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Arms, William Y. "Digital Libraries." M.I.T. Press, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105435.

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This is an online version of the book Digital Libraries published by the MIT Press in January 2000. The text of the book is copyrighted by the MIT Press (please see copyright notice and details at end of this abstract). Here is an excerpt from the book's Preface by the author, William Arms, dated June 2005: This online edition of Digital Libraries is an updated version of the book of the same name published by the M.I.T. Press in January 2000. I am extremely grateful to the press for giving me permission to place it online even while the book is still in print. The field of Digital Libraries i
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Phiri, Lighton. "Simple Digital Libraries." Thesis, University of Cape Town, 2013. http://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/archive/00000887/.

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The design of Digital Library Systems (DLSes) has evolved overtime, both in sophistication and complexity, to complement the complex nature and sheer size of digital content being curated. However, there is also a growing demand from content curators, with relatively small-size collections, for simpler and more manageable tools and services to manage their content. The reasons for this particular need are driven by the assumption that simplicity and manageability might ultimately translate to lower costs of maintenance of such systems. This research proposes and advocates for a minimalist and
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Elsherbiny, Noha Ibrahim. "Secure Digital Libraries." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/33842.

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Digital libraries are an integration of complex computer and information systems that could benefit from a formal approach to design. There are various design aspects to consider in a digital library; a crucial aspect is security. Security often is a requirement in digital libraries that should be considered during the design process and not as an add-on feature. 5S provides a DL modeling framework, to define all the aspects of a digital library. It covers the different formats and types of digital objects stored, how they are grouped and organized, what sequence of operations occur in the dig
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Suleman, Hussein. "Open Digital Libraries." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/29712.

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Digital Libraries (DLs) are software systems specifically designed to assist users in information seeking activities. Stemming from the intersection of library sciences and computer networking, traditional DL systems impose library philosophies of structure and management on the sprawling collections of data that are made possible through the Internet. DLs evolve to keep pace with innovation on the Internet so there is little standardization in the architecture of such systems. However, in attempting to provide users with the highest possible levels of service with the minimum possible effor
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Salaladyanant, Tasana. "Digital libraries in Thailand." School of Communication & Information, Nanyang Technological University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105288.

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Coleman, Anita Sundaram, and Maliaca Oxnam. "Interactional Digital Libraries: introduction to a special issue on Interactivity in Digital Libraries." IAM Research Group, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105812.

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Advances in Internet technologies have made it seemingly possible and easy to create digital collections, repositories and libraries. However, supporting diverse information uses that facilitate interaction beyond searching and browsing is in the early stages. Interactive digital libraries, or interactional digital libraries as we prefer to call them, are still evolving. This special issue tries to bring together work that is being done to incorporate interactivity in digital libraries.
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Aalberg, Trond. "Supporting Relationships in Digital Libraries." Doctoral thesis, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Information Technology, Mathematics and Electrical Engineering, 2003. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-116.

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<p>The motivation for this work is based on two recognized research issues for digital libraries. One is the need for interlinked and semantically rich information spaces where relationship information is of particular importance. The other is the serviceoriented architecture of digital libraries. The digital libraries of the future will consist of smaller and independent systems that each will provide different functionality and access to different contents.</p><p>This work defines and explores a service for managing and using explicit relationships – the Digital Library Link Service. The ser
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Chan, Chu-hsiang. "Metadata Quality for Digital Libraries." The University of Waikato, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10289/2312.

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The quality of metadata in a digital library is an important factor in ensuring access for end-users. Several studies have tried to define quality frameworks and assess metadata but there is little user feedback about these in the literature. As collections grow in size maintaining quality through manual methods becomes increasingly difficult for repository managers. This research presents the design and implementation of a web-based metadata analysis tool for digital repositories. The tool is built as an extension to the Greenstone3 digital library software. We present examples of the tool
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Fuka, Karel. "Knowledge management in digital libraries." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.268680.

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Doung-In, Suthanya. "Social interfaces to digital libraries." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2012. http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=16846.

