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Smart Objects, Dumb Archives: A User-Centric, Layered Digital Library Framework, Kurt Maly, Michael L. Nelson, Mohammad Zubair
Smart Objects, Dumb Archives: A User-Centric, Layered Digital Library Framework, Kurt Maly, Michael L. Nelson, Mohammad Zubair
Computer Science Faculty Publications
Discusses digital libraries, interoperability, and interfaces to access them, and proposes one universal protocol for communication for simple archives based on the hypertext transfer protocol (http). Describes the creation of a special class of digital objects called buckets, archives based on a NASA collection, and a set of digital library services. (Author/LRW)
A Digital Library For The National Advisory Committee For Aeronautics, Michael L. Nelson
A Digital Library For The National Advisory Committee For Aeronautics, Michael L. Nelson
Computer Science Faculty Publications
We describe the digital library (DL) for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), the NACA Technical Report Server (NACATRS). The predecessor organization for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), NACA existed from 1915 until 1958. The primary manifestation of NACA's research was the NACA report series. We describe the process of converting this collection of reports to digital format and making it available on the World Wide Web (WWW) and is a node in the NASA Technical Report Server (NTRS). We describe the current state of the project, the resulting DL technology developed from the project, and the …