An infrastructure for a national digital library (original) (raw)

Abstract: This paper describes the infrastructure of the National Digital Library in Portugal. The requirements emerged from the definition of the resources to be manipulated and the services to be supported. It was given a special attention to scalability, as also to community building open standards, open solutions, and reusable and cost effective components. The structural metadata for the content resources is METS, and generic bibliographic metadata format is UNIMARC, EAD or Dublin Core.

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