| Paper, Pen and Touch | | BIBA | Full-Text | 1 | |
| Moira C. Norrie | |||
| It has long been recognised by researchers that the affordances of paper are
likely to ensure that it will continue to be in widespread use in the work
place, homes and public spaces. Consequently, numerous research projects have
investigated ways of integrating paper with digital media and services. In
recent years, a lot of this research has revolved around the digital pen and
paper technology developed by the Swedish company Anoto, since it offers a
robust solution for tracking the position of a pen on paper. While the
commercial sector has tended to focus on applications related to the capture of
handwriting, many of these research projects have investigated the use of the
pen for real-time interaction and possibilities of turning paper into an
interactive medium.
Researchers were also quick to realise that digital pen and paper technology could be adapted to support other forms of pen-based interaction and have developed digital whiteboards and tabletops based on the technology. In addition, some systems have combined the technology with touch devices to support bimanual pen and touch interfaces. In the case of document manipulation, this means that touch could be used to perform actions such as a moving a document or turning pages, while the pen could be used to select elements within a document or to annotate it. Further, there are projects which have integrated the work on interactive paper and pen-based interaction on digital tabletops, investigating ways of allowing users to transfer document elements back and forth between paper and digital surfaces. Despite the success of these research projects in terms of demonstrating the capabilities of digital pen and paper technology and how it could be exploited to support a wide variety of everyday tasks, there are still some technical and non-technical issues that need to addressed if there are to be major breakthroughs in terms of widespread adoption. The first part of the talk will review research in the field, while the second part will examine these issues and the way ahead. | |||
| The Futures of Digital Libraries: The Evolution of an Idea | | BIBA | Full-Text | 2 | |
| Clifford A. Lynch | |||
| The construction of digital libraries have certainly framed technological challenges, particularly with regard to various aspects of scale, and with the complexities of dealing with human languages, and indeed have given rise to substantial progress in these and other technical fields. But I believe that the greatest significance of digital libraries has been at a more profound intellectual level, inviting us to envision new kinds of environments for knowledge discovery, formulation, and dissemination; approaches to defining, managing and interacting with the cultural and intellectual record of our societies. We have repeatedly been forced to revisit questions of what constitutes a digital library, and how (indeed, even if) this differs from simply a collection of digitized or born-digital materials. | |||
| Connecting Archival Collections: The Social Networks and Archival Context Project | | BIBA | Full-Text | 3-14 | |
| Ray R. Larson; Krishna Janakiraman | |||
| This paper describes the Social Networks and Archival Context project, built on a database of merged Encoded Archival Context -- Corporate Bodies, Persons, and Families (EAC-CPF) records derived from Encoded Archival Description (EAD) records held by the Library of Congress, the California Digital Library, the Northwest Digital Archives, and Virginia Heritage, combined with information from name authority files from the Library of Congress (Library of Congress Name Authority File), OCLC Research (The Virtual International Authority File), and the Getty Vocabulary Program (Union List of Artist Names). The database merges information from each instance of an individual name found in the EAD resources, along with variant names, biographical notes and their topical descriptions. The SNAC prototype interface makes this information searchable and browseable while retaining links to the various data sources. | |||
| How to Become a Group Leader? or Modeling Author Types Based on Graph Mining | | BIBAK | Full-Text | 15-26 | |
| George Tsatsaronis; Iraklis Varlamis; Sunna Torge; Matthias Reimann; Kjetil Nørvåg; Michael Schroeder; Matthias Zschunke | |||
| Bibliographic databases are a prosperous field for data mining research and
social network analysis. The representation and visualization of bibliographic
databases as graphs and the application of data mining techniques can help us
uncover interesting knowledge regarding how the publication records of authors
evolve over time. In this paper we propose a novel methodology to model
bibliographical databases as Power Graphs, and mine them in an unsupervised
manner, in order to learn basic author types and their properties through
clustering. The methodology takes into account the evolution of the
co-authorship information, the volume of published papers over time, as well as
the impact factors of the venues hosting the respective publications. As a
proof of concept of the applicability and scalability of our approach, we
present experimental results in the DBLP data. Keywords: Power Graph Analysis; Authors' Clustering; Graph Mining | |||
| Find, New, Copy, Web, Page -- Tagging for the (Re-)Discovery of Web Pages | | BIBA | Full-Text | 27-39 | |
| Martin Klein; Michael L. Nelson | |||
| The World Wide Web has a very dynamic character with resources constantly disappearing and (re-)surfacing. A ubiquitous result is the "404 Page not Found" error as the request for missing web pages. We investigate tags obtained from Delicious for the purpose of rediscovering such missing web pages with the help of search engines. We determine the best performing tag based query length, quantify the relevance of the results and compare tags to retrieval methods based on a page's content. We find that tags are only useful in addition to content based methods. We further introduce the notion of "ghost tags", terms used as tags that do not occur in the current but did occur in a previous version of the web page. One third of these ghost tags are ranked high in Delicious and also occurred frequently in the document which indicates their importance to both the user and the content of the document. | |||
| Mapping MPEG-7 to CIDOC/CRM | | BIBAK | Full-Text | 40-51 | |
| Anastassia Angelopoulou; Chrisa Tsinaraki; Stavros Christodoulakis | |||
| The MPEG-7 is the dominant standard for multimedia content description;
thus, the audiovisual Digital Library contents should be described in terms of
MPEG-7. Since there exists a huge amount of audiovisual content in the cultural
heritage domain, it is expected that several cultural heritage objects, as well
as entities related with them (i.e. people, places, events etc.), have been
described using MPEG-7. On the other hand, the dominant standard in the
cultural heritage domain is the CIDOC/CRM; consequently, the MPEG-7
descriptions cannot be directly integrated in the cultural heritage digital
libraries.
