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Philosophical views about digital information and relational schemata
(2006)
The nature and organization of digital information are examined from a philosophical point of view. A Platonic model is first suggested, based on both the Platonic allegory of the two worlds and the hypothesis of the ...
An electronic online access showroom for the new acquisitions of the library of the University of Macedonia
(2004)
An electronic online access showroom, which will be used to record and to announce the newly acquired books to the users of the library of the University of Macedonia (www.lib.uom.gr/english/index.html), is already running ...
Yesterday's Innovation, Today's Practice, Tomorrow's World: 5th Libraries Without Walls Conference, Lesbos, Greece
(2003)
Reports on the 5th "Libraries Without Walls" conference, held at Molyvos on the island of Lesbos in the Aegean, Sep 2003, and attended by delegates from 23 countries. The conference grew out of a European research project ...
Methodology and Criteria for the Evaluation of Paper Conservation Interventions
(2006)
The article discusses the theoretical and practical principles of the methodology and the criteria used for the evaluation of paper conservation treatments. A method for the accelerated aging of the samples is employed in ...
Subject-Based Information Retrieval within Digital Libraries Employing LCSHs
(2009)
In this article, an effort is made to take advantage of the inherent semantic wealth existing within Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSHs) in order to provide more efficient subject-based information retrieval in ...
AssetCollector: a system for managing collections of cultural assets
(2007)
In this paper, AssetCollector is presented, which is a system for managing collections of cultural assets. AssetCollector covers the needs of collection curators towards defining, populating and searching a collection in ...
Computing, explaining and visualizing shape similarity in content-based image retrieval
(2005)
Although there is a growing need for Content-Based Image Retrieval systems, their use is often hampered by significant computational complexity and their inability to explain to their users the reasoning behind the similarity ...
Virtual libraries: interactive support software and an application in chaotic models
(2002)
Observes that in today's digital world, not many things continue to operate in the traditional manner. This is because the ways of living and working demand new technology, new tools and new methods. This is the case for ...
Eliminating query failures in a work-centric library meta-search environment
(2009)
Purpose - This paper aims to describe how approaches such as semantic based query rewritings and FRBR work entities composition could solve existing problems and improve the overall behavior of a mediated based meta-search ...
Reasoning against a semantic digital library framework based on grid technology
(2005)
Purpose - Aims to bridge the gap between grid computing and semantic exploitation of information
commonly met in digital library infrastructures.
Design/methodology/approach - This paper introduces a semantic digital library ...