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A Wikipedia Literature Review [PDF]
arXiv, 2011 This paper was originally designed as a literature review for a doctoral dissertation focusing on Wikipedia. This exposition gives the structure of Wikipedia and the latest trends in Wikipedia research.
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h-index Research in Scientometrics: A Summary [PDF]
arXiv, 2014 A Letter to the Editor shortly summing up ten or so years of research into the h-index.
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Automatically Generating Interfaces for Personalized Interaction with Digital Libraries [PDF]
arXiv, 2004 We present an approach to automatically generate interfaces supporting personalized interaction with digital libraries; these interfaces augment the user-DL dialog by empowering the user to (optionally) supply out-of-turn information during an interaction, flatten or restructure the dialog, and enquire about dialog options.
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Use and usability in a digital library search system [PDF]
arXiv, 1999 Digital libraries must reach out to users from all walks of life, serving information needs at all levels. To do this, they must attain high standards of usability over an extremely broad audience. This paper details the evolution of one important digital library component as it has grown in functionality and usefulness over several years of use by a ...
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Using Query Mediators for Distributed Searching in Federated Digital Libraries [PDF]
arXiv, 1999 We describe an architecture and investigate the characteristics of distributed searching in federated digital libraries. We introduce the notion of a query mediator as a digital library service responsible for selecting among available search engines, routing queries to those search engines, and aggregating results. We examine operational data from the
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Representing Contextualized Information in the NSDL [PDF]
arXiv, 2006 The NSDL (National Science Digital Library) is funded by the National Science Foundation to advance science and match education. The inital product was a metadata-based digital library providing search and access to distributed resources. Our recent work recognizes the importance of context - relations, metadata, annotations - for the pedagogical value
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Flexible and Extensible Digital Object and Repository Architecture (FEDORA) [PDF]
arXiv, 2013 We describe a digital object and respository architecture for storing and disseminating digital library content. The key features of the architecture are: (1) support for heterogeneous data types; (2) accommodation of new types as they emerge; (3) aggregation of mixed, possibly distributed, data into complex objects; (4) the ability to specify multiple
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Collaborative digital library of historical resources: Evaluation of first users [PDF]
arXiv, 2013 This paper describes the digital library of historical resources, a research project which involves building a testbed for the purpose of developing and testing new collaborative digital library functionality and presents an initial analysis of the digital library's public use on the web.
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Principles for Digital Preservation [PDF]
arXiv, 2004 The immense investments in creating and disseminating digitally represented information have not been accompanied by commensurate effort to ensure the longevity of information of permanent interest. Asserted difficulties with long-term digital preservation prove to be largely underestimation of what technology can provide.
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D2D: Digital Archive to MPEG-21 DIDL [PDF]
arXiv, 2006 Digital Archive to MPEG-21 DIDL (D2D) analyzes the contents of the digital archive and produces an MPEG-21 Digital Item Declaration Language (DIDL) encapsulating the analysis results. DIDL is an extensible XML-based language that aggregates resources and the metadata.
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