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This thesis describes the design, development, and evaluation of a social digital library to support users in finding information from a user-based point of view. This particular research project has been motivated by the fact that there has been very little research on the social features in digital library interfaces. This research aims to design a novel digital library interface by applying the concepts of social features to digital libraries. Also, the thesis investigates whether the functionalities in the social digital library help participants to accomplish different task types with min
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Poulo, Lebeko Bernard Nkoebele. "Cloud computing for digital libraries." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14036.

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Information management systems (digital libraries/repositories, learning management systems, content management systems) provide key technologies for the storage, preservation and dissemination of knowledge in its various forms, such as research documents, theses and dissertations, cultural heritage documents and audio files. These systems can make use of cloud computing to achieve high levels of scalability, while making services accessible to all at reasonable infrastructure costs and on-demand. This research aims to develop techniques for building scalable digital information management sys
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Chen, Hsinchun. "Semantic Issues for Digital Libraries." UIUC, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105127.

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Artificial Intelligence Lab, Department of MIS, University of Arizona<br>As new and emerging classes of information systems applications the applications become more overwhelming, pressing, and diverse, several well-known information retrieval (IR) problems have become even more urgent in this “network-centric” information age. Information overload, a result of the ease of information creation and rendering via the Internet and the World Wide Web, has become more evident in people’s lives. Significant variations of database formats and structures, the richness of information media, and an abun
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Pomerantz, Jeffrey, Barbara M. Wildemuth, Seungwon Yang, and Edward A. Fox. "Curriculum Development for Digital Libraries." Association for Computing Machinery, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106056.

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The Virginia Tech Department of Computer Science (VT CS) and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science (UNC SILS) have launched a curriculum development project in the area of digital libraries. Educational resources will be developed based on the Computing Curriculum 2001. Lesson plans and modules will be developed in a variety of areas (that cover the topics of papers and conference sessions in the field), evaluated by experts in those areas, and then pilot tested in CS and LIS courses. The authors are seeking instructors, schools, and departme
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Schatz, Bruce R., and Hsinchun Chen. "Building Large-Scale Digital Libraries." IEEE, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106127.

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Artificial Intelligence Lab, Department of MIS, University of Arizona<br>In this era of the Internet and the World Wide Web, the long-time topic of digital libraries has suddenly become white hot. As the Internet expands, particularly the WWW, more people are recognizing the need to search indexed collections. Digital library research projects thus have a common theme of bringing search to the Net. This is why the US government made digital libraries the flagship research effort for the National Information Infrastructure (NII), which seeks to bring the highways of knowledge to every American.
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Babini, D. "Cooperative virtual libraries: training via internet of librarians and editors." IFLA/SAGE, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105695.

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This conference paper has been published by IFLA Journal, vol. 31, n 3, 2005, p. 229-233<br>The development of virtual libraries that offer Internet users access to full-text documents requires the team work of librarians, editors and webmasters. In this presentation, Dr. Dominique Babini, coordinator of the Latin American and the Caribbean Social Sciences Virtual Library of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences´ Network (CLACSO), proposes the option of cooperative virtual libraries and describes how they organized a distance training course via Internet for a group of librarians
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Fuhr, Norbert. "Resource Discovery in Distributed Digital Libraries." Gerhard-Mercator-Universitaet Duisburg, 2004. http://www.ub.uni-duisburg.de/ETD-db/theses/available/duett-04232004-135812/.

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In the near future, users will have access to a vast number of digital libraries. For a given information need and limited resources, there is the problem of selecting those libraries which produce an overall optimum answer. This resource discovery problem is additionally complicated by the diversity of the sources, e.g. with respect to media, document formats, indexing methods, database schemas and protocols. Once a set of digital libraries has been selected, the collection fusion problem deals with the problem of merging the answers of these libraries in order to get a high retrieval quality
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Esgate, Steven J. "Automated image processing for digital libraries /." Leeds : University of Leeds, School of Computer Studies, 2008. http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/fyproj/reports/0708/Esgate.pdf.

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Mlynarski, Angela, and University of Lethbridge Faculty of Arts and Science. "Automatic text summarization in digital libraries." Thesis, Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Arts and Science, 2006, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10133/270.

