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A Scalable Component-Based Architecture for Online Services of Library Catalogs

Marcus Flehmig

University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Department of Computer Science
email: flehmig@informatik.uni-kl.de

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Abstract

In recent years, more and more publications and material for studying and teaching, e.g., for Web-based teaching (WBT), appear online and digital libraries are built to manage such publications and online materials. Therefore, the most important concerns are related to the problem of durable, sustained storage and the management of content together with its metadata existing in heterogeneous styles and formats. In this paper, we present specific techniques, their use to support metadata-based catalog services deploying XML, and finally derive the concepts of a suitable component-based architecture.

Keywords:

Digital Libraries, Distributed Systems, Client/Server, Distributed Component-based Applications, XML and semi-structured Data, Scalability

appears in: Proc. of the 4th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE 2004), Munich, Germany, July 2004: 396 - 401.