Browsing Eλληνική BIβλιοθηκονομική BAση (ΕΒΙΒΑ) by Author "Kapidakis, Sarantos"

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    • Eliminating query failures in a work-centric library meta-search environment 

      Καπιδάκης, Σαράντος; Σφακάκης, Μιχάλης; Kapidakis, Sarantos; Sfakakis, Michalis (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 ...

    • Evaluation of digital libraries 

      Τσάκωνας, Γιάννης; Καπιδάκης, Σαράντος; Παπαθεοδώρου, Χρήστος; Landoni, Monica; Micsik, András; Sølvberg, Ingeborg T.; Tsakonas, Giannis; Kapidakis, Sarantos; Papatheodorou, Christos; Fuhr, Norbert; Klas, Claus-Peter; Agosti, Maristella; Peters, Carol; Aalberg, Trond; Hansen, Preben; Kovács, László (2007)
      Digital libraries (DLs) are new and innovative information systems, under constant development and change, and therefore evaluation is of critical importance to ensure not only their correct evolution but also their ...

    • An experimental framework for comparative digital library evaluation: The logging scheme 

      Καπιδάκης, Σαράντος; Παπαθεοδώρου, Χρήστος; Τσάκωνας, Γιάννης; Klas, Claus-Peter; Fuhr, Norbert; Kriewel, S.; Albrechtsen, Hanne; Hansen, Preben; Kovács, László; Micsik, A.; Jacob, E.; Kapidakis, Sarantos; Tsakonas, Giannis; Papatheodorou, Christos (2006)
      Evaluation of digital libraries assesses their effectiveness, quality and overall impact. In this paper we present a novel, multi-level logging framework that will provide complete coverage of the different aspects of DL ...

    • Exploring query formulation and reformulation: a preliminary study to map users' search behaviour 

      Καπιδάκης, Σαράντος; Μάστορα, Άννα; Μονόπωλη, Μαρία; Kapidakis, Sarantos; Mastora, Anna; Monopoli, Maria (2008)
      This study aims to investigate the query formulation and reformulation patterns such as generalisations, specifications, parallel movements and replacements with synonyms within the search procedure. Results showed that ...

    • Expression of Z39.50 supported search capabilities by applying formal descriptions 

      Καπιδάκης, Σαράντος; Σφακάκης, Μιχάλης; Kapidakis, Sarantos; Sfakakis, Michalis (2005)
      The wide adoption of the Z39.50 protocol from the Libraries exposes their abilities to participate in a distributed environment. In spite of the protocol specification of a unified global access mechanism, query failures ...

    • Expressiveness and machine processability of Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS): an analysis of concepts and relations 

      Peponakis, Manolis; Mastora, Anna; Kapidakis, Sarantos; Doerr, Martin (2019)
      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 ...

    • Extracting Useful Information from MEDLINE/PubMed 

      Kapidakis, Sarantos; Pylarinou, Stamatoula; Ligoudistianos, Spyros (2019)
      The article reports that the processing data extracted from MEDLINE/PubMed can offer hospital librarians a chance to improve services in the library. It mentions that scholarly publishing of hospital personnel shows research ...

    • Failed Queries: a Morpho-Syntactic Analysis Based on Transaction Log Files 

      Μάστορα, Άννα; Μονόπωλη, Μαρία; Καπιδάκης, Σαράντος; Mastora, Anna; Monopoli, Maria; Kapidakis, Sarantos (2011)
      The aim of the study is to elaborate on the procedure needed in order to analyze morpho-syntactically the typing-error queries submitted in Greek during the search process. In the context of our analysis a failed query is ...

    • A framework for performance monitoring, load balancing, adaptive timeouts and quality of service in digital libraries 

      Καπιδάκης, Σαράντος; Τερζής, Σωτήρης; Sairamesh, Jakka; Kapidakis, Sarantos; Terzis, Sotirios (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. ...

    • FRBRization: using UNIMARC link fields to identify Works 

      Πεπονάκης, Μανώλης; Σφακάκης, Μιχάλης; Καπιδάκης, Σαράντος; Sfakakis, Michalis; Kapidakis, Sarantos; Peponakis, Manolis (Βιβλιοθήκη Πανεπιστημίου Κύπρου, 2011)
      The main objective of this study is to amalgamate the MARC 21 FRBRization practices with UNIMARC format semantics and to highlight some differences between them in the context of FRBRization. The main focus is to examine ...

