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The Making of America II Testbed Project: A Digital Library Service Model

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.

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