Purpose - To provide reliable data for the development of efficient information literacy education in a department of a higher educational institute in Thessaloniki, Greece. It requires in-depth understanding of the ...

Greek libraries have experienced a tremendous evolution towards modernization in recent years. The lack of tradition in libraries and the existence of an educational system based on the single textbook did not favour the ...

Multidimensional XML (MXML) is an extension of XML that incorporates dimensions in order to represent in an elegant and concise way context-dependent data, that is, data which can exhibit different variations in value or ...

Open access archives, repositories, directories and digital libraries spread widely as a result of technologic interventions and a reaction to demanding and competitive economical conditions. Although these innovative ...

In this paper we investigate the problem of classification between sports and news broadcasting. We detect and classify files that consist of speech and music or background noise (news broadcasting), and speech and a noisy ...

This paper presents DocML, a Web-based digital library of university data. The goal is to build a system capable of preserving and managing student assignments efficiently in a university environment. It is based on a ...

Most libraries and other cultural heritage institutions use controlled knowledge organisation systems, such as thesauri, to describe their collections. Unfortunately, as most of these institutions use different such ...