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Haffenden, Chris; Fano, Elena; Malmsten, Martin; Börjeson, Love – College & Research Libraries, 2023
How can novel AI techniques be made and put to use in the library? Combining methods from data and library science, this article focuses on Natural Language Processing technologies, especially in national libraries. It explains how the National Library of Sweden's collections enabled the development of a new BERT language model for Swedish. It…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Artificial Intelligence, Models, Languages
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Antonia Mocatta; Ryan Stoker; Lisa McIntosh – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2024
This paper examines the University of Sydney Library's development and piloting of a methodology to survey its Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural collections, to enhance catalogue metadata and allow culturally sensitive material to be identified and protected. The research falls broadly within the interpretivist epistemology and draws…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Libraries, Library Materials, Library Services
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Mariangela Spotti Lopes Fujita; Roberta Cristina Dal’Evedove Tartarotti; Paula Regina Dal´Evedove; Maria Carolina Andrade e Cruz – College & Research Libraries, 2024
Considering the importance of subject retrieval for scientific visibility, and the need to guide authors in self-archiving their papers in institutional repositories of university libraries, this study observed the patterns and strategies used by authors while indexing for keyword assignment. The study examined four categories of analysis:…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Authors, Research Libraries, Scientific and Technical Information
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Hare, Sarah; Sullivan, Madison – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2020
Libraries continue to spearhead initiatives to incentivize instructors to adopt, adapt, and create open educational resources (OER). However, these programs often do not explicitly require educators to preserve the OER they create. Drawing on an analysis of semi-structured interviews with six experts, this article presents considerations for…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Preservation, Academic Libraries, Incentives
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Meece, Stephanie; Robinson, Amy; Gramstadt, Marie-Therese – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2017
Open access institutional repositories can be ill-equipped to manage the complexity of research outputs from departments of fine arts, media, drama, music, cultural heritage, and the creative arts in general. The U.K.-based Kultur project was funded to create a flexible multimedia repository model using EPrints software. The project launched the…
Descriptors: Art, Library Development, Library Automation, Archives
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Forward, Erin; Leahey, Amber; Trimble, Leanne – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2015
Successfully providing access to special collections of digital geospatial data in academic libraries relies upon complete and accurate metadata. Creating and maintaining metadata using specialized standards is a formidable challenge for libraries. The Ontario Council of University Libraries' Scholars GeoPortal project, which created a shared…
Descriptors: Metadata, Partnerships in Education, Research Libraries, Academic Libraries
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Kerr-Campbell, Maureen; Salmon, Frances – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2013
The incorporation of visual resources in academia is becoming increasingly popular. The Cousins Hereward Postcard Collection comprises 212 postcards that depict social, historical, cultural, and economic activities in Jamaica during the period 1900-1912. Illustrations include social conditions of the working class and peasantry, natural history…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Materials, Heritage Education, Local History
Westrum, Anne-Lena – Computers in Libraries, 2011
Technology makes it possible to redefine libraries and make them relevant to the public once again. But how good are the digital services offered by public libraries today? The digital services department team of the Pode project at Norway's Oslo Public Library has spent the last 2 years investigating the possibilities available in order to…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Academic Libraries, Foreign Countries, Metadata
Dooley, Jackie M.; Beckett, Rachel; Cullingford, Alison; Sambrook, Katie; Sheppard, Chris; Worrall, Sue – OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., 2013
It has become widely recognised across the academic and research libraries sector that special collections and archives play a key role in differentiating each institution from its peers. In recognition of this, Research Libraries UK (RLUK) established the workstrand "Unique and Distinctive Collections" (UDC) in support of its strategic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Special Libraries, Archives, Surveys
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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
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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
Sharon, Taly; Frank, Ariel J. – 2000
This paper discusses digital libraries on the Internet. The resource repository hierarchy, consisting of two major paradigms, search engines (SEs) and digital libraries, is presented. SEs are classified into three categories: basic-SE, directory, and meta-SE. The following six major characteristics of a library are summarized: collection of data…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Classification, Comparative Analysis, Electronic Libraries
Geisselmann, Friedrich – 2000
This paper begins with some general remarks about the indexing of electronic publications. Characteristics of today's information world are highlighted, including decentralization, distributed data collections, and heterogeneous data structures and indexing procedures. Three possible models for managing access to information are summarized: a…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Classification, Decentralization
Van de Sompel, Herbert; Hochstenbach, Patrick – D-Lib Magazine, 1999
Describes an experiment where local as well as remote distributed information resources of the digital library collections of the Los Alamos National Laboratory and the University of Ghent library have been used as starting points for metadata reference links into other parts of the collections. Discusses global and local relevance. (LRW)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Citations (References), Electronic Libraries, Foreign Countries
Middleton, Michael – 1999
Supervision of library digitization is the focus of this paper. First outlined are the definition, formalization, implementation, and completion phases of project management. Descriptions of management decisions involved in digitization projects follow on matters such as: collection analysis, resourcing, project personnel, production, access and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Electronic Libraries, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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