of the Making of America II Testbed
Project reported in this paper represents a singular effort in digital
library development to find ways to provide access to and navigate
a variety of materials. In this endeavor, a digital library service
model has been defined that encapsulates the interaction of digital
objects (including their metadata), tools, and services based on principles
of object-oriented design. In developing the digital library service
model, project participants did extensive work to identify and define
the structural and administrative (often referred to as technical)
metadata elements that are crucial in the development of the digital
library services and tools.
The Digital Library Federation's support of this work was driven
by two of its program priorities: to stimulate the development of
a core digital library infrastructure and to organize, provide access
to, and preserve knowledge. This publication—DLF's third—furthers
the interests of the Federation and its members by presenting one
possible model of digital library development for review and discussion
within the DLF community and the digital library community at large.