Handbook of research on digital libraries : design, development, and impact / [edited by] Yin-Leng Theng [and others].

"This book is an in-depth collection aimed at developers and scholars of research articles from the expanding field of digital libraries"--Provided by publisher.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Theng, Yin-Leng, 1961-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Hershey, PA : Information Science Reference, [2009]
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Table of Contents:
  • pt. I. Design and development. OpenDLib : a digital library service system ; Information security and privacy in digital libraries ; Digital learning objects and metadata ; Extensible digital library service platform ; Personal digital libraries ; Comparing open source digital library software ; The Greenstone digital library software ; Design and development of a taxonomy generator : a case example for Greenstone ; From digital archives to virtual exhibitions
  • pt. II. Information processing and content management. Standardization of terms applying finite-state transducers (FST) ; Extracting the essence : automatic text summarization ; Metadata interoperability ; Semantic association analysis in ontology-based information retrieval ; Effective and efficient browsing of large image databases ; User profiles for personalizing digital libraries ; Automatic text summarization in digital libraries ; Speechfind : advances in rich content based spoken document retrieval ; Using topic-specific ranks to personalize Web search ; Guidelines for developing digital culture collections ; Digital libraries and ontology ; A classification scheme for innovative types in scholarly communication ; Improving multimedia digital libraries usability applying NLP sentence similarity to multimodal sentences ; Duplicate journal title detection in references ; Word segment in Indo-China languages for digital libraries ; On the effectiveness of social tagging for resource discovery ; Semantic annotation and retrieval of images in digital libraries
  • pt. III. Users, interactions, and experiences. Metadata and metaphors in visual interfaces to digital libraries ; Usability evaluation of digital library ; Digital library requirements : a questionnaire-based study ; Handhelds for digital libraries ; The CGIAR virtual library bridging the gap between agricultural research and worldwide users ; Map-based user interfaces for music information retrieval ; Patent and trade secret in digital libraries ; User-adapted information services ; An empirical analysis of the utilization of university digital library resources ; Visualisation of large image databases
  • pt. IV. Case studies and applications. Towards multimedia digital libraries ; BIVALDI the digital library of the Valencian bibliographic inheritance ; Digital libraries as a foundation of spatial data infrastructures ; DL and GIS : path to a new collaboration paradigm ; Digital libraries beyond cultural heritage information ; Reference services in digital environment ; USGS digital libraries for costal and marine science ; Digital preservation ; Visual pattern based compressed domain image retrieval ; Music information retrieval ; The strategic plan of digital libraries ; Software process asset libraries using knowledge repositories ; The role and integration of digital libraries in E-learning ; Development of digital libraries in Pakistan
  • pt. V. Digital library education and future trends. Core topics in digital library education ; Digital libraries as centres of knowledge : historical perspectives from European ancient libraries ; The European approach towards digital library education : dead end or recipe for success? ; New roles of digital libraries ; A review of progress in digital library education ; The future of learning with digital libraries ; Computational sense for digital libraries ; Digital libraries overview and globalization.