Title :
Agent Based Mediation Architecture for Federated Digital Library Services
Author :
Shi, Xue-lin ; Zhao, Ying ; Dong, Xiangjun
Author_Institution :
Beijing Univ. of Chem. Technol., Beijing
Abstract :
Federated digital libraries are composed of autonomous, possibly heterogeneous information services distributed across the Internet. Interoperation between diverse information services is one of the main challenges faced by FDLs. In this paper we describe an agent based mediator architecture that bridges the gap between heterogeneity systems. All agents communicate with each other by exchanging RDF (resource description framework) messages. We illustrate our approach with a prototype system involving a SDLIP and a Z39.50 server, and we analyze performance of our infrastructure.
Keywords :
digital libraries; indexing; meta data; open systems; semantic Web; software agents; Internet; agent based mediation architecture; federated digital library services; heterogeneous information services; interoperability; resource description framework; Chemical technology; Computer architecture; Data mining; Distributed computing; Information retrieval; Information science; Mediation; Resource description framework; Software libraries; XML;
Conference_Titel :
Asia-Pacific Service Computing Conference, The 2nd IEEE
Conference_Location :
Tsukuba Science City
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-3051-6
DOI :
10.1109/APSCC.2007.9
