World Digital Libraries 2(2): 161–162 ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ Book review Building Digital Libraries: a how-to-do-it manual (Number 153) Terry Reese Jr. and Kyle Banerjee Reviewed by Shantanu Ganguly* In the digital age, libraries need to preserve and provide access to digital resourc...

E-Learning Systems enable students to work with electronic teaching materials, to join online courses, to pass tests, and to communicate with other students or instructors. An important requirement of this systems is the integration of external knowledge management resources into them. The digital libraries are helpful to this purpose because materials of many digital libraries are valuable for...

Developing and maintaining a digital library requires substantial investments which are not simply a matter of technological decisions, but include also organizational aspects (which user roles are involved in content production, which workflows are needed, and so on). Moreover, starting a digital library initiative requires to handle several evolution issues (the need of new roles, workflows, ...

Digital Libraries have received wide attention in the recent years allowing access to digital information from anywhere across the world. They have become widely accepted and even preferred information sources in areas of education, science and others. When the full potential of digital libraries is realized, any citizen will for the first time be able to access all human knowledge immediately ...

We propose an architecture for Digital Library repositories where one or more data stores persistently hold the digital objects (e.g., documents), and interact with clients that perform indexing, replication, intellectual property management, revenue management, and other functions. One of the most critical components in such stores is the awareness mechanism, used to notify clients of inserted...

In this paper, I describe the results of user interviews that reveal problems in current email systems, including role conflict, high cognitive overhead associated with organization and retrieval, inability to navigate conversations and difficulties in addressing messages. I also describe the design of a prototype system with an underlying message store for the email collection. Services layere...

Given the exponential growth rate of medical data and the accompanying biomedical literature, more than 10,000 documents per week (Leroy et al., 2003), it has become increasingly necessary to apply data mining techniques to medical digital libraries in order to assess a more complete view of genes, their biological functions and diseases. Data mining techniques, as applied to digital libraries,...

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Preface This thesis is submitted to the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) for the doctoral degree " doctor scientiarum ". The work reported has been carried out during the time period 1998–2003 at the First of all I want to thank my supervisor, Professor Ingeborg Torvik Sølvberg, for providing me with a fine combination of freedom and guidance in the shaping of this work. Th...

The issue of usability has concerned the Digital Libraries community, at least peripherally, over many years. There is, after all, little point in delivering sophisticated libraries with novel features if those systems are then ignored by the intended users because they are too difficult to use or do not offer the key features that users require. However, the challenge of how to deliver Digital...