We present in this paper a mapping model and a system that allow the transformation of the MPEG-7 descriptions to CIDOC/CRM descriptions, thus allowing the exploitation of multimedia content annotations in the cultural heritage digital libraries. In addition, the proposed mapping model allows linking MPEG-7 descriptions to CIDOC/CRM descriptions in a Linked Data scenario. Keywords: MPEG-7; CIDOC/CRM; Mapping; Multimedia; Cultural Heritage | |||
| A Language Independent Approach for Named Entity Recognition in Subject Headings | | BIBAK | Full-Text | 52-61 | |
| Nuno Freire; José Luis Borbinha; Pável Calado | |||
| Subject headings systems are tools for organization of knowledge that have
been developed over the years by libraries. The SKOS Simple Knowledge
Organization System has provided a practical way to represent subject headings
systems using the Resource Description Framework, and several libraries have
taken the initiative to make subject headings systems widely available as open
linked data. Each individual subject heading describes a concept, however, in
the majority of cases, one subject heading is actually a combination of several
concepts, such as a topic bounded in geographical and temporal scopes. In these
cases, the label of the concept actually carries several concepts which are not
represented in structured form. Our work explores machine learning techniques
to recognize the sub concepts represented in the labels of SKOS subject
headings. This paper describes a language independent named entity recognition
technique based on conditional random fields, a machine learning algorithm for
sequence labelling. This technique was evaluated on a subset of the Library of
Congress Subject Headings, where we measured the recognition of geographic
concepts, topics, time periods and historical periods. Our technique achieved
an overall F1 score of 0.98. Keywords: named entity recognition; subject headings; linked data; SKOS; machine
learning | |||
| Towards Cross-Organizational Interoperability: The LIDO XML Schema as a National Level Integration Tool for the National Digital Library of Finland | | BIBAK | Full-Text | 62-68 | |
| Riitta Autere; Mikael Vakkari | |||
| The Finnish National Digital Library (NDL) project aims to improve online
accessibility and usability of digital content held by libraries, museums and
archives. The lack of standardized metadata and numerous different collection
management systems without sufficient set of technical standards in the museum
sector led us to create a set of instructions and a template mapping of the
Lightweight Information Describing Objects (LIDO) XML schema. This national
LIDO schema for museum sector described in our paper is unique both in coverage
in museum object types as well as number of institutions using it. A common
schema presents heterogeneous metadata uniformly, thus enabling easy retrieval,
browsing and versatile linking between different object types as well as data
fields. In the pilot phase we have mapped the three most commonly used Finnish
collection management systems with three different metadata formats to the top
level LIDO schema. Keywords: interoperability; LIDO; metadata standards; XML schemas | |||
| Supporting FRBRization of Web Product Descriptions | | BIBA | Full-Text | 69-76 | |
| Naimdjon Takhirov; Fabien Duchateau; Trond Aalberg | |||
| The FRBR model has the potential for new services and discovery techniques for cultural items such as books, movies and music. In this paper, we present an approach to interpret descriptions found in Web resources and identify the FRBR entities these pertain to. To verify the resulting set of FRBR entities, we have used the Linked Open Data and the verifications have been validated by a group of experts. The results of this work demonstrates applicability of FRBR in a new context and establishes a firm basis for further exploitation. | |||
| Assessing Use Intention and Usability of Mobile Devices in a Hybrid Environment | | BIBAK | Full-Text | 77-88 | |
| Spyros Veronikis; Giannis Tsakonas; Christos Papatheodorou | |||
| During the last decades many information providers, such as libraries, have
been collecting, organizing and delivering information in both print and
digital format, forming a hybrid information environment. However, exploration
of a hybrid information environment does not result in a unified seeking
experience, which exploits most effectively the available resources. This paper
aims to identify the main factors that influence the adoption of wireless,
mobile devices (e.g., smartphones) as a means of integrating the information
seeking process in hybrid environments. Therefore it presents a prototype
system and an evaluation study that provides an insight about the services
design. Keywords: Digital library evaluation; interaction; mobile devices | |||
| Digital Library 2.0 for Educational Resources | | BIBAK | Full-Text | 89-100 | |
| Monika Akbar; Weiguo Fan; Clifford A. Shaffer; Yinlin Chen; Lillian N. Cassel; Lois M. L. Delcambre; Daniel D. Garcia; Gregory W. Hislop; Frank M., III Shipman; Richard Furuta; B. Stephen, II Carpenter; Hao-wei Hsieh; Bob Siegfried; Edward A. Fox | |||
| We report on focus group feedback regarding the services provided by
existing education-related Digital Libraries (DL). Participants provided
insight into how they seek educational resources online, and what they perceive
to be the shortcomings of existing educational DLs. Along with useful content,
social interactions were viewed as important supplements for educational DLs.
Such interactions lead to both an online community and new forms of content
such as reviews and ratings. Based on our analysis of the focus group feedback,
we propose DL 2.0, the next generation of digital library, which integrates
social knowledge with DL content. Keywords: Digital Library 2.0; Computing Portal; Ensemble | |||
| An Approach to Virtual Research Environment User Interfaces Dynamic Construction | | BIBA | Full-Text | 101-109 | |
| Massimiliano Assante; Pasquale Pagano; Leonardo Candela; Federico De Faveri; Lucio Lelii | |||
| Virtual Research Environments are internet-based working environments tailored to serve needs of diverse and evolving user communities. These environments are oriented to promote new ways of dealing with modern research tasks. Their realization requires user interfaces that are dynamically built to provide their clients with organised views on the data and services aggregated to meet specific community needs. This paper presents an approach to the problem of Virtual Research Environment user interfaces dynamic construction. This approach is characterized by user interfaces built through a component-oriented strategy and an heuristic for user interface constituents arrangement on the screen. The implementation and exploitation of the proposed approach in the context of the D4Science-II, EU funded project is discussed as well as future plans are presented. | |||
| CloudCAP: A Case Study in Capacity Planning Using the Cloud | | BIBA | Full-Text | 110-117 | |
| Joan A. Smith; John F. Owen; James R. Gray | |||
| Emory University Library teamed with a commercial firm to develop a prototype system for using Amazon's EC2 to properly size web application server deployment environments. This approach has been successfully applied to both high-transaction commercial environments with hundreds of thousands of users and to lower transaction digital library environments with hundreds of users. Starting with the same EC2-based product, our goal was to assess whether a similar strategy is practical for an academic library as well as for commercial systems. We examined cloud configuration and deployment costs, test preparation and analysis, and overall feasibility of this approach. Typically, for digital libraries, the user levels are significantly lower, the deployment costs are lower, and the return on investment (ROI) is not as immediately obvious. We conclude that the effort is worth the investment only (a) when there are significant repercussions from under-sizing a newly deployed digital library and (b) sufficient engineering staff are on hand to develop and debug the deployment scenarios. | |||
| Query Operators Shown Beneficial for Improving Search Results | | BIBAK | Full-Text | 118-129 | |
| Gilles Hubert; Guillaume Cabanac; Christian Sallaberry; Damien Palacio | |||
| Search engines allow users to retrieve documents with respect to a given
query. These provide advanced search options, such as query operators (e.g.,
+term, term^10). Previous work studied how query operators are employed by
end-users. In this paper, we study the extent to which using query operators
may lead to improved results, regardless of specific users. We hypothesize that
the proper use of query operators improves search results. To validate this
hypothesis, we present a methodology relying on standard IR test collections.
