Nowadays, many libraries have developed social tagging services, after the considerable use of social tagging and deployment as key components of Web 2.0. Another set of libraries have enriched the search and indexing ...

Digital folklore collections are valuable sources for studying the cultural and oral tradition of a country. The main difficulty in managing such collections is material heterogeneity (handwritten texts, photographs, 3D ...

This paper presents a new metadata aggregation approach based on a mediating repository that intends to ensure the integrity, authenticity and semantic enrichment of metadata provided to Europeana by heterogeneous collections. ...

In recent years a wealth of information is becoming available thanks to computer and networking technology. Modern libraries incorporate in their collections information content in both physical and digital form. Meanwhile, ...

The article discusses the semantic metadata integration and mapping of CIDOC/Conceptual Reference Model (CRM) and Dublin Core Collections Application Profile (DCCAP) in cultural heritage domain. It notes that the mapping ...

The management of cultural heritage metadata is a multifaceted process depending on the diversity and heterogeneity of the cultural objects, the structure of their collections and the information needs of the communities ...

The interest in the analysis of library user behaviour has been increasing rapidly since the advent of digital libraries and the Internet. In this context, the authors analyze the queries posed to a digital library and ...

Οι σταθμοί πληροφόρησης (information kiosks) είναι ειδικά πληροφοριακά συστήματα. Βρίσκονται κυρίως σε σημεία όπου μετακινούνται πολλοί άνθρωποι, όπως αεροδρόμια, λιμάνια, συνεδριακά και εκθεσιακά κέντρα, μουσεία κλπ. Οι ...