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MetaDL: A Digital Library of Metadata for Sensitive or Complex Research Data

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Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL 2002)

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Traditional digital library systems have certain limitations when dealing with complex or sensitive (e.g. proprietary) data. Collections of digital libraries have to be accessed individually and through non-uniform interfaces. By introducing a level of abstraction, a Meta- Digital Library or MetaDL, users gain a central access portal that allows for prioritized queries, evaluation and rating of the results, and secure negotiations to obtain primary data. This paper demonstrates the MetaDL architecture with an application in brain imaging research, BrassDL, the Brain Support Access System Digital Library. BrassDL is currently under development. This paper describes a theoretical framework behind it, addressing aspects from metadata extraction and system-supported negotiations to legal, ethical and sustainability issues.

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  1. The Dartmouth Experimental Visualization Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth College, 03755, Hanover, NH, USA

    Fillia Makedon, James Ford, Li Shen & Tilmann Steinberg

  2. Brain Imaging Laboratory, Dartmouth Medical School, 03756, Lebanon, NH, USA

    Andrew Saykin & Heather Wishart

  3. Department of Archive and Library Sciences, Ionian University, Greece

    Sarantos Kapidakis

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  1. Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Via Gradenigo 6/a, 35131, Padova, Italy

    Maristella Agosti

  2. Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’ Informazione (ISTI-CNR), Area della Ricerca CNR di Pisa, Via G. Moruzzi 1, 56124, Pisa, Italy

    Costantino Thanos

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Makedon, F. et al. (2002). MetaDL: A Digital Library of Metadata for Sensitive or Complex Research Data. In: Agosti, M., Thanos, C. (eds) Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. ECDL 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2458. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45747-X_28

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