Abhatoo - Centre Nationale de Documentation

The overall workshop goals were: to define those digital library parameters which especially influence issues of access to, retrieval of, and interaction with information; to identify key problems which must be solved to make digital library service an effective reality; to identify a general structure or framework for integrating research and solutions; and to propose and encourage specific, high-priority research directions within such a framework.
We report the deliberations of a subgroup focusing on distributed data service taxonomy and digital library system requirements. After a prelude delimiting what we mean by Digital Library (DL) , we suggest that the evolving distributed resource manager and application enabler concepts provide an organizing basis for offerings from which each data custodian and each end user can choose modules suiting his needs and preferences. We make a start towards identifying module classes and pointing out existing and needed requirements analyses.