Digital library system
OwnerDavid Rousseau, Julie Rousseauinventors
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Abstract
An apparatus and method for setting up and operating a digital multi-media library configured in such as way as to enable the creation of custom sub-libraries. In this system users are able to create private themed sub-libraries that contain information assets that are excerpts of the main library's information assets. This is accomplished via a special proxy asset structure. The apparatus and method further enables, via use of the custom library feature and the special proxy asset structure, the deployment of digital libraries more quickly than current methods allow, and in a manner that spreads more of the set-up cost into the post-deployment period.
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1-97. (canceled)
A digital library system for enabling access to information, the digital library system comprising:
- a structuring part that provides means for representing information assets of said digital library system with a collection of at least one proxy assets;
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- a sectioning part that provides means for creating new proxy assets.
A digital library system for enabling access to information, the digital library system comprising:
- a structuring part that provides means for representing information assets of said digital library system with a collection of at least one proxy assets, wherein said proxy asset further comprising metadata that describes and references at least one data portion, wherein said data portion contains part of the information content of said information asset being represented;
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- a sectioning part that provides means for creating new proxy assets such that each new proxy asset references one or several of the data portions referenced by a given proxy asset.
A digital library system for enabling access to information, the digital library system comprising:
- a structuring part that provides means for representing information assets of said digital library system with a collection of at least one proxy assets, wherein said proxy asset further comprising metadata that describes and references at least one data portion, wherein said data portion contains part of the information content of said information asset being represented;
- a sectioning part that provides means for creating new proxy assets such that each new proxy asset references one or several of the data portions referenced by a given proxy asset;
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- wherein a new proxy asset created by means of said sectioning part represents a logical section that exists within said information content represented by said given proxy asset, and said metadata for said new proxy asset may include a citation for that logical section.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.