Large scale Digital Library e-Infrastructures are emerging as a new approach for facilitating the development of Digital Libraries (DLs) serving diverse user communities with specific and continuously evolving requirements. Such an approach promotes the building of large-scale DLs via the dynamic, automated management of highly-distributed DL resources – e.g. collections of information objects,...

Sundeep Sahay Department of Informatics

The design and development of invisible, easy to use and affordable ICT infrastructures is a key prerequisite for the effective large-scale implantation of the collaborative networks organizations such as virtual organizations, professional virtual communities, e-science communities, etc. This paper introduces an overview of the main classes of infrastructures required by different types of vir...

This symposium brings together researchers at the frontier of an emerging subcommunity of the learning sciences that looks toward developing methodologies and infrastructures with the potential to lead towards an integrated agenda of global research in the learning sciences, spanning both the developed and the developing world, in both formal and informal learning environments. It explores how ...

Article history: Received 25 February 2011 Received in revised form 10 March 2013 Accepted 4 April 2013 Available online xxxx Interoperability in e-government has been recognized as a key factor in the quest of administrations at national, local and international level to achieve the provision of one-stop services to citizens and businesses. Interoperability in e-government should enable effici...

this paper is about concept maps and how they can assist in the learning ofconcepts of mathematics. first the paper presents the theoretical backgroundand working de nitions for concept maps. then this study examines the impactof using concept maps in learning of fractions. results of this study indicatedthat using this strategy was eective in learning of fractions for fourth-gradestudents. th...

We discus some frequently neglected issues relating to corporate communication infrastructures. The perception of services like e-mail as infrastructural -and thus less interesting -lies at the heart of corporate ignorance regarding their strategic capabilities. This may cause major problems in the near future, when inadequate communication infrastructures may hamper the successful uptake of st...