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IXDIRQL: An Interactive XML Data and Information Retrieval Query Language
No full textElectronic publishing of collections of XML documents should be accompanied with an information retrieval system to allow the users to access parts of documents which satisfy their specific needs. In this sense, different XML query languages appeared (XQL, for example) to express in queries what parts have to be retrieved from the documents. To evaluate a query, several steps are performed with respective intermediate results until the desired final result. In this paper, we present aninteractive XML query language (called IXDIRQL) which is an extension to XQL to allow for the selection on the spot of the interesting subset of elements from each intermediate result of a query. To make this possible, intermediate results must be available during the construction of the query. This helps the user in constructing his query to achieve the desired result. Moreover, in IXDIRQL textual similarity search of traditional Information Retrieval is also possible. The result of this operation is a ranked list of elements organized in a way to ease the task of the user to detect the relevant information in the results
Building a Federated, Online Social Sciences and Humanities Database of Journals and Research Communication: A Canadian Initiative
No full textSynergies is an emerging online Canadian publishing project in the social sciences and humanities that builds on a group of online publishing initiatives that have emerged over the last decade. It involves a new partnership between libraries and journals wherein journals bring content and libraries (or IT units within universities) bring technological infrastructure consisting of maintained and secure hardware and software as well as associated services to users. Part 1 of the paper describes various initiatives and what they are bringing to the project. Part 2 reports on a survey undertaken of the state of SSH journal publishing in Canada. It focuses on attitudes to online publishing and the financial feasibility of online publishing with various models of access. Part 3 reports on the state of cultural magazine publishing and the attitudes of cultural magazines publishers to the possibility of providing online access to back issues. The paper concludes with a description of how and where the project sought resources, how they are structured, and the current state of the project
Flying over a Conference ? An Overview of Elpub2003 Technical Track Articles
No full textFor dealing with a large variety of issues in electronic publishing, the ICCC/IFIP International Conference on Electronic Publishing (Elpub) conference series has traditionally a large scope. The technical track in Elpub2003 issues, in particular, range from user interface considerations until machine learning, covering fields such as metadata, multimedia or mobile computing. This article makes an overview the main contributions of Elpub2003 technical track accepted articles
THE DIVERSITY OF TRENDS, EXPERIENCES AND APPROACHES IN ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING: EVIDENCES OF A PARADIGM SHIFT ON COMMUNICATION
No full textElectronic publishing constitutes one of the most exciting themes nowadays, amongst academics, at least, though substantial effects of IT usage for communication purposes in other than academic sceneries have also set off enthusiasm on people involved with that. Within the academic environment the use of IT for communicating research by scientists and scholars from different bodies of knowledge has brought about significant changes in the scholarly communication process, particularly in journal production and distribution, conference organisation and a number of other actions regarding making knowledge public. Alternatively, the use of IT within business and technological environments has also triggered changes concerning their stakeholders? interactions. As a consequence, significant changes in communication have been observed, much of them clearly identified in the works submitted to and presented at ElPub2003. a quick glance at ElPub proceedings from 1997 to 2002 allow to observe the evolution of such an It is important to note that changes are also an important and stimulating theme in whatever context. In the academic environment, changes have been approached by Kuhn as either giving birth to new paradigms or being born from them. In fact, Kuhn (1970), Meadows (1998), Pahre (1996) and others have approached paradigm as something very important in the academic world, as it constitutes a conceptual framework involving both theory and practice, and providing guidance on what problems deserve investigation and how they should be tackled. In this sense, this speech aims to highlight the major issues under Elpub2003 authors? concerns, and the way they have been both looked at and dealt with
Peer Review of Electronic Journals
No full textThe recent literature about peer review of scholarly articles is reviewed, with particular emphasis on the cost of the peer-review process. Possible impacts of electronic scholarly publishing upon peer reviewing are discussed. Opinion amongst academics in their roles as authors, editors and referees seems likely to insist upon preservation of a prepublicationrefereeing system in most disciplines. As the administration of any such system seems to have a cost of about $400 per published article, any scholarly publishing system will need to locate financial support to at least that extent, and a system of lump-sum payment by the authors? funders is best placed to cover this cost while providing universal free access to scholarly material
Constraints of Electronic Publishing in Developing Countries: Spc?s Experience in The Pacific Islands
