digital object
A digital object in a digital library is the textual or multimedia data and the metadata.
Formally, a digital object is a quadruple where
- 1.
, where is a set of universally unique handles (labels);
- 2.
is a set of streams;
- 3.
is a set of structural metadata specifications; and
- 4.
is a set of Structured Streams functions defined from the streams in and from the structures
in .