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Peeters Online Journals: Unicode Implementation and the Meaning for Online Publishing
No full textPeeters Online Journals offer an online access to the complete contents and texts of scientific journals. A simple, but well structured interface gives access to the journals covered by the system. A MySQL-database and a HTML-based administration module are the sources of this site. Visitors can access the data by ip-recognition or a 24h personal login. The articles are presented in portable data file (PDF) format, a file type which focuses on the presentation of the text. In order to make the full text searchable, Peeters did a optical character recognition of the files of \u27tijdschrift voor geneeskunde\u27. This rose new issues. Implementing a Unicode-based SQL database with XML-data could solve these problems and simplify the workflow severely
Electronic Publishers: Innovation and Evolution. New Challenges in the European Context
No full textEuropean publishing is developing in a highly competitive international environment. What innovating strategies should be adopted by those publishers who are concerned with maintaining the interest of their public and who wish to inject a new dynamism into their business operations? We shall evoke the principal theories of innovation to see how they can be applied to this particular subject. Firstly, the paper summarises the European political and economic contexts for electronic publishing. Secondly, it examines the factors that contribute to the publisher?s expertise and then looks at different strategic paths that combine to map out the way forward for the evolution of the publishing profession, especially in the European context. In conclusion, this paper will set out some recommendations concerning new services that could be offered by publishers to their users in order to improve the quality of their experience
Web Portal Feels Like Home. Applying Agenda-setting Theory to Internet-based Media and their Influence on Cybersociety
No full textThe progressive process of internetization leads the audience little by little to setting aside traditional media of today\u27s every day: dailies, radio and television. The evolution of media use leads to thorough consideration of the future that awaits both media owners and users. Trying to show potential concerns, the author refers to the classic theory of agenda setting (Lazarsfeld & Merton, 1948; McCombs & Shaw, 1972). American research conducted in 1999 showed distinctive concentration of Internet traffic; 80% of site visits were made to just 0,5% of websites, such as Yahoo!, Excite, eBay et al. (Waxman 1999). A similar tendency emerged in 2004, during Polish research on Internet traffic (Meller 2004).The paper focuses on the electronic media which may already be an important field of agenda setting research. The analysis concerns the example of Polish Internet users and Polish e-media. As the paper shows, among the latter, a particularly important role is played by portals ? the places where beginners usually start their cyberspace adventure and where, paradoxically, they are encouraged to stay most of the time
Digitalized Newspaper Archive of the "Het Belang van Limburg"
No full textConcentra Media and its newspaper Het Belang van Limburg celebrated their 125th anniversary in 2004. As Het Belang van Limburg was never archived on microfilm, the company decided to digitalize the editions of 125 years that were available in 620 bound books and counted for 520.000 newspaper-pages going back to 1879, to avoid a further deterioration of the unique copies while using them for searches. Concentra Media found a technical partner in its former 100 % subsidiary Host-It [now Cegeka], together with a Dutch partner X-Cago
The TARDis Route Map to Open Access: Developing an Institutional Repository Model
No full textOpen access to peer reviewed journal articles is one of the key messages of the current international movement that is changing the paradigm of scholarly communication. Creating open access journals is one such route and creating institutional repositories containing author generated electronic text is another complementary alternative. Pioneering subject based repositories, such as arXiv, have shown the way in specific disciplines but a joined up approach is required for a broader reach. Open Access standards have given the opportunity for a variety of database models to coexist and be beneficial to authors in a variety of ways. Developments in Institutional Repositories are now happening globally and significant models are gradually emerging which demonstrate best practice and illustrate their potential. In the UK, the FAIR (Focus on Access to Institutional Resources) programme of research is based on the vision of open access. It has allowed a number of repositories, which try to address authors? needs, to be kick started and has enabled the issues to be explored in practical experiments.The Institutional Repository agenda, however, is, in reality, rather broad. Research and teaching provide a range of scholarly outputs including research publications, the data on which the research is based and the learning objects which distil the new insights into a manageable form for the learner. This broad span involves a wide variety of issues to be solved and a number of disparate standards to be tackled head on. The TARDis (Targeting Academic Research for Deposit and dISclosure) project at the University of Southampton in the UK targeted academic research for its Institutional Repository as its first stage as a manageable goal with key benefits for the institution. The implementation of the Southampton University Research Repository (e-Prints Soton).followed a route based on studying current practices and needs and on acting on feedback from both the institution and individual faculty members. We illustrate the series of steps which were taken to build a framework for a sustainable repository for a large multidisciplinary institution.The institution is represented by a broad range of publication types including, but not exclusively, peer reviewed journal articles and the different disciplines have evolved different recording practices. Full text deposits may provide the opportunity for added value elements ? e.g. enhanced diagrams, additional data or presentations ? if the database provides the capability and we are beginning to see interesting exemplars. The repository can then provide the building blocks for enhanced collaborative e-research. Academic institutions that impose research reporting in an institutional repository require full recording of publications