Using standards in digital library design&development

Abstract

This article covers a set of standards and defacto standards that can play a role in the design and development of digital library applications. The standards discussed are the ISO MPEG-21 Digital Item Declaration, the ISO MPEG-21 Digital Item Identification, the ISO MPEG-21 Digital Item Processing, the Open Archives Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, the Internet Archive ARC file format, the NISO OpenURL Framework for Context-Sensitive Services, and the proposed info URI scheme. It discusses these standards by illustrating how they have been used in the context of the aDORe digital object repository. aDORe has been designed and implemented for ingesting, storing, and accessing a vast collection of digital objects at the Research Library of the Los Alamos National Laboratory