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A digital library is a collection of services and information objects for storing, accessing, and retrieving digital objects. Automatic text summarization presents salient information in a condensed form suitable for user needs. This thesis amalgamates digital libraries and automatic text summarization by extending the Greenstone Digital Library software suite to include the University of Lethbridge Summarizer. The tool generates summaries, nouns, and non phrases for use as metadata for searching and browsing digital collections. Digital collections of newspapers, PDFs, and eBooks were created
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Dodd, Helen Margaret. "Supporting user selection of digital libraries." Thesis, Swansea University, 2013. https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa42656.

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Subject specialists and researchers often face the problem of identifying authoritative collections: those directly about their topic of interest, to which they regularly return to satisfy related information needs or monitor for new material. Discovery of such collections is often incidental or relies on suggestions from domain experts. Services such as general purpose search engines and repository directories offer limited support for this search task. As such, there is a clear need for a search service specifically to assist users in finding collections that can serve both their current and
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Biswas, Bidhan, and Swapan Dasgupta. "Opportunities for Libraries in Managing and Resource Sharing Through Consortia: A New Challenge for Indian Librarians." Information and Library Network Centre, An IUC of University Grants Commission, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106131.

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Discusses briefly the concept and significance of resource sharing in Indian context with a view to justify on the basis of tremendous growth as well as diversity of explicit knowledge, increased users' demands, diminished budgets, galloping prices for subscribing periodicals and purchasing books, etc. Papers suggest that resource sharing is inevitable among libraries and mentions the concepts, the areas and modalities for cooperation through library consortia in the networked information environment. This paper also covers growth as well as points out merits and demerits of library consortia
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Eschenfelder, Kristin R. "Digital Rights Management and Licensed Scholarly Digital Resources: A Report for ACRL." ACM/IEEE, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105263.

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This report is a later version of the JCDL 2006 poster<br>This report summarizes the results of an ACRL Samuel Lazerow Fellowship funded research project to investigate the extent to which publishers and vendors are making use of technological protection measures ("TPM" also known as DRM) to control access to and use of licensed full-text scholarly materials or data sets. The study also began to explore the impact of access and use restrictions on learning, scholarship and library management.
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Georgousopoulos, C. "Multi-agent based architecture for digital libraries." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2005. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/55153/.

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Digital Libraries (DL) generally contain a collection of independently maintained data sets, in different formats, which may be queried by geographically dispersed users. The general problem of managing such large digital data archives is particularly challenging when the system must cope with data which is processed on demand. This dissertation proposes a Multi-Agent System (MAS) architecture for the utilisation of an active DL that provides computing services in addition to data-retrieval services, so that users can initiate computing jobs on remote supercomputers for processing, mining, and
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Feng, Fu-Yao Kevin. "Customisable abstract representation layer for digital libraries." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/6397.

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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 79-82).<br>The user interface is a very important component in a piece of software as it is the layer which allows user interaction with the underlying functionality. Within the domain of digital libraries modification to the interface layer, to make it more appropriate for target users, requires substantial programming skill. This research studies the possibility of making a user customisable interface system by using HeI methodologies for user requirements identification and evaluation, as well as AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) for design a
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Zhu, Qinwei. "5SGraph: A Modeling Tool for Digital Libraries." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/35832.

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The high demand for building digital libraries by non-experts requires a simplified modeling process and rapid generation of digital libraries. To enable rapid generation, digital libraries should be modeled with descriptive languages. A visual modeling tool would be helpful to non-experts so they may model a digital library without knowing the theoretical foundations and the syntactical details of the descriptive language. In this thesis, we describe the design and implementation of a domain-specific visual modeling tool, 5SGraph, aimed at modeling digital libraries. 5SGraph is based on a me
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Fernandes, Marco Paulo dos Santos. "P2P and SOA architecture for digital libraries." Doctoral thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/2531.

