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While digital library (DL) systems continue to become more powerful and usable, a certain amount of inherent complexity remains in the installation, configuration, and customization of out-of-the-box solutions like DSpace and Greenstone. In this work, we build upon past work in the 5S Framework for Digital Libraries and 5SL DL specification language to devise an XML-based model for the specification of DLs for DSpace. We pair this way of specifying DLs with a generator tool which takes a DL specification that adheres to the model and generates a working DSpace instance that matches the specification.

European libraries host millions of books published from 1500 to 1900. Due to age and value, they are often only accessible to users actually present at these libraries. EOD (eBooks on Demand) is a European wide service which gives an answer to this problem by providing eBooks on request from a wide range of European Libraries. The service is currently carried out within the framework of the EU project “Digitisation on Demand”. EOD is an open network and every European library is welcome to join.

As information becomes available in increasing amounts, and to growing numbers of users, the shift towards a more user-centered, or personalized access to information becomes crucial. In this paper we consider the semantics and pragmatics of preference queries over tables containing information objects described through a set of attributes. In particular, we address two basic issues:

The main contributions of this paper are (a) the proposal of an expressive language for declaring qualitative preferences, (b) a novel approach to evaluating a preference query (c) the design of a user friendly interface with preference queries. Although our main motivation originates in digital libraries, our proposal is quite general and can be used in several application contexts.

This poster presents plans for designing and developing learning support systems for end-users involved in the construction of a Language Learning Digital Library (LLDL). This is in conjunction with the LLDL project for developing stimulating interactive educational tasks that can be built on top of digital libraries made in Greenstone’s open source software specifically to support language teaching and learning. The relevance of the proposed work includes the development of training modules and in-depth workshops for language teachers and students involved in the participatory design of stimulating educational activities that can be uploaded to create digital library collections. Digital libraries can support language teaching and learning through the use of authentic media, comprehensive searching capabilities, and automatically generated precision-targeted exercise material. They also provide social computing environments for teacher-to-student and peer-to-peer communications, along with opportunities to collaborate on group projects. What is more, teachers can build their own digital resource collections and these can be shared among online teaching communities which include annotations and reflections on how to best integrate the digital library technology into their teaching practice.