Document Type
Thesis
Date of Award
Fall 1-31-2005
Degree Name
Master of Science in Information Systems - (M.S.)
Department
Information Systems
First Advisor
Michael Bieber
Second Advisor
Stéphane Gagnon
Third Advisor
Vincent Oria
Abstract
Digital libraries deliver personalized knowledge directly to their users, without being restricted to the contents of a physical library. In a digital library information from any online source can be managed and shared, making more knowledge available to users than before. The information sharing is achieved by integrating many autonomous heterogeneous systems available. The challenge is to provide users with the ability to transparently access digital library contents in spite of the heterogeneity among the information sources.
Research communities have proposed several approaches to accomplish the system integration in digital libraries. In this thesis, the working of currently employed approaches was assessed and a new ontology based approach is proposed. This approach utilizes the semantic web enables web services to implement the middleware for digital library integration. Ontology based digital library integration will provide a machine processable mechanism and will overcome the shortcomings of earlier approaches.
Recommended Citation
Qasim, Muhammad Umar, "Digital libraries and middleware technology" (2005). Theses. 462.
https://digitalcommons.njit.edu/theses/462
