| Type | Web Page |
|---|---|
| Author | Volker Thewalt |
| URL | http://indepigr.narod.ru/index_1.htm |
| Date | 2010-02-04 |
| Accessed | 2010-03-11 17:18:14 |
| Abstract | The basic purpose of the present site is the creation of a compact, systematic and critical repository of Indian epigrahical sources. The material will be 'critical' in the sense that it registers variants in decipherment and alternate readings, with the exception of obvious mistakes. It aims to make these sources accessible to all scholars, even those who have only minimal expertise in computers. Moreover, it requires no special software or hardware to utilize the materials being made available here. All that is necessary for viewing our collection of inscriptions is the the installation of a special font, called ttf-font (for IBM), which you can download here as a zip. file. A Macintosh compatible version of the same font is also available here in hqs file, due to kindness of Dr. Volker Thewalt (http://www.bamiyan.de, http://www.thewalt.de), converted the font. The importance of epigraphy for the study of pre-modern South Asia should be obvious. So too should the necessity for a data base in which, over time, it may be possible to begin to make accessible some of the fruits of generations of epigraphists and scholars who have studied these inscriptions, but whose works are often very difficult to find even for those with access to the best libraries. In addition, many of the treasures of these vital sources remain unpublished. The only way to make published but obscure as well as still unpublished materials easily available is to utilize the universality of the World Wide Web, through which scholars from around the world can contribute and cooperate to make available and make use of these sources. Moreover, it is only through this means that some system may be introduced by which the available materials may be organized, categorized, catalogued and ordered. Presenting these sources in electronic form will also facilitate their study by modern means, including statistical and other computer-related methods. One of the basic purposes of the creation of the present database is as an invitation to wide co-operation in this area. Already the first results consist in the publication of two small (and highly specific) collections of epigraphical texts. This has convinced me of the necessity of continuing to develop this resource - within the one and a half years this site has existed, we have been visited more then 10,000 times. This is very encouraging, especially considering the fact that this site is indexed only in one Internet-index, Gretil. (I may mention that this is certainly the best such index for the use of Indologists, and in this connection I would like to express special gratitude to its creator, Dr. Reinhold Gruenendahl). However, I cannot carry out this project on my own; I require the assistance of colleagues everywhere. I eagerly solicit your feed-back, advice, and most of all your contributions toward the project of making epigraphical sources available more widely. Suggestions about the reading of the sources, about matters of interpretation, and about what materials you would like to see made available are eagerly sought after. There are relatively few of us working today in the field of Sanskrit epigraphy, and only a smaller numbermaking active use of the Internet. It is in all of our interests to cooperate as much as possible! |
| Type | Blog Post |
|---|---|
| Author | Sean Gillies |
| URL | http://sgillies.net/blog/1007/isaw-visit |
| Date | 2010-03-09 |
| Accessed | 2010-03-11 16:18:38 |
| Blog Title | Sean Gillies Blog |
| Type | Web Page |
|---|---|
| Author | Tao Chen |
| Author | Ming-Ming Cheng |
| Author | Ping Tan |
| Author | Ariel Shamir |
| Author | Shi-Min Hu |
| URL | http://cg.cs.tsinghua.edu.cn/montage/main.htm |
| Date | 2010-03-07 |
| Accessed | 2010-03-11 15:38:57 |
| Abstract | We present a system that composes a realistic picture from a simple freehand sketch annotated with text labels. The composed picture is generated by seamlessly stitching several photographs in agreement with the sketch and text labels; these are found by searching the Internet. Although online image search generates many inappropriate results, our system is able to automatically select suitable photographs to generate a high quality composition, using a filtering scheme to exclude undesirable images. We also provide a novel image blending algorithm to allow seamless image composition. Each blending result is given a numeric score, allowing us to find an optimal combination of discovered images. Experimental results show the method is very successful; we also evaluate our system using the results from two user studies. |
| Type | Blog Post |
|---|---|
| Author | Gideon Burton |
| URL | http://www.academicevolution.com/2010/02/scholarly-communications-must-transform-9.html |
| Date | 2010-03-10 |
| Accessed | 2010-03-11 15:03:03 |
| Language | Academic Evolution |
| Blog Title | Academic Evolution |
| Type | Blog Post |
|---|---|
| Author | Joe Clark |
| URL | http://www.alistapart.com/articles/ebookstandards/ |
| Date | 2010-03-09 |
| Accessed | 2010-03-10 15:04:08 |
| Abstract | For once, the right technology is winning. HTML is the preferred way to mark up and publish online documents that are not websites. That includes E-books, which can benefit from web-standards thinking. |
| Blog Title | A List Apart |
| Type | Web Page |
|---|---|
| URL | http://bilddatenbank.khm.at/KHMSearch/viewArtefact?id=318071 |
| Accessed | 2010-03-09 19:58:14 |
| Type | Web Page |
|---|---|
| URL | http://chicagohistory.org/planavisit/exhibitions/abraham-lincoln-transformed/index |
