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Developing an Automatic Crawling System for Populating a Digital Repository of Professional Development Resources: A Pilot Study
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Park, Jung-ran; Yang, Chris; Tosaka, Yuji; Ping, Qing; Mimouni, Houda El – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2016
This study is a part of the larger project that develops a sustainable digital repository of professional development resources on emerging data standards and technologies for data organization and management in libraries. Toward that end, the project team developed an automated workflow to crawl for, monitor, and classify relevant web objects…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Pilot Projects, Educational Resources, Electronic Libraries
Content Independence in Multimedia Databases.
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de Vries, Arjen P. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2001
Investigates the role of data management in multimedia digital libraries, and its implications for the design of database management systems. Introduces the notions of content abstraction and content independence. Proposes a blueprint of a new class of database technology, which supports the basic functionality for the management of both content…
Descriptors: Computer System Design, Database Design, Database Management Systems, Electronic Libraries
Open Source Digital Image Management Took Us from Raging Rivers to Quiet Waters
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Dunlap, Isaac Hunter – Computers in Libraries, 2005
In this article, the author describes his experience when Kathy Nichols contacted him seeking suggestions, recommendations--really anything he could think of--that might help her seize control of a bewildering and rapidly surging torrent of digital image files. The challenges that Nichols described interested him, and he felt they might be…
Descriptors: Archives, Photography, Visual Aids, Electronic Libraries
Data Manipulation in an XML-Based Digital Image Library
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Chang, Naicheng – Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, 2005
Purpose: To help to clarify the role of XML tools and standards in supporting transition and migration towards a fully XML-based environment for managing access to information. Design/methodology/approach: The Ching Digital Image Library, built on a three-tier architecture, is used as a source of examples to illustrate a number of methods of data…
Descriptors: Electronic Libraries, Visual Aids, Classification, Programming Languages
Digital London: Creating a Searchable Web of Interlinked Sources on Eighteenth Century London
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Shoemaker, Robert – Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, 2005
Purpose: To outline the conceptual and technical difficulties encountered, as well as the opportunities created, when developing an interlinked collection of web-based digitised primary sources on eighteenth century London. Design/methodology/approach: As a pilot study for a larger project, a variety of primary sources, including the "Old…
Descriptors: Primary Sources, Foreign Countries, Electronic Libraries, Information Networks
Opportunistic Collaboration: Unlocking the Archives of the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design
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Everitt, Sian – Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, 2005
Purpose: To review a small specialist repository's strategic and opportunistic approach to utilising collaborative regional and national digital initiatives to increase access. The Birmingham Institute of Art and Design (BIAD) Archives activity is evaluated to determine whether a project-based approach recognises and meets the needs of historians,…
Descriptors: Archives, Historians, Access to Information, Library Automation