A Method of Managing Distributed Contents in Heterogeneous Servers

Various types of content servers are used to run digital archives and digital museums in many sites. These content servers have different interfaces and ways to keep their contents. Inappropriately managed content servers prevent efficient use of contents in different servers. This paper proposes a solution to this inefficiency by describing a peer-to-peer based content management system that integrates distributed contents in two or more content servers. Our proposed system has a mechanism for controlling content servers and creating content control data for managing contents. The proposed system manages the content servers and the contents with these data over a peer-to-peer network. With this management method, the proposed system provides scalable and efficient use of the contents by integrating the servers and the contents.