Information Dynamics and Agent Infrastructure
Abstract
Acquisition, organization, management, retrieval, and distribution of information are fundamental purposes of digital libraries and their supporting infrastructures. Interoperable digital libraries pose particularly difficult system design issues. Interoperability research has focused largely on syntactic and semantic interoperability. In this paper, a third form of interoperability, analytic interoperability is proposed, with a framework in which to consider it. Since information is the essential commodity of interest, a comprehensive interoperability design should take into account the fundamental properties of information, including representation, composition, relationships, and dynamics. Information Dynamics considers how the nature of information can be used to achieve analytic interoperability.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 2003
- Accession Number
- ADA417453
Entities
People
- Ashok Agrawala
- Ronald Larsen
- Udaya Shankar
Organizations
- University of Maryland