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    • The ramification problem in temporal databases: a solution implemented in SQL 

      Παπαδάκης, Νίκος; Πλεξουσάκης, Δημήτρης; Χριστοδούλου, Γιάννης; Papadakis, Nikos; Plexousakis, Dimitris; Christodolou, Yannis (2012)
      In this paper we elaborate on the handling of the ramification problem in the setting of temporal databases. Starting with the observation that solutions from the literature on reasoning about action are inadequate for ...
    • Mining digital library evaluation patterns using a domain ontology 

      Παπαθεοδώρου, Χρήστος; Μητρέλης, Άγγελος; Παπαχριστόπουλος, Λεωνίδας; Σφακάκης, Μιχάλης; Τσάκωνας, Γιάννης; Mitrelis, Angelos; Papatheodorou, Christos; Papachristopoulos, Leonidas; Tsakonas, Giannis; Sfakakis, Michalis (2012)
      Scientific literature is vast and therefore the researchers need knowledge organization systems to index, semantically annotate and correlate their bibliographic sources. Additionally they need methods and tools to discover ...
    • Information seeking and searching habits of Greek physicists and astronomers: a case study of undergraduate students 

      Μπρίντεζη, Χαρά; Μονόπωλη, Μαρία; Καπιδάκης, Σαράντος; Brindesi, Hara; Kapidakis, Sarantos; Monopoli, Maria (2012)
      The aim of this study was to investigate the information seeking and searching behavior of Greek physicists and especially astronomers. More specifically, it attempted to shed a light on students’ information needs and ...
    • An Information Services Inspired Framework for Assessing Scientific Book Quality 

      Κωσταγιόλας, Πέτρος; Μπάνου, Χριστίνα; Στάμου, Σ.; Kostagiolas, Petros; Stamou, S.; Banou, Christina (2012)
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    • Comparing metadata quality in the Europeana context 

      Καπιδάκης, Σαράντος; Kapidakis, Sarantos (2012)
      The quality of the metadata affects the interoperability of the collections and the quality of all search results, and is important to the success of Europeana. It is not obvious how to define quality metrics, on different ...
    • Providing LOD-based functionality in digital libraries 

      Παπαδάκης, Ιωάννης; Κυπριανός, Κωνσταντίνος; Papadakis, Ioannis; Kyprianos, Konstantinos (2012)
      Libraries and other memory institutions have wasted no time in realizing that linked data technologies provide the necessary means to solve important interoperability issues that have been plaguing the community for decades. ...
    • A long-tail inspired measure to assess resource use in information services 

      Κωσταγιόλας, Πέτρος; Κορφιάτης, Νικόλαος; Πούλος, Μάριος Σ.; Poulos, Marios S.; Korfiatis, Nikolaos; Kostagiolas, Petros (2012)
      A measure for the assessment of resource use in information services provides an application within the information services area of the long tail concept. The analysis quantifies the long tail concept and is applicable ...
    • International trends in health science librarianship: part 4 -- Four Southern European countries 

      Λάππα, Ευαγγελία; Χαλεπλίογλου, Άρτεμις; Cognetti, Gaetana; Della Seta, Maurella; Cheyne, Federica Napolitani; Lappa, Evagelia; Challeplioglou, Artemis (2012)
      This is the fourth in a series of articles exploring international trends in health science librarianship in four Southern European countries in the first decade of the 21st century. The invited authors are from Greece, ...
    • From Open Source to Open Innovation practices: a case in the Greek context in light of the debt crisis 

      Παπαδόπουλος, Θάνος; Νικολαϊδου, Μάρα; Σταμάτη, Τέτα; Αναγνωστόπουλος, Δημοσθένης; Papadopoulos, Thanos; Stamati, Teta; Anagnostopoulos, Dimosthenis; Nikolaidou, Mara (2012)
      "Open" practices have been at the forefront of research, business and political agendas for some time. Traditionally, research has focused on analysing critical factors for the deployment of Open Source (OS) Software and ...
    • A prototype metadata-driven decision support tool for scholarly literature reviews 

      Γαρουφάλλου, Εμμανουήλ; Ρουσίδης, Δημήτρης; Μπαλατσούκας, Παναγιώτης; Garoufallou, Emmanouel; Garoufallou, Emmanouel; Rousidis, Dimitris; Balatsoukas, Panos (2012)
      The aim of this paper is to present the main components of a novel metadata-driven decision support tool for scholarly literature reviews, called PANDORA. The purpose of the tool is to make use of data mining, as a means ...
    • Evaluating and recommending Greek newspapers’ websites using clustering 

