The Digital Edition 2.0 and the Digital Library: Services, not Resources

TY - CHAP

T1 - The Digital Edition 2.0 and the Digital Library: Services, not Resources

AU - van Zundert, J.

AU - Boot, P.

N1 - Reporting year: 2011

PY - 2011

Y1 - 2011

N2 - The article sketches a number of likely developments in scholarly digital editions and other scholarly digital resources. They will be composites of independent and distributed components, containing multiple media, and subject to permanent change. These trends seriously increase the as yet unsolved problems of sustainability that the digital edition presents. The article argues that sustainability should be based on a service-oriented architecture, based on separation of data and functionality, and a cloud environment, characterized by redundant implementation of data and service components. To guide and monitor these processes will be a new challenge for the academic library.

AB - The article sketches a number of likely developments in scholarly digital editions and other scholarly digital resources. They will be composites of independent and distributed components, containing multiple media, and subject to permanent change. These trends seriously increase the as yet unsolved problems of sustainability that the digital edition presents. The article argues that sustainability should be based on a service-oriented architecture, based on separation of data and functionality, and a cloud environment, characterized by redundant implementation of data and service components. To guide and monitor these processes will be a new challenge for the academic library.

M3 - Contribution to conference proceedings

SP - 141

EP - 152

BT - Digitale Edition und Forschungsbibliothek. (Beiträge der Fachtagung im Philosophicum der Universität Mainz am 13. und 14. Januar 2011)

PB - Harrassowitz

ER -