Virtual Documents : a New Architecture for Knowledge Management in Digital Libraries
Sung Hyon Myaeng, M. H. Lee, JH Kang · 1999
Digital libraries are often viewed as a collection of documents from which users can retrieve documents for their needs. As an extension to this conventional notion of digital libraries, we introduce a new document architecture where links play a key role in helping users create knowledge. It allows for easy creation of a new composite document, called a virtual document, whose parts can be geographically dispersed. This paper describes the concept of virtual documents and a digital library system architecture geared toward applications where an essential element is teacher-student interactions through an exchange of knowledge in the form of multimedia documents. 1.