The Electronic Library: Volume 29 Issue 2
Digital information organization and use
Category:
Library and Information StudiesTable Of Contents
Using data mining techniques for exploring learning object repositories
Alejandra Segura, Christian Vidal‐Castro, Víctor Menéndez‐Domínguez, Pedro G. Campos, Manuel PrietoThis paper aims to show the results obtained from the data mining techniques application to learning objects (LO) metadata.
Adapting a quality assurance framework for creating educational metadata in an agricultural learning repository
Thomas Zschocke, Jan BeniestThe paper seeks to introduce a process for assuring the creation of quality educational metadata based on the ISO/IEC 19796‐1 standard to describe the agricultural…
A water conservation digital library using ontologies
Lukasz Ziemba, Camilo Cornejo, Howard W. BeckThe paper's aims is to present research that evaluates a technology that assists in organizing and retrieving knowledge stored in a variety of forms (books, papers…
Cloud computing: A potential paradigm for practising the scholarship of teaching and learning
P.Y. ThomasThis paper aims to explore the educational potential of “cloud computing” (CC), and how it could be exploited in enhancing engagement among educational researchers and…
The use of wikis as alternatives to learning content management systems
Paul LaughtonThe purpose of this paper is to identify whether a wiki can be used as an alternative to a popular learning content management system (LCMS) in an e‐learning environment…
The use of metadata and preservation methods for continuous access to digital data
Ria Groenewald, Amelia BreytenbachThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the awareness about digital preservation and what must be done towards preserving valuable original digital material. The paper…
DRIVER: building a sustainable infrastructure for global repositories
Dale Peters, Norbert LossauDRIVER embodies a bold vision – that of worldwide networks of scientific data repositories. This paper seeks to examine the aims of the European Union funded project, to…
Ethics and trust in digital scholarship
Stephen M. MutulaThis paper aims to address issues of ethics and trust in a digital scholarship environment relating to: accuracy of data, integrity of scholarly research process…
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen access:
hybridEditors:
- Assoc. Prof. Jeonghyun Kim
- Dr Jiangping Chen
- Ms Marie Bloechle