We applied this methodology to TREC-7 and TREC-8 test collections with five IR
models implemented in the Terrier search engine. Experiments show that queries
enriched with operators give an improvement in effectiveness up to 35.1% over
regular queries. This result suggests that end-users would benefit from using
operators more often. Keywords: Information Retrieval; Search Engine; Query Operators; Effectiveness | |||
| Evaluation Platform for Content-Based Image Retrieval Systems | | BIBAK | Full-Text | 130-142 | |
| Petra Budíková; Michal Batko; Pavel Zezula | |||
| In all subfields of information retrieval, test datasets and ground truth
data are important tools for testing and comparison of new search methods. This
is also reflected by the image retrieval community where several benchmarking
activities have been created in past years. However, the number of available
test collections is still rather small and the existing ones are often limited
in size or accessible only to the participants of benchmarking competitions. In
this work, we present a new freely-available large-scale dataset for evaluation
of content-based image retrieval systems. The dataset consists of 20 million
high-quality images with five visual descriptors and rich and systematic
textual annotations, a set of 100 test query objects and a semi-automatically
collected ground truth data verified by users. Furthermore, we provide services
that enable exploitation and collaborative expansion of the ground truth. Keywords: large-scale image dataset; visual and textual annotation; ground truth;
collaboration service | |||
| Music Video Redundancy and Half-Life in YouTube | | BIBA | Full-Text | 143-150 | |
| Matthias Prellwitz; Michael L. Nelson | |||
| YouTube is the largest, most popular video digital library in existence, and is quite possibly the most popular digital library regardless of format type. Furthermore, music videos are one of the primary applications of YouTube. Based on our experiences of linking to music videos in YouTube, we observed that while any single URI had a short half-life, music videos were always available at another URI. For this study we collected 1291 music videos and found that very few had zero or one copies in YouTube at any given time, and some had several thousand copies at any given time. Furthermore, individual URIs had a half-life of anywhere from 9 to 18 months, depending on the publication date and remaining commercial potential. | |||
| Linguistic and Semantic Representation of the Thompson's Motif-Index of Folk-Literature | | BIBA | Full-Text | 151-158 | |
| Thierry Declerck; Piroska Lendvai | |||
| We present on-going work on the linguistic and semantic processing of the labels of the Thompson's Motif-Index of Folk-Literature, which has been proposed by Stith Thompson for the classification of narrative elements in folk-literature. We automatically extracted the labels of an on-line version of the Index, and wrote specialised grammars for providing for a multi-layer linguistic annotation of them. We are currently working on enriching the linguistically annotated labels with semantic classes and relations, allowing for a better access to the content of the Index. With this resource, we expect to be able to semi-automatically annotate digitised literary works at the sub-document level by means of automatically comparing the annotated Index with the results of text processing tools applied to those works, and so contribute to a better inter-textual interlinking and understanding of related works in the folk-literature, offering a new way of semantically accessing digital libraries. | |||
| WPv4: A Re-imagined Walden's Paths to Support Diverse User Communities | | BIBAK | Full-Text | 159-168 | |
| Paul Logasa, II Bogen; Daniel Pogue; Faryaneh Poursardar; Yuangling Li; Richard Furuta; Frank Shipman | |||
| The Walden's Paths Project, as part of our philosophy of continual
evaluation, actively seeks out user communities who may find our system to be
of interest. In the past few years we noticed a recurring trend of user issues,
needs, and sought-after features. In order to better support our users, we
initiated a redesign of Walden's Paths that not only solves these problems, but
enables us to perform more rapid prototyping and experimentation of new
features and interfaces. In order to accomplish these goals, we have created a
web service that handles the storage, modification, and representation of our
path data structures. This service is completely isolated from user interface
layers, allowing many different interface designs to be implemented on top of
the basic Walden's Paths data structures. We also present several prototype
interfaces -- Marginalia, CoWPaths, Walden's Drupal, PathCompiler v2, mWalden
-- that represent new areas in which we believe our ideas can be applied such
as collaborative work, location-aware services, large educational databases,
offline presentation, and mobile computing. Keywords: Walden's Paths; Collaborative Authoring; Web Services; Computer-Aided
Education; Narrative Structures | |||
| Understanding the Dynamic Scholarly Research Needs and Behavior as Applied to Social Reference Management | | BIBAK | Full-Text | 169-178 | |
| Hamed Alhoori; Richard Furuta | |||
| We conducted a study with an objective to learn more about the dynamic
information needs, information-seeking behavior, information use and other
scholarly activities of researchers. Our focus was on the collaborative and
social usage and on the social reference managers. We compared the current
practices and strategies of scholars and researchers from multidisciplinary
research areas. Our findings provide valuable insights and augment the
understanding of how the social web is having a significant effect on the
current researchers' activities and digital libraries. Keywords: Scholarly communication; Research community; Digital Libraries; Information
Seeking; Social web; Social reference management; Scholarly references; Social
Bookmarking; Knowledge management; Literature review | |||
| Experiment and Analysis Services in a Fingerprint Digital Library for Collaborative Research | | BIBAK | Full-Text | 179-191 | |
| Sung Hee Park; Jonathan Leidig; Lin Tzy Li; Edward A. Fox; Nathan J. Short; Kevin E. Hoyle; A. Lynn Abbott; Michael S. Hsiao | |||
| Fingerprint management systems support millions of images and complicated
but imperfect image identification algorithms. The forensic community requires
a set of digital library services to support large image collections, execute
identification algorithms, and analyze experiments that test identification
algorithms in development. We present a model and prototype system capable of
testing and analyzing fingerprinting algorithms in terms of identification
performance based on matches of a known image to partial images, distortions of
the images, and sub-regions of the images. These services are provided based on
our framework for composing a set of services and a fingerprint image
collection. The prototype will be useful in collaborations connecting several
algorithm development efforts, and in composing an experimentation workflow. We
also describe extensions of these services into other domains. Keywords: fingerprint collections; algorithms; experiments; analyses | |||
| A Novel Combined Term Suggestion Service for Domain-Specific Digital Libraries | | BIBAK | Full-Text | 192-203 | |
| Daniel Hienert; Philipp Schaer; Johann Schaible; Philipp Mayr | |||
| Interactive query expansion can assist users during their query formulation
process. We conducted a user study with over 4,000 unique visitors and four
different design approaches for a search term suggestion service. As a basis
for our evaluation we have implemented services which use three different
vocabularies: (1) user search terms, (2) terms from a terminology service and
(3) thesaurus terms. Additionally, we have created a new combined service which
utilizes thesaurus term and terms from a domain-specific search term
recommender. Our results show that the thesaurus-based method clearly is used
more often compared to the other single-method implementations. We interpret
this as a strong indicator that term suggestion mechanisms should be
domain-specific to be close to the user terminology. Our novel combined
approach which interconnects a thesaurus service with additional statistical
relations outperformed all other implementations. All our observations show
that domain-specific vocabulary can support the user in finding alternative
concepts and formulating queries. Keywords: Evaluation; Term Suggestion; Query Suggestion; Thesaurus; Digital Libraries;
Interactive Query Expansion | |||
| Did They Notice? -- A Case-Study on the Community Contribution to Data Quality in DBLP | | BIBA | Full-Text | 204-215 | |
| Florian Reitz; Oliver Hoffmann | |||
| Defective metadata is a significant problem of digital libraries. So far, automatic error detectors have been in the focus of research interest. However, recent public projects have shown that patrons are willing to invest time to report errors if they are called to contribute. In this case-study, we analyze the community contribution to error detection for DBLP, a public bibliographic collection. Our study is based on e-mails sent to the project between January 2007 and November 2010. We manually and automatically identify error reports and analyze their contribution to corrections of the DBLP collection. We show that users frequently report certain types of defects while others are ignored. The detection of homonym-name inconsistencies in particular strongly depends on user input. We also discuss who sends the reports and which communities are particularly active in this matter. | |||
| A Comparative Study of Academic Digital Copyright in the United States and Europe | | BIBAK | Full-Text | 216-226 | |
