@conference {krafft_ncore:_2008,
	title = {Ncore: Architecture and Implementation of a Flexible, Collaborative Digital Library},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries},
	series = {{JCDL} {\textquoteright}08},
	year = {2008},
	note = {00031},
	pages = {313{\textendash}322},
	publisher = {ACM},
	organization = {ACM},
	address = {New York, NY, USA},
	abstract = {Krafft, Birkland, and Cramer use the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) and their newly developed NCore repository as the central object of inquiry. The NSDL was created "to provide organized access to high quality resources and tools that support innovations in teaching and learning at all levels of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education." Krafft, Birkland, and Cramer work through both the back-end and front-end of the repository by discussing the structures of aggregation; the semantics of aggregation, including classification and inheritance; users created aggregations as value-added; system integration with Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting; and, finally, the deployment of Web 2.0 tools. When this article was composed, NCore was set to release in January 2008. Krafft, Birkland, and Cramer suggested that future work would include the development of a toolkit to support easy integration, RSS feeds, and system extensions. Overall, the authors argue that "NCore implements a flexible, extensible platform for creating a new kind of digital library that integrates the best features of traditional libraries with the collaborative tools of Web 2.0."},
	keywords = {aggregations, architecture, digital library, education, fedora, interoperability, {NSDL}},
	isbn = {978-1-59593-998-2},
	doi = {10.1145/1378889.1378943},
	url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1378889.1378943},
	author = {Krafft, Dean B. and Birkland, Aaron and Cramer, Ellen J.}
}