The Our Americas Archive Partnership (OAAP) project is in year 2 of a 3-year IMLS funded grant led by Rice University in Partnership with the University of Maryland's Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH). Designed to meet the needs ...

This extended abstract describes a digital music stand integrated with the Greenstone digital library software. It features text annotation and an animated fast-to-slow page wipe. Figure 1 illustrates both these features, although it is best appreciated ...

This paper describes the initial deposits in The Videogame Archive at the Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin.

Recommendation systems have been proven to reduce the time and effort required by users to find relevant items, but there are only sporadic reports on their application in digital libraries. The General Recommendation Engine (GRE) is composed of the ...

Domain-specialized digital collections have been growing rapidly in recent years. A good understanding of how users interact with such collections to accomplish domain-specific information tasks would help inform the design of effective systems. This ...

This poster, from angels of subjects, authors' social network, authors' combination, and students' plagiarism law, apply self-developed ROST Anti-plagiarism Software to check 3781 papers, do a survey among 450 students, quantitatively analyzed academic ...

A tension exists between making digitized resources available to users quickly and providing detailed, item-level metadata and semantic markup that make those resources more discoverable. The Our Americas Archive Partnership (OAAP) project, funded by ...

Biomedical researchers depend on on-line databases and digital libraries for up to date information. We introduce a pilot project aimed at characterizing adjustments made to biomedical queries that improve search results. Specifically we focus on ...

The poster presents the concept, implementation and practical application of the OAI-PMH protocol extension which allows OAI-PMH service providers to dynamically create and harvest sets of items from OAI-PMH data providers. The implementation of the ...

In this paper, we undertake a study of inexperienced information seeking scholars, identifying areas for improvement in their electronic information seeking and document triage process[3]. We propose a software aid, currently under development.

While many research projects in the world have been addressing challenges posed by digital preservation, digital libraries in China have their own native problems that have never been addressed before. Similar problems may occur in other countries, and ...

In this poster, I address practical issues related to using IRs for personal digital collections of retired faculty members.

The Internet Public Library (IPL) is crosswalking its metadata to Dublin Core. The quality of the crosswalked metadata will be unknown. The IPL is therefore developing a tool for metadata quality control suitable for use by LIS students who have little ...

Scientific digital libraries serve complex and evolving research communities. Justifications for the development of scientific digital libraries include the desire to preserve science data and the promises of information interconnectedness, correlative ...

For increasingly frequent use of library resources by remote users, remote usability testing has become a valuable tool for those who would pursue an empirical, user-centered design of the interfaces to their electronic resources and services. This ...

The Open Language Archives Community (OLAC) is an international partnership of institutions which are building a network of interoperating repositories and services to create a worldwide virtual library of language resources (that is, resources that ...