Search Results - subject:"Digital Libraries"

Building a Framework of Metadata Change to Support Knowledge Management

Zavalina, Oksana L.; Kizhakkethil, Priya; Alemneh, … - In: Journal of Information & Knowledge Management (JIKM) 14 (2015) 01, pp. 1550005-1

Evolving user needs and relevance require continuous change and reform. A good digital collection has mechanisms to accommodate the differing uses being made of the digital library system. In a metadata management context, change could mean to transform, substitute, or make the content of a...

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Building a framework of metadata change to support knowledge management

Zavalina, Oksana L.; Kizhakkethil, Priya; Alemneh, … - In: Journal of information & knowledge management : JIKM 14 (2015) 1, pp. 1-16

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Utilizing Information Technology Tools to Provide Affordable Access to Evidence -based Resources in the Developing World

Atreja, Ashish; Dwivedi, Ranjan - eSocialSciences - 2008

This paper will is a review of the development of the virtual health sciences libraries. Virtual/digital libraries …

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Cognitive styles within an exploratory search system for digital libraries

Goodale, Paula; David Clough, Paul; Fernando, Samuel; … - In: Journal of Documentation 70 (2014) 6, pp. 970-996

approaches when they explore, search and interact with digital libraries, which may have implications for system design. Design …

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Social media application in digital libraries

Xie, Iris; Stevenson, Jennifer - In: Online Information Review 38 (2014) 4, pp. 502-523

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the applications of social media in digital libraries and … variety of digital libraries developed or sponsored by different types of organisations. The social media applications were … selected digital libraries and further characterises their placements, update frequency, types of interactions between digital …

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FRBRoo-based approach to heterogeneous metadata integration

Chen, Ya-Ning; Ke, Hao-Ren - In: Journal of Documentation 69 (2013) 5, pp. 623-637

Purpose – This paper seeks to adopt FRBRoo as an ontological approach to integrate heterogeneous metadata, and transform human-understandable format into machine-understandable format for semantic query. Design/methodology/approach – Two cases of use with museum artefacts and literary works...

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ProQuest's Graduate Education Program (GEP) – a powerful, free database and software package for LIS educators and students worldwide

Jacso, Peter - In: Online Information Review 37 (2013) 2, pp. 326-338

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to highlight the main features of the components of Proquest's giga database package for LIS faculty and students of databases and software services. These allow complimentary access to hundreds of indexing/abstracting, directory and full‐text...

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An analysis of users' behaviour patterns in the organisation of information : A case study of CiteULike

Chen, Ya‐Ning; Ke, Hao‐Ren - In: Online Information Review 37 (2013) 4, pp. 638-656

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the behaviour preferences and patterns of the organisation of information by taggers, including usage of tags, tag categories and implicit patterns embedded in social tags. Design/methodology/approach – The sample was 4,390 social tags...

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A task‐focused literature recommender system for digital libraries

Yang, Wan‐Shiou; Lin, Yi‐Rong - In: Online Information Review 37 (2013) 4, pp. 581-601

Purpose – The scientific literature has played an important role in the dissemination of new knowledge throughout the past century. However, the increasing numbers of scientific articles being published in recent years has intensified the perception of information overload for users attempting...

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Long‐term digital information preservation: challenges in Latin America

Voutssas, Juan - In: Aslib Proceedings 64 (2012) 1, pp. 83-96

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to summarize the current situation of digital preservation and describe the additional main challenges and issues faced in Latin American countries within the framework of the factors of digital preservation. Design/methodology/approach – This paper...

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