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Digital Libraries - New Landscapes for Lifelong Learning? The “InfoLitGlobal”-Project
(2009)
“InfoLitGlobal” is an international educational digital library which
was created by the Information Literacy Section of the International Federation
of Library Association and Institutions (IFLA) on behalf of UNESCO. ...
Building Europeana v1.0: towards a Large-Scale Content Ingestion
(2009)
Europeana version 1.0 is an EU project that will develop a fully operational Europeana
website. This will allow users to access over 10 million digital items from
Europe’s rich cultural and scientific heritage by 2010.
This ...
User Interface Patterns for Digital Libraries
(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 ...
Utility-based High Performance Digital Library Systems
(2009)
Many practical digital library systems have had to deal with
scalability of data collections and/or service provision. Early attempts at
enabling this scalability focused on data/services closely coupled with or
tightly ...
Unraveling the Dynamics of Digital Library Community: a Social Network Analysis Approach
(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 ...
Using Semantic Technologies in Digital Libraries – A Roadmap to Quality Evaluation
(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 ...
Digital Mechanism and Gear Library – Multimedia Collection of Text, Pictures and Physical Models
(2009)
We are presenting a digital engineering library – the Digital Mechanism
and Gear Library (DMG-Lib). The existing worldwide knowledge in form
of books, drawings, physical models etc. is mostly scattered, difficult to ...
Semantic Journal Mapping for Search Visualization in a Large Scale Article Digital Library
(2009)
In this paper we examine the scalability and utility of se-
mantically mapping (visualizing) journals in a large scale (5.7+ million)
science, technology and medical article digital library. This work is part
of a larger ...