Digital libraries need to provide and extend traditional library services in the digital environment. This paper presents a project that will provide and extend library services through the development of a sharium—a workspace with rich content and powerful tools where people can collaborate with others or work independently to explore information resources, learn, and solve their information p...

Traditional libraries will evolve to digital libraries which are clearly superior at: Dissemination, sharing, linking, storing, and information variety. Therefore, one can say that electronic libraries have specific needs in terms of content, services and long-term preservation. In contrast, digital libraries suffer from several inherent constraints: storage limitation, performance, relevancy, ...

In the age of Web 2.0, users are increasingly familar with social tagging or bookmarking where comments and ratings are added by users to objects on the web for public consumption. Such comments and ratings are represented in bookmarks which can be used for information or opinion sharing, user interest discovery, and content recommendation. In this paper, we investigate social bookmarking in di...

The Perseus Digital Library (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu) has three different kinds of search tools, each of which presents its results in a different way. Two of them, the wordsearch tool and the Perseus Lookup Tool, allow users to request searches of the texts and the databases of the digital library. The third search tool works transparently on the user’s behalf, and is tightly integrated i...

introduction: nowadays and with the increasing role of the worldwide web as one of the most important sources of information on the one hand, and the enhancement of its usability on the other, it is necessary for the web designers and developers to be familiar with the criteria that make a web portal usable. therefore, the present study aimed to provide knowledge about the criteria of usability...

The PROBADO project is a research effort to develop and operate advanced Digital Library support for non-textual documents. The main goal is to contribute to all parts of the Digital Library work flow from content acquisition over indexing to search and presentation. While not limited in terms of supported document types, reference support is developed for classical digital music and 3D archite...

This project will develop a blueprint for an enriched digital library an information space with rich semantics and functionality, including well-structured concept hierarchies that integrates information-seeking with user tasks and supports the management of private information spaces and cooperative work, especially user enhancements to the database and collaborative authoring; it will build o...

The Informedia Digital Video Library Project (IDVL), launched in mid-1994, was one of six Digital Library Initiative (DLI) Phase 1 projects funded jointly by NSF, DARPA and NASA. IDVL was the only DLI project focusing specifically on information extraction from video and audio content, successfully pioneering the automated indexing and retrieval of multimedia documents from over a terabyte of o...