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LOCAL SWEDISH NEWSPAPERS APPROACHING E-BUSINESS?
No full textMost Swedish newspapers have experienced receding advertising revenues during the last years and are now searching for new ways to profit from their online editions. We have conducted three future workshops with both management and end users to envision possible new services
that could be profitable for the local newspapers. Furthermore we have conducted an online survey with users selected from a previous study. The objective of this paper is to describe these services and to give a user response to them. We have identified three kinds of services: advertisement services, intermediary services and news services. The results show that the end users preferred the intermediary services and that there is an interest for advertisements in a new setting
ETH E-COLLECTION: AN INNOVATIVE PUBLICATION PLATFORM FOR SCIENTISTS ? REALISATION OF A DOCUMENT SERVER FOR THE ETH ZURICH BY THE ETH LIBRARY
No full textIn January 2002 the ETH Library launched the new electronic publication platform ETH E-Collection. This publication channel gives scientists
the ideal opportunity to make their publications available easily on the Internet. This collection was designed to bring together documents
published outside traditional publishing houses, i.e. grey literature such as research reports, lecture notes, educational materials or newsletters. With more then 2000 documents within the collection (end of July 2002), the pilot phase is over and the new platform is already well known and very much appreciated within the scientific and learning community at the ETH.
For the realisation of this document server the departments collection development and IT joined forces to collect documents, create metadata and
find the suitable technical implementation. The whole realisation, including technical implementation, was done entirely by the ETH Library. Outside assistance was only required for the web design
COMPONENTS FOR A SYSTEM TO SUPPORT CUSTOMISABLE TRAINING MATERIAL
No full textThis paper describes the possibilities and advantages of electronic publishing for the apprenticeship and advanced vocational training
of employees in the field of digital printing. Based on the work of an EUfunded project, the technical and technological concept as well as the strategy for the production of high-quality learning contents is discussed. Current
standards, like XML and SCORM, and their application in the project are examined. An outlook demonstrates how electronic publishing can be employed profitably for future training purposes in the print and media industry
A FLEXIBLE REPOSITORY SERVICE: THE OPENDLIB SOLUTION
No full textThe Repository Service that we propose is a software module, developed as part of a digital library service system called OpenDLib, that
stores and disseminate digital documents. The service is accessible through an http-based protocol, and is generic with respect to the type and contents of information space to be handled. It is thus application-independent and can be implemented as a basic component in many kinds of digital libraries. This paper describes the features that render it broadly applicable
IMPROVING THE ACCESS TO XML CONTENTS OF LARGE ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS
No full textIn this paper we present a technique to access the contents of large XML documents. This technique can be applied to domains where
large amounts of data are handled, on condition that those contents only require to be updated in a scheduled or sporadic way. We have implemented
it in a system, named ALEP (Access to XML contents of Large Electronic Publications). First, ALEP preprocess the XML document, then it is used together with DOM API. One of their advantages is that it can be integrated into any software for management XML electronic publications. We have compared ALEP with DOM and SAX API?s improving both, time and space measures, with large documents of size greater than 18 MB megabytes acceding to a hundred of XML elements
THE DEVELOPMENT OF A TRULY ELECTRONIC SCHOLARLY JOURNAL IN A DEVELOPING COUNTRY: CHALLENGES, DIFFICULTIES, AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS
No full textThis paper describes the methodology developed and the experience gained in the creation of a dynamic and interactive electronic scholarly
journal in an environment with shortage of resources. The work described is based on the concept of extensive communication drew from the
theoretical thought in both, communication and information sciences, as well as a hybrid model of the scholarly communication process and the socalled parallel publishing model. The main aim of the project is to provide a prototype, which could be used by existing print journals in humanities and social sciences in similar environments, for conversion into electronic
versions. The methodology and strategies developed are an integral part of
the prototype
INTELLECTUAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES AND SCIENTIFIC ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING: CHANGING WORLD AND CHANGING MODELS
No full textWe discuss new information technologies of semantic analysis, search and retrieval of textual information and their influence on the world of electronic publishing. We shell discuss the means and tools for semantic analysis of texts and texts collections for information search and retrieval, for detection of novelty in texts corpora and their usage in a lot of applications.
New structures and new models of electronic publishing for efficient solving of existing problems in the fields of information quality, Copy right and effective ways and means of information retrieval are under consideration.
In the proposed models the large and authoritative collections of the texts are real bases for the efficient solving of existing problems. So, the owners of the large information collections ? universities, research centers and
publishers have the key position.
The intellectual data analyze uses this collections to make right solutions of the both readers? and writers? problems
OPERATION OF A LARGE SCALE, GENERAL PURPOSE WIKI WEBSITE
No full textA Wiki website is a hypertext on steroids. Any user can create or edit any page on the site using a simple web browser, and all information
processing is done on the server side. Wiki sites are powerful tools for collaboration in closed work groups, but can also be used for the general
public on the open Internet. This paper summarizes the experience from the first nine months of operation of Sweden?s biggest Wiki website susning.nu, including its usefulness in non-profit and commercial applications, in hobby and professional, projects, its social and legal aspects, its relation to geographic information systems, subject information gateways, the establishment of a controlled vocabulary, and its implications on learning, free speech, the price of information, licensing, and copyright. Relevant
comparisons to similar projects in other countries are also presented
THE AUDIENCE OF SWEDISH LOCAL ONLINE NEWSPAPERS - A LONGITUDINAL STUDY
No full textWe have conducted a partly longitudinal study using online questionnaires at four Swedish local online newspapers in two different studies.
The objective of this paper is to describe the users? demographics and reading habits as well as the users? expectations of current and future issues regarding the online edition. We also discuss online questionnaires having tried three different approaches to receive as many answers as possible. We have found that the subscribing readers of online editions have increased
from one forth to more than a half of the audience, and concluded that the subscribers and non-subscribers have different reading habits. The findings also show that almost two thirds of the respondents are men and more than 80% prefer the paper edition of the newspaper. The results indicate an interest for a multimedia paper edition for the future
SyDoM: A Multilingual Information Retrieval System for Digital Libraries
No full textIn this paper, we present a multilingual information retrieval system based on knowledge representation model. This system allows document indexing and information retrieval in a multilingual document collection where documents are written in different languages, though each individual document may contain text in only one language. The underlying model permits to describe the semantic of document in a multilingual context. This model, called semantic graph, is an extension of the Sowa\u27s model of conceptual graphs where different vocabularies are available. Indeed, in this model two kinds of knowledge are identified: ? Domain knowledge organises domain entity in two hierarchies of types (concept types and relation types), ? Lexical knowledge associates term, belonging to a vocabulary, to concept type or relation type. Then, a same semantic graph can have different representations depending on the vocabulary chose. For example, the French representation of a semantic graph uses the French labels of types to display each graph component and the English representation of the same graph uses the English labels of types to display the graph. Our proposition has been validated in the logical information retrieval system SyDoM. The system is dedicated to the needs of virtual libraries for managing XML documents. Thanks to the semantic graph model, SyD0M develops several functionality for multilingual information retrieval. This first evaluation gives better results than traditional information retrieval system