Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide support for automation of the annotation process of large corpora of digital content. Design/methodology/approach – The paper presents and discusses an information extraction pipeline from digital document acquisition to information...

Purpose – This paper aims to analyse whether, and how far, library and information services (LIS) are involved in e‐Science and grid computing projects funded by authorities in the European Union and Germany. It explains and emphasises the relevance of LIS‐based information services and...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the social uses of digitisation within the social context of HIV/AIDS by building digital archives of photographs. Design/methodology/approach – Visual data sets on HIV/AIDS are drawn from photovoice studies in our previous work in Canada and...

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to consider the appeal and impact of internet social networking sites and reflect upon a likely disconnect between libraries and the current web generation. Design/methodology/approach – Makes reference to previous authors' works relating to social...

Purpose – Innovation in information and communication technologies, combined with change in social and cultural attitudes, is raising questions about the future for libraries and librarians. This article seeks to examine alternative futures that were developed at a workshop organized by...