Compelling and thought provoking data presented in this article illustrates the current process of using digital libraries with a typical workflow, and highlight problems with managing data and metadata using URIs. They then examined a range of new applications such as Zotero, Mendeley, Mekentosj Papers, MyNCBI, CiteULike, Connotea, and HubMed that exploit the Web to make these digital libraries more personal, sociable, integrated, and accessible places with conclusions in how these applications may begin to help achieve a digital defrost, and discuss some issues that will help or hinder in terms of making libraries on the Web warmer places in the future, becoming resources that are considerably more useful to both humans and machines.
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Defrosting the Digital Library: Bibliographic Tools for the Next Generation Web
Compelling and thought provoking data presented in this article illustrates the current process of using digital libraries with a typical workflow, and highlight problems with managing data and metadata using URIs. They then examined a range of new applications such as Zotero, Mendeley, Mekentosj Papers, MyNCBI, CiteULike, Connotea, and HubMed that exploit the Web to make these digital libraries more personal, sociable, integrated, and accessible places with conclusions in how these applications may begin to help achieve a digital defrost, and discuss some issues that will help or hinder in terms of making libraries on the Web warmer places in the future, becoming resources that are considerably more useful to both humans and machines.
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