This paper proposes a framework for the development of XML-based digital libraries. The goal of this work is to exploit the advantages that derive from the new XML standard in the field of digital libraries. The proposed framework is presented through a digital library architecture of University data. The diverse nature of such material dictates that any attempt to organize it should be based o...

This paper presents a framework for evaluating the usability and effectiveness of digital libraries of various kinds. The framework consists of six attribute groupings (audience; institution; access; content; services; design and development). Each attribute grouping contains a number attributes expressed as continua, or dimensions. This framework allows us to think about digital libraries in a...

This issue on the history of social mathematics is a fine occasion for promoting the digital library accumulated by the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris (www.gallica.fr) and for displaying beyond the circles of Condorcetian erudition the Condorcet-Borda file related to the mathematics of elections. The two names are well known. Their works, associated with the years 1781 (Borda) and 17...

This short paper discusses how cultural and heritage works of art can be restored with the latest nanoparticle technology after degradation over time as well as damage by unnatural causes, such as flood and fire. Because of the importance of these works of art, this paper also discusses the potential of multimedia digital libraries for building, organizing, and distributing the information rela...

The classical paradigm of finding information in the WWW by initiating retrieval and browsing becomes more and more ineffective. Other techniques have to be considered. Automatic delivery of contents to the user according to their needs and filtered by her profile of interests is required. Current implementations of such Alerting Services at content providers side have several drawbacks. In my ...

It will be organised, even if not explicitly, along the lines of the Library of Congress and the National Library of Medicine classification systems, since this is the way in which documentary material found in biomedical libraries is usually organised. Researchers will therefore find themselves in front of an open-shelved virtual library, where the resources relating to a certain topic are in ...

The conservation, spread, comprehension and recreation of traditional culture heritages is one of the main purpose of the National Ethnographic Museum in Bulgaria. As other cultural and scientific heritage institutions, it begins to use new information technologies and strategies for providing access to its cultural heritage treasures. This paper aims to present digital libraries with multimedi...

High demand in acquiring online academic materials, digitization of education and research materials is just not enough. Beyond that, the needs of accessing and retrieving information through the network environments has made digital library to be the right answer and choice for many. Academic digital library appears to find its niche in the world of academic society resulting dramatic changes ...

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...

This survey examines the familiarity of students at Virtual University of Shiraz (VUS), as a first virtual institution in Iran, with the concept and importance of digital libraries. To do this research, a descriptive and survey methodology was used. Students of Virtual University of Shiraz in comprise the population of the study. Findings showed that more than 66 percent of distance students ar...