Architecture of the Digital Library

By Jeremy Hylton, Andrew Kass, Mitchell Charity, Eytan Adar, and Jerry Saltzer

Following is a collection of related but independently authored documents that comprise a work in progress, based on many discussions in and out of meetings of the Library 2000 group over several years. Although not integrated, by browsing the entire collection one sees a fairly uniform perspective on many of the architectural issues of a digital library.

Saltzer: Semantics of the Library 2000 Network Storage Service, March 9, 1993.

Saltzer: Architecture background, September 1994 (outline).

Saltzer: Components and Definitions, December 7, 1994

Saltzer: Scenarios, December, 1994.

Hylton: Library 2000 Architecture, Draft 1, September 26, 1994.

Hylton: Library 2000 Architecture, Draft 2, October 18, 1994.

Kass: The Library 2000 view of a Digital Distributed Library System, last modified Oct 11, 1994.

Charity: Architecture notes.

Adar: The use of UR* in the CSTR scenario, revised 2/21/95

Some of the architecture ideas discussed above are influenced by our thinking on how to achieve integrity of long-persistence data, for which there is a separate page.

Off-site links to Digital Library Architecture work elsewhere.