Readings on digital objects: An annotated URIography

I've spent many hours searching for articles, standards and texts on digital objects, and how to model, store and deliver them. This entry is for measuring my progress.

The articles are grouped with respect to the theme I feel they belong.

• digital object store
  • Robert Kahn, Robert Wilensky, 2006. A framework for distributed digital object services
  • Carl Lagoze, Sandy Payette, Edwin Shin and Chris Wilper, 2005. Fedora: an architecture for complex objects and their relationships.
  • Maly, Kurt and Michael L. Nelson, 1999. Smart Objects, Dumb Archives — A User-Centric, Layered Digital Library Framework.
  • McDonough, Jerome, 2008. “Structural Metadata and the Social Limitation of Interoperability: A Sociotechnical View of XML and Digital Library Standards Development.”
• the theory of text & text modelling
  • Dino Buzzetti, 2002. Digital Representation and the Text Model.
  • Helena Francke, 2008. Towards an Architectural Document Analysis
• Navigation & annotation
  • M. Nottingham & R. Sayre, 2005. The Atom Syndication Format
  • J. Snell, 2006. Atom Threading Extensions
  • National Library of Australia. On the meaning of next
• reading habits
  • Nicholas Carr, 2008. Is Google Making Us Stupid? What the Internet is doing to our brains.