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| The goal of this project is to design and implement a modern, scalable digital library repository (DLR). This repository will permanently store the digital objects that make up a library. The DLR offers its clients a variety of services for managing intellectual property, for safeguarding information, for payment of royalties, for accounting, and for importing information from other sources. The DLR employs a modular and distributed architecture, allowing autonomous organizations to collaborate in setting up a shared repository. To achieve these goals, research is being conducted on several fundamental problems. These include the replication of digital objects for archiving; the management of metadata; distributed indexing mechanisms; and robust and scalable awareness schemes. The project is also developing an architecture and interfaces for a DLR, and is implementing a prototype DLR for experimentation and evaluation of new ideas. The prototype is built on top of existing database and information retrieval technologies. The research is providing a solid understanding of how to preserve and safeguard digital information. It is yielding insights into the options available, and their associated performance, cost, functionality, and usability. The results will impact the ways libraries and organizations store and organize digital information in the future, leading to repositories where information of different types is better structured, managed in accordance to | |||||||||||||||
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