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    • Evaluating authoritative sources using social networks: an insight from Wikipedia 

      Μπώκος, Γιώργος Δ.; Κορφιάτης, Νικόλαος; Πούλος, Μάριος Σ.; Korfiatis, Nikolaos; Poulos, Marios S.; Bokos, George D. (2006)
      The purpose of this paper is to present an approach to evaluating contributions in collaborative authoring environments, and in particular, Wikis using social network measures. Design/methodology/approach – A social network ...
    • Evaluating search engines. A comparative study between international and Greek SE by Greek librarians 

      Γαρουφάλλου, Εμμανουήλ; Garoufallou, Emmanouel (2012)
      Purpose - The use of search engines is the most widely acceptable way for information foraging on the net. Their wide use as an information retrieval tool has created the need for their evaluation as a means of improving ...
    • Evaluation and usage scenarios of open source digital library and collection management tools 

      Λαζαρίνης, Φώτης; Γκούμας, Γεώργιος; Lazarinis, Fotis; Gkoumas, Georgios (2015)
      The purpose of this paper is to evaluate open source software (OSS) for digital libraries and collection management and to propose different utilization scenarios based on the characteristics of the tools. Design/methodo ...
    • Evaluation of digital libraries 

      Τσάκωνας, Γιάννης; Καπιδάκης, Σαράντος; Παπαθεοδώρου, Χρήστος; Landoni, Monica; Micsik, András; Sølvberg, Ingeborg T.; Tsakonas, Giannis; Kapidakis, Sarantos; Papatheodorou, Christos; Fuhr, Norbert; Klas, Claus-Peter; Agosti, Maristella; Peters, Carol; Aalberg, Trond; Hansen, Preben; Kovács, László (2007)
      Digital libraries (DLs) are new and innovative information systems, under constant development and change, and therefore evaluation is of critical importance to ensure not only their correct evolution but also their ...
    • The Evolving Role of Commercial Publishers and the Future of Open Access Repositories: the Potential of Corporate Social Responsibility 

      Koutras, Nikos (2019)
      Since the modes of publishing content have changed in the digital age, Open Access (OA) practice could be an effective response towards the challenges generated by the ongoing technological advancements. It could respond ...
    • Examining Patterns of Information Behavior Among Healthcare Professionals: a Case Study on Health Psychologists 

      Κωσταγιόλας, Πέτρος; Σαμιώτη, Φ.; Κορφιάτης, Νικόλαος; Νιάκας, Δημήτριος; Αλέξιας, Γιώργος; Samioti, F.; Korfiatis, Nikolaos; Niakas, Dimitriοs; Alexias, George; Kostagiolas, Petros (2012)
      Psychologists are an understudied population in terms of information needs and information seeking behavior. This article provides theoretical analysis accompanied with some empirical evidence drawn from a nationwide survey ...
    • Examining the prospects of library use data integration in university information systems: the Spanish and Greek library stakeholder's perspective 

      Sant-Geronikolou, Stavroula; Martínez-Ávila, D. (2019)
      Objective. To collect the richly textured viewpoints of academic librarians and students on obstacles to library integration in institutional information systems, namely student success technologies and learning analytics. ...
    • Exchange libraries: Greece’s response to a global trend 

      Μπίκος, Γιώργιος Δ.; Παπαδημητρίου, Παναγιώτα; Bikos, Georgios D.; Papadimitriou, Panagiota (2017)
      The purpose of this study is to attempt a brief presentation of book exchange practices, as these are unfolding around the world. Then, the authors focus on free exchange libraries and analyse different aspects of the ...
    • An experimental framework for comparative digital library evaluation: The logging scheme 

      Καπιδάκης, Σαράντος; Παπαθεοδώρου, Χρήστος; Τσάκωνας, Γιάννης; Klas, Claus-Peter; Fuhr, Norbert; Kriewel, S.; Albrechtsen, Hanne; Hansen, Preben; Kovács, László; Micsik, A.; Jacob, E.; Kapidakis, Sarantos; Tsakonas, Giannis; Papatheodorou, Christos (2006)
      Evaluation of digital libraries assesses their effectiveness, quality and overall impact. In this paper we present a novel, multi-level logging framework that will provide complete coverage of the different aspects of DL ...
    • Exploitation of Folksonomies in Subject Analysis 

      Παπαθεοδώρου, Χρήστος; Κακάλη, Κωνσταντία; Kakali, Constantia; Papatheodorou, Christos (2010)
      Social tagging is one of the most popular of social media applications and has attracted the interest of a number of libraries and museums, which have developed services that facilitate user-community collaboration. This ...
    • An exploration of the digital library evaluation literature based on an ontological representation 

