Design and Implementation of an Adaptive Distributed Storage System for Digital

In recent years, with the extreme advances
in information technologies, many new
techniques and new tools have been
developed. It helps the information spread
rapidly and bring a large amount of varied
digital contents. Therefore, how to reserve
and search the information efficiently
becomes a tough challenge. This project,
‘Design and Implementation of an Adaptive
Distributed Storage System for Digital
Libraries’, will cooperate with National
Taiwan University Library, and build up a
digital contents storage system with
efficiency evaluation modules. First, the
logical three-tier architecture as well as
hierarchical storage mechanisms will be
proposed. Then, an adaptive distributed
storage system integrating with catalog
systems of libraries will be built. Moreover,
an efficiency evaluation system modules
incorporating in a decision support system
based on ‘On Line Analytical Process’
(OLAP) technology, will be developed to
monitor the performance of the storage
system. By integrated with the distributed
storage mechanism and OLAP, the resource
utilization of each storage node will be more
efficient and the system performance can
hence be optimized. As the importance of the
digital library increases nowadays, we
believe that this project will be a very timely
endeavor and will deliver results of both
theoretical and practical importance.