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Love Börjeson; Chris Haffenden; Martin Malmsten; Fredrik Klingwall; Emma Rende; Robin Kurtz; Faton Rekathati; Hillevi Hägglöf; Justyna Sikora – College & Research Libraries, 2024
This article provides an account of the making of KBLab, the data lab at the National Library of Sweden (KB). The first part discusses the work involved in establishing a lab as both a physical and a digital site for researchers to use digital collections at previously unimaginable scales. The second part explains how the lab has deployed the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Government Libraries, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Networks
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Hatua, Sudip Ranjan; Madalli, Devika P. – Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, 2011
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to discuss the methodology in building an integrated domain information system with illustrations that provide proof of concept. Design/methodology/approach: The present work studies the usual search engine approach to information and its pitfalls. A methodology was adopted for construction of a domain-based…
Descriptors: Information Systems, Space Sciences, Search Engines, Systems Development
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Liu, Guoying – Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, 2011
Purpose: The purpose of this article is to provide a comprehensive literature review on the utilisation of intelligent agent technology in the library environment. Design/methodology/approach: Research papers since 1990 on the use of various intelligent agent technologies in libraries are divided into two main application areas: digital library…
Descriptors: Electronic Libraries, Information Retrieval, Library Services, Computer Interfaces
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Zimmerman, Don; Paschal, Dawn Bastian – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2009
In an exploratory study, participants (n = 18) completed 11 usability tasks to assess ease of use of two Web sites, and then a Web site perception questionnaire for each. Participants rated both Web sites positively, but 25% and 36% could not complete all tasks; doing so required more than a minute to complete. (Contains 2 figures and 7 tables.)
Descriptors: Web Sites, Electronic Libraries, Academic Libraries, State Universities
Ide, Nancy M.; Sperberg-McQueen, C. M. – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1997
In the case of digital collections of text, provision of a simple unified user interface faces several challenges, among them a tension between intellectual adequacy and simplicity of access. Examines the question of how to allow cross-collection searching and display while preserving the variation in texts and their markup and points to…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Interfaces, Electronic Libraries, Information Retrieval
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Pisciotta, Henry; Halm, Michael J.; Dooris, Michael J. – Planning for Higher Education, 2006
This article draws on two projects funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation concerning the ways colleges and universities can support the legitimate sharing of digital learning resources for scholarly use. The 2001-03 Visual Image User Study (VIUS) assessed the scholarly needs of digital image users-faculty, staff, and students. That study led to…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Electronic Libraries, Computer Networks, Information Networks