purpose – this paper aims to describe the role of public libraries in bridging the digital divide. the paper firstly reviews the existing literature body in this area and then suggests a number of practical solutions. digital divide is a concept which appears in the area of information and communication technology (ict) since 1990 and refers to the existing inequality in accessing to ict among ...

This paper examines the issues surrounding distributed Digital Library protocols. First, it reviews three prominent digital library protocols: Z39.50, SDLIP, and Dienst, plus Greenstone’s own protocol. Then, we summarise the implementation in the Greenstone Digital Libary of a number of different protocols for distributed digital libraries, and describe sample applications of the same: a digita...

This chapter describes various technical and social issues in the development of the Indonesia’s National Digital Library Network (IndonesiaDLN). The success of the network was attributed to the use of the Protocol for Metadata Posting (PMP) to allow member institutions without a permanent Internet connection to join the digital library (DL) network, the use and distribution of open source soft...

Paradigm Shift of Library Industry in China As more and more readers are in favor of accessing digital resources online, most libraries in China are in their way to build or strengthen their digital libraries. Nowadays, there exist several major content providers like WeiPu4, WanFang5, and ChaoXing6 who not only own a large number of digital contents of journals, books, andmagazines, but also r...

Traditional Digital Libraries require human editorial control over the lifecycles of digital objects contained therein. This imposes an inherent (human) overhead on the maintenance of these digital libraries, which becomes unwieldy once the number of important information units in the digital library becomes too large. A revised framework is needed for digital libraries that takes the onus off ...

This paper investigates how information resources are shared electronically between libraries at the national level in China. It examines the digital library project related issues for both information policy and information-technology. Issues pertaining to information policy include cooperation and collaboration between information service providers, collection development, intellectual proper...

With the dawning of the digital age, many libraries around the world have begun to revamp their collections so as to accommodate more e-resources as well as other digital materials. However, as library resources become more virtual, many issues will have to be taken into consideration. For instance, in order to build a digital library, library administrators will have to deal with intellectual ...

ions in spatio-temporal space are not yet understood well enough to automatically extract them from video sequences. Though some techniques have been developed to represent relative time ordering of two events, representations for abstraction of events need to be developed to allow users to articulate questions related to temporal events. 4. Integrated Queries. Users are interested in getting i...

The Internet and the Web have been growing in leaps over the past few years, accelerating the problem of information explosion, a well-known phenomenon to all of us. Indeed, search engines (SEs) that have popped up everywhere enable us to access the cyberspace, but they flood us with vast amounts of irrelevant information. Nonetheless, considering the vast amount of information, the Web is cons...