The article discusses the highlights of 2012 International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries held in Paphos, Cyprus from December 23 to 27, 2012. Researchers, developers, content providers, and users ...

The design of an Finite State Machine for human activity recognition heavily depends on the type, number and deployment of the sensors used. In this work we propose a tool that automatically creates the FSM, independently ...

Europeana has put in a stretch many known procedures in digital libraries, imposing requirements difficult to be implemented in many small institutions, often without dedicated systems support personnel. Although there are ...

This paper presents a policy decision tree for digital information management in academic libraries. The decision tree is a policy guide, which offers alternative access and reproduction policy solutions according to the ...

This paper investigates the context in which a special library of academic standards could contribute to the work of Secondary Education teachers towards the strengthening of their students’ information skills as a preparation ...

This study aims at investigating query formulation and reformulation patterns within the search procedure focusing mainly on the semantic aspect of submitted queries. Results identified generalisations, specifications, ...

We present the results of a questionnaire survey for the access and reproduction policies of 67 digital collections in 34 libraries (national, academic, public, special etc) from 13 countries. We examine and analyze the ...

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 ...

Sensor data generated by pervasive applications are very diverse and are rarely described in standard or established formats. Consequently, one of the greatest challenges in pervasive systems is to integrate heterogeneous ...

Today's libraries provide a broad and diverse range of resources, from books to videos and databases, and sharing conditions for each depend on modality, source, and mode of usage. In this paper, we introduce and discuss ...