Digital Libraries and Digitised Maps: An Early Overview of the DIGMAP Project
AbstractDIGMAP is a project to find solutions for digital libraries scenarios focused on digitised historical maps. The main service will reuse metadata from European national libraries and other...
View ArticleThe DiSCmap Project: Overview and First Results
AbstractTraditionally, digitisation of cultural and scientific heritage material for use by the scholarly community has been led by supply rather than demand. The DiSCmap project commissioned by JISC...
View ArticleDigital Natives and Specialised Digital Libraries: A Study of Europeana Users
AbstractThe alignment of user needs with the technical capabilities of modern digital libraries is an area attracting the interest of researchers and practitioners. Europeana, conceived with the...
View ArticleMatching Evolving Hilbert Spaces and Language for Semantic Access to Digital...
AbstractExtended by function (Hilbert) spaces, the 5S model of digital libraries (DL) [1] enables a physical interpretation of vectors and functions to keep track of the evolving semantics and usage...
View ArticleA New Focus on End Users: Eye-Tracking Analysis for Digital Libraries
AbstractEye-tracking data was gathered as part of a user and functional evaluation of the Europeana v1.0 prototype, to determine which areas of the interface screen are most heavily used and which...
View ArticleA User-Centric Evaluation of the Europeana Digital Library
AbstractUsability of digital libraries is an essential factor for the user attraction. Europeana, a digital library which is built around the idea to provide a single access point to the European...
View ArticleUsing wavelet analysis for text categorization in digital libraries: a first...
AbstractDigital libraries increasingly benefit from research on automated text categorization for improved access. Such research is typically carried out by means of standard test collections. In this...
View ArticleCollective Knowledge and Creativity: The Future of Citizen Science in the...
AbstractCitizen science is a contemporary reinvention of some research practices of the past when ‘unprofessional’ researchers contributed to scientific projects led by academics; a worth-noting peak...
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