Aside from the basic importance of metadata in documenting, the characteristics of data for reuse is the fundamental role it plays in the functioning of digital libraries and data repositories. Metadata provides both the content of the search catalogs and provides part of the basis for performing quality control on the source data. In this paper, we describe a method for a scalable and decentra...

The aim of the present study is to investigate the general trends of LIS research, using as source material the articles published in Library and Information Science Research in a five-year period (2005-2010). Library & Information Science Research was chosen because is a cross-disciplinary and refereed journal, which focuses on the research process in library and information science, covers a ...

objective: the aim of this study was to exploring the problems and challenges of dissertation writing process of library and information science in regard to students’ perspective.   method: the survey population was consisted of all library and information sciences’ students who graduated from one of the universities in tehran in recent years. the sample of research was consisted of 20 student...

Visualization of multiscale data is becoming increasingly important in all biomedical research projects. Huge amounts of data are being collected worldwide at all scale levels (from genes to body level). However, there is a clear lack of software tools to support the interactive inspection of these large data collections. A research consortium has been established to identify the challenges ass...