Usage data, still an active research area, can address many shortcomings of citation analysis. A state-of-the-art in usage-based informetrics, the article can inspire the development of usage metadata for DPLA system. .
." I'd suggest we can learn a lesson from that story as we 'build' the DPLA: we should work with familiar mental models of the library, for both browsers and searchers. Let's make this easy for our users." (Nate Hill)
The fascination with completeness is as timeless as it is ingrained. In the last decade, the Internet has made the ambition of universality appear closer to realization than ever before:
WorldWideScience.org is a global science gateway-accelerating scientific discovery and progress through a multilateral partnership to enable federated searching of national and international scientific databases
Run a sample search to see what national libraries' content is already pulled into this database
The development of ADS can be illustrative in how a digital library with linked, standardized metadata improves findability, enables creation of recommendation services and computational research.