The paper presents an integration and visualization service to enhance the use of annotations and to empower the role of the user and research community in the archival context. We show how this service allows us to address the interoperability between diversified digital archive and annotation systems. Furthermore, it propels the use of annotations to enhance the user experience and to exploit...

Can organisations use internal social technologies to increase productivity and foster innovation? Do management and employees fully appreciate the benefits of social technologies in the workplace? Are the tools available being fully utilised within organisations? This research looks at the use of social media for organisations, referred to as Enterprise Social Networks (ESN). An examination of...

This paper outlines and challenges expectations and promises regarding the potential of the internet and Web 2.0 for empowering patients and citizens. It focuses on literacies required to make a meaningful (to the individual) use of these technologies for health and health care related purposes. The author briefly discusses how these should be taught and concludes that these literacies, includi...

Microfinance programs like Self Help Group Bank linkage program (SHG), aim to empower women through provision of financial services. We investigate this further to determine whether it is the economic or the non-economic factors that have a greater impact on empowering women. Using household survey data on SHG from India, a general structural model is adopted where the latent women empowerment ...

The reference library plays a valuable role in a print environment for at least two purposes: direct ready reference, the seeking or verification of basic facts; and finding contextual aspects of a person, place, event, period, or other topic. For the first task, one needs an appropriate single source; for the second, a well-selected range of different reference resources, such as dictionaries,...