MetaDL: A digital library of metadata for sensitive or complex research data. (English) Zbl 1017.68800

Makedon, Fillia; Ford, James; Shen, Li; Steinberg, Tilmann; Saykin, Andrew; Wishart, Heather; Kapidakis, Sarantos

Agosti, Maristella (ed.) et al., Research and advanced technology for digital libraries. 6th European conference, ECDL 2002, Rome, Italy, September 16-18, 2002. Proceedings. Berlin: Springer. Lect. Notes Comput. Sci. 2458, 374-389 (2002).

Summary: Traditional digital library systems have certain limitations when dealing with complex or sensitive (e.g. proprietary) data. Collections of digital libraries have to be accessed individually and through non-uniform interfaces. By introducing a level of abstraction, a Meta-Digital Library or MetaDL, users gain a central access portal that allows for prioritized queries, evaluation and rating of the results, and secure negotiations to obtain primary data. This paper demonstrates the MetaDL architecture with an application in brain imaging research, BrassDL, the Brain Support Access System Digital Library. BrassDL is currently under development. This paper describes a theoretical framework behind it, addressing aspects from metadata extraction and system-supported negotiations to legal, ethical and sustainability issues.
For the entire collection see [Zbl 1005.68713].

MSC:

68U99	Computing methodologies and applications
68U35	Computing methodologies for information systems (hypertext navigation, interfaces, decision support, etc.)

Software:

MetaDL