ISIS and OSIRIS: A Process-Based Digital Library Application on Top of a Distributed Process Support Middleware

• Published in: Digital Libraries: Research and Development pp. 46 - 55
• Main Authors: Brettlecker, Gert, Milano, Diego, Ranaldi, Paola, Schek, Hans-Jörg, Schuldt, Heiko, Springmann, Michael
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Subjects: Content-based Multimedia Retrieval; Distributed Process Management; Service-oriented Architecture
• ISBN: 3540770879; 9783540770879
• ISSN: 0302-9743; 1611-3349
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-77088-6_5

Future information spaces such as Digital Libraries require new infrastructures that allow to use and to combine various kinds of functions in a unified and reliable way. The paradigm of service-oriented architectures (SoA) allows providing application functionality in a modular, self-contained way and to individually combine this functionality. The paper presents the ISIS/OSIRIS system which consists of a generic infrastructure for the reliable execution of distributed service-based applications (OSIRIS) and a set of dedicated Digital Library application services (ISIS) that provide, among others, content-based search in multimedia collections.