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Since today more and more complementary information is available in different electronic media there is an increasing demand for the integration of traditional digital library systems and multime- dia systems. In this paper we present the OMNIS/2 system, which is an advanced meta system and enhances existing digital library systems or retrieval systems by additional storing and indexing of user-defined multimedia documents, automatic and personal linking concepts, anno- tations, filtering and personalization.The key concept of OMNIS/2 is that all of the above mentioned features are accomplished without chang- ing the underlying documents. In our architecture existing digital library systems, which are established applications, serve as a document stor- age layer, while OMNIS/2 forms the multimedia storage layer, linking layer and personalization layer. This general approach ensures the inte- gration and transparent combination of different digital library systems. Thus with OMNIS/2, even mere retrieval systems - and nowadays most digital library systems are mere retrieval systems - can be enriched to interactive multimedia DL-systems and are combined into one virtual personal digital library. OMNIS/2 is part of the Global Inventory Project of the G7 countries.
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OMNIS/2 is funded by DFG (German Research Foundation) within the research initiative “V3D2” (“Distributed Processing and Delivery of Digital Documents”)
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Specht, G., Bauer, M. (2000). OMNIS/2: A Multimedia Meta System for Existing Digital Libraries. In: Borbinha, J., Baker, T. (eds) Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. ECDL 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1923. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45268-0_17
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