Third Workshop on Very Large Digital Libraries, Glasgow, UK

Third Workshop on Very Large Digital Libraries will be held in Glasgow, UK from 10 September 2010.

The implementation of modern digital libraries is more demanding than in the past. Information consumers are facing with the need to access ever growing, heterogeneous, related information spaces. At the same time, information providers are interested in sharing rich and organised views about sometimes overabundant information.

Because of their fundamental role in information production and dissemination, digital libraries are also expected to provide information society with functionality and services that must be continuously available and guarantee the expected quality of service. This leads to the development of 'very large digital libraries' (VLDL), which are defined in terms of the number of information objects and collections to be made available, users to be served and potentially distributed functionality/content resources needed to construct them.

Research on very large digital libraries has led to a number of challenges which have scalability, interoperability and sustainability as focal points. Event topics are scheduled to include:
- architectural models for VLDL systems,
- data models for VLDL content,
- design methodologies for VLDLs,
- constructing VLDLs as integration and federation of existing digital libraries,
- management in VLDLs,
- security issues in VLDLs,
- sustainability issues in VLDLs,
- scalability issues in VLDLs,
- distribution issues for VLDLs,
- interoperability issues for VLDLs: content and functionality,
- managing content in VLDLs: storage, indexing, integration, aggregation, preservation, manipulation, and others.For further information, please click:
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