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Doutoramento em Engenharia Informática<br>In an information-driven society where the volume and value of produced and consumed data assumes a growing importance, the role of digital libraries gains particular importance. This work analyzes the limitations in current digital library management systems and the opportunities brought by recent distributed computing models. The result of this work is the implementation of the University of Aveiro integrated system for digital libraries and archives. It concludes by analyzing the system in production and proposing a new service oriented digit
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Arms, Caroline. "Some Observations on Metadata and Digital Libraries." Library of Congress, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105334.

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The metadata elements needed to allow specialist users to find, identify, select, and obtain the resources they need and to navigate the web of relationships among them do not necessarily match the elements and rules for bibliographic cataloging of materials traditionally held by libraries. This paper will draw on experience gathering together metadata from heterogeneous sources for American Memory, particularly for the collections digitized and cataloged at other institutions through the LC/Ameritech competition. It will also reflect on several initiatives to develop rich structured metadata
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Schatz, Bruce R., and Hsinchun Chen. "Digital Libraries: Technological Advances and Social Impacts." IEEE, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105651.

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Artificial Intelligence Lab, Department of MIS, University of Arizona<br>Public awareness of the Net as a critical infrastructure in the 1990s has spurred a new revolution in the technologies for information retrieval in digital libraries.
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Chen, Hsinchun, and Andrea L. Houston. "Digital Libraries: Social Issues and Technological Advances." Academic Press, Inc, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105653.

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Artificial Intelligence Lab, Department of MIS, University of Arizona<br>This chapter will focus on digital libraries, starting with a discussion of the historical visionaries, definitions, driving forces and enabling technologies and some key research issues. Also discussed will be some of the US and international digital library projects and research initiatives. Some of the emerging techniques for building large-scale digital libraries, including semantic interoperability, will be described. Finally, the conclusion will offer some future directions for digital libraries.
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Ou, Shiyan, Christopher S. G. Khoo, and Dion H. Goh. "Automatic multi-document summarization for digital libraries." School of Communication & Information, Nanyang Technological University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106042.

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With the rapid growth of the World Wide Web and online information services, more and more information is available and accessible online. Automatic summarization is an indispensable solution to reduce the information overload problem. Multi-document summarization is useful to provide an overview of a topic and allow users to zoom in for more details on aspects of interest. This paper reports three types of multi-document summaries generated for a set of research abstracts, using different summarization approaches: a sentence-based summary generated by a MEAD summarization system that extracts
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Mon, Lorri M. "User perceptions of digital reference services /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/7177.

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Brogan, Martha L., and Daphnée Rentfrow. "A Kaleidoscope of Digital American Literature." Digital Library Federation and Council on Library and Information Resources, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105174.

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Daphnée Rentfrow assisted in writing and editing the report. This 176 page report is also available from purchase for $30 from CLIR or the DLF. It is freely available in html or pdf formats from their web sites. It is archived with the permission of the CLIR and DLF who hold copyright.<br>This report will be useful to anyone interested in the current state of online American literature resources. Its purpose is twofold: to offer a sampling of the types of digital resources currently available or under development in support of American literature; and to identify the prevailing concerns of spe
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Borbinha, José Luís 1963. "Digital libraries-The future through the traditional library." Phd thesis, Instituições portuguesas -- UTL-Universidade Técnica de Lisboa -- IST-Instituto Superior Técnico, 2000. http://dited.bn.pt:80/6562.

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This dissertation addresses the problem of the «Digital Library» from the point of view of the «Traditional Library». The work comprises an analytical approach to the problem, being proposed a model for the «Digital Library» according to the perspective and requirements of the «Traditional Library» in face of the new emerging technological paradigm. This model is analysed for the cases of the specialized library and the deposit library, when facing the problem of the digital publishing. As a result, it is proposed a strategy for the deposit library based on the identification of scenarios and
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Dündar, Hayri. "Digital Library evaluation in Swedish academic libraries : A critical study." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för ABM, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-295278.

