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DEBORA: Developing an Interface to Support Collaboration in a Digital Library

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Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL 2000)

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Interfaces to library systems have largely failed to represent the in-herently collaborative nature of information work. This paper describes how collaborative functionality is being implemented as part of the DEBORA project to provide access to digitised Renaissance documents. Work practices of users of Renaissance documents are described and the collaborative features of the client software are outlined. Functionalities discussed include annotation, the creation of virtual books and the inclusion of user-supplied metadata.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

    David M. Nichols

  2. Computing Department, Lancaster University, LA1 4YR, UK

    Duncan Pemberton

  3. école Nationale Supérieure des Sciences de L’Information et des Bibliothèques, 69623, Villeurbanne Cedex, France

    Salah Dalhoumi & Omar Larouk

  4. Unité Mixte de Recherche, LIRE, 5611, France

    Claire Belisle

  5. Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL 61820, USA

    Michael B. Twidale

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  2. GMD Library, Schloss Birlinghoven, 53754, Sankt Augustin, Germany

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Nichols, D.M., Pemberton, D., Dalhoumi, S., Larouk, O., Belisle, C., Twidale, M.B. (2000). DEBORA: Developing an Interface to Support Collaboration in a Digital Library. 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_22

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