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DL.org: Coordination Action on Digital Library Interoperability, Best Practices and Modelling Foundations Funded under the Seventh Framework Programme, ICT Programme – “Cultural Heritage and Technology Enhanced Learning” Project Number: 231551 Deliverable Title: D3.2b The Digital Library Reference Model Submission Due Date: September 2010 Actual Submission Date: April 2011 Work Package: WP3 Responsible Partner: CNR Deliverable Status: Final DL.org www.dlorg.eu Document Information Project Project acronym: DL.org Project full title: Coordination Action on Digital Library Interoperability, Best Practices & Modelling Foundations Project start: 1 December 2008 Project duration: 24 months Call: ICT CALL 3, FP7-ICT-2007-3 Grant agreement no.: 231551 Document Deliverable number: D3.2b Deliverable title: The Digital Library Reference Model Editor(s): L. Candela, A. Nardi Author(s): L. Candela, G. Athanasopoulos, D. Castelli, K. El Raheb, P. Innocenti, Y. Ioannidis, A. Katifori, A. Nika, G. Vullo, S. Ross Reviewer(s): C. Thanos Contributor(s): (DELOS Reference Model Authors) L. Candela; D. Castelli; N. Ferro; Y. Ioannidis; G. Koutrika; C. Meghini; P. Pagano; S. Ross; D. Soergel; M. Agosti; M. Dobreva; V. Katifori; H. Schuldt Participant(s): CNR, NKUA, UG Work package no.: WP3 Work package title: Digital Library Models and Patterns Work package leader: CNR Work package participants: CNR, NKUA, UG Est. 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DL.org – No. 231551 D3.2b The Digital Library Reference Model Page 3 of 273 DL.org www.dlorg.eu Table of Contents Summary ......................................................................................................................................................9 About this Document .................................................................................................................................10 PART I The Digital Library Manifesto .....................................................................................12 I.1 Introduction...........................................................................................................................................13 I.1.1 What is a Manifesto?......................................................................................................................13 I.1.2 Motivation ......................................................................................................................................14 I.2 The Digital Library Universe: A Three-tier Framework ..........................................................................17 I.3 The Digital Library Universe: Main Concepts.........................................................................................19 I.3.1 Organisation ...................................................................................................................................19 I.3.2 Content...........................................................................................................................................20 I.3.3 User ................................................................................................................................................20 I.3.4 Functionality...................................................................................................................................20 I.3.5 Policy ..............................................................................................................................................20 I.3.6 Quality ............................................................................................................................................21 I.3.7 Architecture....................................................................................................................................21 I.4 The Digital Library Universe: The Main Roles of Actors ........................................................................23 I.4.1 DL End-users...................................................................................................................................23 I.4.2 DL Managers...................................................................................................................................24 I.4.3 DL Software Developers .................................................................................................................24 I.5 Digital Library Development Framework...............................................................................................27 I.6 Digital Library Manifesto: Concluding Remarks.....................................................................................29 PART II The Digital Library Reference Model in a Nutshell .....................................................30 II.1 Introduction..........................................................................................................................................31 II.1.1 The Digital Library Manifesto in Brief............................................................................................31 II.1.2 Guide to Using the Reference Model ............................................................................................33 II.1.2.1 Concept Maps.........................................................................................................................34 II.1.2.2 Notational Conventions..........................................................................................................34 II.2 The Constituent Domains.....................................................................................................................36 II.2.1 DL Resource Domain .....................................................................................................................37 II.2.2 Content Domain ............................................................................................................................39 II.2.3 User Domain..................................................................................................................................42 II.2.4 Functionality Domain ....................................................................................................................43 II.2.5 Policy Domain................................................................................................................................48 II.2.6 Quality Domain..............................................................................................................................50 II.2.7 Architecture Domain .....................................................................................................................52 Page 4 of 273 D3.2b The Digital Library Reference Model DL.org – No. 231551 www.dlorg.eu DL.org II.3 Reference Model in Action...................................................................................................................55 II.3.1 Interoperability..............................................................................................................................55 II.3.2 The Preservation Issue ..................................................................................................................56 II.4 Related Work........................................................................................................................................59 II.4.1 The CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model......................................................................................59 II.4.2 Stream, Structures, Spaces, Scenarios and Societies: The 5S Framework.....................................60 II.4.3 The DELOS Classification and Evaluation Scheme .........................................................................63 II.4.4 DOLCE-based Ontologies for Large Software Systems ..................................................................64