| Accessed | 2010-03-09 19:57:53 |
| Type | Report |
|---|---|
| Date | February 2010 |
| Abstract | Final Report of the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access |
| Type | Blog Post |
|---|---|
| Author | Chris Rusbridge |
| URL | http://digitalcuration.blogspot.com/2010/03/blue-ribbon-for-sustainability.html |
| Date | 2010-03-09 |
| Accessed | 2010-03-09 15:13:36 |
| Blog Title | Digital Curation Blog |
| Type | Web Page |
|---|---|
| URL | http://tapor.ualberta.ca/taporwiki/index.php/Day_in_the_Life_of_the_Digital_Humanities_2010 |
| Date | 2010-03-07 |
| Accessed | 2010-03-08 02:23:20 |
| Abstract | The Day in the Life of the Digital Humanities (Day of DH) is a project looking a day in the work life of people involved in humanities computing. The second Day of DH will take place on March 18th, 2010. |
| Type | Blog Post |
|---|---|
| Author | John Hilton III |
| Author | David Wiley |
| URL | http://digitalbookworld.com/2010/what-happens-to-book-sales-if-digital-versions-are-given-away/ |
| Date | 2010-03-05 |
| Extra | reprinted from the Journal of Electronic Publishing |
| Accessed | 2010-03-08 02:20:03 |
| Abstract | A growing number of authors and publishers freely distribute their books electronically to increase the visibility of their work. These books, for both academic and general audiences, cover a wide variety of genres, including technology, law, fantasy, and science fiction. Some authors claim that free digital distribution has increased the impact of their work and their reputations as authors. [1] But beyond increased exposure, a vital question for those with a commercial stake in selling books is, “What happens to book sales if digital versions are given away?” |
| Blog Title | Digital Book World |
| Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | Hans Paijmans |
| Author | Alex Brandsen |
| URL | http://www.palarch.nl/2010/03/hans-paijmans-alex-brandsen-2010-searching-in-archaeological-texts-problems-and-solutions-using-an-arti%EF%AC%81cial-intelligence-approach-%E2%80%93-palarch%E2%80%99s-journal-of-archaeology-of-eg/ |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication | PalArch's Journal of Archaeology of Egypt/Egyptology |
| Date | 2010 |
| Accessed | 2010-03-07 22:14:02 |
| Abstract | Searching in documents using full text indices is a powerful tool for retrieving relevant portions of text. However, performance is impeded by ambiguity in texts: similar words may have totally different meanings according to context. This also is true if the words are numbers, periods and place names, especially in archaeological and historical contexts. A new way of indexing texts allows for better and easier searching. This system has been developed in a collaboration between the RCE (The Dutch National Service for Cultural Heritage) and the University of Tilburg. With Open Boek, it is possible to search on chronological and geographical expressions, as well as regular keywords. In the newest version of Open Boek a number of additions to the system have been made to further improve the functionality. |
| Type | Blog Post |
|---|---|
| Author | Mark Sample |
| URL | http://www.samplereality.com/2010/03/06/loud-crowded-and-out-of-control-a-new-model-for-scholarly-publishing/ |
| Rights | cc-by-nc-sa |
| Date | Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:09:08 +0000 |
| Accessed | 2010-03-07 15:55:21 |
| Abstract | Yesterday Dan Cohen, the director of the Center for History and New Media and my colleague at George Mason University, posted a thoughtful piece describing a major problem of scholarly publishing (and of book publishing more generally). Dan suggests that while the “supply” of written work has changed with the advent of digital collaborations, academic [...]' |
| Blog Title | Sample Reality |
| Short Title | Loud, Crowded, and Out of Control |
| Type | Conference Paper |
|---|---|
| Author | Jun Zhao |
| Author | Graham Klyne |
| Author | David Shotton |
| URL | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68234-9_14 |
| Series | Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
| Place | Heidelberg |
| Publisher | Springer Berlin |
| Pages | 154-169 |
| ISBN | 978-3-540-68233-2 |
| Date | 2008 |
| DOI | 10.1007/978-3-540-68234-9_11 |
| Accessed | 2010-03-07 15:46:51 |
| Library Catalog | SpringerLink |
| Conference Name | 5th European Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2008, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, June 1-5, 2008 |
| Abstract | Images play a vital role in scientific studies. An image repository would become a costly and meaningless data graveyard without descriptive metadata. We adapted EPrints, a conventional repository software system, to create a biological research image repository for a local research group, in order to publish images with structured metadata with a minimum of development effort. However, in its native installation, this repository cannot easily be linked with information from third parties, and the user interface has limited flexibility. We address these two limitations by providing Semantic Web access to the contents of this image repository, causing the image metadata to become programmatically accessible through a SPARQL endpoint and enabling the images and their metadata to be presented in more flexible faceted browsers, jSpace and Exhibit. We show the feasibility of publishing image metadata on the Semantic Web using existing tools, and examine the inadequacies of the Semantic Web browsers in providing effective user interfaces. We highlight the importance of a loosely coupled software framework that provides a lightweight solution and enables us to switch between alternative components. |
| Proceedings Title | The Semantic Web: Research and Applications |
