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ISSUES IN ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING ON THE MEDIEVAL SLAVIC AND BYZANTINE WORLD
No full textThis paper presents the experience gained in work on two current Bulgarian projects aiming at the development of electronic resources for South-East
European Studies, Slavic studies, Old Church Slavic, and to some extent, Byzantine studies.
The first project was launched within the framework of the Research Support Scheme of Open Society Institute/Higher Education Support Programme (HESP) of the Open Society Institute and started in July 1997. Its aim is to
provide a multimedia CD-ROM entitled ?Cyril and Methodius and the Early Medieval Slavic World: Byzantium and the Slavs in the 9 th century AD?.
The second project aims at construction and maintenance of a specialised website ?SCRIBE ? Digitising Medieval Slavic Manuscripts in Bulgaria?. The Institute of Mathematics and Informatics and Open Society Fund in Sofia
supported this endeavour in its initial steps in November 1997.
During our real-life experience in the development of the projects our team encountered a large number of problems which could be of interest for our colleagues both in the field of Electronic Publishing and the above-mentioned
historical and linguistic fields:
?Subject area difficulties ? these relate to the following issues:
standardisation in the field of computer representation of non-Latin alphabets; lack of formal models of knowledge in the humanities; substantial variety in the scientific views of scholars on their object of study.
?Organisational difficulties ? these relate to lack of experience in organising projects in electronic publishing for the humanities in Bulgaria; legislative problems; economic problems in finding appropriate funding.
Presentation of these difficulties and possible solutions will help colleagues, especially in the countries where electronic publishing is making its first steps in an economic situation similar to the Bulgarian one, to plan their work better
and to make their movement to the information-rich society more efficient
The Electronic Proceedings Project
No full textThis paper presents interim results from a project to create an electronic proceedings of the A VCC Symposium on Australian Electronic Publishing, held in Sydney, Australia, in May 1996. The paper describes the architecture developed to support the electronic proceedings_ and the steps taken to produce the actual product, including end-user requirements, the data conversion processes, representation, interface and advanced retrieval issues
THE ROLE OF THE LOCAL ALPHABET IN ENHANCING OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF DIGITAL COMMUNICATION AND THE ASSOCIATED PROBLEMS
No full textOne of the often overlooked aspects of the today?s electronic information spread is that not all people use the Latin alphabet for writing, and even those who use it do not use the standard
English version of it. Since the standards and software applications of those standards are
mainly made by people who use the Latin alphabet and speak English as a first language, the situation today is that people who do not use English or would like to use their own alphabet
are somewhat deprived and as a result are sometimes quite reluctant to start using electronic communication. This paper concerns itself with the sources, consequences and means to solve this problem. The issue is discussed with regard to real-life examples involving the use of the Macedonian language and a comparative analysis of the solutions applied.
The examples concentrate on Internet publishing using the Macedonian language and the digital usage of the Macedonian Cyrillic Alphabet, which is different from any other Cyrillic alphabet and thus incompatible with the specific solutions applied in other countries. The paper provides an analysis of the current situation from which conclusions applicable to other cultures can be extracted
RESEARCH INFORMATION TAKE AWAY OR HOW TO SERVE RESEARCH INFORMATION FAST AND FRIENDLY ON THE WEB
No full textIn 1997 the library department at the University of Karlskrona/Ronneby was asked to develop a database which could be used to collate and present all the research material and ongoing
research projects at the University in electronic form. If possible, full text versions of all the material should be made available.
In this paper we will discuss the experiences and problems we have gathered during 6 months of developing an electronic research archive.
Using Lotus Notes software we have, with some assistance from consultants, developed a database into which the researchers themselves feed data using web-forms.
Since the project commenced in the summer of 1997 we have created:
?An electronic archive or research documents which uses pdf-files for full text presentation.
?Procedures for cataloguing. In addition to being stored electronically, paper copies of each document are stored.
?Material which is generally available via WWW.
They are searchable by subject, type of document, name of institution, or text search within the database, and one can print out references or full text versions of them. The material is also
accessible from search engines such as Alta Vista.