| Robert J. Congleton; Sharon Q. Yang | |||
| The advent of Internet and digital media has added more complications to the
already complex copyright laws. This paper will first summarize the history of
copyright laws in the United States and Europe. It will then analyze and
compare the digital copyright laws as they are applied in higher education in
the United States and major countries in Europe. Keywords: copyright; digital copyright law; United States copyright law; European
copyright law; fair use; fair dealing | |||
| INVISQUE: Technology and Methodologies for Interactive Information Visualization and Analytics in Large Library Collections | | BIBAK | Full-Text | 227-235 | |
| B. L. William Wong; Sharmin (Tinni) Choudhury; Chris Rooney; Raymond Chen; Kai Xu | |||
| When a user knows exactly what they are looking for most library systems are
adequate for their needs. However, when the user's information needs are
ill-defined -- traditional library systems prove inadequate. This is because
traditional library systems are not designed to support sense making rather for
information retrieval. Visual analytics is the science of analytical reasoning
facilitated by interactive visualizations and visual analytics systems can
support both sense making and information retrieval. In this paper, we present
INVISQUE -- an approach and experimental software for interactive visual search
and query. INVISQUE uses an index card metaphor to display library content,
organized in a way that visually integrates attributes such citations and date
published, making it easy to pick out the most recent and most cited paper. It
uses design techniques such as focus+context to reveal relationships between
documents, while avoiding the "what-was-I-looking-for?" problem. Keywords: Visual Analytics; Information Visualization; User Interface; Interactive
Visualization | |||
| An Evaluation of Thesaurus-Enhanced Visual Interfaces for Multilingual Digital Libraries | | BIBAK | Full-Text | 236-243 | |
| Ali Shiri; Stan Ruecker; Lindsay Doll; Matthew Bouchard; Carlos Fiorentino | |||
| In this paper, we describe a comparative user evaluation of two multilingual
thesaurus-enhanced visual user interfaces, namely T-Saurus and Searchling,
developed for digital libraries. The study used 25 academic users carrying out
three search tasks on both user interfaces to the UNESCO digital portal,
holding 400,000 documents. It applied usability and affordance strength
questionnaires, interviews, thinkalouds, and direct observation to investigate
users' evaluation of the key components of both user interfaces, namely
multilingual features and thesaurus and search functions. The empirical data
gathered will be useful for designers of search interfaces that use thesaurus
and multilingual features. Results of the study show that users were able to
successfully carry out the search tasks using thesaurus-enhanced search
interfaces. However, they preferred Searchling for its flexible language
option, thesaurus browsing and visualization. Keywords: Visual Interfaces; Multilingual Thesauri; Multilingual Digital Libraries;
Information Retrieval; User Evaluation | |||
| Multilingual Adaptive Search for Digital Libraries | | BIBA | Full-Text | 244-251 | |
| M. Rami Ghorab; Johannes Leveling; Séamus Lawless; Alexander O'Connor; Dong Zhou; Gareth J. F. Jones; Vincent Wade | |||
| We describe a framework for Adaptive Multilingual Information Retrieval (AMIR) which allows multilingual resource discovery and delivery using on-the-fly machine translation of documents and queries. Result documents are presented to the user in a contextualised manner. Challenges and affordances of both adaptive and multilingual IR, with a particular focus on digital libraries, are detailed. The framework components are motivated by a series of results from experiments on query logs and documents from The European Library. We conclude that factoring adaptivity and multilinguality aspects into the search process can enhance the user's experience with online digital libraries. | |||
| Making Sense in the Margins: A Field Study of Annotation | | BIBA | Full-Text | 252-259 | |
| James Blustein; David Rowe; Ann-Barbara Graff | |||
| We report on three years of data collected in the field from students in graduate and undergraduate seminars at two universities. The students annotated texts for discussion in classes where hypertext and computer interfaces were core topics. The results of our analysis show how annotation style changes with a combination of experience and study of material related to annotation. Our major conclusions are that there are essentially six purposes for scholarly user-readers to annotate; and support for textual glosses is a necessary part of any successful annotation technology for such use. Our study suggests tools that will be appreciated by e-text users. | |||
| One of These Things Is Not Like the Others: How Users Search Different Information Resources | | BIBAK | Full-Text | 260-271 | |
| Dana McKay; George Buchanan | |||
| Transaction log analyses are common practice to understand user behavior in
both online databases and library catalogues. While there has been significant
work done in each of these domains, there is little work comparing user queries
between library catalogues and online resources. In this paper we report on an
exploratory comparison between searches performed via the same interface in
three different search systems: a library catalogue, an online research
database, and Google Scholar. Keywords: User behavior; search behavior; search interfaces; libraries | |||
| Understanding Documentary Practice: Lessons Learnt from the Text Encoding Initiative | | BIBA | Full-Text | 272-283 | |
| Paul Scifleet; Susan P. Williams | |||
| How are definitions of content and the design of digital documents being determined in practice? In this paper the authors present the relationship between document encoder and document as the central unit of analysis in a framework for making sense of documentary practice at community, organisational and implementation levels. The paper presents the integrated findings from a global survey of document encoders participating in the Text Encoding Initiative, providing important insights into the characteristics of an emergent documentary practice. By focusing on documentation as a field of practice the paper reveals a rich and generative practice at play and provides valuable lessons for other complex metadata and markup initiatives. | |||
| Linking FRBR Entities to LOD through Semantic Matching | | BIBA | Full-Text | 284-295 | |
| Naimdjon Takhirov; Fabien Duchateau; Trond Aalberg | |||
| In this paper, we present an approach to automatically link FRBR works identified in metadata to the corresponding entity in Linked Open Data resources. The main contribution is a basis for semantic enrichment and verification of works identified in existing metadata. Through experiments, we demonstrate that FRBR works can be identified in the LOD cloud, which provides a solid ground for further work. | |||
| Interactive Vocabulary Alignment | | BIBA | Full-Text | 296-307 | |
| Jacco van Ossenbruggen; Michiel Hildebrand; Viktor de Boer | |||
| In many heritage institutes, objects are routinely described using terms from predefined vocabularies. When object collections need to be merged or linked, the question arises how those vocabularies relate. In practice it often unclear for data providers how well alignment tools will perform on their specific vocabularies. This creates a bottleneck to align vocabularies, as data providers want to have tight control over the quality of their data. We will discuss the key limitations of current tools in more detail and propose an alternative approach. We will show how this approach has been used in two alignment use cases, and demonstrate how it is currently supported by our Amalgame alignment platform. | |||
| The Impact of Distraction in Natural Environments on User Experience Research | | BIBAK | Full-Text | 308-315 | |
| Elke Greifeneder | |||
| Laboratories have long been seen as reasonable proxies for user experience
research. Yet, this assumption may have become unreliable. The trend toward
multiple activities in the users' natural environment, where people
simultaneously use a digital library, join a chat or read an incoming Facebook
post, changes users' behavior. The effects of these disruptions generate a gap
that is generally not taken into account in user-experience research. This
paper presents a psychological experiment that measured how differently people
behave in a laboratory and in a natural environment setting. The existence and
impact of distraction is measured in a standard laboratory setting and in a
remote setting that explicitly allows users to work in their own natural
environment. The data indicates that there are significant differences between
results from the laboratory and natural environment setting. Distractions like
email or chat influence the users' performance and their ratings. Keywords: User studies; digital library; distraction; laboratory; remote evaluation;
natural environment | |||
| Search Behavior-Driven Training for Result Re-Ranking | | BIBA | Full-Text | 316-328 | |
| Giorgos Giannopoulos; Theodore Dalamagas; Timos K. Sellis | |||
| In this paper we present a framework for improving the ranking learning process, taking into account the implicit search behaviors of users. Our approach is query-centric. That is, it examines the search behaviors induced by queries and groups together queries with similar such behaviors, forming search behavior clusters. Then, it trains multiple ranking functions, each one corresponding to one of these clusters. The trained models are finally combined to re-rank the results of each new query, taking into account the similarity of the query with each cluster. The main idea is that similar search behaviors can be detected and exploited for result re-ranking by analysing results into feature vectors, and clustering them. The experimental evaluation shows that our method improves the ranking quality of a state of the art ranking model. | |||
