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No full textPublishing means different things to different people. With the development of the Gutenberg printing press in the middle of the 15th century, oral traditions, as well as texts written by hand and recited aloud by literate elites were replaced by mass publications allowing large numbers of ordinary people to read on their own, but also requiring them to make their own sense of what they read. Nowadays, consumers of electronic publishing face a similar opportunity and challenge as technological advances take them beyond decoding and synthesis of information from printed text. They are required to interact with and evaluate multimedia materials, while understanding, as book readers before them had to, the innuendo, the context of ideas, the larger picture. Even more is expected from the audience of electronic learning (e-Learning), namely the acquisition of knowledge and skills through the engagement with electronically published material
TEL-ME-MOR or From Which to Build The European Digital Library
No full textThe EU TEL-ME-MOR PROJECT integrates the ten New Member States\u27 national libraries into The European Library (TEL - http://telmemor.net). Their resources - electronic catalogues and digital libraries - are being incorporated into the portal via OAI-PMH or Z39:50 protocols. A special workpackage surveys and reports on their research and development activities as well as the underlying technologies and digital data useful for TEL. Recently, the Conference of European National Librarians (CENL) asked for extension of the survey to include all the European national libraries. The poster presents the most interesting results and findings
Semantic Web Technologies and Augumented Transition Network (ATN). Cognitive and Linguistic Implementation
No full textIn ATN sentences and its constituents are generalized. Special signs are introduced to define categories of words and their parameters. ATN is expedient for the frame analysis system, the result of which can be transited as frame transformations based on both cause-and-consequence relations and the fields of concepts. Frame system can be presented as a tree on the top of which the basic data accumulated with the sub-frames
An Editor of Ancient Texts as Part of the System "Manuscript"
No full textThe Information Retrieval System "Manuscript" that is being developed at the Laboratory of Computer-Aided Philological Research, Udmurtia State University is intended for storing, editing and processing electronic copies of manuscripts. By retaining all the peculiarities of the ancient treasures, the Manuscript system provides a thorough input of texts/manuscripts under study while preserving the integrity of the original electronic copy of the manuscript, text transcription, and transliteration for the purpose of creating reference materials or electronic and printed publications of the original manuscripts. The Manuscript system provides a correct input of texts/manuscripts under study by retaining all essential peculiarities of the manuscripts. Computer-aided processing of manuscripts is done taking into account formal and implicit properties of texts and their fragments. The system allows creating text transcriptions and transliterations, preparing dictionaries, lists of words and other units of interest (syntagmas, fragments) for digital and printed editions. The manuscript digital copy exists as a typed electronic text. A specialized text editor "OldEd" was created to ensure data input and correction directly in the database. It helps the user to work effectively with visualized parts of manuscripts, relationships, their properties and values. The editor represents the edited text in the form of geometrical, linguistic, functional and others hierarchies. In the mode of operation over the text, a text can be edited and divided into fragments. In the mode of viewing the hierarchies, the editor allows creating new units (including texts), viewing, adding and deleting relationships between text and dictionary units and modifying their properties (see http://io.udsu.ru/pub/rd/ for more detail)
The Text Encoding Initiative Anno 2005: An Orientation and Workshop
No full textThe Text Encoding Initiative is an international and interdisciplinary standards project established in 1987 to develop, maintain and promulgate hardware- and software-independent methods for encoding humanities data in electronic form. Initially the TEI was jointly sponsored by three established international professional associations (the Association for Computers and the Humanities, the Association for Computational Linguistics and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing), which established a small management committee, and appointed two editors to co-ordinate the enthusiastic participation of more than a hundred scholars worldwide. Its remit was to attempt a complete definition of current practice and to produce recommendations or Guidelines for the creation and usage of electronic texts in key linguistic and literary disciplines. The first research phase of the TEI came to an end in 1994 with the publication of TEI P3, which over the next few years was to become the reference standard for the building of the digital library. At the start of the current century, the TEI re-established itself as a membership consortium, jointly hosted by four institutions, two on either side of the Atlantic, and managed by a Board of Directors and its technical work overseen by an elected Council. There are currently nearly 100 members of the Consortium, among them universities, research libraries, academic and other publishers, both non-profit and commercial, as well as scholarly societies and research projects concerned with the design, production and delivery of structured electronic text. One does not, of course, need to be a member of the Consortium to use the TEI, and indeed there are thousands of users worldwide. In 2002 the first major revision of the Guidelines, known as TEI P4, was published. This was a "maintenance release", seeking only to bring the Guidelines up to date with changes in the technical infrastructure, most notably in the use of the W3C\u27s Extensible Markup Language (XML) as its means of expression, rather than the ISO standard SGML used by earlier editions. Since then, work has been proceeding on a complete revision of the TEI Guidelines, TEI P5, initial releases of which are now available from Source Forge. In this presentation we will sketch some of the changes introduced with this new release, in particular the major new module for the description of manuscripts and other kinds of primary sources, based chiefly on the work of the EU-funded MASTER project (1999-2001) and the TEI Medieval Manuscripts Description Work Group (1998-2000), but with significant input also from complementary work done by other agencies, notably the Repertorium of Old Bulgarian Literature and Letters project (1996- ). We will also show how P5\u27s modular construction facilitates the customisation of the TEI scheme for use in a wide variety of literary and linguistic study, and speculate about its likely implications for future encoding work consequent on the internationalisation effects currently under way. The session is intended as "an orientation and workshop", meaning that there will be both a theoretical and a practical aspect. Previous experience with TEI mark-up would be a decided advantage, but is not required