| Type | Conference Paper |
|---|---|
| Author | Jun Zhao |
| Author | Graham Klyne |
| Author | David Shotton |
| URL | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68234-9_14 |
| Series | Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
| Volume | 5021 |
| Place | Heidelberg |
| Publisher | Springer Berlin |
| Pages | 154-169 |
| ISBN | 978-3-540-68233-2 |
| Date | 2008 |
| DOI | 10.1007/978-3-540-68234-9_14 |
| Accessed | 2010-03-07 15:12:23 |
| Library Catalog | SpringerLink |
| Conference Name | 5th European Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2008, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, June 1-5, 2008 |
| Abstract | Images play a vital role in scientific studies. An image repository would become a costly and meaningless data graveyard without descriptive metadata. We adapted EPrints, a conventional repository software system, to create a biological research image repository for a local research group, in order to publish images with structured metadata with a minimum of development effort. However, in its native installation, this repository cannot easily be linked with information from third parties, and the user interface has limited flexibility. We address these two limitations by providing Semantic Web access to the contents of this image repository, causing the image metadata to become programmatically accessible through a SPARQL endpoint and enabling the images and their metadata to be presented in more flexible faceted browsers, jSpace and Exhibit. We show the feasibility of publishing image metadata on the Semantic Web using existing tools, and examine the inadequacies of the Semantic Web browsers in providing effective user interfaces. We highlight the importance of a loosely coupled software framework that provides a lightweight solution and enables us to switch between alternative components. |
| Proceedings Title | The Semantic Web: Research and Applications |
| Type | Encyclopedia Article |
|---|---|
| URL | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPUB |
| Date | 2010-03-05 |
| Accessed | 2010-03-07 15:44:54 |
| Encyclopedia Title | Wikipedia |
| Abstract | EPUB (short for electronic publication; alternatively capitalized as ePub, EPub, or epub, with "EPUB" preferred by the vendor) is a free and open e-book standard by the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF). Files have the extension .epub. EPUB is designed for reflowable content, meaning that the text display can be optimized for the particular display device. The format is meant to function as a single format that publishers and conversion houses can use in-house, as well as for distribution and sale. It supersedes the Open eBook standard. |
| Type | Conference Paper |
|---|---|
| Author | David Shotton |
| URL | http://imageweb.zoo.ox.ac.uk/pub/2008/publications/Shotton_ISMB_BioOntology_CiTO_final_postprint.pdf |
| Place | Stockholm |
| Date | 2009 |
| Extra | preprint |
| Conference Name | Bio-Ontologies 2009, a Special Interest Group meeting at ISMB 2009. |
| Abstract | CiTO, the Citation Typing Ontology, is an ontology for describing the nature of reference citations in scientific research articles and other scholarly works, and for publishing these descriptions on the Semantic Web. Citation are described in terms of the factual and rhetorical relationships between citing publication and cited publication, the in-text and global citation frequencies of each cited work, and the nature of the cited work itself, including its peer review status. This paper describes CiTO and illustrates its usefulness both for the annotation of bibliographic reference lists and for the visualization of citation networks. CiTO Version 1.3, published on 5 May 2009, is written in the Web Ontology Language OWL, uses the namespace http://purl.org/net/cito/, and is available from http://purl.org/net/cito/, which uses content negotiation to deliver to the user an OWLDoc Web version of the ontology if accessed via a Web browser, or the OWL ontology itself if accessed from an ontology management tool such as Protégé (http://protege.stanford.edu/). |
| Type | Web Page |
|---|---|
| Author | David Bamman |
| Author | Greg Crane |
| URL | http://nlp.perseus.tufts.edu/syntax/treebank/ |
| Date | 2009-12-16 |
| Accessed | 2010-03-07 15:06:19 |
| Abstract | The Ancient Greek Dependency Treebank is a 192,204-word collection of syntactically parsed Greek sentences. Currently in version 1.1, the treebank is comprised of selections from Hesiod's Works and Days, Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and the works of Aeschylus. |
| Website Title | Perseus Digital Library |
| Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | David Shotton |
| Author | Katie Portwin |
| Author | Graham Klyne |
| Author | Alistair Miles |
| URL | http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000361 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | e1000361 |
| Publication | PLoS Comput Biol |
| Date | April 17, 2009 |
| Journal Abbr | PLoS Comput Biol |
| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000361 |
| Accessed | 2010-03-07 15:04:15 |
| Library Catalog | PLoS Comput Biol |