| An Organizational Model for Digital Library Evaluation | | BIBAK | Full-Text | 329-340 | |
| Michael Khoo; Craig M. MacDonald | |||
| Evaluation is a central digital library practice. It provides important data
for managing digital libraries and informing strategic decision-making. Digital
library evaluation and management are organizational as well as technical
practices. What evaluation models can account for these organizational factors,
in practice as well as in theory? To address these questions, this paper
integrates two models, one from the organizational literature (Porter's value
chain), and one from the evaluation literature (evaluation logic models), into
a generic, flexible and extensible evaluation model that supports the
goal-oriented evaluation and management of digital libraries in specific
sociotechnical contexts. A case study is provided. Keywords: evaluation; lightweight; logic model; management; organization; planning;
value chain | |||
| Developing National Digital Library of Albania for Pre-university Schools: A Case Study | | BIBAK | Full-Text | 341-347 | |
| Xiaohua Li; Ardiana Sula | |||
| While the concept of digital library (DL) is well perceived and applied in
developed countries, it is still a big challenge to the developing nations.
There are great disparities, known as digital divide between developed
countries and developing countries in terms of electronic resource funding,
availability, and accessibility. DL, together with the information retrieval
(IR) system, is believed to be an effective way to mend the gap of digital
divide. This paper will employ a real case to discuss the significance of
developing a national level of digital library for pre-university schools of
Albania, the challenges of designing such information system both economically
and technologically, and considerations of designing the digital library. Keywords: DL; digital library development; developing countries; ICT infrastructure;
IR; information retrieval; IS; information system | |||
| DAR: Institutional Repository Integration in Action | | BIBAK | Full-Text | 348-359 | |
| Youssef Mikhail; Noha Adly; Magdy Nagi | |||
| The Digital Assets Repository (DAR) is a system developed at the Bibliotheca
Alexandrina to manage the full lifecycle of a digital asset: its creation and
ingestion, its metadata management, storage and archival in addition to the
necessary mechanisms for publishing and dissemination. In its third release,
the system architecture has been revamped into a modular design including
components that are best of the breed, in addition to defining a flexible
content model for digital objects based on current standards and a focus on
integrating DAR with different sources and applications. The goal of this paper
is to demonstrate the building blocks of DAR as an example of a modern
repository, in addition to discussing the challenges that face an institution
in consolidating its assets and DAR's answer to these challenges. Keywords: Institutional Repository; Integration; Modular Architecture; Digital Assets
Repository; DAR | |||
| Linking Archives Using Document Enrichment and Term Selection | | BIBA | Full-Text | 360-371 | |
| Marc Bron; Bouke Huurnink; Maarten de Rijke | |||
| News, multimedia and cultural heritage archives are increasingly offering opportunities to create connections between their collections. We consider the task of linking archives: connecting an item in one archive to one or more items in other, often complementary archives. We focus on a specific instance of the task: linking items with a rich textual representation in a news archive to items with sparse annotations in a multimedia archive, where items should be linked if they describe the same or a related event. We find that the difference in textual richness of annotations presents a challenge and investigate two approaches: (i) to enrich sparsely annotated items with textually rich content; and (ii) to reduce rich news archive items using term selection. We demonstrate the positive impact of both approaches on linking to same events and linking to related events. | |||
| Transformation of a Keyword Indexed Collection into a Semantic Repository: Applicability to the Urban Domain | | BIBA | Full-Text | 372-383 | |
| Javier Lacasta; Javier Nogueras-Iso; Jacques Teller; Gilles Falquet | |||
| In the information retrieval context, resource collections are frequently classified using thesauri. However, the limited semantics provided by thesauri restricts the collection search and browsing capabilities. This work focuses on improving these capabilities by transforming a set of resources indexed according to a thesaurus into a semantically tagged collection. The core mechanism for building this collection is based on the conversion of the domain specific thesaurus (indexing the collection of resources) into a domain ontology connected to an upper level ontology. The feasibility of this work has been tested in the urban domain by transforming the resources accessible through the European Urban Knowledge Network into a Linked Data repository. | |||
| Improving Europeana Search Experience Using Query Logs | | BIBA | Full-Text | 384-395 | |
| Diego Ceccarelli; Sergiu Gordea; Claudio Lucchese; Franco Maria Nardini; Gabriele Tolomei | |||
| Europeana is a long-term project funded by the European Commission with the goal of making Europe's cultural and scientific heritage accessible to the public. Since 2008, about 1500 institutions have contributed to Europeana, enabling people to explore the digital resources of Europe's museums, libraries and archives. The huge amount of collected multi-lingual multi-media data is made available today through the Europeana portal, a search engine allowing users to explore such content through textual queries. One of the most important techniques for enhancing users search experience in large information spaces, is the exploitation of the knowledge contained in query logs. In this paper we present a characterization of the Europeana query log, showing statistics on common behavioral patterns of the Europeana users. Our analysis highlights some significative differences between the Europeana query log and the historical data collected by general purpose Web Search Engine logs. In particular, we find out that both query and search session distributions show different behaviors. Finally, we use this information for designing a query recommendation technique having the goal of enhancing the functionality of the Europeana portal. | |||
| Implementing Enhanced OAI-PMH Requirements for Europeana | | BIBAK | Full-Text | 396-407 | |
| Nikos Houssos; Kostas Stamatis; Vangelis Banos; Sarantos Kapidakis; Emmanouel Garoufallou; Alexandros Koulouris | |||
| Europeana has put in a stretch many known procedures in digital libraries,
imposing requirements difficult to be implemented in many small institutions,
often without dedicated systems support personnel. Although there are freely
available open source software platforms that provide most of the commonly
needed functionality such as OAI-PMH support, the migration from legacy
software may not be easy, possible or desired. Furthermore, advanced
requirements like selective harvesting according to complex criteria are not
widely supported. To accommodate these needs and help institutions contribute
their content to Europeana, we developed a series of tools. For the majority of
small content providers that are running DSpace, we developed a DSpace plug-in,
to convert and augment the Dublin Core metadata according to Europeana ESE
requirements. For sites with different software, incompatible with OAI-PMH, we
developed wrappers enabling repeatable generation and harvesting of
ESE-compatible metadata via OAI-PMH. In both cases, the system is able to
select and harvest only the desired metadata records, according to a variety of
configuration criteria of arbitrary complexity. We applied our tools to
providers with sophisticated needs, and present the benefits they achieved. Keywords: OAI-PMH; Europeana; EuropeanaLocal; Tools; DSpace Plug-in; Interoperability;
Information integration; Metadata harvesting; Europena Semantic Elements | |||
| A Survey on Web Archiving Initiatives | | BIBA | Full-Text | 408-420 | |
| Daniel Gomes; João Miranda; Miguel Costa | |||
| Web archiving has been gaining interest and recognized importance for modern societies around the world. However, for web archivists it is frequently difficult to demonstrate this fact, for instance, to funders. This study provides an updated and global overview of web archiving. The obtained results showed that the number of web archiving initiatives significantly grew after 2003 and they are concentrated on developed countries. We statistically analyzed metrics, such as, the volume of archived data, archive file formats or number of people engaged. Web archives all together must process more data than any web search engine. Considering the complexity and large amounts of data involved in web archiving, the results showed that the assigned resources are scarce. A Wikipedia page was created to complement the presented work and be collaboratively kept up-to-date by the community. | |||
| Coherence-Oriented Crawling and Navigation Using Patterns for Web Archives | | BIBAK | Full-Text | 421-433 | |
| Myriam Ben Saad; Zeynep Pehlivan; Stéphane Gançarski | |||
| We point out, in this paper, the issue of improving the coherence of web
archives under limited resources (e.g. bandwidth, storage space, etc.).
