This paper equips researchers for addressing a wide range of data collection challenges experienced when interacting with marginalized communities as part of ICT4D projects in developing countries. This secondary research categorizes data collection challenges reported in multiple disciplines, and summarizes the guidance from the past literature to deal with the challenges. The open, axial, and...

s from Special Section of Water Resources Research Jean Yves Parlange and Wilfried Brutsaert, May 2012 at the Symposium held May 14-15, 2012, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA (Photo Robert Cooke) Water Resources Special Section Hard-bound copy of the full collection of articles available upon request ([email protected])

The Suburban Birmingham project aimed to allow the exploration of a collection of resources originally presented through a website on a touch table. In this paper we will explore some of the issues illustrated by this project involving the manipulation and sharing of resources on multi-user applications in public spaces, including ownership, affordances, and managing and interpreting gestures i...

Most of the world’s 7000 languages are still lacking freely available language resources. This lack of resources forms a major bottleneck in the processing of those languages and prevents them form being more widely used. To overcome current limitations, researchers might profit from studying the cooperation in free software projects or Wiki-projects. In this paper, we explore such models of ’o...

The Molecular Biology Database Collection represents an effort geared at making molecular biology database resources more accessible to biologists. This online resource, available at http://www.oup.co.uk/nar/Volume_28/Issue_01/html /gkd115_gml.html, is intended to serve as a searchable, up-to-date, centralized jumping-off point to individual Web sites. An emphasis has also been placed on includ...

Access barriers do not only exist in the physical environment but also online. Just as certain architectural design features make it possible, or impossible, for people with certain disabilities to move about independently, so does design of the electronic environment, which includes all the library e‐resources, creates either enabling or disabling conditions for certain individuals. Recently c...

The assessment of diversity and population structure and construction of a core collection is beneficial for the efficient use and management of germplasm. A unique collection of common oat landraces, cultivated in the temperate climate of central Europe until the end of the twentieth century, is preserved in the Polish gene bank. It consists of 91 accessions that have never been used in breedi...

THEINCORPORATION OF electronic resources in the humanities into the traditional practice of collection development presents challenges that have pragmatic, technical, fiscal, and cultural dimensions. Many of the selection criteria valid for print resources have analogues in the electronic realm, while others are unique to the new medium. Among the most significant challenges will be understandi...

As LIBRARIANS ADDED AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS to their collections and then electronic materials, they moved from selection as an individual activity to selection as a group activity. Librarians made every effort to mainstream the resulting selection process and incorporate it into the existing library organization. However, with the advent of the Internet and the ability to simultaneously share vi...