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Using Google™ facets as implicit feedback for query expansion in database searching
(2012)
The purpose of this study is to examine the Google facets, namely the suggestions found occasionally under the section "Searches related to" on the Google results page. The study focuses on whether they constitute good ...
Geospatial Data Collection Policies, Technology and Open Source in Websites of Academic Libraries Worldwide
(2016)
The proliferation of geospatial data demands the engagement of information organizations, such as academic libraries,
for their management and diffusion.
The purpose of this paper is to reveal issues related to the ...
The New Trends for Librarians in Management of Geographic Information
(2013)
The purpose of this study is to examine the tools (e.g. CSDGM – FGDC, Gazetteers) used for the subject description and organization, of materials (maps, aerial photos, geospatial data, remote sense images etc) related to ...
Collections and Access Policies of the Digital Material of Ten National Libraries
(2003)
We examine and analyze the access policies of the digital collections of ten national libraries. We classify the implemented access policies, according to their characteristics, and we show their differences. We generalize ...
Harvesting metadata for immovable monuments from "local inventories" and mapping them to standards
(2011)
This work focuses on a harvesting of various metadata elements that exists in informally and heterogeneous schemas for the documentation of immovable monuments used from many Greek public services, working in the field of ...
A framework for performance monitoring, load balancing, adaptive timeouts and quality of service in digital libraries
(2000)
Abstract. In this paper, we investigate the issues of performance management in large scale, autonomous and federated digital library systems, performing the tasks of indexing, searching and retrieval of information objects. ...
Eliminating query failures in a work-centric library meta-search environment
(2009)
Purpose - This paper aims to describe how approaches such as semantic based query rewritings and FRBR work entities composition could solve existing problems and improve the overall behavior of a mediated based meta-search ...
Geographic collections development policies and GIS services: a research in US academic libraries’ websites
(2011)
Management and analysis of geospatial data evolved into a rapid developmental field nowadays. Scientific researches debate that 80% of economic and political decisions internationally, include indirect or direct geographic ...
Geospatial collection development policies in academic libraries: a worldwide research
(2011)
The widespread applications of GIS have challenged librarians worldwide to provide geospatial collections and services to their users. Despite the fact that collection development policies in digital environment have derived ...
Query expansion of zero-hit subject searches: using a thesaurus in conjunction with NLP techniques
(2012)
The focus of our study is zero-hit queries in keyword subject searches and the effort of increasing recall in these cases by reformulating and, then, expanding the initial queries using an external source of knowledge, ...