Coherence measures how much a collection of archived pages versions reflects
the real state (or the snapshot) of a set of related web pages at different
points in time. An ideal approach to preserve the coherence of archives is to
prevent pages content from changing during the crawl of a complete collection.
However, this is practically infeasible because web sites are autonomous and
dynamic. We propose two solutions: a priori and a posteriori. As a priori
solution, our idea is to crawl sites during the off-peak hours (i.e. the
periods of time where very little changes is expected on the pages) based on
patterns. A pattern models the behavior of the importance of pages changes
during a period of time. As an a posteriori solution, based on the same
patterns, we introduce a novel navigation approach that enables users to browse
the most coherent page versions at a given query time. Keywords: Web Archiving; Data Quality; Pattern; Navigation | |||
| The YUMA Media Annotation Framework | | BIBAK | Full-Text | 434-437 | |
| Rainer Simon; Joachim Jung; Bernhard Haslhofer | |||
| Annotations are a fundamental scholarly practice common across disciplines.
They enable scholars to organize, share and exchange knowledge, and collaborate
in the interpretation of source material. In this paper, we introduce the YUMA
Media Annotation Framework, an ongoing open source effort to provide integrated
collaborative annotation functionality for digital library portals and online
multimedia collections. YUMA supports image, map, audio and video annotation
and follows the OAC annotation model in order to provide data interoperability.
A unique feature of YUMA is semantic enrichment, a mechanism that allows users
to effortlessly augment annotations with links to contextually relevant
resources on the Linked Data Web. Keywords: Annotation; Linked Data; Tagging | |||
| The Reading Desk: Supporting Lightweight Note-Taking in Digital Documents | | BIBAK | Full-Text | 438-441 | |
| Jennifer Pearson; George Buchanan; Harold W. Thimbleby | |||
| When reading on paper, readers often write notes, fold corners or insert
bookmarks without apparent conscious effort. Research into digital reading has
discovered that electronic tools are far less intuitive, require significantly
more attention, and are much less used. This paper introduces "The Digital
Reading Desk" -- a document reading interface that enhances existing digital
reading interactions by adopting effective elements of paper interaction, and
combining those with digital enhancements. Keywords: Annotation; Placeholding; Digital Documents | |||
| Metadata Visualization in Digital Libraries | | BIBA | Full-Text | 442-445 | |
| Zuzana Neverilová | |||
| Readers in digital libraries (DL) usually do not lack information, on the
contrary while browsing a DL they often struggle with too many documents.
Searching and displaying search results appropriately becomes important.
This demonstration shows an experimental interface that displays search results in two forms: textual (which the readers are used to) and visual. Displaying search results as networks of similar documents, articles of the same author or articles with the same keywords often reveal new information. Presented application is a web page with a Java Applet communicating with the rest of the page and integrated in Czech Mathematics DL website. | |||
| Archiv-Editor -- Software for Personal Data: Demo-Presentation at the TPDL 2011 | | BIBA | Full-Text | 446-448 | |
| Christoph Plutte | |||
| The Archiv-Editor is a multilingual desktop program for working with a Person Data Repository. It is developed as part of the DFG-Project Person Data Repository at the Berlin-Brandenburgische Academy of Science and Humanities (BBAW). Researchers in the humanities can enter any data related to a person, from archives, books and other sources, into the Archiv-Editor offline, and store and exchange the data with colleagues via one or more Person Data Repositories. Information about a person is not entered into a formula or table, but into an open text field and then marked with a customizable markup based on the Text Encoding Initiative. As they do not require a specific structure of statements and information, the Person Data Repository and the Archiv-Editor are open to a wide variety of research projects in Humanities and offer the infrastructure to combine and integrate data from divergent fields and research perspectives. | |||
| The MEKETREpository -- Middle Kingdom Tomb and Artwork Descriptions on the Web | | BIBA | Full-Text | 449-452 | |
| Christian Mader; Bernhard Haslhofer; Niko Popitsch | |||
| The MEKETREpository (MR) allows scholars to collect and publish artwork descriptions from Egypt's Middle Kingdom (MK) period on the Web. Collaboratively developed vocabularies can be used for the semantic classification and annotation of uploaded media. This allows all users with system access to contribute their knowledge about the published artworks. All data, including annotations and vocabularies, are published as Linked Data and can be accessed and reused by others. This paper gives an overview of MR's functionalities and the current state of our work. | |||
| NotreDAM, a Multi-user, Web Based Digital Asset Management Platform | | BIBAK | Full-Text | 453-456 | |
| Maurizio Agelli; Maria Laura Clemente; Mauro Del Rio; Daniela Ghironi; Orlando Murru; Fabrizio Solinas | |||
| In this work we present an overview of NotreDAM, an open source Digital
Asset Management platform targeted to the mid-market segment. NotreDAM provides
a web-based multi-user application environment for uploading, annotating,
cataloguing, sharing, searching and retrieving digital resources such as
videos, audios, images and documents. NotreDAM main advantages are: XMP
metadata support, user-defined workspaces and catalogs, scalable processing of
resources, a scripting engine extendible through plugins and a REST API for
integration with third party applications. The demo will showcase the
capabilities of the platform through a typical user session. Keywords: DAM; Digital Asset Management; metadata; XMP; resource processing; open
source; web based; demo | |||
| A Text Technology Infrastructure for Annotating Corpora in the eHumanities | | BIBAK | Full-Text | 457-460 | |
| Thierry Declerck; Ulrike Czeitschner; Karlheinz Moerth; Claudia Resch; Gerhard Budin | |||
| We present in this demonstration paper the actual text technology
infrastructure we have been establishing for annotating with linguistic and
domain-specific information -- the personalized death -- a corpus of baroque
texts (in German) belonging to the genre "Danse Macabre". While the developed
and assembled tools are already covering the automatic treatment of various
lexical aspects of such texts, and are also supporting the manual annotation of
the corpus with concepts related to the personalized death, we are currently
extending our work with the integration of methods and tools for automating the
