PADLs: supporting digital scholarship in digital libraries

This paper introduces digital scholarship:a process inwhich indivi uals performall scholarly work electronically, working entirely with digital media. A proposal is made for patron‐augmenteddigital libraries (PADLs): a class of digital libraries designed to support the digital scholarship of its patrons. PADLs not only provide facilities for search an retrieval of library artefacts, but also allow patrons to augment the library’s collection with new artefacts such as annotations,original compositions an organisational structures. Finally, a prototype PADL (calle Synchrony) providing access to digitise video segments and associate textual transcripts is described. Synchrony allows patrons to search its collection for artefacts, create annotations/original compositions, integrate these artefacts to form synchronize mixed text an video presentations and, after suitable review, publish these presentations into the digital library if desired.