Top Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) experts, during a January 1999 American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter meeting, identified a number of important future trends for technologies in libraries1. Trend1 ”library users who use the Web, expect customisation, interactivity and customer support” deals directly with issues related to library portals. The group emphasised th...

Underpinning every digital library and digital repository there is a policy framework, which makes the digital library viable without a policy framework a digital library is little more than a container for content. Policy governs how a digital library is instantiated and run. It is therefore a meta-domain which is situated both outside the digital library and any technologies used to deliver i...

This paper investigates the effects of many parameters, which are crucial for performance of H.264 video coder .H.264 is the latest international video coding standard. It was jointly developed by the video coding expert group (VCEG) of the ITU-T and moving picture expert group (MPEG) of ISO/IEC. The main goals of the H.264 standardization effort have been enhanced compression performance. H.26...

Between the two main schemes of digital video coding, VBR encoding scheme is generally considered as better in terms of efficiency and encoding quality in comparison to CBR, because it retains the same quantization parameters for the whole encoding procedure (unconstrained VBR), without altering them according to a specific adaptive rate algorithm. Towards this generally accepted statement, thi...

Introduction: Marital infidelity is one of the most severe problems in families and investigating the reasons for the tendency to marital infidelity can have an effective role in reducing it. Methods: This study was conducted based on the grounded theory (GT). To this end, two types of sampling techniques were used: The multistage random cluster sampling was employed to interview 28 teacher...

SUMMARY The generation of large volumes of omics data to conduct exploratory studies has become feasible and is now extensively used to gain new insights in life sciences. The effective exploration of the generated data by experts is a crucial step for the successful extraction of knowledge from these datasets. This requires availability of intuitive and interactive visualization tools that can...

World Digital Libraries 2(2): 161–162 ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ Book review Building Digital Libraries: a how-to-do-it manual (Number 153) Terry Reese Jr. and Kyle Banerjee Reviewed by Shantanu Ganguly* In the digital age, libraries need to preserve and provide access to digital resourc...