      Παπαθεοδώρου, Χρήστος; Τσάκωνας, Γιάννης; Παπαχριστόπουλος, Λεωνίδας; Μητρέλης, Άγγελος; Papatheodorou, Christos; Tsakonas, Giannis; Papachristopoulos, Leonidas; Mitrelis, Angelos (2013)
      Evaluation is a vital research area in the digital library domain, demonstrating a growing literature in conference and journal articles. We explore the directions and the evolution of evaluation research for the period ...
    • Exploratory Research Regarding Faculty Attitudes towards the Institutional Repository and Self Archiving 

      Κυριακή-Μάνεση, Δάφνη; Κουλούρης, Αλέξανδρος; Γιαννακόπουλος, Γεώργιος Α.; Ζέρβος, Σπύρος; Giannakopoulos, Georgios A.; Zervos, Sryridon; Koulouris, Alexandros; Kyriaki Manesi, Daphne (2012)
      Over the past year the Library of the TEI of Athens has launched an Institutional Repository containing Faculty's published and unpublished work, students’ theses and a major collection called “Institutional Archives”. The ...
    • An Exploratory Study of User Perception in Visual Search Interfaces Based on SKOS 

      Στοΐτσης, Γιάννης; Μπινιάρη, Κατερίνα; Gaona-Garcí, Paulo Alonso; Sánchez-Alonso, Salvador; Stoitsis, Giannis; Biniari, Katerina (2016)
      Repositories are web portals that provide access to learning objects. Resources can be easily located through the use of metadata, an important factor to increase the ease of searching for digital resources in repositories. ...
    • Exploring query formulation and reformulation: a preliminary study to map users' search behaviour 

      Καπιδάκης, Σαράντος; Μάστορα, Άννα; Μονόπωλη, Μαρία; Kapidakis, Sarantos; Mastora, Anna; Monopoli, Maria (2008)
      This study aims to investigate the query formulation and reformulation patterns such as generalisations, specifications, parallel movements and replacements with synonyms within the search procedure. Results showed that ...
    • Exploring the information seeking behavior of Greek graduate students: A case study set in the University of Macedonia 

      Μάλλιαρη, Αφροδίτη; Κορομπίλη-Ξαντίδου, Στέλλα; Ζαπουνίδου, Σοφία; Zapounidou, Sofia; Korobili - Xantinidou, Stella; Malliari, Aphrodite (2011)
      This paper describes a survey designed to determine the information seeking behavior of graduate students at the University of Macedonia (UoM). The survey is a continuation of a previous one undertaken in the Faculties of ...
    • Exploring usefulness and usability in the evaluation of open access digital libraries 

      Τσάκωνας, Γιάννης; Παπαθεοδώρου, Χρήστος; Papatheodorou, Christos; Tsakonas, Giannis (2008)
      Advances in the publishing world have emerged new models of digital library development. Open access publishing modes are expanding their presence and realize the digital library idea in various means. While user-centered ...
    • Expression of Z39.50 supported search capabilities by applying formal descriptions 

      Καπιδάκης, Σαράντος; Σφακάκης, Μιχάλης; Kapidakis, Sarantos; Sfakakis, Michalis (2005)
      The wide adoption of the Z39.50 protocol from the Libraries exposes their abilities to participate in a distributed environment. In spite of the protocol specification of a unified global access mechanism, query failures ...
    • Expressiveness and machine processability of Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS): an analysis of concepts and relations 

      Peponakis, Manolis; Mastora, Anna; Kapidakis, Sarantos; Doerr, Martin (2019)
      This study considers the expressiveness (that is, the expressive power or expressivity) of different types of Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS) and discusses its potential to be machine-processable in the context of the ...
    • Extending European information access through mobile library services: some first results 

      Τροχόπουλος, Γιάννης Ισ.; Carpenter, j.; Trohopoulos, Ioannis (1997)
      Provides an overview of Greek public libraries. Focuses on the MOBILE mobile libraries project covering its design and expected outcomes. Considers: user surveys and results; how the surveys were designed and the factors ...
    • Extracting Useful Information from MEDLINE/PubMed 

      Kapidakis, Sarantos; Pylarinou, Stamatoula; Ligoudistianos, Spyros (2019)
      The article reports that the processing data extracted from MEDLINE/PubMed can offer hospital librarians a chance to improve services in the library. It mentions that scholarly publishing of hospital personnel shows research ...