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Samia Shafique – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Shoeprints are a common type of evidence found at crime scenes and are regularly used in forensic investigations. However, their utility is limited by the lack of reference footwear databases that cover the large and growing number of distinct shoe models. Additionally, existing methods for matching crime-scene shoeprints to reference databases…
Descriptors: Crime, Court Litigation, Database Design, Database Management Systems
Xiaogang Chen; Dongmei Liu – International Journal of Web-Based Learning and Teaching Technologies, 2024
The development of the internet has promoted the improvement of media information retrieval technology, which has also been applied to the work management of college students. This paper mainly adopts media information retrieval technology, studies the function principle of this technology, and establishes a student work management system based on…
Descriptors: Information Retrieval, Information Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Mass Media Use
Yavuz Selim Kiyak; Alex Poor; Isil Irem Budakoglu; Özlem Coskun – Discover Education, 2022
The efficacy of health professions education (HPE) is more and more reliant on leveraging new technologies as they emerge. The nascent "Web 3.0" is shifting us away from traditional centralized architectures for capture and storage of information, and aims to decentralize and distribute it. Blockchain has received a large amount of…
Descriptors: Health Education, Web 2.0 Technologies, Information Technology, Information Retrieval
Niqresh, Mohamed – International Education Studies, 2019
This research discusses the electronic resources, types and divisions, it also deals with mechanism for evaluation resources of electronic information in general with concentration on concept of assessment and evaluation objectives as well as the organizers of the process in addition, the research also shows benefits of evaluation and its impact…
Descriptors: Information Sources, Barriers, Evaluation Methods, Information Retrieval
Namdev Dhamdhere, Sangeeta – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2015
Every academic institution contributes to knowledge. The generated information and knowledge is to be compiled at a central place and disseminated among the society for further growth. It is observed that the generated knowledge in the academic institute is not stored or captured properly. It is also observed that many a times generated…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Knowledge Management, Higher Education, Universities
Dragut, Eduard Constantin – ProQuest LLC, 2010
An increasing number of Web sites expose their content via query interfaces, many of them offering the same type of products/services (e.g., flight tickets, car rental/purchasing). They constitute the so-called "Deep Web". Accessing the content on the Deep Web has been a long-standing challenge for the database community. For a user interested in…
Descriptors: Internet, Web Sites, Search Engines, Information Retrieval
Gammelgaard, Jens – Behaviour & Information Technology, 2010
This article explores how Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) manages knowledge retrieval by employees when they need to access documents written by colleagues in geographically distant units. CSC's establishment of virtual communities of practice facilitates the coordination of knowledge, and minimises contextual gaps between senders and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Socialization, Communities of Practice, Knowledge Management
Song, Sang Chul – ProQuest LLC, 2010
An unprecedented amount of information encompassing almost every facet of human activities across the world is generated daily in the form of zeros and ones, and that is often the only form in which such information is recorded. A good fraction of this information needs to be preserved for periods of time ranging from a few years to centuries.…
Descriptors: Information Needs, Information Sources, Indexing, Access to Information
Frederick, Francie A.; Hankins, Rhonda – Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, 2007
Gathering and displaying governance documents and photos online can help educate the public, promote transparency, and preserve historical artifacts. Under the leadership of a board chair with lifelong interest in history and respect for the historical record, the Office of the Board of Regents of the University of Texas System has discovered that…
Descriptors: Universities, Governing Boards, History, Information Retrieval
King, Douglas – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2008
In the last issue, this journal asked a question on many librarians' minds, and it was pleased with the depth and variety of responses. As suggested by this journal editorial board member Oliver Pesch, readers were asked, "Many libraries have gone to federated searching to win users back from Google. Is it working?" Respondents approached the…
Descriptors: Internet, Web Sites, Computer Software, Synthesis
Grafstein, Ann – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2007
The literature on information literacy often assumes that there is an inherent link between the need for information literacy and what is commonly referred to as the information explosion. This assumed link is reflected in programs of information literacy instruction offered by academic libraries. This article argues that the basic concepts of…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Information Technology, Information Literacy, Library Role

Smeaton, Alan F. – Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST), 2004
Presents a literature review that covers the following topics related to indexing, browsing, and searching of digital video: video coding and standards; conventional approaches to accessing digital video; automatically structuring and indexing digital video; searching, browsing, and summarization; measurement and evaluation of the effectiveness of…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Indexing, Information Retrieval, Information Science

Chen, Hsin-Liang; Rasmussen, Edie M. – Library Trends, 1999
The increased availability of digital images is accompanied by a need for solutions to the problems inherent in indexing them for retrieval. Problems in image description and access are discussed, with a perspective on traditional and new solutions. Recent developments in intellectual access to images are surveyed and contrasted with…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Software, Indexing, Information Retrieval
Impact of Commercial Search Engines and International Databases on Engineering Teaching and Research
Chanson, Hubert – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2007
For the last three decades, the engineering higher education and professional environments have been completely transformed by the "electronic/digital information revolution" that has included the introduction of personal computer, the development of email and world wide web, and broadband Internet connections at home. Herein the writer compares…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Higher Education, Educational Change, Information Technology

Burton, Hilary D. – Special Libraries, 1987
Reviews recent progress in the development and use of online retrieval services, integrated online library support software, and communication and networking standards. A description is provided of a prototype system that would combine a gateway capability with a locally managed facility to meet a library's total needs. (EM)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Information Retrieval, Information Services, Information Technology