Peer-to-Peer, Grid, and Service-Orientation in Digital Library Architectures: 6th Thematic Workshop of the EU Network of Excellence DELOS, Cagliari, Italy, June 24-25, 2004, Revised Selected Papers - Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet / 2005 edition

Marc Notes: Pre-proceedings of the workshop has title: Digital library architectures.; Includes bibliographical references and index.; Also available in print.; Electronic reproduction.; UK: MyiLibrary; 2008. Table of Contents: An Overview of the EGEE Project.- Grid Computing Using Web Services Technologies.- Similarity Grid for Searching in Metric Spaces.- Organisation-Oriented Super-Peer Networks for Digital Libraries.- A Combined Hyperdatabase and Grid Infrastructure for Data Stream Management and Digital Library Processes.- The MINERVA Project: Towards Collaborative Search in Digital Libraries Using Peer-to-Peer Technology.- Distribution Alternatives for Superimposed Information Services in Digital Libraries.- Towards a Service-Oriented Architecture for the Adaptive Delivery of Heterogeneous Cultural Resources.- Analysis and Evaluation of Service Oriented Architectures for Digital Libraries.- A System Architecture as a Support to a Flexible Annotation Service.- A Service-Oriented Grid Infrastructure for Multimedia Management and Search.- StreamOnTheFly: A Network for Radio Content Dissemination.- Supporting Information Access in Next Generation Digital Library Architectures.- Query Trading in Digital Libraries.- Moving Digital Library Service Systems to the Grid. Publisher Marketing: A collection of papers that cover: service grids for scientific applications, distributed digital libraries, grid computing, peer-to-peer networks, service oriented architectures for digital libraries, a distributed digital library for support of community radios, multimedia management and search, query trading and processing, and metadata.

Contributor Bio:  Agosti, Maristella Maristella Agosti is full professor in computer science, with a main focus on databases and information retrieval, at the Faculty of Humanities and at the Department of Information Engineering (DEI) of the University of Padova. She is the leader of the Information Management System (IMS) group of DEI and coordinates a number of national and international research projects. Her current interests are digital libraries, system architectures with a special focus on annotations, and multimedia digital archives.