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This master thesis aims to critically analyze the state of digital libraries in Swedish academic libraries. With the branching theory of sense-making and the methodology of DELOS and IFLA/UNESCOs digital library manifestos, this thesis hopes to bring to light how far Swedish academic libraries have progressed. By accumulating quantitative data encompassing all digital academic libraries in Sweden, and qualitative data from a select few, conclusions regarding the aforementioned are drawn. Focusing on content analysis, this thesis analyzed the different components that can be said to constitute
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Pomerantz, Jeffrey. "Integrating Digital Reference Service into the Digital Library Environment." Association of College and Research Libraries, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105560.

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The difference between a digital library and a library with which a digital reference service is affiliated is discussed, and digital reference in these contexts is defined. There are several issues involved in integrating digital reference service into a digital library environment, but two that are unique to the intersection between digital libraries and digital reference: collection development of previously-answered questions, and presentation of specialized subsets of the materials in the digital library's collection. These two issues are explored.
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Cloonan, Michele, and Shelby Sanett. "The Preservation of Digital Content." Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106050.

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The authors are conducting a three-part study to evaluate current trends in the preservation of digital content, with an emphasis on electronic records. The study emanated from the authorsâ work on the Preservation Task Force of the International Research on Permanent Authentic Records in Electronic Systems (InterPARES) project. This article incorporates the findings of both the survey and individual key-informant interviews that we conducted from August 2001 through February 2003, as round 2 of the study. Round 2 builds on the 2000â 2001 round 1 survey that sought to identify and des
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Ramsey, Marshall C., Hsinchun Chen, and Bin Zhu. "A Collection of Visual Thesauri for Browsing Large Collections of Geographic Images." John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106407.

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Artificial Intelligence Lab, Department of MIS, University of Arizona<br>Digital libraries of geo-spatial multimedia content are currently deficient in providing fuzzy, concept-based retrieval mechanisms to users. The main challenge is that indexing and thesaurus creation are extremely laborintensive processes for text documents and especially for images. Recently, 800,000 declassified satellite photographs were made available by the United States Geological Survey. Additionally, millions of satellite and aerial photographs are archived in national and local map libraries. Such enormo
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Yasui, Yumiko, and 裕美子 安井. "Digital reference services of university libraries in Japan." IADLC Office, Nagoya University Library ; Ichiryusha, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/6089.

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Zhao, Dianguo. "Information retrieval in digital libraries : the systems aspect." Thesis, De Montfort University, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/2086/4124.

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Younus, Muhammad. "Digital reference services in university libraries of Pakistan." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2014. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/16410.

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The development of information and communication technologies, and wide spread of the Internet and its associated technologies have brought about tremendous changes in the reference department of academic libraries, and in the attitudes and expectations of both information professionals and users. Many academic libraries across the globe have embraced Web technologies to fulfil users reference needs in a digital environment. This study aimed to investigate and analyse digital reference services (DRS) in university libraries in Pakistan. It focused on the nature and level of DRS, technologies u
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Hey, Jessie Margaret Nancy. "Evaluating GIGA : resource discovery agents for digital libraries." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2002. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/256834/.

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Akbar, Monika. "Integrating Community with Collections in Educational Digital Libraries." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/25139.

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Some classes of Internet users have specific information needs and specialized information-seeking behaviors. For example, educators who are designing a course might create a syllabus, recommend books, create lecture slides, and use tools as lecture aid. All of these resources are available online, but are scattered across a large number of websites. Collecting, linking, and presenting the disparate items related to a given course topic within a digital library will help educators in finding quality educational material. Content quality is important for users. The results of popular search
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Shen, Rao. "Applying the 5S Framework To Integrating Digital Libraries." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/27099.

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We formalize the digital library (DL) integration problem and propose an overall approach based on the 5S (Streams, Structures, Spaces, Scenarios, and Societies) framework. We then apply that framework to integrate domain-specific (archaeological) DLs, illustrating our solutions for key problems in DL integration. An integrated Archaeological DL, ETANA-DL, is used as a case study to justify and evaluate our DL integration approach. We develop a minimum metamodel for archaeological DLs within the 5S theory. We implement the 5SSuite toolkit set to cover the process of union DL generation, includ
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Kim, Hyunki. "Developing semantic digital libraries using data mining techniques." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2005. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0010105.

