Access to Digital Libraries

This document is organised in three parts, each forming a self contained topic, i.e. the Digital Library Manifesto, the Digital Library Reference Model in a Nutshell, and the Digital Library Reference Model Concepts and Relations.

The Digital Library Manifesto declares the intentions, motives, overall plans and views of the a long term initiative leading to the production of a foundational theory for Digital Libraries; it also introduces the main notions characterising the whole Digital Library domain.

The Digital Library Reference Model in a Nutshell briefly introduces the overall picture underlying a comprehensive model conceived to capture the essence of Digital Libraries in terms of the main domains characterising them, the principal concepts existing in each domain and the main relationships connecting such concepts.

The Digital Library Reference Model Concepts and Relations present in detail the main concepts, axioms and relationships characterising the Digital Library domain independently from specific standards, technologies, implementations, or other concrete details.