Abstract
The Web is becoming increasingly popular as an infrastructure to efficiently share information. This infrastructure can be used to create a distributed digital library. A distributed digital library can be formed by allowing the digital content to be managed at several different Web sites while pointers to the content can be published on a delegate Web site. This simple scheme protects intellectual property as well as reduces privacy concerns. However, there are several problems that need to be considered when implementing the distributed digital library with current technology. First, the delegate Web site needs a mechanism to be notified from the participating Web sites regarding changes. Second, processing logic such as integration steps and security enforcement procedures should be easily specified and installed in the Web sites. Third, complex relationships among the Web sites in the digital library need to be specified and processed when integration occurs on the delegate Web site. We propose a Knowledge Network approach to implement a distributed digital library that solves such problems. The Knowledge Network is based on an event-trigger-rule model, where each participating Web site includes an extension to process these components. The automatic event notification, rule processing, and flexible trigger modeling of the Knowledge Network effectively supports the creation of the distributed digital library. An example implementation of the distributed digital library is also presented to verify the usefulness of the approach.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Lee, M., Su, S.Y.W., Lam, H.: Event and Rule Services for Achieving a Web-based Knowledge Network. Technical Report, UF CISE TR00-002, University of Florida (2000)
Roscheisen, M., Baldonado, M., Chang, C.-C.K., Gravano, L., Ketchpel, S., Paepcke, A.: The Stanford InfoBus and Its Service Layers: Augmenting the Internet with Higher-Level Information Management Protocols. In: Barth, A., Breu, M., Endres, A., de Kemp, A. (eds.) MeDoc 1997. LNCS, vol. 1392, Springer, Heidelberg (1998)
Yang, C., Hsiao, F.: Integrating Metadata with Distributed Object Technologies for Resource Discovery. In: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference of Asian Digital Library (ICADL 2000), Seoul, Korea, December 6-8, pp. 163–170 (2000)
Brandt, S., Kristensen, A.: Web Push as an Internet Notification Service. W3C Workshop on Push Technology. Boston, MA (September 1997), http://keryxsoft.hpl.hp.com/doc/ins.html
Banavar, G., Kaplan, M., Shaw, K., Strom, R.E., Sturman, D.C., Tao, W.: Information Flow Based Event Distribution Middleware. In: Proc. of Electronic Commerce and Webbased Applications Workshop at the International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 1999), Austin, TX, May 31-June 4 (1999)
Object Management Group (OMG), CORBA Notification Service, specification version 1.0. June 20 (2000)
Sun Microsystems. Java Message Service API, January 22 (2001), http://java.sun.com/products/jms/
Dayal, U., Blaustein, B.T., Buchmann, A.P., et al.: The HiPAC Project: Combining Active Databases and Timing Constraints. ACM SIGMOD Record 17(1), 51–70 (1988)
Widom, J. (ed.): Active Database Systems: Triggers and Rules for Advanced Database Processing. Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco (1996)
Ben-Shaul, I., Ifergan, S.: WebRule: An Event-based Framework for Active Collaboration among Web Servers. Computer Networks and ISDN Systems 29(8-13), 1029–1040 (1997)
Lam, H., Su, S.Y.W.: Component Interoperability in a Virtual Enterprise Using Events/Triggers/Rules. In: Proceedings of OOPSLA 1998 Workshop on Objects, Components, and Virtual Enterprise, Vancouver, BC, Canada, October 18-22, pp. 47–53 (1998)
Lee, M., Su, S.Y.W., Lam, H.: Parallel Rule Processing in a Distributed Object Environment. In: Proc. of the Int’l Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA 1999), Las Vegas, NV, June 1999, pp. 410–416 (1999)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2003 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Lee, M. (2003). A Knowledge Network Approach for Building Distributed Digital Libraries. In: Sembok, T.M.T., Zaman, H.B., Chen, H., Urs, S.R., Myaeng, SH. (eds) Digital Libraries: Technology and Management of Indigenous Knowledge for Global Access. ICADL 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2911. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24594-0_38
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24594-0_38
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-540-20608-8
Online ISBN: 978-3-540-24594-0
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive