Defrosting the Digital Library: Bibliographic Tools for the Next Generation Web
Figure 4
A typical workflow for using a digital library representing a subset of the literature.
Tasks represented by white nodes are normally performed exclusively by humans, while tasks shown in blue nodes can be performed wholly or partly by machines of some kind. The main problematic tasks that make digital libraries difficult to use for both machines and humans are “GET” (publication) and “GET METADATA”. These are shown in bold and discussed further in the Identity Crisis section of this paper.