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Analysing and evaluating usefulness and usability in electronic information services
(2006)
Digital libraries, e-journal platforms, portals, e-prints and other web-based information systems provide services supporting users to perform intense work tasks that require complex interaction activities. The main ...
Integrating Dublin Core metadata for cultural heritage collections using ontologies
(2007)
Metadata interoperability is an active research area, especially for cultural heritage collections, which consist of heterogeneous objects described by a variety of metadata schemas. In this paper we propose an ontology-based ...
A metadata application profile for collection-level description of digital folklore resources
(2004)
The preservation and representation of folklore collections is a basic priority for every country because they are valuable for studying the customs and the tradition of specific groups of people and places. However, for ...
Enforcement of information seeking behavior through digital library services
(2008)
Digital library are complex information systems, comprised by core and value added services. The current study attempts to collect through a qualitative approach users’ opinions about the usage, usefulness and usability ...
Ontology-Based Metadata Integration in the Cultural Heritage Domain
(2007)
In this paper, we propose an ontology-based metadata integration methodology for the cultural heritage domain. The proposed real - world approach considers an integration architecture in which CIDOC/CRM ontology acts as a ...
Using qualitative research methods for the improvement of collaborative information searching tools design
(2008)
Regarding the change of information seeking to a collaborative activity, DLs as dynamic information systems, have to adopt collaboration searching tools. This study investigates the degree of collaboration in information ...
Critical constructs of digital library interaction
(2007)
The perception of fundamental dimensions of digital library (DL) interaction requires the deep exploration of interactive events. Interaction in DLs depends to a great degree on the content they provide. The present study ...
An experimental framework for comparative digital library evaluation: The logging scheme
(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 ...
A logging scheme for comparative digital library evaluation
(2006)
Evaluation of digital libraries assesses their effectiveness, quality and overall impact. To facilitate the comparison of different evaluations and to support the re-use of evaluation data, we are proposing a new logging ...
Discovering user communities on the Internet using unsupervised machine learning techniques
(2002)
Contribution to special issue on intelligence and interaction in community based systems (Part 1). Argues for the usefulness of constructing communities of users with common behaviour, making use of machine learning ...