including those where obtaining full text is difficult or inappropriate. A practical route is, therefore, to develop an institutional repository which is ?hybrid? ? containing both records and full text where achievable.While the traditional subject repositories have often developed in STM areas the TARDis route map is proposed as a effective model to also showcase the research of the Humanities where the range of publication types is quite different. We demonstrate the key interactions that have influenced the development and the strategic direction of the Southampton University Research Repository (e-Prints Soton) which we believe will lead to open access to research results in a sustainable way. Only with a route planner which addresses the needs of authors in a spread of disciplines can the institutional repository begin to meaningfully represent the whole. The interdisciplinary nature of research can also be illustrated by the repository and the task of depositing can be eased when multiple local authors in different disciplines work together. Along this route, the technical and management issues eg authentication and quality assurance of the metadata generation may become more complex initially because of the increased size of the database. However the significant outcome of this approach is that the full text element can grow as the practice becomes more natural within the recording process and as copyright restrictions ease. In the UK, several factors including the Research Assessment Exercise and citation impact measures based on increasing open access could also help encourage this change. The goal of providing open access to peer reviewed research items may, therefore, come about by a more circuitous but, in the end, more effective road if the demonstrated route map is followed
Interface - Web-based Application for Registration and Processing of Information about Care Needs of Elderly in Home Care and Institutions
No full textThe current social security system in Belgium uses the KATZ-scale to determine the care-needs, to plan the care, to finance care and to admit elderly to nursing-homes. According different sources, from care-givers in the field to researchers, this scale is too limited for the many complex situations. Therefore the Belgian government requested to test and evaluate other instruments in the field, instruments which are better suited for these complex situations. The goal of testing these instruments is to determine the care-needs of the individual elderly as a base for the development of a care-plan. With a care-plan it is possible to couple appropriate actions, (re)-assign human and financial resources to elderly. A care-plan is more effective and beneficial for both the government and the elderly if the care-needs are mapped correctly with the most suitable instruments. Another important goal is to examine the feasibility of completing these instruments in the different work environments of care-givers. The task of gathering the care needs of the elderly, completing the instruments thus, is performed by different kinds of care-givers from different retreats, rest- and service homes, day-care centre, G-services, etc
University Platforms for Digital Academic Knowledge
No full textThe paper describes the new developments in Bulgarian universities concerning the creation of homogeneous infrastructure for electronic access to academic information. Presented are some local and national initiatives for integration of e-learning and e-research, for development and implementation of software digital platforms. Difficulties and practical problems and particular for the Bulgarian situation are discussed
Intelligent News Publishing and Distribution through Web Services, Peer-to-peer Technologies and Vector Space Content Relations
No full textBesides a clear research and archive focus electronic publishing technologies become increasingly important to business application domains to improve the service values for their end users and customers. The specific domains news publishing and news distribution are facing significant performance requirements in information handling while transferring hundreds of thousands of articles daily to their auditorium. Additionally, the business application of electronic publishing technologies in the specific news domain is confronted with the fact that European business today is highly segmented and widely unrecognized beyond national borders, mainly due to language differences and economical gaps. This paper discusses a project that integrates news agency services from existing European organizations supported by University research in the are of electronic publishing, distributed information management and AI in order to form an intelligent multinational and multilingual business news publishing and distribution network, based on Web Services and a peer-to-peer inter-agency communication network. Highly relevant business contents are related to a specific article automatically using AI methods from the research area of information retrieval. Contents are distributed in any language the provider chooses and the vector space model has been utilized to provide easy access to related and most relevant business news articles within a multilingual and multinational context
Web Advanced Learning Technologies for Multilingual Mathematics Teaching Support
No full textIn this paper we present the European Union-funded eContent project WebALT?Web Advanced Learning Technologies. The authors\u27 group is building a "significant application which exploits a combination of existing standards for representing mathematics on the web (e.g. MathML and OpenMath) and linguistic technologies in order to enable the creation of language-independent mathematical content" in the form of a web-based repository of exercises for mathematics students. This mathematical content will be particularly well suited for localization in a multilingual and multicultural environment, because problems will be stored in the language-independent form of content markup and generated for several linguistic and cultural contexts
Emerging Uses for the OpenURL Framework
No full textThis paper describes the OpenURL Framework, both the original ?de facto? standard version 0.1, and the NISO standard Z39.88-2004, ?The OpenURL Framework for Context-Sensitive Services?. The explanation is illustrated by examples from Zetoc, a journal article and conference paper current awareness service available in the UK. Various emerging novel uses of the OpenURL Framework are described. Evaluation studies indicate positive reader appreciation of OpenURL technology providing direct access to discovered articles