emergence of new communication technologies made media industry available for small and entrepreneur media firms to enter venue, while before them the arena belonged to big media companies. now media industry includes a lot of small enterprises which market now innovations, even with limited resources, thanks to these new technologies. the same trend occurred in iranian media market too, but de...

works within the stores of recorded knowledge. In the digital environment scholars are seeking and using information in new ways and generating new types of scholarly products, many of which are specialized resources for access to research information. These practices have important implications for the collection and organization of digital access resources. Drawing on a series of qualitative ...

The rapid development of digital library makes the multimedia information resources organization and management become a key issue to develop the digital library, and the multimedia information retrieval technology has become the core technology of the digital book data management, the existing multimedia retrieval model cannot effectively implement multimedia digital books data management. The...

CONSORTS (Architecture for COgNitive reSOurce management with physically-gRounding agents) is a new kind of agent architecture for Ubiquitous computing, which is designed to realize mass-user support in addition to conventional personal assistance. The key concepts in Consorts are "physically-grounding" and "cognitive resources”. By using sensory information brought by ubiquitous environment, a...

An architecture of a prototype Digital Work Environment (DWE), designed to lead users of an academic community to the required information resources based on their tasks, is proposed. The important aspects of the DWE include the identification of information resources available in the academic environment, the various categories of users, and the tasks associated with each category of users. Di...

An architecture of a prototype digital work environment (DWE), designed to lead users of an academic community to the required information resources based on their tasks, is proposed. The important aspects of the DWE include the identification of information resources available in the academic environment, the various categories of users and the tasks associated with each category of users. Dig...

Beginning with an introduction and justifications for the need of user-centred digital library development, this paper outlines the architecture, the basic components and functionalities of a Digital Work Environment (DWE) that forms the basis of a usercentred digital library development at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. The information resources include full-text articles, onli...

This paper extends our work on the Warwick Framework a container architecture for multiple metadata packages that might be associated with a common resource. Since we believe that metadata is only “meta” in relation to other resources, we have generalized the framework to allow containers to hold or reference any sort of resource, not just those normally considered as metadata. Second, since su...