| Abstract | Scientific innovation depends on finding, integrating, and re-using the products of previous research. Here we explore how recent developments in Web technology, particularly those related to the publication of data and metadata, might assist that process by providing semantic enhancements to journal articles within the mainstream process of scholarly journal publishing. We exemplify this by describing semantic enhancements we have made to a recent biomedical research article taken from PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, providing enrichment to its content and increased access to datasets within it. These semantic enhancements include provision of live DOIs and hyperlinks; semantic markup of textual terms, with links to relevant third-party information resources; interactive figures; a re-orderable reference list; a document summary containing a study summary, a tag cloud, and a citation analysis; and two novel types of semantic enrichment: the first, a Supporting Claims Tooltip to permit “Citations in Context”, and the second, Tag Trees that bring together semantically related terms. In addition, we have published downloadable spreadsheets containing data from within tables and figures, have enriched these with provenance information, and have demonstrated various types of data fusion (mashups) with results from other research articles and with Google Maps. We have also published machine-readable RDF metadata both about the article and about the references it cites, for which we developed a Citation Typing Ontology, CiTO (http://purl.org/net/cito/). The enhanced article, which is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0000228.x001, presents a compelling existence proof of the possibilities of semantic publication. We hope the showcase of examples and ideas it contains, described in this paper, will excite the imaginations of researchers and publishers, stimulating them to explore the possibilities of semantic publishing for their own research articles, and thereby break down present barriers to the discovery and re-use of information within traditional modes of scholarly communication. |
| Short Title | Adventures in Semantic Publishing |
| Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | J. Zhao |
| Author | A. Miles |
| Author | G. Klyne |
| Author | D. Shotton |
| URL | http://bib.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/doi/10.1093/bib/bbn044 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 139-152 |
| Publication | Briefings in Bioinformatics |
| ISSN | 1467-5463 |
| Date | 03/2009 |
| Journal Abbr | Briefings in Bioinformatics |
| DOI | 10.1093/bib/bbn044 |
| Accessed | 2010-03-07 15:02:13 |
| Library Catalog | CrossRef |
| Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | David Shotton |
| URL | http://openurl.ingenta.com/content/xref?genre=article&issn=0953-1513&volume=22&issue=2&spage=85 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 85-94 |
| Publication | Learned Publishing |
| ISSN | 09531513 |
| Date | 04/2009 |
| Journal Abbr | Learn. Pub. |
| DOI | 10.1087/2009202 |
| Accessed | 2010-03-07 15:02:07 |
| Library Catalog | CrossRef |
| Short Title | Semantic publishing |
| Type | Web Page |
|---|---|
| Author | David Shotton |
| URL | http://www.zoo.ox.ac.uk/staff/academics/shotton_dm.htm |
| Date | 2009-06-16 |
| Accessed | 2010-03-07 15:01:14 |
| Website Title | University of Oxford: Department of Zoology |
| Type | Blog Post |
|---|---|
| Author | David Bamman |
| URL | http://chatterist.bamman.net/?p=42 |
| Date | 2010-03-06 |
| Accessed | 2010-03-07 14:53:00 |
| Abstract | Results of experiments in taking twitter feeds, running natural language processing on them: named entity disambiguation, georeferencing and sentiment analysis. The results are mapped, in time series, on google earth. |
| Blog Title | chatterist: deciphering the noise |
| Type | Web Page |
|---|---|
| Author | David Shotton |
| URL | http://purl.org/net/cito/ |
| Accessed | 2010-03-07 13:34:58 |
| Abstract | "CiTO, the Citation Typing Ontology, is an ontology for describing the nature of reference citations in scientific research articles and other scholarly works on the Semantic Web." |
| Type | Blog Post |
|---|---|
| Author | Hugh Cayless |
| URL | http://philomousos.blogspot.com/2010/03/making-new-numbers-server-for.html |
| Date | 2010-03-02 |
| Accessed | 2010-03-07 12:52:59 |
| Blog Title | Scriptio Continua |
| Type | Blog Post |
|---|---|
| Author | James |
| URL | http://huntsvilledevelopment.blogspot.com/2010/03/better-know-sustainability-plan-part-i.html |
| Date | Monday, March 1, 2010 |
| Accessed | 2010-03-02 20:03:19 |
| Blog Title | Huntsville Development News |
| Short Title | Better Know A Sustainability Plan |
| Type | Blog Post |
|---|---|
| Author | lbjay |
| URL | http://blog.reallywow.com/archives/123 |
| Date | Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:08:18 +0000 |
| Accessed | 2010-03-01 21:03:27 |
| Abstract | ' Here’s what I know: you can embed a set of <meta/> tags containing citation metadata in your HTML to help Google Scholar to index your content. We’ve been doing it at ADS for quite a while. I’m not certain if the impetus came directly from Google, or, more likely, we got the idea from a [...]' |
| Blog Title | Reallywow |
| Type | Blog Post |
|---|---|
| Author | Bill Caraher |
| URL | http://mediterraneanworld.typepad.com/the_archaeology_of_the_me/2010/03/metablogging-monday.html |
| Date | 2010-03-01 |
| Accessed | 2010-03-01 19:05:31 |
| Blog Title | The Archaeology of the Mediterranean World |
| Type | Blog Post |
|---|---|
| Author | Sebastian Heath |
| URL | http://mediterraneanceramics.blogspot.com/2010/02/coming-to-terms-with-html-5.html |
| Date | Friday, February 26, 2010 |
| Accessed | 2010-03-01 18:41:55 |
| Blog Title | Mediterranean Ceramics |
| Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | Maria Broggiato |
| URL | http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2010/2010-02-80.html |
| Publication | Bryn Mawr Classical Review |
| Date | 2010-02 |
| Journal Abbr | BMCR |
| Accessed | 2010-03-01 16:47:29 |
| Type | Blog Post |
|---|---|
| Author | Gabriel Bodard |
| URL | http://www.stoa.org/?p=1099&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter |
