Search Results - subject:"Digital Libraries"

Visual analytics of Europeana digital library for reuse in learning environments : A premier systematic study

Gaona-Garcia, Paulo Alonso; Sanchez-Alonso, Salvador; … - In: Online Information Review 41 (2017) 6, pp. 840-859

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess whether Europeana can be really seen as the new “Library of Alexandria” for digital resources from the perspective of teachers, academics and researchers that might want to retrieve and reuse those resources for learning purposes....

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A Brief Business History of an on-line distribution system for academic research called NEP, 1998-2010

Batiz-Lazo, Bernardo; Krichel, Thomas - Bangor Business School, Bangor University - 2011

Purpose Applications of information technology have been directly responsible for the increase in productivity of business, government and academic activities. Business and management historians have yet to contribute to better understanding such processes. This paper aims to address this...

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Latin American and Caribbean Literature Transposed into Digital: Corpus, Ecosystem, Canon

Vila, Adrián R. - In: Journal of Information Technology Research (JITR) 9 (2016) 1, pp. 34-53

digital libraries to offer Latin American and Caribbean literature transposed into digital format. …

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Perceived self-efficacy and interactive video retrieval

Albertson, Dan; Ju, Boryung - In: Journal of Documentation 72 (2016) 5, pp. 832-857

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine perceived self-efficacy of users within an interactive video retrieval context. The motivation for this research includes that understanding self-efficacy will provide insight on how potential users target resources and in turn promote and sustain...

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Exploring the information behaviour of users of Welsh Newspapers Online through web log analysis

Gooding, Paul - In: Journal of Documentation 72 (2016) 2, pp. 232-246

Purpose – Webometric techniques have been applied to many websites and online resources, especially since the launch of Google Analytics (GA). To date, though, there has been little consideration of information behaviour in relation to digitised newspaper collections. The purpose of this paper...

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African Studies â€“ Striving for Integrated Information Services: Recent Developments in Germany and Europe

Bergenthum, Hartmut; Siebold, Thomas - In: Africa Spectrum 45 (2010) 2, pp. 109-121

New projects, services and collaborations have recently brought the infrastructural services for African Studies a big step forward. This report gives an account of new subject gateways and digitisation projects. It discusses recent European cooperation ventures in the field of librarianship....

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The creation of internet communities: A brief history of on-line distribution of working papers through NEP, 1998-2010

Batiz-Lazo, Bernardo; Krichel, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This paper adds to the growing literature on the formation of online communities from an historical perspective by telling of the emergence and development of a service for speedy, online distribution of recent additions to the broad literatures on economics and related areas called NEP: New...

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Calculating value: a digital library’s social media campaign

Lamont, Lisa; Nielsen, Jordan - In: The Bottom Line: Managing library finances 28 (2015) 4, pp. 106-111

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss a social media campaign used to promote a digital library of archival resources. Design/methodology/approach – Librarians planned and executed a social media campaign using Tumblr and Pinterest and consulted Google Analytics and database...

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Augmenting Dublin Core digital library metadata with Dewey Decimal Classification

Khoo, Michael John; Ahn, Jae-wook; Binding, Ceri; … - In: Journal of Documentation 71 (2015) 5, pp. 976-998

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe a new approach to a well-known problem for digital libraries, how to … harvested from three digital libraries. Weighted key terms were extracted from the title, description and subject fields of each … – The approach can provide centralized access to information from multiple domains currently provided by individual digital …

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Design criteria for video digital libraries : Categories of important features emerging from users’ responses

Albertson, Dan; Ju, Boryung - In: Online Information Review 39 (2015) 2, pp. 214-228

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report on a user-centred analysis of video digital libraries and to present …-channeled format, video warrants considerations for information delivery through interactive tools such as digital libraries. Design … primary categories. Criteria corresponding to “retrieval functionality” of video digital libraries emerged as the highest, or …

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