?A database which complies with the guidelines stipulated by the Swedish government, the Education Department and the Swedish University Board
Electronic Publishing in Geophysics
No full textThis paper describes a joint initiative of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and the Geophysical Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (GCRAS) in creation of an online database, which contains currently over 1500 full text papers covering translations into English of five Russian geophysical journals over a two-year period. The use of 100 percent computer-based technology for the preparation of camera-ready copy of translated journal papers provided a starting point for the conversion to electronic by-products such as electronic online versions of journals, with minimal extra production cost. These electronic versions of journals retain all the features of traditional printed-on-paper (POP) publications, while also providing additional features not available in a print format, such as the possibility of producing online abstracts and tables of contents in HTML; of viewing PostScript (PS) versions of each paper using a PS viewer such as Gsview; and of searching papers of interest using the Excite search engine incorporated into the system. Users can copy the paper text in PS or HPGL format. The database of translated electronic journals resides on the experimental server for electronic publishing at GCRAS, Moscow (http://eos.wdcb.rssi.ru), and a mirror site installed at AGU headquarters, Washington, DC (http://www.agu.org). The most recent initiative between AGU and GCRAS is the publishing of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy International (GMAJ), a new AGU journal, in electronic format. The print version of the journal will be a by-product of the electronic version. In publishing this new journal, a more comprehensive technology is used, making it possible to present on screen such elements of scientific papers as heavy maths, interactive graphics, and some other components which can not be presented in ordinary POP journal. The AGU, as a copyright owner, provides to all subscribers access to both the online and POP versions of GMAI. AGU also gives free access to users from Russia, CIS, and Central and Eastern European countries. Statistics on the usage of this World Wide Web site are presented in this article
Intelligent retrieval in virtual libraries for education and training
No full textWe are interested in managing documents in virtual libraries specialised in the engineering science field (ESF). Our goal is to design an intelligent tutoring system for personalised information retrieval depending on the user\u27s interests. The proposed system is specially designed for people having sight deficiency. These specific persons use slow devices in order to access textual information, so they have a critical need for systems able to retrieve relevant information quickly. For these reasons, we need intelligent systems to delegate tasks and to make decisions. Our goal is to define a multiagent system for retrieving and filtering documents in these specific virtual libraries. We aim at improving answer quality by personalising the retrieval and by performing user\u27s profile management. The multiagent solution proposed in this work is based on co-operative and adaptive information filtering and retrieval
Rising to the challenge and making the connection: electronic serials in public libraries
No full textThis paper reports the findings to date of, the Electronic Serials in Public Libraries project- a British Library-funded research project which is assessing the impact of electronic serials in terms of the challenges and the opportunities they present. In public libraries, serials are frequently both an under-funded and an under-used resource, making them a prime target for cancellation when library budgets come under pressure. The project has examined the ways in which electronic serials might help to combat these factors
Statistical Information Databases on Society and Economicson the Internet
No full textThe National Committee on Information and Computer Communications Infrastructures has selected a research proposal to conduct a sample project to make the databases of the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) available to the public via the information superhighway. The CBS databases contain a great deal of statistical information gathered over decades about the population, migration, tourism, the economy and economic branches, prices, labour and wages, health, and other topics. This project should assist the CBS in fulfilling its obligations as the agency responsible for publishing official statistics, while meeting world standards set by international organizations such as the International Monetary Fund. From the beginning, the CBS management has understood the importance of the project, which will cause a leap upward in quality and a vast improvement in the timing of publication of CBS data. For this purpose, a steeling team was appointed that includes a management representative, a representative of the Database Division, and a representative of the Information Services Division. These appointments made it clear that information and technology alone are not enough for creating an up-to-date, reliable site; only integration of all components, with backing and support from management, will make it possible for the project to succeed. The team studied the issue by visiting the Web sites of statistical bureau around the world and reading large quantities of professional literature. As a result, several issues were raised that had to be resolved before the site could be established
Towards on Information Rich-Society: electronic publications in UK public libraries
No full textDiscussed are the findings of a PhD research project ""Use and nonuse by library users of open access CD-ROMs in UK public libraries"". The paper will focus mainly on the analysis of data collected during 1997 from a number of public libraries in the UK .. The findings cover 1) CD-ROM provision: details of which CDROM publications and type of hardware and services currently available for public use; 2) User profiles: a demographic profile of users; 3) CD-ROM usage: looks at the titles users have searched
THE IMPACT OF ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING ON THE SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION CHAIN
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