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Smith, MacKenzie. "Exploring Variety in Digital Collections and the Implications for Digital Preservation." University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Graduate School of Library & Information Science, Publications Office, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/30592.

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The amount of digital content produced at academic research institutions is large, and libraries and archives at these institutions have a responsibility to bring this digital material under curatorial control in order to manage and preserve it over time. But this is a daunting task with few proven models, requiring new technology, policies, procedures, core staff competencies, and cost models. The MIT Libraries are working with the DSpace(TM) open-source digital repository platform to explore the problem of capturing research and teaching material in any digital format and preserving it over
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Konstantelos, Leonidas. "Digital art in digital libraries : a study of user-oriented information retrieval." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2009. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1333/.

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This thesis presents an empirical investigation of the problems of including pictorial digital art in the context of Digital Libraries (DLs). The rational for this work is that digital art material is a significant source of learning and research, provided that it is systematically collected and maintained in structured electronic repositories. The thesis addresses a fundamental question: How to provide description and retrieval services, which are based on the needs of digital art user communities? This raises three research issues. One is the need to combine DL collections into meaningful an
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Suman, Aparajita. "Digital librarians: The challenges ahead." School of Communication & Information, Nanyang Technological University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105691.

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Poster paper<br>The advent of Information and communication technology has revolutionized the way information was accessed and disseminated; one of the most visible changes came in the arena of librarianship. Suddenly, the idea of easy, fingertip access to information became widely prevalent and phrases like "virtual library," "electronic library," "library without walls" and, most recently, "digital library," very popular. However, this produced a new and confusing bog of electronic "stuff" that is hard to find, hard to use, buried in restrictions, unreliable in content, and useless to resear
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Kataria, Sanjay. "Intellectual Repositories in Institutions of Higher Learning in India: An overview." ICOLIS 2007, Kuala Lumpur:, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105210.

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Paper presented in ICoLIS 2007 at Malaysia<br>The paper discusses the concept of intellectual repository (IR) its need, importance,benefits, critical issues, major problems in establishment & maintenance of IR, role of librarians, intellectual society, academic institutions and the government. It also gives an overview of Intellectual Repository (IR) initiatives taken in the institutions of higher learning in Indian scenario.
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Tolle, Kristin M., and Hsinchun Chen. "Comparing noun phrasing techniques for use with medical digital library tools." EBSCO, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105749.

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Artificial Intelligence Lab, Department of MIS, Univeristy of Arizona<br>In an effort to assist medical researchers and professionals in accessing information necessary for their work, the A1 Lab at the University of Arizona is investigating the use of a natural language processing (NLP) technique called noun phrasing. The goal of this research is to determine whether noun phrasing could be a viable technique to include in medical information retrieval applications. Four noun phrase generation tools were evaluated as to their ability to isolate noun phrases from medical journal abstracts. Test
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Klas, Claus-Peter Goevert Norbert Fuhr Norbert. "Distributed agents for user-friendly access of Digital Libraries." Gerhard-Mercator-Universitaet Duisburg, 2004. http://www.ub.uni-duisburg.de/ETD-db/theses/available/duett-04232004-151931/.

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Despite the fact that many Digital Libraries (DLs) are available on the Internet, users cannot effectively use them because of inadequate functionality, deficient visualisation and insufficient integration of different DLs. In the framework of this project we develop a user-oriented access system for DLs which overcomes these drawbacks. Based on experiences from the librarian area, higher functions to assist proved search strategies will be implemented. Different DLs will be tightly integrated, so that system-wide search and navigation is possible. The system will be adaptive towards different
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Leidig, Jonathan Paul. "Epidemiology Experimentation and Simulation Management through Scientific Digital Libraries." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/28759.

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Advances in scientific data management, discovery, dissemination, and sharing are changing the manner in which scientific studies are being conducted and repurposed. Data-intensive scientific practices increasingly require data management related services not available in existing digital libraries. Complicating the issue are the diversity of functional requirements and content in scientific domains as well as scientists' lack of expertise in information and library sciences. Researchers that utilize simulation and experimentation systems need digital libraries to maintain datasets, input
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