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Information systems used in archaeology have several needs: interoperability among heterogeneous systems, making information available without significant delay, long-term preservation of data, and providing a suite of services to users. In this paper, we show how digital library techniques can be employed to provide solutions to three of these problems. We show this by describing a prototype for an archaeological Digital Library (ETANA-DL). First, ETANA-DL applies and extends the metadata harvesting approach to address some of the needs interoperability, rapid access to data, and data preservation. Second, we show that availability of a pool of components that implement common DL services has helped in rapidly creating the prototype, which was subsequently used for requirements elicitation. However, understanding complex archaeological information systems is a difficult task. Third, therefore, we describe our efforts to model these systems using the 5S framework, and show how the partially developed model has been used to implement complex services helping users carry out key tasks with the integrated data.
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Ravindranathan, U., Shen, R., Gonçalves, M.A., Fan, W., Fox, E.A., Flanagan, J.W. (2004). Prototyping Digital Libraries Handling Heterogeneous Data Sources – The ETANA-DL Case Study. In: Heery, R., Lyon, L. (eds) Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. ECDL 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3232. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30230-8_18
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