purpose: the aim of the present research is generally to evaluate the use of the creativity dimensions and components in iran national library website from its users’ point of view. method: we used survey method. research population was composed of 19665 users and 173 librarians of the national library & archives of iran (nlai). the data collecting tool was a questionnaire which was designed by...

As a vision for the future Web, this paper proposes Massive Knowledge Web (MKW), a referential architecture that will support effective sharing of versatile knowledge in a large-scale decentralized network, and establish effective and efficient means to manage massive knowledge which may be created, derived and shared by various sources including individual end-users on the Web 2.0. The archite...

The paper describes and evaluates a system for extracting knowledge from the web that uses a domain independent fact extraction approach and a self supervised learning algorithm. Using a trust algorithm, the precision of the system is improved to over 70% compared with a baseline of 52%.

With the flood of information on the Web, Web mining is a new research issue which draws great interest from many communities. Currently, there is no agreement about Web mining yet. It needs more discussion among researchers in order to define what it is exactly. Meanwhile, the development of Web mining system will promote its research in turn. In this paper we present a preliminary discussion ...

A constantly growing amount of information is available through the web. Unfortunately, extracting useful content from this massive amount of data still remains an open issue. The lack of standard data models and structures forces developers to create adhoc solutions from the scratch. The figure of the expert is still needed in many situations where developers do not have the correct background...

introduction: the current research seeks to evaluate the framework of the mentioned endeavors through the survey of the quality of the web pages of iran's medical universities and the existence of their organizational metalinks. methods: in this descriptive study, 40 web pages of the iran's medical universities were studied. the existence of the web pages, the type of the library soft wares, th...

The current web is a web of linked pages. Frustrated users search for facts by guessing which keywords or keyword phrases might lead them to pages where they can find facts. Can we make it possible for users to search directly for facts embedded in web pages? Instead of a web of human-readable pages containing machine-inaccessible facts, can the web be a web of machine-accessible facts superimp...

Knowledge management is a process which comprises knowledge discovery, knowledge collection, knowledge organization and knowledge process. Among these four process knowledge discovery is integrated with semantic web for enhanced information retrivel. Knowledge discovery is the process of automatically searching large volume of data for patterns that can be considered knowledge about the data. T...

introduction: the reference section is one of the most important parts in every library. moreover, reference services represent all the attempts performed in a library. since libraries primarily aim to satisfy users' information needs, knowing that the effects of information technologies (it) on their services seems essential. therefore, this study manly tried to assess the effects of it on ref...

objective(s): citation tracking is an important method to analyze the scientific impact of journal articles and can be done through scopus (sc), google scholar (gs), or isi web of knowledge (wos). in the current study, we analyzed the citations to 2011-2012 articles of iranian journal of basic medical sciences (ijbms) in these three resources.   material and methods: the relevant data from sc, ...