      Κανελλόπουλος, Δημήτριος; Κοτσιάντης, Σωτήρης; Kanellopoulos, Dimitris; Kotsiantis, Sotiris (2012)
      The aim of this work is to evaluate Greek newspaper websites using clustering and a number of criteria obtained from the Alexa search engine. Furthermore, a recommendation approach is proposed for matching Greek online ...
    • Defining a semantic mapping of VRA Core 4.0 to the CIDOC conceptual reference model 

      Γεργατσούλης, Μανώλης; Γαϊτάνου, Πανωραία; Gergatsoulis, Manolis; Gaitanou, Panorea (2012)
      In the recent decades, we have witnessed a tremendous proliferation of metadata schemas, particularly in the cultural heritage domain. As a consequence, cultural heritage communities face a growing need to integrate these ...
    • Große Pläne trotz schwerer Krise 

      Buck, Gerlinde (2012)
      The article describes plans for construction of a national library in Athens, Greece, in spite of the nation's ongoing sovereign debt crisis. A description of the library and its facilities is presented, along with an ...
    • Exploratory Research Regarding Faculty Attitudes towards the Institutional Repository and Self Archiving 

      Κυριακή-Μάνεση, Δάφνη; Κουλούρης, Αλέξανδρος; Γιαννακόπουλος, Γεώργιος Α.; Ζέρβος, Σπύρος; Giannakopoulos, Georgios A.; Zervos, Sryridon; Koulouris, Alexandros; Kyriaki Manesi, Daphne (2012)
      Over the past year the Library of the TEI of Athens has launched an Institutional Repository containing Faculty's published and unpublished work, students’ theses and a major collection called “Institutional Archives”. The ...
    • Motivation to learn and learning strategies: IT courses in a library and information science department 

      Τόγια, Ασπασία; Κορομπίλη-Ξαντίδου, Στέλλα; Μάλλιαρη, Αφροδίτη; Togia, Aspasia; Korobili - Xantinidou, Stella; Malliari, Aphrodite (2012)
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    • Studying the Information-Seeking Behavior of Hospital Professionals: the Case of METAXA Cancer Hospital in Greece 

      Κωσταγιόλας, Πέτρος; Αλέξιας, Γιώργος; Ζιάβρου, Κατερίνα; Νιάκας, Δημήτριος; Alexias, George; Ziavrou, Katerina; Niakas, Dimitriοs; Kostagiolas, Petros (2012)
      The aim of this work is to study the information-seeking behavior of the hospital staff in a large public hospital, the METAXA Cancer Hospital in Greece. An empirical research was conducted through the development of a ...
    • Harmonization and Interoperability of EU Environmental Information and Services 

      Κανελλόπουλος, Δημήτριος; Kanellopoulos, Dimitris; Perego, Andrea; Fugazza, Cristiano; Vaccari, Lorenzino; Lutz, Michael; Smits, Paul (2012)
      Sharing resources across multiple information communities requires new technologies. This article highlights activities and best practices of some EU projects as they relate to linked open data.
    • Educational trajectories of LIS students: continuities and transformations 

      Μονιάρου-Παπακωνσταντίνου, Βαλεντίνη; Τσατσαρώνη, Άννα; Moniarou-Papaconstantinou, Valentini; Tsatsaroni, Anna (2012)
      The information sector is a dynamic disciplinary and professional field, located in a fluid social and technological environment. The educational choices of students in library and information science (LIS) departments is ...
    • Describing immovable monuments with metadata standards 

      Καπιδάκης, Σαράντος; Αγαθός, Μιχαήλ; Agathos, Michail; Kapidakis, Sarantos (2012)
      Collections with immovable monuments are less researched than other material of our culture from the aspect of description. This led us to study the metadata elements hosted in various heterogeneous schemas by local ...
    • Learners' perceptions on the importance of learning object metadata for relevance judgement 

      Γαρουφάλλου, Εμμανουήλ; Μπαλατσούκας, Παναγιώτης; Ασδέρη, Στυλιανή; Σιάτρη, Ράνια; Morris, A.; O'Brien, A.; Garoufallou, Emmanouel; Balatsoukas, Panos; Asderi, Styliani; Siatri, Rania (2012)
      The purpose of this study was to investigate university students' perceptions on the importance of learning object metadata elements for judging the relevance of learning objects. In order to address this objective an ...