annotation procedure. The goal of our project is to offer the philologist,
historian or the interested public an improved access to this kind of corpora,
allowing for example for topic based queries and navigation. Keywords: Historical and Literary corpora; NLP; Semantic Annotation | |||
| An Application to Support Reclassification of Large Libraries | | BIBA | Full-Text | 461-464 | |
| Kai Eckert; Magnus Pfeffer | |||
| In this paper, we describe a software application that was developed and is successfully applied at the Mannheim University Library to manually reclassify about 1 million books in a very efficient manner by supporting various different working strategies and by using information from several sources. | |||
| The Papyrus Digital Library: Discovering History in the News | | BIBAK | Full-Text | 465-468 | |
| Akrivi Katifori; Charalampos Nikolaou; Manolis Platakis; Yannis E. Ioannidis; A. Tympas; Manolis Koubarakis; N. Sarris; V. Tountopoulos; E. Tzoannos; Siarhei Bykau; Nadzeya Kiyavitskaya; Chrisa Tsinaraki; Yannis Velegrakis | |||
| Digital archives comprise a valuable asset for effective information
retrieval. In many cases, however, the special vocabulary of the archive
restricts its access only to experts in the domain of the material it contains
and, as a result, researchers of other disciplines or the general public cannot
take full advantage of the wealth of information it offers. To this end, the
Papyrus research project has worked towards a solution which makes
cross-discipline search possible in digital libraries. The developed prototype
showcases this approach demonstrating how we can discover history in news
archives. In this demo we focus on demonstrating two of the end user tools
available in the prototype, the cross-discipline search and the Papyrus
browser. Keywords: cross-discipline digital library; ontologies; keyword search; ontology
browsing; multilingualism | |||
| Digitization Practice in Latvia: Achievements and Trends of Development | | BIBAK | Full-Text | 469-472 | |
| Liga Krumina; Baiba Holma | |||
| The 1980s are characterized by rapid development of digitization process and
research of digital libraries. In 1994 Latvia was also involved in this process
with the first attempt to digitize the materials of high demand and in poor
physical condition at the Latvian Academic Library. In 1998 the digitization
process was launched at the National Library of Latvia. The study, the first
results of which are presented in this publication, is made to analyze the
history of digitization in Latvia, and to evaluate the achievements of these
activities. Up to now the development of digitization process has been poorly
documented, therefore the empirical sources are unpublished documents (project
reports, working papers, etc.), as well as interviews with the staff of the
first projects. Keywords: cultural heritage; digitization; digital collections; Latvian Academic
Library; National Library of Latvia; memory institutions | |||
| Digitizing All Dutch Books, Newspapers and Magazines -- 730 Million Pages in 20 Years -- Storing It, and Getting It Out There | | BIBAK | Full-Text | 473-476 | |
| Olaf D. Janssen | |||
| In the next 20 years, the Dutch national library will digitize all printed
publications since 1470, some 730M pages. To realize the first milestone of
this ambition, KB made deals with Google and Proquest to digitize 42M pages. To
allow improved storage of this mass digitization output, the KB is now
replacing its operational e-Depot -- a system for permanent digital object
storage -- with a new solution. To meet user demand for centralized access, KB
is at the same time replacing its scattered full-text online portfolio by a
National Platform for Digital Publications, both a content delivery platform
for its mass digitization output and a national aggregator for publications.
From 2011 onwards, this collaborative, open and scalable platform will be
expanded with more partners, content and functionalities. The KB is also
involved in setting up a Dutch cross-domain aggregator, enabling content
exposure in Europeana. Keywords: National libraries; Digital library workflows; Mass digitization; Google;
Proquest; Long-term storage; Cross-domain cultural heritage; Aggregation;
Interoperability; Europeana | |||
| Design, Implementation and Evaluation of a User Generated Content Service for Europeana | | BIBAK | Full-Text | 477-482 | |
| Nicola Aloia; Cesare Concordia; Anne Marie van Gerwen; Preben Hansen; Micke Kuwahara; Anh Tuan Ly; Carlo Meghini; Nicolas Spyratos; Tsuyoshi Sugibuchi; Yuzuru Tanaka; Jitao Yang; Nicola Zeni | |||
| The paper presents an overview of the user generated content service that
the ASSETS Best Practice Network is designing, implementing and evaluating with
the user for Europeana, the European digital library. The service will allow
Europeana users to contribute to the contents of the digital library in several
different ways, such as uploading simple media objects along with their
descriptions, annotating existing objects, or enriching existing descriptions.
The user and the system requirements are outlined first, and used to derive the
basic principles underlying the service. A conceptual model of the entities
required for the realization of the service and a general sketch of the system
architecture are also given, and used to illustrate the basic workflow of some
important operations. The planning of the user evaluation is finally presented,
aimed at validating the service before making it available to the final users. Keywords: User Generated Content | |||
| Connecting Repositories in the Open Access Domain Using Text Mining and Semantic Data | | BIBAK | Full-Text | 483-487 | |
| Petr Knoth; Vojtech Robotka; Zdenek Zdráhal | |||
| This paper presents CORE (COnnecting REpositories), a system that aims to
facilitate the access and navigation across scientific papers stored in Open
Access repositories. This is being achieved by harvesting metadata and
full-text content from Open Access repositories, by applying text mining
techniques to discover semanticly related articles and by representing and
exposing these relations as Linked Data. The information about associations
between articles expressed in an interoperable format will enable the emergence
of a wide range of applications. The potential of CORE can be demonstrated on
two use-cases: (1) Improving the navigation capabilities of digital libraries
by the means of a CORE pluging, (2) Providing access to digital content from
smart phones and tablet devices by the means of the CORE Mobile application. Keywords: digital library federations; automatic link generation; text mining;
semantic similarity; content harvesting; mobile devices | |||
| CloudBooks: An Infrastructure for Reading on Multiple Devices | | BIBAK | Full-Text | 488-492 | |
| Jennifer Pearson; George Buchanan | |||
| The use of light, portable devices such as iPads whose reading angle is
readily changed is radically different to reading on a desktop or laptop.
