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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"digital collections"”.
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Visualizing Digital Collections at Archive-It
… allows users to create,maintain, and view digital collections of web resources. The current interface of Archive-It is largely text-based, supporting drill-down navigation using lists of URIs.While this interface provides good searching capabilities, it is not efficient for browsing. In the …
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Collection-Level Subject Access in Aggregations of Digital Collections: Metadata Application and Use
… subject exploration. While aggregations of digital collections built in the United States and abroad generate collection-level metadata of various levels of granularity and richness, no research has yet focused on the role of collection-level metadata in user interaction with these …
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Mixing the library: information interaction and the DJ
Digital collections have been amassed by institutions and individuals for over two decades. Large collections are becoming increasingly available as resources for research, learning, creativity, and pleasure. However, the value of these collections can remain elusive. Systems and methods are needed …
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A Generous Interface for the Discoverability of Text Collections
Existing search interfaces for digital collections are excellent for finding specific items, but are unfriendly to inexperienced users, fail to facilitate exploration, and do not highlight the internal relationships and structures within a collection. Generous interfaces have been theorized as an …
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Impresso ou digital? Mapeamento e reflexões sobre as políticas de depósito legal de teses e dissertações das áreas de letras e linguística no Brasil
… to analyze the practices of legal deposit in the collections of thesis and dissertation in brazilian universities, to identify the bibliographic control in thesis and dissertations, considering both the printed and digital collections. Presents the history of the institutionalization of the …
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Acervos científicos digitais nas bibliotecas universitárias da UFRJ: competências, estratégias e normas para sua salvaguarda
… is focused on the preservation of scientific digital collections which belong to the university libraries and information system (Sistema de Bibliotecas e Informação) of Rio de Janeiro’s Federal University (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro) SIBI/UFRJ. The research provided consolidated …
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Integrating Preservation Functions Into the Web Server
<p>Digital preservation of theWorldWideWeb poses unique challenges, different fromthe preservation issues facing professional Digital Libraries. The complete list of a website’s resources cannot be cited with confidence, and the descriptive metadata available for the resources is so minimal that it …
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Information Needs of Art Museum Visitors: Real and Virtual
… with the use of images in the museums' collections available on the Web. The current study identifies preferences of a variety of user groups about the information specifics on current exhibits, museum collections metadata information, and the use of multimedia. The study of information …
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A Predictive Model for the Parallel Processing of Digital Libraries
… exponential increase in the amount of raw digital data, and the speed at which it is being collected, is eclipsing our ability to manage it manually. Combine this with the increasing expectations of a growing number of experienced computer users—including real-time access and a demand for …
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The Jacob A. Riis-Theodore Roosevelt Digital Archive
<p>The Jacob A. Riis-Theodore Roosevelt Digital Archive is a digital archive focused on the Progressive Era in US history, which lasted from the late 19th century to the early 20th century. During the Progressive Era, reformers from the American middle class made significant strides in addressing …
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Visualising categorical data: Linguistic case studies from te Reo Māori and New Zealand English
… linguistics, which involves the study of large digital collections of naturally occurring language, serves as the primary application domain in this thesis. This domain was chosen because it is rich in multivariate categorical data and, at the same time, is often visualised using only basic …
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Thematic research collections: Libraries and the evolution of alternative scholarly publishing in the humanities
… across disciplines is changing in the face of digital methodologies, novel forms of evidence, and new communication technologies. In the humanities, scholars are confronting and often pioneering innovative modes of viewing, reading, interacting with, collecting, interpreting, contextualizing, …
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Principle paradigms: revisiting the Dublin Core 1:1 Principle
… on 2012-04-11T19:09:44Z Item was in collections: University of Illinois Theses & Dissertations (ID: 1) No. of bitstreams: 1 urban_richard.pdf: 611649 bytes, checksum: a00fa397219e3e055ee8b9cf120537ed (MD5)