| Date | 2010-02-26 |
| Accessed | 2010-02-26 14:07:27 |
| Blog Title | The Stoa Consortium |
| Type | Magazine Article |
|---|---|
| Author | Steven Levy |
| URL | http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/02/ff_google_algorithm/all/1 |
| Publication | Wired Magazine |
| Date | 2010-03 |
| Accessed | 2010-02-24 22:03:34 |
| Type | Blog Post |
|---|---|
| Author | Sebastian Heath |
| URL | http://mediterraneanceramics.blogspot.com/2010/02/opencyc-wikidb-pedia-and-ancient-world.html |
| Date | Tuesday, February 23, 2010 |
| Accessed | 2010-02-24 20:51:45 |
| Blog Title | Mediterranean Ceramics |
| Type | Web Page |
|---|---|
| URL | http://www.personal.psu.edu/mjg36/blogs/2010/02/web-discovery-and-library-resources-or-seo-101.html |
| Accessed | 2010-02-23 23:38:17 |
| Type | Web Page |
|---|---|
| URL | http://scienceblogs.com/bookoftrogool/2010/02/a_shift_in_focus.php |
| Accessed | 2010-02-23 23:38:13 |
| Type | Web Page |
|---|---|
| URL | http://inkdroid.org/journal/2010/02/22/web-documents-and-axioms-for-linked-data/ |
| Accessed | 2010-02-23 23:38:08 |
| Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | Nick Nicholas |
| Author | Nigel Ward |
| Author | Kerry Blinco |
| URL | http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue62/nicholas-et-al/ |
| Volume | 62 |
| Publication | Ariadne |
| ISSN | 1361-3200 |
| Date | 2010-01-30 |
| Accessed | 2010-02-23 18:16:48 |
| Abstract | Discussion of digital identifiers, and persistent identifiers in particular, has often been confused by differences in underlying assumptions and approaches. To bring more clarity to such discussions, the PILIN Project has devised an abstract model of identifiers and identifier services, which is presented here in summary. Given such an abstract model, it is possible to compare different identifier schemes, despite variations in terminology; and policies and strategies can be formulated for persistence without committing to particular systems. The abstract model is formal and layered; in this article, we give an overview of the distinctions made in the model. This presentation is not exhaustive, but it presents some of the key concepts represented, and some of the insights that result. The main goal of the Persistent Identifier Linking Infrastructure (PILIN) project [1] has been to scope the infrastructure necessary for a national persistent identifier service. There are a variety of approaches and technologies already on offer for persistent digital identification of objects. But true identity persistence cannot be bound to particular technologies, domain policies, or information models: any formulation of a persistent identifier strategy needs to outlast current technologies, if the identifiers are to remain persistent in the long term. For that reason, PILIN has modelled the digital identifier space in the abstract. It has arrived at an ontology [2] and a service model [3] for digital identifiers, and for how they are used and managed, building on previous work in the identifier field [4] (including the thinking behind URI [5], DOI [6], XRI [7] and ARK [8]), as well as semiotic theory [9]. The ontology, as an abstract model, addresses the question ‘what is (and isn’t) an identifier?’ and ‘what does an identifier management system do?’. This more abstract view also brings clarity to the ongoing conversation of whether URIs can be (and should be) universal persistent identifiers. |
| Type | Blog Post |
|---|---|
| Author | Tom Burton-West |
| URL | http://www.hathitrust.org/blogs/large-scale-search/too-many-words |
| Date | 2010-02-19 |
| Accessed | 2010-02-23 15:48:04 |
| Blog Title | Hathi Trust |
| Type | Report |
|---|---|
| Author | Lorraine Paterson |
| Author | Boon Low |
| URL | http://library.nesc.ed.ac.uk/resolve/resolver.jsp?rft_dat=lib%3a10182&rft_title=&svc_dat=details&referer=nesc.ac.uk%3alibrary&rfr_id=info:sid/nesc.ac.uk:library |
| Date | 2010-02-18 |
| Accessed | 2010-02-23 15:42:29 |
| Abstract | Demands for usability and user experience (UX) developments have become pertinent due to the increasing complexities of digital libraries and user expectations associated with the advances in web technologies. In particular, usability research and testing are becoming necessary means to assess the current and future breeds of information environments such that they can be better understood, well-formed and validated. Usability studies and digital library development are not often intertwined due to the existing cultural model in system development. Usability issues are likely to be addressed post-hoc or as a priori assumptions (Blandford, Connell, & Edwards, 2004). Recent initiatives (CALIMERA project, Glosiene & Manzuch, 2004) have advanced usability studies for information environment development. However, significant works are still required to address the usability of new services arising from the trends in social networking and Web 2.0. The JISC funded project, UX2.0 aims to contribute to this general body of works by enhancing a digital library through a development and evaluation framework centered on usability and contemporary user experience. User-centred design (UCD) forms the overall approach of UX2.0. Technological developments will be implemented in tandem with research, usability studies and evaluation. This report relates to an UX2.0 objective to undertake usability inspection. It presents the findings of a general usability inspection (work package 2 – WP2.1) done through heuristics evaluation on a selection of digital libraries. The study will inform the subsequent usability and evaluation work on the digital library in development in UX2.0. Given the finite project resources, the study provides only a general impression