Library Hi Tech: Volume 32 Issue 2

Semantic ontologies for multimedia indexing (SOMI): Application in the e-library domain

Issam Bendib, Mohamed Ridda Laouar, Richard Hacken, Mathew Miles

The overwhelming speed and scale of digital media production greatly outpace conventional indexing methods by humans. The management of Big Data for e-library speech resources…

Case study: a metadata scheme for multi-type manuscripts for the T.D. Lee Archives Online

Fang Li, Jie Zhang

– The purpose of this paper is to propose a solution for designing a metadata scheme for multi-type manuscripts based on a comparison of various existing metadata schemes.

Ontology-based text summarization. The case of Texminer

Pedro Hípola, José A. Senso, Amed Leiva-Mederos, Sandor Domínguez-Velasco

The purpose of this paper is to look into the latest advances in ontology-based text summarization systems, with emphasis on the methodologies of a socio-cognitive approach, the…

Populating the wilderness: crowdsourcing database of the smokies

Mark Patrick Baggett, Anne Bridges, Ken Wise, Sarah Tanner, Jennifer Mezick

Researchers at the University of Tennessee Libraries experimented with crowdsourcing to determine if contributions by members of the public could be utilized to add citations and…

The application profiles and development characteristics of library Open Source Software projects

Namjoo Choi

Little is known as to the breadth and diversity of Open Source Software (OSS) applications for libraries and the development characteristics that influence the sustainability and…

System design for location name recognition in ancient local chronicles

Ping Bao, Suoling Zhu

The purpose of this paper is to present a system for recognition of location names in ancient books written in languages, such as Chinese, in which proper names are not signaled…

Electronic theses and dissertations: Differences in behavior for local and non-local users

Mildred Coates

The purpose of this paper is to examine two research questions: first, How do users in different locations find Auburn University Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)…

Digital library user privacy: changing librarian viewpoints through education

Younghee Noh

The purpose of this paper is to research attempts to educate public librarians in the importance of user privacy issues and assist in reducing privacy violations by providing…

The Albert Einstein archives digitization project: opening hidden treasures

Dalia Mendelsson, Edith Falk, Amalya L. Oliver

The purpose of this paper is to present the organizational and technological processes and strategic choices that led to the successful digitization project of the Albert Einstein…

Mobile services at academic libraries: meeting the users’ needs?

Catharine Bomhold

The purpose of this paper is to describe how academic libraries in the USA have responded to the rapidly evolving mobile environment and to determine if there is a noticeable…

Exploring the effect of individual differences on user perceptions of print and electronic resources

Xianjin Zha, Jinchao Zhang, Yalan Yan

Individual differences are critical in determining how individuals think and behave in different ways. The purpose of this paper is to explore the effect of individual differences…

Ensuring accessibility of electronic information resources for visually impaired people : The need to clarify concepts such as visually impaired

Stefanus Andreas Kleynhans, Ina Fourie

The paper addresses the importance of clarifying terminology such as visually impaired and related terms before embarking on accessibility studies of electronic information…