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    • Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries 

      Agosti, Maristella; Borbinha, José; Καπιδάκης, Σαράντος; Kapidakis, Sarantos; Τμήμα Αρχειονομίας και Βιβλιοθηκονομίας, Εργαστήριο Ψηφιακών Βιβλιοθηκών και Ηλεκτρονικής Δημοσίευσης, Ιόνιο Πανεπιστήμιο (Springer, 2009)
    • Searching Archival Finding Aids: retrieval in Original Order? 

      Zhang, Junte; Kamps, Jaap (2009)
      Archival principles as Provenance (keeping material from the same creator together) and its corollary Original Order (keeping the order of creation intact) could help improve access to the archival materials. We investigate ...
    • Searching in a Book 

      Liesaputra, Veronica; Witten, Ian H.; Bainbridge, David (2009)
      Information has no value unless it is accessible. With physical books, most people rely on the table of contents and subject index to find what they want. But what if they are reading a book in a digital library and have ...
    • Securing the iRODS Metadata Catalog for Digital Preservation 

      Antunes, Gonçalo; Barateiro, José (2009)
      Digital preservation is the ability to retrieve, access, and use digital objects through time, while ensuring the authenticity and integrity properties of these objects. Data grids represent a model of storage systems ...
    • Seeking Information in Hybrid Collections: exploring a New Approach 

      Βερονίκης, Σπύρος; Veronikis, Spyros (2009)
      The thesis investigates the value which mobile computing devices add in seeking, accessing and retrieving material from hybrid information collections. The ability to maintain access to electronic content and services while ...
    • Significance Is in the Eye of the Stakeholder 

      Dappert, Angela; Farquhar, Adam (2009)
      Custodians of digital content take action when the material that they are responsible for is threatened by, for example, obsolescence or deterioration. At first glance, ideal preservation actions retain every aspect of the ...
    • Stress-Testing General Purpose Digital Library Software 

      Bainbridge, David; Witten, Ian H.; Boddie, Stefan; Thompson, John (2009)
      DSpace, Fedora, and Greenstone are three widely used open source digital library systems. In this paper we report on scalability tests performed on these tools by ourselves and others. These range from repositories populated ...
    • Superimposed Image Description and Retrieval for Fish Species Identification 

      Murthy, Uma; Fox, Edward A.; Chen, Yinlin; Hallerman, Eric; Da Silva Torres, Ricardo; Ramos, Evandro J.; Falcao, Tiago R.C. (2009)
      Fish species identification is critical to the study of fish ecology and management of fisheries. Traditionally, dichotomous keys are used for fish identification. The keys consist of questions about the observed specimen. ...
    • Supporting Effective User Navigation in Digital Documents 

      Pearson, Jennifer (2009)
      Electronic documents such as PDFs are a large part of the growing digital age and will no doubt form a substantial portion of any paperless office. The harsh truth however, is that electronic documents differ greatly from ...
    • Supporting the Creation of Scholarly Bibliographies by Communities through Online Reputation Based Social Collaboration 

      Alhoori, Hamed; Alvarez, Omar; Furuta, Richard; Muñiz, Miguel; Urbina, Eduardo (2009)
      Bibliographic digital libraries play a significant role in conducting research and, in the past few years, have started to move from closed to more open social platforms. However, in this, they have faced challenges (e.g., ...
    • SyGAR – A Synthetic Data Generator for Evaluating Name Disambiguation Methods 

      Ferreira, Anderson A.; Goncalves, Marcos Andre; Almeida, Jussara M.; Laender, Alberto H.F.; Veloso, Adriano (2009)
      Name ambiguity in the context of bibliographic citations is one of the hardest problems currently faced by the digital library community. Several methods have been proposed in the literature, but none of them provides the ...
    • Thematic Digital Libraries at the University of Porto: metadata Integration over a Repository Infrastructure 

      Barroso, Isabel; Azevedo, Marta; Ribeiro, Cristina (2009)
      The University of Porto has a well-established set of specialized libraries serving the research and student population of its 14 schools. Thematic digital libraries can be valuable for organizing specific collections and ...
    • Unraveling the Dynamics of Digital Library Community: a Social Network Analysis Approach 

      Sharma, Monica (2009)
      The purpose of this research is to investigate the networks of ‘academic community’ of Digital Library (DL) using various Social Network Analysis (SNA) tools and metrics. Digital Library emerged from convergence of several ...
    • Usability Evaluation of a Multimedia Archive: B@bele 

      Calvi, Licia; Caccialupi, Roberta; Cassella, Maria; Conte, Georgia (2009)
      In institutional repositories, simple discovery and submission interfaces help increase documents deposit as scholars have very little time to self-archive. So far, however, usability evaluation of such interfaces has ...
    • User Engagement in Research Data Curation 

      Martinez-Uribe, Luis; Macdonald, Stuart (2009)
      In recent years information systems such as digital repositories, built to support research practice, have struggled to encourage participation partly due to inadequate analysis of the requirements of the user communities. ...
    • User Interface for a Geo-Temporal Search Service Using DIGMAP Components 

      Machado, Jorge; Pedrosa, Gilberto; Freire, Nuno; Martins, Bruno; Manguinhas, Hugo (2009)
      This demo presents a user interface for a Geo-Temporal search service built in the sequence of DIGMAP project. DIGMAP was a co-funded European Union project on old digitized maps and deals with resources rich in geographic and ...
    • User Interface Patterns for Digital Libraries 

      Brecht, Rike (2009)
      The design of usable user interfaces for digital libraries (DL) is a complex task that requires knowledge and guidelines on user centred design. Patterns may be one way to achieve usability when designing and developing ...
    • Using Semantic Technologies in Digital Libraries – A Roadmap to Quality Evaluation 

      Tönnies, Sascha; Balke, Wolf-Tilo (2009)
      In digital libraries semantic techniques are often deployed to reduce the expensive manual overhead for indexing documents, maintaining metadata, or caching for future search. However, using such techniques may cause a ...
    • A Visualization Technique for Quality Control of Massive Digitization Programs 

      Andrade de Almeida, Rodrigo; Alessio, Pedro; Topol, Alexandre; Cubaud, Pierre (2009)
      Massive digitization programs need massive visualization techniques for quality control. We describe the functional prototype of a 3D interactive environment enabling a rapid inspection of pages conformity for large batches ...
    • A Visualization Tool of Probabilistic Models for Information Access Components 

      De Stefani, Lorenzo; Di Nunzio, Giorgio Maria; Vezzaro, Giorgio (2009)
      Since massive collections of textual documents become more and more available in digital format, the organization and classification of these documents in Digital Library Management System (DLMS) becomes an important issue. ...