Adding Value to the Library Catalog by Implementing a Recommendation System

Adding SOMLib Capabilities to the Greenstone Digital Library System

Many conventional digital library systems offer access to their collections only via full text or meta-data search, or by browsingaccess via a hierarchy of categories. With the increasing amount of digital content available, alternative methods to access the content seem necessary. The SOMLib system, which is based on using Self-Organizing Maps (SOMs), has been used to automatically organize do...

Implementing BRICKS, a Digital Library Management System

Digital Libraries (DLs) play a central role in the way information is produced, accessed and used in the Internet era. While the Web provides a universal access to uncontrolled information resources, DLs allow large, distributed repositories of multimedia content, annotated with possibly rich semantic structures and regulated by digital rights, to be created and managed to satisfy the needs of ...

Implementing a Next Generation Library System

Making a Library Catalog Adaptive

The design of a prototype adaptive catalog is presented. Online catalog searches commonly retrieve too few or too many items. This prototype, implemented as a transparent workstationbased front-end to MELVYL (tm) online catalog of the holdings of the nine campuses of the University of California, adapts to excessive or insufficient retrieval by strategically limiting, sorting, or expanding user...

Prologue for a synoptic catalog: combining a hospital library catalog and a bookseller's catalog.

This article introduces the synoptic catalog, a computerized combination of a hospital library catalog and a bookseller's catalog. Majors Scientific Books and Richmond Memorial Hospital Libraries in Virginia collaborated to develop the model. A logical evolution in catalog theory and practice, the design expands the identification, collocation, and evaluation functions of the traditional librar...