Over the last three years, we have been developing a collaborative digital library interface where two children can collaborate using multiple mice on a single computer to access multimedia information concerning animals. This technology, called “SearchKids” leverages our lab’s past work in co-present collaborative zoomable interfaces for young children. This paper describes the differences in ...

We present a full text search engine in a collection of lyrics (text of songs) and coded notes (symbolic melody) as a part of digital library of Bulgarian folklore songs.

This paper is a final draft post-refereeing post-print; it is not the final copy as appeared in the journal. Please use the following citation when referencing this material: Dalbello, Marija (2005). “A Phenomenological Study of an Emergent National Digital Library, Part I: Theory and Methodological Framework,” The Library Quarterly 75 (4:2005), pp. 391-420. The accompanying article, Part II, i...

Currently digital library of educational resources and services (DLE) for general education and vocational training systems is under active implementation in Lithuania. Its design is based on the idea of partition of digital learning resources to two separate parts (learning objects (content) and units of learning (learning methods/scenarios/ designs)) which have clear different functions, and ...

This contribution presents the initial steps in the creation of a Digital Library consisting of previous ERES proceedings. The series of ERES conferences started in 1993, but their visibility has predominantly been limited to the ERES website. Sixteen conferences related to Real Estate resulted in an interesting output of over two thousands papers and it makes sense to offer them to a broader a...

The Maryland Electronic Learning Community (www.learn.umd.edu) is building a multimedia digital library of educational resources. Now in the fourth year of the project, we evaluate early decisions we made about segmenting and indexing videos. We also discuss an experiment in encouraging collaborative community indexing with a Quick Indexing Tool. We conclude that a broader base of users would b...