Distributed library: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 03:36, 19 August 2008

Revision as of 11:07, 4 February 2011

Line 4:

Another example which takes a slightly different approach is Unlibrary.com. In this system users are free to create communities of any size and scope, rather than a single city-wide community. For instance a church might have its own community, with church members all able to borrow from each other. Users can also have private, invite-only groups.

Another example is the digibruted library of Geneva. The name digibruted is coined from “Digital” and “Distributed”. It does not mean that the library is brutalized by digital attacks, but rather that the library is a digital construction, indexing real assets (books in this case) distributed in the real world. The difference from Unlibrary is that the books are freely given to readers, who act also as librarians, in a kind of peer-to-peer schema.

==See also==

Line 12 ⟶ 14:

* [http://dlpdev.theps.net/ListOfExistingDlpNodes?v=fep A List of Distributed Libraries]

* [http://unlibrary.com Unlibrary.com]

* [http://digilioge.wordpress.com/ The Digibruted Library of Geneva]

[[Category:Library and information science]]