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An effective and automated publishing process to improve user interface style guides
No full textStyle guides have become an important and common way to improve and standardise development of user interfaces. However, there are several well-known problems on using style guides. Having these problems in mind we present an effective and automated publishing process. First we will introduce a role based approach to model style guides. After that we will focus on the steps of the publishing process and describe them in detail with their outputs. By that we want to focus on the practical and theoretical advantages of our methodology and their limitations.Summarized this paper will describe in detail, how mentioned techniques and components work together and how we built up a useful publishing process for adaptable and usable style guide
The Open access Landscape 2009
No full textThe Internet has technically facilitated making scientific results available to a much wider readership than ever before, both via electronic subscriptions but also for free in the spirit of Open Source licensing of software and the knowledge sharing of Wikipedia. This emerging openness has important implications for better impact of published research in general and for bridging the digital divide between the researchers of the leading universities and the developing nations. A central question many policymakers ask is how common Open Access is today and how fast the share of OA is increasing. What proportion of journal articles are OA and to what extent do researchers post OA copies in repositories? Accurate answers to such questions would be very valuable for instance for research funders and for university administrators. The purpose of the study reported on in this paper is to provide answers to this type of questions
ENHANCING USERS? EXPERIENCE: A CONTENT ANALYSIS OF 12 UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES FACEBOOK PROFILES
No full textFacebook has become one of the most prominent tools for social networking over the last few years. Since its establishing in 2004, more and more players have made use of it: not just ordinary users willing to find their old friends and to get back into contact with them, but also, for example, more and more players from the cultural scene. These latter ones include cultural institutions willing to experiment with new ways of getting in touch with their traditional audiences but also willing to attract new audiences (like a younger audience, who is supposed to be more present on such social media); artists, who use it to create a community to share information, to promote their own creations but, more recently, also to collaborate on common project; and finally also libraries.This paper intends to explore the use of Facebook in university libraries by making an empirical analysis of current practices. In doing so, the paper builds on the knowledge gained in a previous study on the way in which Flemish cultural institutions make use of the possibilities offered by social media to communicate with their audiences and to promote themselves [2]. The analysis on current uses we performed will help us sample existing practices and help us derive some general ideas for future best practices. And this will help libraries to better profile themselves and communicate better with their old and new audiences
PROBADO3D ? Towards an automatic multimedia indexing workflow for architectural 3D models
No full textIn this paper, we describe a repository for architectural 3D-CAD models which is currently set up at the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB), Hannover, as part of the larger German PROBADO digital library initiative: The proposed PROBADO-framework is integrating different types of multimedia content-repositories and adding features available in text-based digital libraries. A workflow for automated content-based data analysis and indexing is proposed
SOCIAL NETWORKS AND THE NATIONAL ART GALLERY (DUBLIN|?|SOFIA)
No full textTo publish is to make public. And one sense of being public is surely to be accessible? Today it is not only the writing and the images that are published formally, that is to say through official channels, but also the casual human artefacts, the chat, the blog, the quick pic, the self-made music and dance and film, and all of the latter through the medium of the social network. In the World-Wide Web (WWW), to be published is to have a unique resource identifier (URI) and usually a unique resource locator (URL). But to be visibly published on the WWW one needs to be found (much in the same way that one might be found say, 200 years ago, through the library catalogue). Hence at the very core of electronic publishing is to be found the metadata nucleus. In olden times the scholar/reader would have to travel to that place, the Library, if it were accessible, to read/study the work. Today, (s)he travels electronically to those places which are accessible. E-publication does not necessarily entail accessibility. For example, many scholarly works are behind pay walls, costs are borne by institutions of would-be accessors; someone has to pay for maintenance, security, and accessibility. Works of art are in a peculiar and particular category. A work of art is considered to be unique, by which one understands that there is no other copy, properly understood. There may be thousands of prints of the unique piece authorised. But the digitization of an artwork forces a categorical change. The digital artwork is, by nature different. It can be seen, not by reflected light but by transmitted see-through light! In this specific regard it is completely other vis-?-vis the book qua text. In this paper we consider the typical state of the ?digital art? as e-publication and explore the extent to which such art is freely accessible to the public, whether on social network or otherwise, with respect to four chosen ?National Art Galleries? on the circumference of the European Union
The impact factor of open access journals:data and trends
No full textIn recent years, a large debate has arisen about the citation advantage of Open Access (OA). Many studies have been conducted on different datasets and according to different perspectives, which led to different and somehow contradictory results depending on the considered disciplinary field, the researchers? attitude and citational behaviour, and the applied methodology. One of the bibliometric indicators most used worldwide to measure citations is Impact Factor ? not free from criticisms and reservations ? but it has only been tested on Open Access journals once, in 2004.The aim of this preliminary work, focused on ?Gold? Open Access, is to test the performance of Open Access journals with the most traditional bibliometric indicator ? Impact Factor, to verify the hypothesis that unrestricted access might turn into more citations and therefore also good Impact Factor indices. Other indicators, such as Immediacy Index and 5-year Impact Factor, will be tested too. The preliminary step of the work was fixing the list of Open Access journals tracked by Thomson Reuters in ?Journal Citation Reports? (JCR). JCR was compared to the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) as of 31 December of the corresponding year.As to coverage, Open Access journals in ?Journal Citation Reports? are still a small percentage, even though there has been a large increase since 2003 in the Science edition (from 1.47% to 5.38%), less visible in the Social Science edition (from 1.05% to 1.52%, with a slight decrease from the 2007 1.71%).In order to obtain comparable data, absolute Impact Factor or Immediacy Index values were not considered, but rather converted into percentiles for each category. The rank of the Open Access journals was analyzed in each single category. The titles were then clustered in disciplinary macro-areas, and data were aggregated.Open Access journals in JCR 2008 Social Sciences edition rank in the top fifty percentiles (0-50) with a 54.5% share.With substantial differences between macro-areas, in JCR 2008 Science edition Open Access journals rank in the top fifty percentiles (0-50) with a 38.62% share when considering Impact Factor, and with a 37.68% share referring to Immediacy Index. When considering 5-year Impact Factor, the share is 40.45%.Open Access journals are relatively new actors in the publishing market, and gaining reputation and visibility is a complex challenge. Some of them show impressive Impact Factor trends since their first year of tracking. The collected data show that the performance of Open Access journals, also tested with the most traditional bibliometric indicator, is quite good in terms of citations