of digital library usability; notwithstanding, it reveals a range of issues, each of which merits a systematic and vigorous study. The findings outlined in this report will be a resource generally useful for the JISC Community and beyond. During the inspection, emerging interaction design patterns have also been identified. While usability remains the key focus, these patterns have been represented in this report: 1) to provide an introduction to the inspected digital library user interface features, 2) to dovetail with the other research work of UX2.0 - identifying contemporary UX techniques and interaction design patterns. The report will detail the heuristic methodology chosen to conduct the report, followed by an introduction to the design patterns identified in Section 3 and 4 respectively. Following this the results of usability inspection are presented in three sections; resource discovery (Section 5), navigation (Section 6) and enhancing user experience (Section 7). Resource discovery deals with the search and browse aspects of each digital library, referencing the design patterns used where appropriate. Navigation discusses specific types of navigation including faceted navigation and pagination. It also inspects the orientation through the DL and how the labeling helps or hinders user expectations. Finally the third part of the results (enhancing user experience) discusses the provision of value-added services of the DLs. Each the results section includes a discussion. The overall conclusions of the inspection in general is given in Section 8. |
| Type | Blog Post |
|---|---|
| Author | Christopher Warner |
| URL | http://weblog.kernelcode.com/2009/01/09/python-xmp-toolkit-works-with-python-24/ |
| Date | 2009-01-09 |
| Accessed | 2010-02-23 15:38:21 |
| Blog Title | Christopher Warner |
| Type | Blog Post |
|---|---|
| Author | Christopher Warner |
| URL | http://weblog.kernelcode.com/2008/08/19/zope2-on-python-25-xmp-and-exiftool/ |
| Date | 2008-08-19 |
| Accessed | 2010-02-23 15:37:20 |
| Blog Title | Christopher Warner |
| Type | Blog Post |
|---|---|
| Author | Johan Åhlfeldt |
| URL | http://early-medieval-gis.blogspot.com/2009/10/using-mysql-spatial-extensions-in.html |
| Date | Wednesday, 28 October 2009 |
| Accessed | 2010-02-22 17:58:48 |
| Blog Title | early medieval mapping |
| Type | Web Page |
|---|---|
| Author | Tom De Herdt |
| Author | Jenne De Wolf |
| Author | Hugo Pauwels |
| Author | Annelies Wouters |
| Author | Jozef Van Loon |
| URL | http://www.wulfila.be/tw/ |
| Date | 2008-05-26 23:24:25 |
| Extra | Digitale editie en databank van het Toponymisch Woordenboek van België, Nederland, Luxemburg, Noord-Frankrijk en West-Duitsland (vóór 1226) van Maurits Gysseling (1960), ontwikkeld aan de Universiteit Antwerpen. |
| Accessed | 2010-02-22 15:01:11 |
| Type | Conference Paper |
|---|---|
| Author | Cameron Marlow |
| Author | Mor Naaman |
| Author | Danah Boyd |
| Author | Marc Davis |
| URL | http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1149941.1149949 |
| Place | Odense, Denmark |
| Publisher | ACM |
| Pages | 31-40 |
| ISBN | 1-59593-417-0 |
| Date | 2006 |
| DOI | 10.1145/1149941.1149949 |
| Accessed | 2010-02-19 22:27:09 |
| Library Catalog | ACM |
| Abstract | In recent years, tagging systems have become increasingly popular. These systems enable users to add keywords (i.e., "tags") to Internet resources (e.g., web pages, images, videos) without relying on a controlled vocabulary. Tagging systems have the potential to improve search, spam detection, reputation systems, and personal organization while introducing new modalities of social communication and opportunities for data mining. This potential is largely due to the social structure that underlies many of the current systems.Despite the rapid expansion of applications that support tagging of resources, tagging systems are still not well studied or understood. In this paper, we provide a short description of the academic related work to date. We offer a model of tagging systems, specifically in the context of web-based systems, to help us illustrate the possible benefits of these tools. Since many such systems already exist, we provide a taxonomy of tagging systems to help inform their analysis and design, and thus enable researchers to frame and compare evidence for the sustainability of such systems. We also provide a simple taxonomy of incentives and contribution models to inform potential evaluative frameworks. While this work does not present comprehensive empirical results, we present a preliminary study of the photo-sharing and tagging system Flickr to demonstrate our model and explore some of the issues in one sample system. This analysis helps us outline and motivate possible future directions of research in tagging systems. |
| Proceedings Title | Proceedings of the seventeenth conference on Hypertext and hypermedia |
| Type | Blog Post |
|---|---|
| URL | http://cheshrkat.blogspot.com/2008/01/setting-flickr-metadata-using-iptc.html |
| Date | 2008-01-27 |
| Accessed | 2010-02-19 17:25:59 |
| Blog Title | heretic's linkblog of fun |
| Type | Blog Post |
|---|---|
| Author | Melissa Terras |
| URL | http://melissaterras.blogspot.com/2010/02/book-in-memoriam-to-ross-scaife.html |
| Date | Thursday, 18 February 2010 |
| Accessed | 2010-02-19 14:21:40 |
| Blog Title | Melissa Terras' Blog |
| Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | Michael John Versluys |
| URL | http://www.bmcreview.org/2010/02/20100256.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+bmcreview+%28Bryn+Mawr+Classical+Review%29 |
| Publication | Bryn Mawr Classical Review |
| Date | 2010-02-18 |
| Accessed | 2010-02-19 14:06:12 |
