ELPUB Digital Repository
Not a member yet
774 research outputs found
Sort by
Sophie 2.0 - a platform for reading and writing of interactive multimedia books in a networked environment
No full textSophie is software for reading and writing networked multimedia electronic books. It has been designed to let those without professional design skills create and distribute complex documents that take full advantage of new media and the Internet. Sophie brings together all of the pieces of media-rich writing. In addition, Sophie fosters collaboration, allows instant reader feedback, and encourages interactivity. Sophie lets users create communities around projects; with Sophie, ?books? become ?places? where people meet.In addition to its powerful capabilities for combining various media formats and interactivity, Sophie Server, a significant part of the Sophie platform, allows authors to collaborate ? working on the same content simultaneously in real time, or offline and later integrate their changes with the work of others when an Internet connection becomes available. Sophie also offers integrated reader communication capabilities allowing readers to ask questions and comment on specific sections of the book
Costs and benefits of alternative scholarly publishing models: Lessons and developments
No full textThe JISC study Economic implications of alternative scholarly publishing models: Exploring the costs and benefits, released early in 2009, focused on three alternative models for scholarly publishing: subscription or toll access publishing, open access publishing using the author-pays model, and self-archiving. The research approach involved a combination of process mapping, activity costing and macro-economic modelling. Since its release, there have been six follow-on studies applying elements of the same basic methodology. This paper describes the research approach and explores some of the major issues arising and lessons learned from this ongoing research. Drawing on experience from a number of studies and countries, it attempts to distil and summarise the key research issues and policy messages arising
MOTIVATIONS FOR IMAGE PUBLISHING AND TAGGING ON FLICKR
No full textChanges in photographic and internet technology have revolutionised the way people create, process and share digital images. This paper investigates people?s motivations for image publishing and tagging on the web 2.0 site Flickr. Using an online pilot survey, 33 participants answered questions about their uploading and tagging practices, and whether or not they hope to make a commercial gain from their images. The results show that most people have two main motivational reasons both for using Flickr, and for the tagging of their images. However, whilst a person may be motivated to use Flickr for both personal and social reasons, tagging motivation tends to focus more exclusively on either one or the other of these two factors. Overall it was found that social organisation and social communication are the most popular motivational factors for both using Flickr and for tagging images, suggesting that Flickr is enjoyed for the community environment it provides rather than as a place to store images. However despite people?s desire to share their images, most users are not hoping to make a commercial gain from the items they upload
A collaborative faceted categorization system - user interactions
No full textWe are building a system that improves browsing and searching access to a large, growing collection by supporting users to build a faceted (multi-perspective) classification schema collaboratively. The system is targeted in particular to collections of photographs and images that, in general, have few textual metadata. Our system allows users to build and maintain a faceted classification schema collaboratively and have the system help to classify documents into the evolving facet schema automatically. This paper focuses on the evolution of faceted classification schema for a large growing collection
ELECTRONICALLY PUBLISHED SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION IN TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES
No full textThe use of electronic information resources is growing rapidly. The actual science information is electronic as a rule - practically all the journals of engineering and natural science have electronic versions and a certain number of them are available only electronically. Electronic scientific information in technical universities is the basis for research and development, degree study and professional specialty, to a certain extent. It is widely agreed by producers and purchasers of information that the use of electronic resources should be measured in a more consistent way. Librarians want to understand better how the information they buy from a variety of sources is being used; publishers want to know how the information products they disseminate are being accessed. Findings of this study suggest that the financial opportunities of technical university libraries in the four neighboring countries - Swedish Royal Institute of Technology, Helsinki University of Technology, Tallinn University of Technology Library and Scientific Library of Riga Technical University (henceforth referred to as KTHL, HUTL, TUTL and RTUL respectively) - to spend resources on electronic publications are very different
E-books: Finally There?
No full textWidespread distribution of electronic book readers, commonly called ?e-readers? seems to have taken off seriously over the last year. Although the first e-readers popped up almost twenty years ago, last year?s market appearance of a completely reworked Amazon Kindle 2, a new series of Sony PRS readers and several Bookeen & Cybook devices made e-books quite popular. All of them can store thousands of books, are extremely light weight and very mince..Many of them present however problems for persons with low vision or blindness. We will discuss briefly the situation and possible solutions
DIGITAL CONTENT CONVERGENCE: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS AND THE PROBLEMS OF PRESERVATION, A US PERSPECTIVE
No full textOne of the issues that this conference explores is the continuing phenomenon of convergence of communication, caused in part by the convergence of media and digital content. In this paper, we will review some of the intellectual property challenges that loom in this environment, with an emphasis on the situation in the Unites States. We shall discuss some of the peculiar features inherent in digital content that exacerbate the intellectual property problem, such as non-permanence, multiple, heterogeneous. We shall examine a couple of cases that illustrate some of the problems in this area. We shall then conclude with the problem of intellectual property and the multiple goals of digital content collections
Constituencies of Use: Representative Usage Scenarios in International Digital Library User Studies, a Case Study on Europeana
No full textDigital libraries are still being developed independently of the extensive involvement of end users, those who form their constituencies of use. The traditional approach to digital library development is to consult with experts or communities of practice in a particular field and attempt to incorporate recommendations into the interface functionality and service models, whilst user needs are often not comprehensively scoped in advance, at the development stage, or regularly consulted for the purposes of formative and summative evaluation. Recent developments in digital library design concentrate effort on the use of innovative search and browse tools, streamlined techniques for navigation and display, and the provision of personalised areas for search management and information sharing; such developments, however, remain unaligned to any thorough understanding of exactly how user behaviour alters depending on scenario of use, and the problems encountered by end users in task completion within different contexts. This paper reports on the deployment of usage scenarios to evaluate the Europeana digital library v1.0 prototype
Predictive validity of editorial decisions at an open access journa: A case study on Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
No full textIn this study we investigate the quality of the selection process of an open access (OA) journal, taking as an example the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP). ACP is working with a new system of public peer review. We examined the predictive validity of the ACP peer review system - namely, whether the process selects the best of the manuscripts submitted. We have data for 1111 manuscripts that went through the complete ACP selection process in the years 2001 to 2006. The predictive validity was investigated on the basis of citation counts for the later published manuscripts. The results of the citation analysis confirm the predictive validity of the editorial decisions at ACP: They covary with citation counts for the published manuscripts
BUSINESS MODELS FOR ELECTRONIC OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS AND DISCIPLINARY DIFFERENCES: A PROPOSAL
No full textReports results of a research that aimed at studying the use of business models in the context of open access electronic scholarly journals publishing. Additionally, the work approaches disciplinary differences, particularly in terms of three issues, namely required publication speed, funding and features that involve the edition of a scholarly journal. In this context, the study aimed at proposing a model that allows identifying required elements to design business models appropriated to open access scholarly journals publishing. Along with identifying the elements, the study looked at the relationships between these elements and differences found between knowledge fields. Based on a bibliographic survey, the research adopted a qualitative approach that consisted of analysing the content of the literature reviewed. As a result, a business model for the activity of open access electronic journal publishing has been proposed. Based on St?hler?s approach, the model entails a set of four components, namely value proposition, products and/or services, value architeture and source of resources. Derived from this basic model, three other models are presented, each one representing particularities of the three major divisions of knowledge, Sciences, Social & Human Sciences and Arts & Humanities. As conclusion, features of business models for Sciences are considerably different from the other two divisions. On the other hand, there are important similarities between business models for the Social & Human Sciences and for Arts & Humanities