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Showing 1 to 20 of 107 for “"Digital library"”.
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A digital library component assembly environment
Digital libraries (DLs), originally termed electronic libraries, are the result of the meshing of two communities: library professionals, including librarians and publishers, and computer scientists, including their poster child, Internet developers. Until recently, these two communities had very …
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HOW CONTEXT MATTERS IN DIGITAL LIBRARY USE
… organizational context contributes to the use of digital libraries, an ICT-enabled information infrastructure. Traditionally digital-library use is measured with the help of statistical analysis of download and other related data, but statistics alone have limited power to explain how such an …
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Digital Library Services for Three-Dimensional Models
… and entertainment areas—to work with 3D digital models of the objects with which they deal in their domain. Unfortunately most of these models exist in individual repositories, and are not accessible to geographically distributed professionals who are in need of them.</p> <p>Building an …
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Component-based digital library scalability using clusters
Digital Libraries (DLs) are systems to manage information or data. They range from monolithic systems to loosely coupled component-based ones. DLs provide the services to manage, retrieve and access this information. Where they have fallen short is providing methods to manage huge volumes of …
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Scenario-Based Generation of Digital Library Services
… the enormous amount of information being created digitally or converted to digital formats and made available through Digital Libraries (DLs), there is a strong demand for building tailored DL services to attend the preferences and needs of diverse targeted communities. However,construction and …
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Best practice in a digital library of Arabic manuscripts
… resource and provide a better service for users. Digital libraries open new frontiers for Arabic manuscript providers and end-users. In the last five years, a number of digital libraries providing access to some Arabic manuscripts have been launched in several parts of the world. There are also …
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Practical Digital Library Generation into DSpace with the 5S Framework
… of organizations and universities seek to store digital documents in an online, accessible manner. These digital library (DL) repositories are powerful systems that allow institutions to store their digital documents while permitting interaction and collaboration among users in their …
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A High-quality Digital Library Supporting Computing Education: The Ensemble Approach
Educational Digital Libraries (DLs) are complex information systems which are designed to support individuals' information needs and information seeking behavior. To have a broad impact on the communities in education and to serve for a long period, DLs need to structure and organize the resources …
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A Semantic Web-Based Digital Library Infrastructure to Facilitate Computational Epidemiology
… datasets. The proposed semantic web-based digital library infrastructure can be highly beneficial for epidemiologists as they work to comprehend disease propagation for timely outbreak detection and efficient disease control activities.
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Design of a user interface to facilitate searching in a digital library
The widespread acceptance of digital library will depend, to a large extent, on the ease-of-use and appeal of the user interface. Hence, the development of a versatile and friendly user interface for digital library becomes indispensable and this has been the objective of this thesis. A pilot …
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Indigenous language usage in a digital library: He hautoa kia ora tonu ai
… thesis examines indigenous language usage in a digital library environment that has been accessed via the Internet. By examining discretionary use of the Māori Niupepa and Hawaiian Nūpepa digital libraries this research investigates how indigenous languages were used in these electronic …
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FreeLib: A Self-Sustainable Peer-to-Peer Digital Library Framework for Evolving Communities
… of disseminating and sharing of data is growing. Digital libraries provide an efficient solution for disseminating and sharing large volumes of data to diverse sets of users. They enable the use of structured and well defined metadata to provide quality search services. Most of the digital …
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Building CTRnet Digital Library Services using Archive-It and LucidWorks Big Data Software
… time. In this thesis, we describe the CTRnet Digital Library and Archive which aims to permanently archive crisis event information by using Archive-It services and then provide access to the archived information by using LucidWorks Big Data software. Through the Big Data (LWBD) software, we …
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Smoothing the information seeking path: Removing representational obstacles in the middle-school digital library.
Middle school student's interaction within a digital library is explored. Issues of interface features used, obstacles encountered, search strategies and search techniques used, and representation obstacles are examined. A mechanism for evaluating user's descriptors is tested and effects of …
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An exploratory study of factors that influence student user success in an academic digital library.
The complex nature of digital libraries calls for appropriate models to study user success. Calls have been made to incorporate into these models factors that capture the interplay between people, organizations, and technology. In order to address this, two research questions were formulated: (1) …
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A Digital Library Success Model for Computer Science Student Use of a Meta-Search System
… the help of models for technology acceptance and Digital Library quality metrics. The resultant model is then used to formulate a survey instrument and the results of a user study with this instrument are used to begin to validate this model.
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Streams, Structures, Spaces,Scenarios, and Societies (5S): A Formal Digital Library Framework and Its Applications
Digital libraries (DLs) are complex information systems and therefore demand formal foundations lest development efforts diverge and interoperability suffers. In this dissertation, we propose the fundamental abstractions of Streams, Structures, Spaces, Scenarios, and Societies (5S), which allow us …
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