Abstract
Digital library (DL) research and development has concentrated primarily on collections and on the services to build and access them (Arms, 2000). To some extent, there has also been a focus on users and uses and on how well digital library constructions satisfy them (Borgman, 2000). A class of DL components has been missing from this development. This class we call knowledge organization system (KOS) resources and by this we mean the set of familiar and evolving systems that organize and define the terminology and notations we use to represent and organize concepts and real world objects. Just as DL collections and services can be modeled in general frameworks that support the building of library architectures, it is also possible to integrate the variety of KOSs into the DL context and to extend DL architectures to include them in the development and use of collections and services. Treating KOS resources as tightly integrated components ofDL architectures raises new research and development issues for the DL and the classification research communities.
Highlights
Digital library (DL) research and development has concentrated primarily on collections and on the services to build and access them (Arms, 2000)
Just as DL collections and services can be modeled in general frameworks that support the building of library architectures, it is possible to integrate the II, variety of knowledge organization system (KOS) into the DL context and to extend DL architectures to include them in the development and use of collections and services
DL services interact with collections, KOSs, and users
Summary
Digital library (DL) research and development has concentrated primarily on collections and on the services to build and access them (Arms, 2000). A class of DL components has been missing from this development. This class we call knowledge organization system (KOS) resources and by this we mean the set of familiar and evolving systems that organize and define the terminology and notations we use to represent and organize. Just as DL collections and services can be modeled in general frameworks that support the building of library architectures, it is possible to integrate the II, variety of KOSs into the DL context and to extend DL architectures to include them in the development and use of collections and services. III components ofDL architectures raises new research and development issues for the DL and the classification research communities
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