| Abstract | Review of Grant Parker, The Making of Roman India. Greek Culture in the Roman World. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. xiii, 357. ISBN 9780521858342. $99.00. |
| Type | Web Page |
|---|---|
| Author | Alastair Dunning |
| URL | http://digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/2010/02/18/winners-of-the-ahrcs-digital-programme/ |
| Date | 2010-02-18 |
| Accessed | 2010-02-18 15:17:07 |
| Abstract | The Arts and Humanities Research Council has released details of the winners of its ‘Digital Equipment and Database Enhancement for Impact’ scheme. |
| Type | Blog Post |
|---|---|
| Author | Egon Willighagen |
| URL | http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/2010/02/citing-chemistry-development-kit.html |
| Date | 2010-02-18 |
| Accessed | 2010-02-18 12:45:10 |
| Abstract | Mashing up David Shotton's Citation Typing Ontology (cito) and the Bibliography Ontology (bibo) |
| Blog Title | chem-bla-ics |
| Type | Blog Post |
|---|---|
| Author | Ann De Beukaelaer |
| URL | http://www.compitum.fr/publications/1192-les-routes-de-lest-de-lafrica-a-la-fin-de-lantiquite-dapres-les-documents-de-pierre-salama |
| Date | 2010-02-16 |
| Accessed | 2010-02-17 14:06:33 |
| Abstract | Short description of N. Duval, C. Lepelley (éds.), Les routes de l'Est de l'Africa à la fin de l'Antiquité. D'après les documents de Pierre Salama, Turnhout, 2010. ISBN : 978-2-503-51320-1 |
| Blog Title | Compitum: Recherches et actualités sur l'Antiquité romaine et la latinité |
| Type | Web Page |
|---|---|
| URL | http://www.arts-humanities.net/tools |
| Accessed | 2010-02-17 13:47:22 |
| Website Title | arts-humanities.net: Digital Humanities and Arts |
| Type | Web Page |
|---|---|
| URL | http://www.alabamafolklife.org/ |
| Accessed | 2010-02-16 22:53:42 |
| Type | Web Page |
|---|---|
| Author | Bill Caraher |
| URL | http://mediterraneanworld.typepad.com/the_archaeology_of_the_me/2010/02/some-thoughts-on-corinths-digital-notebooks.html |
| Date | 2010-02-15 |
| Accessed | 2010-02-16 22:50:37 |
| Website Title | The Archaeology of the Mediterranean World |
| Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | Claire Warwick |
| Author | Isabel Galina |
| Author | Melissa Terras |
| Author | Paul Huntington |
| Author | Nikoleta Pappa |
| URL | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqn017 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 383-396 |
| Publication | Literary and Linguistic Computing |
| Date | September 2008 |
| DOI | 10.1093/llc/fqn017 |
| Abstract | Although many digital humanities resources are being developed for online use, there is little understanding of why some become popular, whilst others are neglected. Through log analysis techniques, the LAIRAH project identified twenty-one popular and well-used digital humanities projects, and in order to ascertain the factors they had in common, which predisposed them to be well used, conducted in-depth interviews with the creators of these resources. This article presents the findings of the study, highlighting areas that developers should be aware of, and providing a set of recommendations for both funders and creators, which should ensure that a digital humanities resource will have the best possible chance of being used in the long term. 10.1093/llc/fqn017 |
| Type | Thesis |
|---|---|
| Author | Michel Klein |
| URL | http://www.cs.vu.nl/~mcaklein/research/thesis/ |
| Place | Amsterdam |
| Date | 2004 |
| Extra | isbn: 90-9018400-7 |
| Accessed | 2010-02-12 21:11:44 |
| Type | PHD |
| University | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
| Abstract | The popularity of ontologies in computer science applications is steadily increasing. Often, ontologies are developed by multiple independent users at several locations. Successful application of ontologies in these uncontrolled, de-centralized and distributed environments requires substantial support for ontology change management. This thesis starts with an investigation of the requirements for an ontology change management methodology. The second part presents a framework that consists of a general and concise specification for ontology change and a number of process models that describe how a change specification can be generated and used for different change management tasks. The last part shows how the framework for change management can be applied. It describes three tools that implement some of the processes of the framework and three practical studies in which some of the methods in the framework are applied in realistic settings. |
| Type | Web Page |
|---|---|
| Author | Sidonie Smith |
| URL | http://www.mla.org/fromthepres |
| Date | 2010 |
| Accessed | 2010-02-11 19:51:10 |
| Website Title | MLA: Modern Language Association |
| Type | Thesis |
|---|---|
| Author | Carl Lagoze |
| URL | http://www.cs.cornell.edu/lagoze/dissertation/dissertation.html |
| Date | 2010 |
| Accessed | 2010-02-11 18:22:09 |
| Type | PhD thesis, Information Science |
| University | Cornell University |
