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Digital Critical Editions of Slovenian Literature: an Application of Collaborative Work Using Open Standards
No full textThe paper outlines the methodology used to present Slovenian literary texts and documents in critical e-editions. The encoding and linking of the several forms of the text in one single edition was subject to strict editorial standards. The result is that every part of the text can be seen in juxtaposition of three different perspectives: facsimile, diplomatic transcription and critical transcription. The preparation of these complex electronic editions involves up-translating the source materials into a canonical, standardized edition employing XML and the Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines, and down-translating this storage format into the HTML Web presentation. This workflow depends on the use of open standards and intense collaboration between the content and technology providers. We also present the e-editions currently available on the Web and discuss further work planned in the project, esp. the introduction of language technology into the publication process
INTRODUCTION
No full textInstitutional repositories (IR) represent an innovative solution to many of the challenges encountered in the rapidly evolving world of scholarly publishing, such as open access and the preservation of the growing array of digital content. This workshop is intended to help academic authors, research library and IT directors and their staff plan for the implementation and full deployment of repositories designed to house a diversity of resources, such as articles, data sets, images, video, and courseware.To be presented jointly by a team consisting of a senior programmer, a service co-ordinator and a faculty member, and using the deployment of T-Space (IR at the University of Toronto) this workshop will focus on the technical issues as well as the cultural and management dimensions of establishing a repository. Topics will include:o the technical requirements for establishing and operating an IRo business modelso key policy issueso how institutional repositories fit together with other resources,o including subject based repositorieso how to engage faculty and library staff participationo strategic and resource implication
Building New Markets with Accessible Information Processing
No full textThis paper addresses the need for accessible solutions to be built into the information processing supply chains used by publishers and content providers. This includes a description of Accessible Information Processing, a concept new to many people at different stages of the supply chains in question. Given the differences between the traditional approach to accessibility and the wider view outlined in the previous paragraph, we are in something of a transitional phase at this time. An approach that aims to unify \u27common\u27 content, system, service and tool provision and the more \u27specialised\u27 content, system, service and tool provision, can be called Accessible Information Processing (AIP)
?Braillekrant? and ?DiGiKrant?: a Daily Newspaper for Visually Impaired Readers
No full textAt present Belgium is one of the rare countries that have a daily newspaper accessible to visually impaired readers. Both an electronic version (DiGiKrant) and a Braille paper version (BrailleKrant) are published on a day-to-day basis. This paper shows what challenges exist for visually impaired readers to read a paper and how these challenges can be overcome. It further explains how the accessible newspapers are being created. In the publication process the XML standard is extensively used, not only as an exchange format between content providers and the publishers, but also as a format enabling a usable access to the electronic newspaper by the visually impaired reader. The paper shows which information formats are used and how the process of conversion between them works
EMANI - LEADER AND FOLLOWER FOR THE WDML
No full textThe rapidly growing activities in electronic publishing lead to the request to develop global repositories, which care about three fundamental activities: to collect and store the electronic material currently available, to pursue projects for solving the long-term archiving problem for this material with the ambition to preserve the content in readable form for future generations, and to capture the printed literature in digital versions providing good access and search facilities for the readers. Long-term availability of published research articles in mathematics and easy access to them is a strong need for researchers working with mathematics.
The talk will describe some new developments for two main projects in this subject: the plan to develop a global World Digital Mathematical Library (WDML or DML) and the main project dealing with a coordinated archiving of digital documents in mathematics, the Electronic Mathematics Archiving Network Initiative (EMANI). For the core of the EMANI network, a co-operational system of reference libraries and content providers like publishers and editors has been be set up. Both systems share a lot of common work packages. Hence discussion in one project have impact on the other. WDML being more comprehensive integrates comments from a bigger group of mathematicians and librarians. EMANI mainly concentrates on obtaining first results for a preliminary core group. This leads to a smaller model, which is working already and may be taken by the groups promoting WDML as a start for a more comprehensive solution for installing the WDML. This report refers to the state of both projects at the end of January 2005 and describes their mutual impact
ELECTRONIC EDITIONS OF MATHEMATICAL WORKS IN SERBIA
No full textThe paper describes two ongoing projects carried out by the Mathematical Institute of Serbian Academy of Science and Arts, Belgrade and the Faculty of Mathematics, Belgrade. The projects concern building of electronic resources and presentations of electronic editions of mathematical works in Serbia. The first project is related to retro digitization of old books, articles and the other mathematical works and development of the corresponding virtual library. In the second project a database and www-presentations of some Serbian mathematical journals were created. The resources built in the projects are freely accessible through Internet. These projects are included in a recent initiative on the foundation and development of the National Center for Digitization
Mobile Access in the Library: Some New Developments in Ireland
No full textNew insights provided by a range of specialists in the areas of social science, cognitive research and computer science research have led to increased developments and advances in the architectures for interactive and mobile learning environments. The most exciting results indicate that mobile technologies can be used to revolutionize learning and provided discontinuous rather than incremental learning opportunities in libraries and campuses worldwide. Mobile learning corroborates the view of educational philosophers such as Dewey and McLuhan that there is an intrinsic connection between communication, information provision and the learner community. Nevertheless, despite the rapid and continuing adoption of mobile devices, there has, to date, been little activity in integrating these technologies into the realm of mobile learning and the learning and library/information environments. A paradigm shift is occurring in the access people have to educational materials due to the ubiquitous availability of these materials brought about by the mobility and pervasiveness factors, which are inherent to mobile technologies. The potential for mobile technologies in education is enormous and the challenge for the e-learning community is to harness these devices for the benefit of education. One such benefit is the ever-increasing availability of educational content such as e-books on mobile devices. The availability of e-books will greatly support mobile access in the library
EVM.net: an Extensive Tool for Web Content Management
No full textBy the late 90?s Brazil experienced the ?boom? of Internet although its use was restricted to the universities and large companies. In this context the Parliament of the state of Rio Grande do Sul (Southern Brazil) has sponsored the development of a tool for publishing its contents. That tool should have some characteristics like being portable, ?plug-and-play?. Responding to the demand has emerged EVM.net (acronym for modular virtual structure on the Internet), a GPL integrated solution for publishing and managing web contents. EVM.net follows a distributed information architecture, each user is responsible for maintaining his contents. The system has been conceived to be scaleable: its architecture has been planned following the metaphor of a building. The foundations contain the security tools and the persistence model, while the other stages are customized for each demand. EVM.net also contains algorithms for query optimization and phonetic search for Brazilian Portuguese. Recently the tool had been used to implement the Extensive Communication Model, which is based on interactivity, hypertextuality, and hypermediation. Currently, EVM.net is being used at many institutions like the University of Brasilia, the Federal Senate of Brazil and the Brasilia?s Federation of Industries
Tools for Intelligent Search in Collections of Digitized Manuscripts
No full textThe paper presents a methodology for development of tools for semantics oriented search in repositories of digitized manuscripts. This methodology is based on the application of some Semantic Web technologies to existing manuscript collections that may include: electronic catalogue containing marked-up manuscript descriptions, full texts of manuscripts, digital images of manuscript pages. It is directed to the development of software environments that will be able to deal with complex user queries and answer questions using ontological knowledge and dictionaries of synonyms
Aprend.E ? Electronic Integrated System for Learning and Training
No full textThis abstract presents Aprend.E?Electronic Integrated System for Learning and Training of High School Aveiro Norte, a new challenge of the University of Aveiro for professional training and long life training. It describes the motivation that induced its implementation, advantages for students, teachers and for all those whom the system serves