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How People Read Books Online: mining and Visualizing Web Logs for Use Information
(2009)This paper explores how people read books online using the International Children’s Digital Library (ICDL). We analyzed usage of the ICDL in an attempt to understand how people read books from websites. We propose a definition ... -
A Hybrid Distributed Architecture for Indexing
(2009)This paper presents a hybrid scavenger grid as an underlying hardware architecture for search services within digital libraries. The hybrid scavenger grid consists of both dedicated servers and dynamic resources in the ... -
Improving Annotations in Digital Documents
(2009)Annotation plays a major role in a user’s reading of a document: from elementary school students making notes on text books to professors marking up their latest research papers. A common place for annotations to appear ... -
Improving Information Retrieval Effectiveness in Peer-to-Peer Networks through Query Piggybacking
(2009)This work describes an algorithm which aims at increasing the quantity of relevant documents retrieved from a Peer-To-Peer (P2P) network. The algorithm is based on a statistical model used for ranking documents, peers and ... -
Improving OCR Accuracy for Classical Critical Editions
(2009)This paper describes a work-flow designed to populate a digital library of ancient Greek critical editions with highly accurate OCR scanned text. While the most recently available OCR engines are now able after suitable ... -
Information Environment Metadata Schema Registry
(2009)Several metadata schemas focusing on Dublin Core metadata are now in operation around the world. In this demonstration, we support participants in exploring various components that make up the IEMSR metadata schema registry: ... -
Investigating and Assisting Interactive Document Triage in Electronic Environments
(2009)Document triage is the critical point when information seekers first decide the relevance of a document to their information need. This process is not yet clearly understood. In order to support the effective search for ... -
JSTOR - Data for Research
(2009)JSTOR is a not for profit organization dedicated to helping the scholarly community discover, use and build upon a large range of intellectual content in a trusted digital archive. JSTOR has created a new tool called ... -
Just One Bit in a Million: on the Effects of Data Corruption in Files
(2009)So far little attention has been paid to file format robustness, i.e., a file formats capability for keeping its information as safe as possible in spite of data corruption. The paper on hand reports on the first comprehensive ... -
Knowledge Organization Systems in Digital libraries
(2009)This introductory workshop is intended for anyone concerned with subject access to digital libraries. It provides a bridge by presenting methods of subject access as treated in an information studies program for those ... -
Leveraging the Legacy of Conventional Libraries for Organizing Digital Libraries
(2009)With the significant growth in the number of available electronic documents on the Internet, intranets, and digital libraries, the need for developing effective methods and systems to index and organize E-documents is ... -
Managing the Knowledge Creation Process of Large-Scale Evaluation Campaigns
(2009)This paper discusses the evolution of large-scale evaluation campaigns and the corresponding evaluation infrastructures needed to carry them out. We present the next challenges for these initiatives and show how digital ... -
Matching Multi-lingual Subject Vocabularies
(2009)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 systems, ... -
The NESTOR Framework: how to Handle Hierarchical Data Structures
(2009)In this paper we study the problem of representing, managing and exchanging hierarchically structured data in the context of a Digital Library (DL). We present the NEsted SeTs for Object hieRarchies (NESTOR) framework ... -
Optimal Support for Information Seeking Strategies by Adapting the User Interface
(2009)To satisfy their information needs, information searchers employ a host of search actions, that fall into different classes. Whereas most current IR systems only support one or very few of these actions well, we aim at the ... -
Organizing Learning Objects for Personalized eLearning Services
(2009)In this paper we present a way to organize Learning Objects to achieve personalized eLearning. PEDAL-NG is a system that supports personalization based on the user’s prior knowledge and the learning style in an existing ... -
The Planets Interoperability Framework. An Infrastructure for Digital Preservation Actions
(2009)We report on the implementation of a software infrastructure for preservation actions, carried out in the context of the European Integrated Project Planets – the Planets Interoperability Framework (IF). The design of the ... -
A Query Language for Digital Libraries
(2009)W e introduce a data model for digital libraries and an associated query language for the discovery of objects of interest based on content or description. W e also outline possible mappings of the query language to existing ... -
Recollection: integrating Data through Access
(2009)This demonstration of the Recollection project of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program at the Library of Congress will showcase a prototype platform, tools and environment for sharing ... -
REPOX – A Framework for Metadata Interchange
(2009)This demonstration presents an XML framework for metadata interchange. REPOX has two goals: to be a means for libraries and other cultural institutions to provide OAI-PMH access to their metadata records, independently of ...
