We analyze the use of the digital content of non-profit libraries, such as, national and academic, worldwide, as expressed through the restrictions of intellectual property and the knowledge management policies. We classify ...

The existence of historic building records in “paper fiches” is a reality and constitutes a rich store of information about the past, some of it unique. In this paper we present the results of a survey aimed to discover ...

We examine the factors (creation type of the material, acquisition method, copyright ownership etc.) and the access and reproduction policies of the digital collections of ten leading university digital libraries. We ...

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 ...

The vehicle to represent Knowledge Organization Systems (KOSs) in the environment of the Semantic Web and linked data is theSimple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS). SKOS provides a way to assign a URI to each concept, ...

What factors could affect the information seeking behavior of people despite of their being occupied in the same domain? This study aspires to shed some light on this question by examining, describing and exploring three ...

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 ...