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XML TOOK US TO INTERACTIVE 3D
No full textAt the R&D department at AerotechTelub Information and Media, we have carried
out a study on new ways to search and present information to different user
categories. The result of this study was a browser with a new interface - a new
XML browser. The project originated in developing the next generation of
spare parts catalogues for the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration
(DMA). The solution presented was based on a new user interface comprising
a mixture of presenting structure, interactive 3D and text information on the
same screen. The 3D-technique that just recently was available only to those
with big money and a state of the art computer is now available to anyone with
standard equipment. On the way we realised that this way of presenting
information gave a clear and easy-to-understand view of the objects described
and opened up for a phase 2 of the study. In this second phase the user
interface was further developed to allow fast access to all document types
(repair manuals, functional descriptions, spare parts catalogues etc) using the
structure and interactive 3D for "vertical navigation" and filters for the
different document types for "horizontal navigation"
INTERNET AND THE PROBLEM OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
No full textComputer technologies have been developing rapidly. The Internet gives great opportunities to consumers and gives access to wide information resources. It is a global information space and, as a result, a new type of social relations has formed. The complexity and diversity of relations in the sphere of the commercial and industrial use of results of intellectual activity have been increasing for a long time. As is well known, basic sources of law, which regulate social relations, are: treaties, national legislation, court decisions, custom. At present there are no treaties concerning Internet use, judicial practice and national legislation has only just been developing. As for customs, they are quite diverse and contradictory. In Russia, there are no court decisions concerning Internet and information technologies and there are some gaps in intellectual property legislation. I will here argue that it is possible and necessary to protect the intellectual property in the field of the Internet in Russia under existing conditions
EXPLOITING WEB BASED ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING IN THE SERVICE OF REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT: LESSONS FROM EXPERIENCE
No full textGovernment institutions, businesses and individual members of society - at least in the developed world - are increasingly required to become computer literate and knowledgeable about Web based electronic publishing. A key issue is what strategies can be employed to ensure that such skill development is achieved within a community and that the opportunities presented to a community by Web based electronic publishing are exploited to advantage? This paper addresses this question. Three case studies involving three distinct user groups - SMEs, Local Government and members of the community - are examined. Each applied the A.K.T.E.S framework: - awareness raising, know-how transfer, trial and evaluation and support through software development and trained personnel. This framework is critically evaluated and lessons learned from our experience reported
CHANGES IN THE INFORMATION DISSEMINATION PROCESS WITHIN THE SCHOLARLY WORLD: THE IMPACT OF ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING ON SCHOLARLY COMMUNITIES OF ACADEMIC SOCIAL SCIENTISTS
No full textThis paper describes part of the results of recent research carried out in Brazil and the UK, which investigated the perceptions by academic social scientists of the impact of electronic publishing on the information dissemination process within their scholarly communities. Results showed that there have been similar experiences by both communities of researchers. Accordingly, it was observed that electronic communication in general, and electronic publishing in particular, have had an impact on both the scholarly community and the dissemination process within it. This is especially so in terms of the dynamics of interactions within the community and the pervasiveness of the electronic media in the stages of the process. It was found that the scholarly community has both expanded their boundaries and increased the interactions at international level. Moreover, the traditional model of the dissemination process, as entirely based on the print media does not exist anymore. On the other hand, an entirely electronic based model, as proposed by some authors, has not yet been fully implemented. Therefore, a hybrid dissemination model best depicts the situation so far. In this sense, the impact of electronic publishing, (that is, the formal aspects of the process ?its final stage), on the dissemination of information amongst academic social scientists has been less strong than the impact of the use of electronic communication on informal contacts, (discussion with colleagues -its initial stages), which has become totally prevalent. Nevertheless, it has been foreseen by a number of respondents that there is an irreversible trend towards the prevalence of electronic media at all the stages of the process in the near future, especially in terms of electronic journals. However, electronic books are not yet under consideration by those scholars
PLASTIC PAPERBACKS: A PILOT EVALUATION OF TWO PORTABLE ELECTRONIC BOOKS AT LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY
No full textThis paper reports on a small pilot project undertaken during May 2000 at the Department of Information Science, Loughborough University. The study considers student and staff evaluation of two electronic reader products which are available for purchase in the United Kingdom ? NuvoMedia?s Rocket eBook (hardware and software) and Glassbook Inc?s Glassbook (software). As the paper concludes, although there is a real opportunity for future development of these devices, the findings raise concerns on the present usability of the two products.
