Bioinformatics, the application of computational tools to the management and analysis of
biological data, has stimulated rapid research advances in genomics through the …

Interoperability has been a basic requirement for the modern information systems
environment for over two decades. How have key requirements for interoperability changed …

We describe a digital object and respository architecture for storing and disseminating digital
library content. The key features of the architecture are:(1) support for heterogeneous data …

Metadata is of paramount importance for persons, organizations, and endeavors of every
dimension that are increasingly turning to the World Wide Web (hereafter referred to as the …

Metacat is a network-enabled database framework that lets users store, query, and retrieve
XML documents with arbitrary schemas in SQL-compliant relational database systems. The …

Digital libraries have become commodity in the current world of Internet. More and more
information is produced, and more and more non-digital information is being rendered …

The World Wide Web provides unprecedented access to globally distributed content. The
success of the Web, both in terms of number of resources and use of those resources, is …

Introduction Computable biomedical knowledge artifacts (CBKs) are digital objects
conveying biomedical knowledge in machine‐interpretable structures. As more CBKs are …

For several years the Digital Library Research Group at Cornell University and the
Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI) have been engaged in research …

Obtaining high quality information has become in recent years a challenging task as data
should be gathered and filtered from a large, open and frequently changing network of …