However, it would be naive to view this as mere evolution. Rather, such devices
permit reading activity to more closely mirror paper. A light, keyboardless
device can be used in many different locations and orientations. This paper
reports an infrastructure for supporting reading on multiple slate devices
using a single cloud-based system to provide for numerous configurations. Keywords: Slate PCs; Collaboration; Digital Reading; Annotation | |||
| Interconnecting DSpace and LOCKSS | | BIBAK | Full-Text | 493-496 | |
| Mushashu Lumpa; Ngoni Munyaradzi; Hussein Suleman | |||
| Repository managers increasingly use toolkits such as DSpace to manage
submission of and access to resources. However, DSpace does not support the
highly desirable distributed replication functionality provided by LOCKSS. This
paper describes an experiment to seamlessly interconnect DSpace and LOCKSS in a
generalisable manner. An experimental prototype confirms that this is indeed
possible, and that the interoperation can be efficient within the constraints
of the systems. Keywords: interoperability; harvesting; replication | |||
| Encoding Diachrony: Digital Editions of Serbian 18th-Century Texts | | BIBAK | Full-Text | 497-500 | |
| Toma Tasovac; Natalia Ermolaev | |||
| Texts in the "Digital Library of Serbian Cultural Heritage of the 18th
Century" are encoded as a word-aligned corpus of TEI XML documents in two
versions: one using traditional 18th-century orthography, including the
graphemes which have since disappeared from Serbian, and one using modernized
and standardized Serbian spelling rules that increase the legibility and
searchability of these texts for modern users. The corpus also contains
linguistic and semantic annotations that add modern phonetic, morphological,
lexical and conceptual equivalents to the largely archaic vocabulary. By
applying basic techniques of cross-lingual information retrieval to a
historical dimension of one language, and making provisions for multiple
indexing and annotations, our project exposes a notoriously difficult chapter
in the development of the Serbian language to a wider audience, without
sacrificing the edition's scholarly potential. Keywords: Digital humanities; digital editions; digital libraries; cultural heritage;
Serbian language; language change; Dositej Obradovic Text Encoding Initiative
(TEI) | |||
| Cross-Border Extended Collective Licensing: A Solution to Online Dissemination of Europe's Cultural Heritage? | | BIBA | Full-Text | 501-504 | |
| Johan Axhamn | |||
| An issue which recently has gained increased attention from legislators is how to stimulate the digitization and online availability of the collections held by libraries, museums and other cultural institutions -- sometimes referred to as our "common heritage" -- and at the same time give full respect to established copyright norms. At European level, this attention is evident in the Digital Libraries Initiative, the Communication from the European Commission on Copyright in the Knowledge Economy, the Commission's Digital Agenda for Europe and its recent Communication on a Single Market for Intellectual Property Rights. Inherent in these policy documents is the recognition that the new information technologies have created vast opportunities to make the common heritage of Europe more accessible for users online. It is also a shared belief that such access -- if coherent with basic copyright principles -- will be for the mutual benefit of users, right holders and the society at large. In line with this the Commission has supported the creation and development of a common access point for Europe's cultural heritage, Europeana. | |||
| An Investigation of ebook Lending in UK Public Libraries | | BIBAK | Full-Text | 505-510 | |
| Christopher Gibson | |||
| This research aims to investigate ebook lending, management, and procurement
in UK public libraries. A mixed method approach will be utilised to gain an
understanding of how ebook lending is currently being achieved and to determine
its affect on traditional library services. This research also proposes to run
ebook reader lending trials from selected public libraries. Keywords: ebooks; ebook readers; public libraries | |||
| Leveraging EAD in a Semantic Web Environment to Enhance the Discovery Experience for the User in Digital Archives | | BIBAK | Full-Text | 511-514 | |
| Steffen Hennicke | |||
| The proposed study investigates the information needs and
information-seeking behavior of archival users. For this purpose the ARGUS
information system of the German Bundesarchiv and related reference questions
are analyzed in a case study in order to model patterns of questions and search
behavior in an ontology. This knowledge graph represents the knowledge archival
users expect from archival finding aids. It is being compared with the
knowledge graph of archival finding aids encoded with the Encoded Archival
Description (EAD) standard in order to identify semantic gaps. The aim is to
find out if information modeled in EAD matches the archival user's expectations
and to formulate a model and methodology which can be applied and validate in
similar cases of digital archives in order to improve and facilitate access to
archival information systems. Keywords: information need; information-seeking behavior; archival user; archive; user
study; EAD; semantic web; finding aid; holding guide; archival reference
question | |||
| Content-Based Image Retrieval in Digital Libraries of Art Images Utilizing Colour Semantics | | BIBAK | Full-Text | 515-518 | |
| Krassimira Ivanova | |||
| The paper presents the architecture of experimental Content-Based Image
Retrieval (CBIR) system APICAS ("Art Painting Image Colour Aesthetics and
Semantics"). This system has been developed within a doctoral thesis which aims
to provide a suite of specialized tools for CBIR within a digital library of
art images. The high-level architecture suggested in this work takes OAIS as a
basis and adds a designated layer to it allowing CBIR functions to be used both
within ingest and access to the digital library. Keywords: CBIR; OAIS; colour semantics; digital art | |||
| New Paradigm of Library Collaboration | | BIBAK | Full-Text | 519-522 | |
| Adam Sofronijevic | |||
| The thesis entitled "New Paradigm of Library Collaboration" presents the
case for the holistic approach to the issue of collaboration in a contemporary
library. Patron needs and expectations in regards to collaboration,
interactivity and ultimately participation are investigated in the specific
area of changes in reading process. Collaboration between librarians and
patrons and among librarians is discussed in regards to Library 2.0 and
Enterprise 2.0 concepts. Based on the research results gathered in European
libraries a new paradigm of library collaboration is presented as a must for an
efficient library providing up-to-date services. Keywords: Library collaboration; Web 2.0; Enterprise 2.0; Library 2.0; Digital
libraries; European libraries; Library research; Enterprise 2.0 implementation
in libraries; Reading 2.0; Solitary reader; Contemporary librarianship | |||
| Visual Aesthetics of Websites: The Visceral Level of Perception and Its Influence on User Behaviour | | BIBAK | Full-Text | 523-526 | |
| Rita Strebe | |||
| Website aesthetics has become an important research object in the domain of
human-computer interaction during the last decade. Influences on acceptance and
preference have been shown [1, 2]. The consideration of this quality aspect is
also relevant for digital libraries as a possibility to appeal to the users on
an emotional level. It is the aim of an empirical study to test the impact of
the affectively effective aesthetics of websites on approach and avoidance
behaviour. Thus the significance of this visceral level of perception is
verified. In consequence of this fundamental research the applicability of
affective reactions for the evaluation of website aesthetics could be further
investigated. Keywords: website aesthetics; user affect; affective priming; user behaviour; human
computer interaction | |||
| Revealing Digital Documents | | BIBA | Full-Text | 527-530 | |
| Jakob Voß | |||
| The research project aims at revealing common patterns that are used in data, independent from the particular technology in which the data is available. A better understanding of data patterns will not only help to better capture singular characteristics of data by metadata, but will also recover intended structures of digital objects. | |||
| Designing Highly Engaging eBook Experiences for Kids | | BIBA | Full-Text | 531-534 | |
| Luca Colombo | |||
| The HEBE (Highly Engaging eBook Experiences) project aims to explore how children can be involved into the design and evaluation of novel eBook interfaces in order to make the reading experience more engaging to younger audience. | |||