An Architecture of Authoring Environments for the Semantic Web
No full textAmong the new possibilities that the Semantic Web has enabled, the authoring task is considered as a key moment for semantic representation of knowledge to enhance publishing needs. New systems are emerging, delivering annotation and authoring issues based on ontologies. If we consider Semantic Web technologies as of today, what would be the skills needed from authors in order to produce documents compliant with the W3C recommendations and authoring environments that make full use of these possibilities? In this paper we present an assessment of ontology-based authoring tools, based on a specific criteria we developed to identify systems features and compliance with current recommendations. We have learned that, according to these systems, authors are being asked to perform additional knowledge structuring task that he/she is not familiar with. There is an eminent need in tackling these questions in the knowledge representation world, especially if we seek to give support to authors in developing more structured and well represented content knowledge, based on the potential that currently developed ontology technologies and solutions have. To support this need, we have proposed some requirements and a model of architecture of ontology-based authoring environment for the Semantic Web, composed of modules that integrate current technologies, making full use of existing features and proposing the development of new trends
Open Journal Systems 2.0: the Evolution of Open Source Journal Management
No full textPurpose. To provide an insider?s review of the journal management and publishing software, Open Journal Systems (OJS), from the Public Knowledge Project, which the author directs at the University of British ColumbiaDesign. The paper outlines the history, development, and features of OJS, including some of the experimental aspects, as well as early research results and work underway on which it is based.Findings. Open Journal Systems is an open source solution to managing and publishing scholarly journals online, which can reduce publishing costs compared to print and other traditional publishing processes. It is a highly flexible editor-operated journal management and publishing system that can be downloaded for free and installed on a local Web server. Value. OJS has been designed to reduce the time and energy devoted to the clerical and managerial tasks associated with editing a journal, while improving the record-keeping and efficiency of editorial processes. It seeks to improve the scholarly and public quality of journal publishing through a number of innovations, from making journal policies more transparent to improving indexing
Scholarly Communication in Transition: Evidence for the Rise of a Two-Tier System
No full textThis paper presents major findings from a research project that attempts to systematically compare Web-based and print-journal-based scholarly communication, highlighting some considerable differences between the two formats of communication, which provide evidence for the rise of a ?two-tier? scholarly communication system. Implications for Open Access are also discussed
Towards Accessible Content Management Systems
No full textThe combination of accessible content management systems, accessible desktop systems and content modalities with internalised notions about accessibility, can be used to form a new generation of information processing environments. Because of the presence of explicit entities that can be used to represent the User (perception) models on one side, and content and application models on the other side, we can experiment with new interaction schemes. These new interaction schemes will, because of the knowledge preservation process that is included in the approach, create a consistent body of information including real-world applications for education purposes.The paper shows, from the knowledge technology perspective, the development from traditional content consumption schemes towards knowledge consumption and even understanding consumption that may be stimulated to emerge. After all, understanding can be considered the dynamic systemic overview one can obtain of all the facts, the interactions between facts and the interactions between these interactions and it\u27s surroundings. The mere process of conceiving and creating this systemic overview can be considered education to oneself. Allowing a system to include multiple perspectives on that systemic overview and additionally allow that system to create associations between these multiple viewpoints for any relation to be explicated, stimulates the emergence of mutual understanding. In other words, a system that facilitates communication from scratch
The CERN Document Server Software
No full textCERN as the international European Organization for Nuclear Research has been involved since its early beginnings with the open dissemination of scientific results. The dissemination started by free paper distribution of preprints by CERN Library and continued electronically via FTP bulletin boards, the World Wide Web to the current OAI-compliant CERN Document Server. CERN Document Server Software (CDSware) is a suite of applications which provides the framework and tools for building and managing an autonomous digital library server. In this paper, we discuss the design philosophy of CDSware and its modular, extensible, architecture. Each module comes as an independent entity embodying a specific aspect of digital library workflow. By means of a flow-chart we present the operational workflow of the system, depicting its module interactions. Hence, some of the key features in the CDSware technology are introduced more in detail, namely metadata representation, acquisition and delivery, indexing and ranking techniques, user interface and ersonalization. CDSware uses entirely freeware technology and it is available under the terms of the GNU General Public License. It is developed by the CERN Document Server team and is driven and validated by the CERN Scientific Information Service. In addition, CDSware has been installed and is in use by over a dozen institutions around the world. A brief comparison with other existing free digital repository systems will also be made