«digital reference object»
۸۱۲۵ نتیجهMove It or Lose It: Investigating Digital Curation Portability for Access to Government Information
A fundamental issue of digital preservation is that information resources must often out-live the systems that are used to maintain them at any given time. It is also important to consider sustainability across the boundaries of collection environments. Portability is an essentia
User requirements for a next generation digital preservation framework: analysis and implementation
The EU-funded SHAMAN (Sustaining Heritage Access through Multivalent ArchiviNg, http://www.shaman-ip.eu/) project is investigating the long-term preservation of large volumes of digital data in a distributed environment, by developing a preservation framework that is verifiable,
Conversing with pedagogical agents: A phenomenological exploration of interacting with digital entities
In this paper we examine the meaning of conversing with pedagogical agents. Previous research has focused on examining cause and effect relationships, failing to take into account the meaning of the experiences individuals have when holding a dialogue with conversational agents f
Dimensions of Situatedness for Digital Public Displays
representations of context [24]. While previous work has mainly focused on interaction itself and specific context-sensitive behaviors, we explore a systematic approach to the notion of situatedness where our main concern is themultiple ways in which this notion can be captured,
A Theoretical Framework for the Holistic Evaluation of Digital Library Services
This conceptual piece presents a framework to aid libraries in gaining a more thorough and holistic understanding of their users and services. Through a presentation of the history of library evaluation, a measurement matrix is developed that demonstrates the relationship between
Digital image processing techniques for detecting, quantifying and classifying plant diseases
This paper presents a survey on methods that use digital image processing techniques to detect, quantify and classify plant diseases from digital images in the visible spectrum. Although disease symptoms can manifest in any part of the plant, only methods that explore visible sym
From the ‘Digital Divide’ to `Digital Inequality’: Studying Internet Use As Penetration Increases*
We contend that as Internet penetration increases, students of inequality of access to the new information technologies should shift their attention from the “digital divide” --inequality between “haves” and “have-nots” differentiated by dichotomous measures of access to or use o
Robust Tools and Services for Long-Term Preservation of Digital Information
An unprecedented amount of digital information, appearing on a daily basis, needs to be archived and preserved over long time periods. Such information covers major facets of human activities such as business exchanges and electronic commerce, cultural and social interactions, e-
Scholarly Materials: Paper or Digital?
The paper starts out by reviewing the so-called “library crisis” and the extensive literature on the determinants of journal prices. It discusses the impact of the recent merger activity among journal publishers and notes, among the possible remedies that have been suggested, the
Digital Preservation and Permanent Access: The UVC for Images
Since early 2003, the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB) maintains a deposit service called e-Depot, based on the IBM product DIAS (Digital Information and Archiving System). By using this service, the KB has developed a workflow for archiving electronic publications and has implemente