A digital library for education: the PEN-DOR project.
Recent initiatives in digital library research have suggested new models for the creation and organisation of digital information and its dissemination to virtual communities. PEN-DOR (the Pennsylvania Education Network Digital Object Repository) is a digital library designed to provide access to th...
| Publicado en: | Electronic Library Vol. 17; no. 2; pp. 75 - 83 |
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| Formato: | tables/charts Journal Article |
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Emerald Publishing Limited
1999
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