    • FRBRization: αναζητώντας το "κλειδί" για τον εντοπισμό των Έργων 

      Πεπονάκης, Μανώλης; Στάικος, Παναγιώτης; Σφακάκης, Μιχάλης; Καπιδάκης, Σαράντος; Sfakakis, Michalis; Kapidakis, Sarantos; Staikos, Panagiotis; Peponakis, Manolis (Βιβλιοθήκη και Υπηρεσία Πληροφόρησης Παντείου Πανεπιστημίου, 2010)
      To εννοιολογικό μοντέλο των FRBR αποτελεί ένα πεδίο το οποίο τυγχάνει όλο και μεγαλύτερης προσοχής τόσο μέσα στα περιορισμένα όρια των καταλόγων βιβλιοθηκών όσο και έξω από αυτά ως ένα όχημα που θα επιτρέψει στους καταλόγους ...

    • Geographic collections development policies and GIS services: a research in US academic libraries’ websites 

      Βαρδακώστα, Ιφιγένεια; Καπιδάκης, Σαράντος; Vardakosta, Ifigenia; Kapidakis, Sarantos (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 ...

    • Geographical Collections in Greek Academic Libraries: current situation and perspectives 

      Καπιδάκης, Σαράντος; Βαρδακώστα, Ιφιγένεια; Vardakosta, Ifigenia; Kapidakis, Sarantos (2011)
      The paper aims at exploring the existence of geospatial collections and the GIS services in Greek academic libraries through a research in their websites. The initial hypothesis is that Greek academic libraries are not ...

    • Geoskills Among Academic Librarians in Greece, Cyprus and Spain 

      Βαρδακώστα, Ιφιγένεια; Καπιδάκης, Σαράντος; Aguilar-Moreno, Estefanía; Granell-Canut, Carlos; Vardakosta, Ifigenia; Kapidakis, Sarantos (2016)
      Existing literature on Geographic Information (GI) and libraries points out that American and Canadian librarians have long been aware of the intimate relationship between geospatial data and libraries. In Europe, though, ...

    • Geospatial collection development policies in academic libraries: a worldwide research 

      Βαρδακώστα, Ιφιγένεια; Καπιδάκης, Σαράντος; Vardakosta, Ifigenia; Kapidakis, Sarantos (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 ...

    • Geospatial Collections in Institutional Repositories (IRs): a survey in Map/GIS Libraries 

      Vardakosta, Ifigenia; Kapidakis, Sarantos (2017-04)
      Changes in scholarly publishing along with the rapid developments in technology are affecting user expectations and forcing academic libraries to significant changes in providing access to geospatial data and develop new ...

    • Geospatial data collection development policies’ characteristics 

      Βαρδακώστα, Ιφιγένεια; Καπιδάκης, Σαράντος; Vardakosta, Ifigenia; Kapidakis, Sarantos (2012)
      In days of global economic distress, libraries implementing a GIS service, must ensure that users will be able to make the greatest possible use of its capabilities and functions. Based on the above framework, the goal of ...

    • Geospatial Data Collection Policies, Technology and Open Source in Websites of Academic Libraries Worldwide 

      Βαρδακώστα, Ιφιγένεια; Καπιδάκης, Σαράντος; Vardakosta, Ifigenia; Kapidakis, Sarantos (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 development ...

    • Geospatial Data in Library Collections 

      Βαρδακώστα, Ιφιγένεια; Καπιδάκης, Σαράντος; Vardakosta, Ifigenia; Kapidakis, Sarantos (2012)
      While several surveys and studies focus on developing GIS services in libraries, however, there is no recent research concerning the data that academic libraries organize and offer to their users. This study tries to cover ...

    • Harvesting metadata for immovable monuments from "local inventories" and mapping them to standards 

      Καπιδάκης, Σαράντος; Αγαθός, Μιχαήλ; Agathos, Michail; Kapidakis, Sarantos (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 ...