What are your information needs? Three user studies about research information in the Netherlands, with an emphasis on the NARCIS portal
No full textThe NARCIS portal (www.narcis.info) provides access to science information (information about research, researchers and research institutions) and scientific information [(full-text) publications and datasets]. The portal is very popular, with 1.2 million users annually. NARCIS is also an important supplier of information to international services such as Google/Google Scholar, WorldWideScience.org and DRIVER. In 2009 the KNAW conducted a three-part user survey, with two online surveys and a series of semi-structured interviews. The aim was to learn more about the people who use the portal, why they use it and their ideas and wishes for improvements to the portal. Another purpose of the survey was to identify changes that could be made to improve the match between the services provided by NARCIS and the needs of existing and potential users. The surveys showed that more than half of the users of NARCIS are from universities, research institutions or universities of applied science. Most searches conducted on NARCIS are for dissertations. The existence of a single gateway to different types of information is regarded as very useful. The most frequently mentioned improvement in the service would be to provide access to information from other countries as well. Respondents also mentioned the provision of tools for performing complex analyses of the information available via NARCIS as a worthwhile option for enhancing the service.The interviews revealed, among other things, the need for the presentation of information in context and that senior officials are often confronted with information overload. The user survey has led to a series of proposals for modifications or improvements in the service; some of them may be implemented immediately, while others will require consultation at national or international level
Digital Divide and Digitization Initiatives in Pakistan: A Bird\u27s Eye View
No full textThe process of digitization in libraries of Pakistan is at a very initial stage. Pakistan is lagging behind developed countries due to many reasons such as: funding, computer illiteracy and expertise in digitization. However, some institutions like the Higher Education Commission, the Punjab University Library, the National Library of Pakistan and some private organizations are doing digitization. In social sciences, digitization is being done to preserve the cultural heritage of manuscripts and other old literature related to the history and culture of Pakistan. There are nearly 0.15 million manuscripts in Pakistan in Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Pashto, Sindhi and Sanskrit languages. Some are available in libraries of Pakistan while others are in Personal collections. Bibliographies of most of these manuscripts are available. Hence, there is a great need and opportunity to digitize this literature. This paper presents a status report on digitization initiatives in Pakistan
DC-Social Tagging Workshop
No full textThe so-called Web 2.0 brought a new breadth to the Internet, and a social perspective that seems set to stay. Services such as LinkedIn, Hi5, and Facebook have found a place in our society. People connect to each other through common paths. Meta-APIs such as Google\u27s November 2007 release, OpenSocial, enable social applications to operate across multiple sites and services, providing a way to relate much of this data. In social bookmarking tools (e.g. Del.icio.us, Connotea, Bibsonomy), and media sharing services (such as Youtube, Flickr, Picasa, Slideshare) people are asked to tag and otherwise annotate and share their resources inside communities or at a global scale, creating a huge amount of user generated metadata (tags) with a clear value for information discovery.This workshop intends to gather all interested in such applications and developments, and in their relationship with metadata and practices. The themes of the workshop will be:-Emerging trends in social tagging.-Tagging communities and Web-based collaboration.-Web standards for resource description in collaborative landscapes.-Vocabulary building from folksonomies (tag-ontologies, tag-thesaurus, etc.)-Metadata and annotation management.-Formats for describing communities (FOAF, SIOC, etc.)-Analysis of online communities (SNA) through folksonomies and tagging systems.-Other ways of describing information for Web 2.0 (microformats, etc.)A description of the workshop formatThe workshop will include invited talks and presentations, giving a consistent background for discussion. This will be followed by short presentations or position papers submitted by interested researchers, bloggers, etc. that will be evaluated by the Program Committee (see below). The Call for Presentations will be sent to discussion lists from different perspectives and backgrounds, including the DC Social Tagging Community, microformats- and other related communities.A discussion on improving communication between (and thus research within) different user-generated metadata communities will be included. This last session in the workshop will be conducted ?BridgeCamp? style.(BridgeCamp grew from the Barcamp movement, in which participants in the workshop are offered an essentially unfilled timetable in which to either propose questions, offer to give a 5-10 minute presentation answering them, with a further 10-5 minutes for discussion. Several members of the Program Committee have considerable experience with this style of workshop and have found it to be a valuable addition to a traditional set of presentations, providing a structure more readily oriented to outcomes relevant to the participants than normal ?breakout sessions?)
The native language university digital textbook collection pilot project
No full textTartu University Library\u27s native language university digital book collection (Ebrary platform) began in November 2008. The main purpose of the collection is to provide university students and professors with an alternative method to find necessary study materials in their native language through the Internet. Students do not need to worry about the lack of materials in libraries or bookstores. Professors can be sure that the students will come prepared and are well equipped. In addition, the option to submit feedback provides professors with a tool to amend previously published titles for the second edition. The long-term goal is to provide professors with a better understanding and basis for their rights and opportunities as authors