The paper is split into three main sections:
 A background section considering the products, their history and current capabilities;
 Results of the pilot project;
 Conclusions
SERVICE ENGINEERING FOR PUBLISHERS: SYSTEMATIC DEVELOPMENT OF NEW SERVICES IN THE PUBLISHING FIELD
No full textIn most industry nations there is a shift of employment and added value from production indus-try to service industry . In Germany in 1998 64% of all employees worked in the service sector and achieved 68% of added value . This trend can be observed in the publishing field as well. It influences the future expectations of the management. In 1999 about only 6% of the publishers in Germany expected an increase of importance of book- and newspaper-market, but 30% ex-pected an decreasing importance. Optimists and pessimist are balanced in the matter of the magazine market. 80% of the interviewed are expecting an increasing importance for services, multimedia and internet , but publishers do have problems to attune to this challenge. High specialised in the publishing market they feel safe and unassailable, but the new technology has become a opportunity and a threat for them. The huge technologic development is not pushed by the publishers, in many cases they even cannot keep pace. To get new competitor profiles without relying only on technology, an alternative could be to offer services around the traditional products. This presumption is supported by an analysis of traditional service markets. Expenses, product quality, or technology are not critical product features but rather the offer of really innovative services, characterized through recentness, continuous improvement, and proximity to customer
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY "KEY TO TEXT" FOR SEMANTIC SEARCH AND INDEXING OF TEXTUAL INFORMATION - AN ESSENTIAL TOOL FOR ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING
No full textThe electronic editions gives essentially new features to structure and organization for searching information by the reader and the information services providers. Before the computer revolution any edition on a library shelf or under a veil of a dust on a desk, before the reader took it in his hands, meant no more than was written in its catalogue card. (Certainly, we here do not speak about the editions surrounded with light of legends).
Only the electronic edition is capable to speak at the top of its voice even in the absence of the reader. The complete dictionary index of the accessible editions, which 30 years back was the dream of any visitor of the scientific library, today has become the present damnation. Let?s imagine a reader who wants to find verses about love (about the real love). He will receive a vast list of references on 10, 20, 30, ? ways of love, 1001 nights of love, legal, psychological, physiological features of love of sexual minorities, on love to the Fatherland and not love to certain characters. But he searched another matter! His wishes and ideas aspired to something different. He has simply formulated a search image, and the results of the search only hide his idea of love behind a detailed lexical map of the use of the word "love". Fortunately, it is possible to use the skill of the electronic editions to speak (we shall recollect Ahmatova?s verse: ?I have learned women to speak, but God, who will force them to stop??) into a channel of intelligent, purposeful dialogue with the prospective reader. We shall in this paper discuss the technology ensuring such dialogue on the basis of the automated computed semantic search and analysis of the textual information.
This dialogue is important not only for the reader, who hungers for the information he wants. It is extremely important for the author or publisher too because of the importance of the authentical prediction of the ways how to understand how the published text is understood by different categories of readers
EUROPEAN CONTENT ON THE GLOBAL NETWORKS
No full textIn 1994, Martin Bangemann, then Vice-President of the European Commission, gathered a group of high level industrialists to try and formulate a strategy for a European way to the Information Society. The group gave clear indications: leave to the private sector a leading role for infrastructure, applications and content. The public sector has to facilitate the trans-
formation of industry and consumers in three ways: create a vision, establish a clear, predictable and stable regulatory framework, e catalyse the experimentation. These complimentary roles have been at the root of the European policy to support the development and competitiveness of European industry since. In this paper the focus is not infrastructure
development, but rather on multimedia content, a key sector for Europe, both in economic and social terms (see Table 1)
DIGITAL LIBRARIES IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM: PARTNERS, PUBLISHERS, POTENTIALS, AND PITFALLS
No full textAs we move into the new millennium it is difficult not to fall into a predictive state of mind. To
do this effectively, one needs to look back in order to look forwards in any informed manner.
What follows then is a view of the role of the digital library couched in terms of an examination
and explication of the part of such a library that I have built at the University of Virginia.
The Electronic Text Center, by now a mature service and an ingrained part of our library
system, works well as a testing ground for larger digital library issues and definitions. We are
variously partners, publishers, researchers into issues and librarians serving a user group which
is rapidly diversifying and whose expectations rise constantly. As I look to our achievements
and ambitions, and to those of colleagues in other digital libraries, I see the potentials greatly
outweighing the pitfalls in the fledgling digital libraries and electronic publishing houses, but
both exist in abundance
CLASSIFYING TECHNICAL TERMS
No full textAutomating the process of term recognition and classification is important for digital
libraries. Automatic Term Recognition (ATR) has many applications in areas related to dig-
ital libraries, e.g. information retrieval and extraction from the web, summarisation, machine
translation, dictionary construction etc. Automatic term classification attracts the interest
of researchers following the steps of ATR. By automatic term classification we mean the
grouping of terms into sets whose elements share conceptual properties. In this paper we
present C-value/NC-value a method for the automatic extraction of terms, and its further
use for the recognition of similarities between them, to be used for them classification