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A Gateway to the Knowledge in Taiwan’s Digital Archives
(2009)
Taiwan’s digital archives cover a broad range of cultural and
natural assets. More than 2 million objects have been accumulated since
the project was launched in 2002. As the number and diversity of digitised
objects have ...
Geographic Information Retrieval and Digital Libraries
(2009)
In this demonstration we will examine the effectiveness of
Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR) methods in digital library interfaces.
We will show how various types of information may benefit
from explicit geographic ...
Conceptual Discovery of Educational Resources through Learning Objectives
(2009)
This poster reports on current work with the NSF-funded Achievement
Standards Network (ASN) to support discovery of educational resources
in digital libraries using conceptual graphs of officially promulgated achievement
standards ...
A Global Approach to Digital Library Evaluation towards Quality Interoperability
(2009)
This paper describes some of the key research works related to my PhD thesis. The goal is the development of a global approach to digital library (DL) evaluation towards quality interoperability. DL evaluation has a vital ...
Evaluation in Context
(2009)
All search happens in a particular context—such as the particular collection
of a digital library, its associated search tasks, and its associated users.
Information retrieval researchers usually agree on the importance ...
Finding the Phoenix: feathers, Flight & the Future of Media in Libraries
(2009)
Καθώς οι βιβλιοθήκες και τα κέντρα πληροφόρησης συνεχίζουν να εξελίσσονται για
να ανταποκρίνονται στις ανάγκες των χρηστών σε ένα ταχέως εξελισσόμενο κόσμο,
η ανησυχία για το μέλλον των εντύπων και του "βιβλίου" παραμένει ...
Functional Adaptivity for Digital Library Services in e-Infrastructures: the gCube Approach
(2009)
We consider the problem of e-Infrastructures that wish to reconcile the
generality of their services with the bespoke requirements of diverse user communities.
We motivate the requirement of functional adaptivity in the ...
Chance Encounters in the Digital Library
(2009)
While many digital libraries focus on supporting defined tasks that
require targeted searching, there is potential for enabling serendipitous discovery
that can serve multiple purposes from aiding with the targeted search ...
Stress-Testing General Purpose Digital Library Software
(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 ...