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Direct linkDietze, Stefan; Sanchez-Alonso, Salvador; Ebner, Hannes; Yu, Hong Qing; Giordano, Daniela; Marenzi, Ivana; Nunes, Bernardo Pereira – Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, 2013
Purpose: Research in the area of technology-enhanced learning (TEL) throughout the last decade has largely focused on sharing and reusing educational resources and data. This effort has led to a fragmented landscape of competing metadata schemas, or interface mechanisms. More recently, semantic technologies were taken into account to improve…
Descriptors: Educational Resources, Resource Units, Computer Uses in Education, Data
Farrokhnia, Maliheh; Zarei, Mitra – Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, 2013
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to offer an example of how ontology, such as CIDOC, can be turned into a format from the perspective of an object. In fact, it illustrates the possible semantic analysis of an object description into a view neutral machine-interpretable form. The aim is to show that a museum object located in a museum can be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Museums, Libraries, Archives
Tzikopoulos, Argiris; Manouselis, Nikos; Kastrantas, Kostas; Costopoulou, Constantina – Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, 2012
Purpose: Away from central public authorities, regional (also called rural) enterprises do not have direct, physical access to all the services that governmental or public agencies offer. Very often, these services are essential for enterprises, mostly small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), in such areas, in order to perform their business…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Information Management, Information Systems, Information Technology
Beamer, Ashley; Gillick, Mark – Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, 2010
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate web services (in the form of parameterised URLs), specifically in the context of the ScotlandsPlaces project. This involves cross-domain querying, data retrieval and display via the development of a bespoke XML standard rather than existing XML formats and mapping between them.…
Descriptors: Internet, Web Sites, Information Services, Metadata
Williams, Jo – Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, 2009
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to show that knowledge of the Machine-Readable Cataloguing (MARC) format is useful in all aspects of librarianship, not just for cataloguing, and how MARC knowledge can address indexing limitations of the online catalogue. Design/methodology/approach: The paper employs examples and scenarios to show the…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Metadata, Library Science, Librarians
Beamer, Ashley – Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, 2009
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to develop an understanding of the issues surrounding the cataloguing of maps in archives and libraries. An investigation into appropriate metadata formats, such as MARC21, EAD and Dublin Core with RDF, shows how particular map data can be stored. Mathematical map elements, specifically co-ordinates, are…
Descriptors: Metadata, Cataloging, Maps, Libraries
Krishnamurthy, M.; Kemparaju, T. D. – Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, 2011
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to report on a study of the institutional repositories (IRs) in use in Indian universities and research institutes. Design/methodology/approach: Repositories in various institutions in India were accessed and described in a standardised way. Findings: The 20 repositories studied covered collections of diverse…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Libraries, Research Libraries, Electronic Libraries
Radjenovic, Jelen; Milosavljevic, Branko; Surla, Dusan – Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, 2009
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to report on a study involving the specification (using Unified Modelling Language (UML) 2.0) of information requirements and implementation of the software components for generating catalogue cards. The implementation in a Java environment is developed using the FreeMarker software.…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Computer Software, Metadata, Libraries
Shafi-Ullah, Farasat; Qutab, Saima – Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, 2012
Purpose: This paper aims to elaborate the library data migration process from LAMP (Library Automation Management Program) to the open source software Koha's (2.2.8 Windows based) Pakistani flavour PakLAG-Koha in six legislative assembly libraries of Pakistan. Design/methodology/approach: The paper explains different steps of the data migration…
Descriptors: Library Personnel, Qualitative Research, Research Methodology, Library Administration
SuKantarat, Wichada – Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, 2008
Purpose: This paper aims to provide information about various digital initiatives in libraries in Thailand and especially use of Dublin Core metadata in cataloguing digitized objects in academic and government digital databases. Design/methodology/approach: The author began researching metadata use in Thailand in 2003 and 2004 while on sabbatical…
Descriptors: Metadata, Electronic Libraries, Cataloging, Databases
Park, Eun G.; Zou, Qing; McKnight, David – Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, 2007
Purpose: To set up a protocol for electronic thesis and dissertation (ETD) submission for the electronic thesis initiative pilot project at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Design/methodology/approach: An electronic thesis and dissertation submission protocol was implemented and tested. To test authoring tools, we had 50 students submit…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Theses, Doctoral Dissertations, Electronic Libraries
A Dynamic Approach to Make CDS/ISIS Databases Interoperable over the Internet Using the OAI Protocol
Jayakanth, F.; Maly, K.; Zubair, M.; Aswath, L. – Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, 2006
Purpose: A dynamic approach to making legacy databases, like CDS/ISIS, interoperable with OAI-compliant digital libraries (DLs). Design/methodology/approach: There are many bibliographic databases that are being maintained using legacy database systems. CDS/ISIS is one such legacy database system. It was designed and developed specifically for…
Descriptors: Electronic Libraries, Metadata, Databases, Internet
Haarhoff, Leith – Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, 2005
Purpose: To describe the open-source solution developed by Culturenet Cymru, for the Welsh Books Council, for presenting digitised books and other printed material online. Design/methodology/approach: The challenges faced in the implementation of a pilot e-book collection of nine out-of-print books is described. Findings: The adoption of a number…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, Foreign Countries, Books, Electronic Publishing
Wales, Tim – Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, 2005
Purpose: To share the experiences and challenges faced by the Open University Library (OUL) in developing a content management (CM) system for its subject guides. Design/methodology/approach: A summary of multi-format subject guide production at the OUL is provided to justify the decision to develop a new system for their production using a…
Descriptors: Open Universities, Information Management, Academic Libraries, Case Studies
