LibraRing: An Architecture for Distributed Digital Libraries Based on DHTs

Publication information:

C. Tryfonopoulos, S. Idreos, and M. Koubarakis,
“LibraRing: An Architecture for Distributed Digital Libraries Based on DHTs”, in Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL), Vienna, Austria, 2005, pp. 25–36.

Abstract

We present a digital library architecture based on distributedhash tables. We discuss the main components of this architecture andthe protocols for offering information retrieval and information filteringfunctionality. We present an experimental evaluation of our proposals.