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Simple DL: A Toolkit to Create Simple Digital Libraries

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Towards Open and Trustworthy Digital Societies (ICADL 2021)

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Digital library systems are not always successfully implemented and sustainable in low resource environments, such as in poor countries and in organisations without resources. As a result, some archives with important collections are short-lived while others never materialise. This paper presents a new toolkit for the creation of simple digital libraries, based on a long trajectory of research into architectural styles. It is hoped that this system and approach will lower the barrier for the creation of digital libraries and provide an alternative architecture for experiments and the exploration of new design ideas.

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This research was partially funded by the National Research Foundation of South Africa (Grant numbers: 105862, 119121 and 129253) and University of Cape Town. The authors acknowledge that opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this publication are that of the authors, and that the NRF accepts no liability whatsoever in this regard.

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  3. Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

    Kazunari Sugiyama

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Suleman, H. (2021). Simple DL: A Toolkit to Create Simple Digital Libraries. In: Ke, HR., Lee, C.S., Sugiyama, K. (eds) Towards Open and Trustworthy Digital Societies. ICADL 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13133. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91669-5_25

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