No full textIn contrast to highly developed countries in North America and Europe, what are the specific constraints to effective information delivery in developing countries? Is electronic publishing better suited to information dissemination than print materials for these less developed countries?Drawing on the practical experience of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) in the service of 22 Island countries and territories of the Pacific region, this paper provides an overview of the situation and the electronic information and communication issues in the Pacific region.As an international organisation serving 22 Pacific Island countries and territories in the fields of marine, land and social resources, SPC needs to disseminate technical and grassroots information to its members and target groups throughout Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia. Effective information delivery is therefore a priority of the organisation. Because ofthe Pacific?s unique geographic and development constraints, such as small populations spread over many islands with vast ocean distances, it would appear that electronic publishing is particularly well suited to the effective dissemination of information. But is that really the case and how do current development constraints impact on electronic publishing in thePacific Islands region? This presentation attempts to address the effectiveness of electronic publishing and information delivery in the developing Pacific islands, drawing on SPC?s experience. It looks at the current situation in the light of existing initiatives and the current trend towards a regional approach aimed at improving electronic information access in the Pacific through the development of information and communication technology and the adoption of regional policies
Mobile Internet Services in Japan and Europe: Examining Industrial Organisation in Relation to Interactive Electronic Publishing
No full textBased on our field and desk-research , this paper will discuss the current situation of mobile telephones in relation to electronic publishing?a convergence that remains yet to be developed-- with a view to the feasibility of interactive electronic publishing availability in these devices. Our paper offers a special focus on the different modes of stakeholder organization that exist in Japan and Europe, given that the main actors involved in the field of mobile Internet, i.e. telecom operators, handset manufacturers and content providers, interact very differently inthese two regions. There are marked distinctions between the Japanese model, which is strictly coordinated by one player, and the European model, which makes more use of open standards without a dominant party. The result has been that electronic publishing content has taken off rapidly in Japan, with an abundance of services available, while in Europe it is virtually non-existent. The relevance of the contrastive approach is important to follow the current developments of the mobile industry and the telecom joint ventures in the European Union, especially now that in 2003 the leading Japanese telecom players are beginning to act as stakeholders in the EU region. The authors conclude that neither the Japanese nor the EU models?being so different from one another, will predominate in the future; the best model will be one that combines business elements from both
eXitor: A Tool for the Assisted Edition of XML Documents
No full textXML and its associated technologies are increasingly being used in Electronic Publishing. This fact is due to some of its inherent characteristics: (1) XML allows separating the contents and the presentation format. (2) XML allows giving a logical structure to information. (3) XML allows associating semantics to the logical structure. There is a general agreement thatthese features will be very important for the development of the semantic web. In this context there is a demand for XML editors. A comparative analysis of current XML editors reveals that most of them have two general lacks. Firstly, using these editors requires deep knowledge of the XML syntax and its DTD or the XML-Schema particular vocabulary. Their interfaces do not guide to user in the edition process, e.g. by showing him/her the different possibilities available at any moment withrespect to vocabulary. This drawback is especially discouraging for na?ve users. Secondly, the validation of a document is made on request to specific commands or on saving it. In the worst case, these tools allow generating an invalid document that accumulates errors and overwhelms the user during their correction. In this paper, we describe an editor of XMLdocuments, called eXitor, that shares the common features of the main XML editors, but tries to solve the two problems quoted above. With respect to the visibility of XML syntax, the editor supports both na?ve and expert users. For the first kind of users, the user can understand the document structure without the need to see the XML source code. For the expert users, the tool allows displaying XML syntax. With respect to the validation problem, the user interface does not allow generatingnon-valid XML documents. During the edition process, elements and attributes can be inserted guaranteeing that the XML document is well-formed and valid with respect to a given DTD. (In the specific case of XML Schema this tool only supports DocBook XML Schema V4.1.2.3.) In summary, its main characteristics are: (1) The tool can hide syntactic information (XML syntax and DTD or Schema syntax), only displaying the textual contents of the elements. (2) The tool can display syntax information to the advanced user. (3) The document structure is always shown in a tree format. (4) The tool forces to introduce all the compulsory components. (5) At any moment, the document is well formed and valid
Organizational and Technical Aspects of an Electronic Publishing Framework for Historical Sources
No full textThis paper discusses the way in which we constructed a framework for the publication on the web of historical sources at the Institute of Netherlands History (ING) in The Hague (The Netherlands). The framework is built using the web application platform Zope and is flexible because of its modular construction. This makes it possible to publishing heterogeneous researchdata with their own requirements for accessibility and usability, while maintaining uniformity in presentation and access whenever possible. Because a number of different approaches were used in its design, it is not the end solution to a problem, but ready to grow and evolve as new features are required
3D Modelling of Large Urban Scenes from Diverse Sources of Information
No full textThe complex and extensive nature of urban environments creates difficulties to the task of generating virtual models. Thus a great effort in terms of human resources, time and money is needed. Nevertheless a large number of professionals and institutions devout efforts to gather and analyse data from these urban environments. As data is usually stored in a digital format, it becomes a valuable asset to incorporate it in the modelling process of virtual environments. This paper presents a three-dimensional modelling system with interoperable access to data in diverse formats and digital support, drived by an L-system based modelling process that automatically generates initial solutions for virtual environments, which can be incrementally improved