TOWARDS THE DEVELOPMENT OF A GENERAL-PURPOSE DIGITAL REPOSITORY

Dimitrios A. Koutsomitropoulos, Anastasia A. Tsakou, Dimitrios K. Tsolis, Theodore S. Papatheodorou

2004

Abstract

The need for efficient storage, management and consumption of digital resources has long been a puzzle for institutions and organizations that aim at preserving digital information. Numerous standards, specifications and practices have been proposed so far, in order to alleviate the problems that come in to surface when setting up a digital repository. Nevertheless, only few of these initiatives have enjoyed wide spread adoption, possibly because they are bound to specific content, functionality or implementation needs. This paper aims to contribute towards the development of a general-purpose digital repository by first providing a common definition, independent of specific needs and thus widely applicable. It also presents a set of state-of-the-art requirements that are of key importance for the success of any similar task. Finally, it proposes a Functional Model so as to demonstrate how the above specifications can actually be realized.

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A. Koutsomitropoulos D., A. Tsakou A., K. Tsolis D. and S. Papatheodorou T. (2004). TOWARDS THE DEVELOPMENT OF A GENERAL-PURPOSE DIGITAL REPOSITORY . In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: WOSIS, (ICEIS 2004) ISBN 972-8865-00-7, pages 271-278. DOI: 10.5220/0002637402710278


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@conference{wosis04,
author={Dimitrios A. Koutsomitropoulos and Anastasia A. Tsakou and Dimitrios K. Tsolis and Theodore S. Papatheodorou},
title={TOWARDS THE DEVELOPMENT OF A GENERAL-PURPOSE DIGITAL REPOSITORY},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: WOSIS, (ICEIS 2004)},
year={2004},
pages={271-278},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002637402710278},
isbn={972-8865-00-7},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: WOSIS, (ICEIS 2004)
TI - TOWARDS THE DEVELOPMENT OF A GENERAL-PURPOSE DIGITAL REPOSITORY
SN - 972-8865-00-7
AU - A. Koutsomitropoulos D.
AU - A. Tsakou A.
AU - K. Tsolis D.
AU - S. Papatheodorou T.
PY - 2004
SP - 271
EP - 278
DO - 10.5220/0002637402710278