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Reference models for digital libraries: actors and roles

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This article summarizes the discussions of the DELOS/NSF Working Group that reviewed current research and existing practice to better understand the ways in which actors and their roles are perceived within the digital library community. Definitions given to new roles depend too often on the narrow, subjective perspective of a local context. The current situation makes it difficult to understand objectively the key actor/role issues that arise in individual cases and also to perform comparative analysis between different cases. This work brings to light several issues that warrant further research and underscores the community’s need for formal and objective reference models for the description of actors and their roles in digital libraries.

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  1. Director for Innovation and Development, National Library of Portugal, Campo Grande 83, 1749-081, Lisbon, Portugal

    José Borbinha

  2. Preservation Technologies Architect, California Digital Library, University of California Office of the President, 415 20th St, Oakland, CA, 94612-3550, USA

    John Kunze

  3. ATSPIN consulting, 3270 N. Lake Shore Drive, #5E, Chicago, Illinois, 60657, USA

    Angela Spinazzè

  4. Social Science Information Centre, Lennéstr. 30, 53113, Bonn, Germany

    Peter Mutschke

  5. State Library Berlin, 10772, Berlin, Germany

    Hans-Jörg Lieder

  6. Elsevier Science, The Boulevard Langford Lane, Kidlington Oxford, England, 0X5 1, UK

    Michael Mabe

  7. Network Development and MARC Standards Office, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 20540-4402, USA

    Larry Dixson

  8. UCLA Department of Information Studies, University of California, 241 GSE&IS Bldg, 951520, USA

    Howard Besser

  9. Metadata Analysis and Investigation Section OCLC, 6565 Frantz Road, Dublin, OH, 43017, USA

    Becky Dean

  10. National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT, 2600, Australia

    Warwick Cathro

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Borbinha, J., Kunze, J., Spinazzè, A. et al. Reference models for digital libraries: actors and roles. Int J Digit Libr 5, 325–330 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00799-004-0095-7

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