| Abstract | The idea of Digital Libraries emerged in the early 1990s from a vision of a “library of the future”, without walls and open 24 hours a day. These digital libraries would leverage the substantial investments of federal funding in the Internet and advanced computing for the benefit of the entire population. The world’s knowledge would be a key press away for everyone no matter where their location. This vision led to substantial levels of funding from federal agencies, foundations, and other organizations for research into fundamental technical problems related to networked information and deployment of the results of this research in numerous digital library applications. The result was a number of exciting and influential technical innovations. But, the attempt to transplant the library to the online environment met with some unexpected obstacles. The funding agencies and many of the members of the digital library research community mainly focused on the technical issues related to online information. In general, they assumed that the new technology would be applied in a largely traditional (library) context, and largely ignored the profound social, economic, cultural, and political impact of turning “books (and other information resources) into bytes”. The extent of this impact was demonstrated by the concurrent evolution of the World Wide Web, a networked information system not bound by legacy institutional conventions and practices or funding agency mandates and, therefore, able to organically evolve in response to the profoundly democratizing effect of putting information online. This has provided the context for the recent revolution in the web known as Web 2.0, a participatory information environment that contradicts most of the core assumptions of the traditional library information environment. The overwhelming adoption of the Web 2.0 model for both popular culture and serious information exchange and the increased evidence of the efficacy of this model for activities such as learning and scholarship call into question the viability of the library information model and the digital libraries that were meant to instantiate that model online. In this dissertation I examine the almost two decade history of digital library research and analyze the relevance of the library information model, or meme, in relationship to the transformative Web 2.0 meme. I use my research results in digital library infrastructure and technology over this period as both a lens for viewing this historical relationship and a mirror for revealing its various facets. This analysis is particularly relevant as I, and fellow members of the research community, begin to engage in large-scale cyberinfrastructure projects that need to move beyond the largely technical focus of earlier digital library initiatives and recognize the sociotechnical nature of the work that lies ahead. |
| Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | Yassine Gargouri |
| Author | Chawki Hajjem |
| Author | Vincent Lariviere |
| Author | Yves Gingras |
| Author | Tim Brody |
| Author | Les Carr |
| Author | Stevan Harnad |
| URL | http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/18493/ |
| Date | 2010-01-03 |
| Extra | Articles whose authors make them Open Access (OA) by self-archiving them online are cited significantly more than articles accessible only to subscribers. Some have suggested that this "OA Advantage" may not be causal but just a self-selection bias, because authors preferentially make higher-quality articles OA. To test this we compared self-selective self-archiving with mandatory self-archiving for a sample of 27,197 articles published 2002-2006 in 1,984 journals. The OA Advantage proved just as high for both. Logistic regression showed that the advantage is independent of other correlates of citations (article age; journal impact factor; number of co-authors, references or pages; field; article type; country or institution) and greatest for the most highly cited articles. The OA Advantage is real, independent and causal, but skewed. Its size is indeed correlated with quality, just as citations themselves are (the top 20% of articles receive about 80% of all citations). The advantage is greater for the more citeable articles, not because of a quality bias from authors self-selecting what to make OA, but because of a quality advantage, from users self-selecting what to use and cite, freed by OA from the constraints of selective accessibility to subscribers only. [See accompanying RTF file for responses to feedback. Four PDF files provide Supplementary Analysis.] |
| Accessed | 2010-02-11 18:17:07 |
| Abstract | Articles whose authors make them Open Access (OA) by self-archiving them online are cited significantly more than articles accessible only to subscribers. Some have suggested that this "OA Advantage" may not be causal but just a self-selection bias, because authors preferentially make higher-quality articles OA. To test this we compared self-selective self-archiving with mandatory self-archiving for a sample of 27,197 articles published 2002-2006 in 1,984 journals. The OA Advantage proved just as high for both. Logistic regression showed that the advantage is independent of other correlates of citations (article age; journal impact factor; number of co-authors, references or pages; field; article type; country or institution) and greatest for the most highly cited articles. The OA Advantage is real, independent and causal, but skewed. Its size is indeed correlated with quality, just as citations themselves are (the top 20% of articles receive about 80% of all citations). The advantage is greater for the more citeable articles, not because of a quality bias from authors self-selecting what to make OA, but because of a quality advantage, from users self-selecting what to use and cite, freed by OA from the constraints of selective accessibility to subscribers only. [See accompanying RTF file for responses to feedback. Four PDF files provide Supplementary Analysis.] |
| Type | Newspaper Article |
|---|---|
| Author | Jack Stripling |
| URL | http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/02/11/sheeo |
| Publication | Inside Higher Ed |
| Date | 2010-02-11 |
| Section | News |
| Accessed | 2010-02-11 18:15:39 |
| Abstract | but not for long ... |
| Type | Blog Post |
|---|---|
| Author | John Erickson |
| URL | http://bitwacker.wordpress.com/2010/02/04/dois-uris-and-cool-resolution/ |
| Date | 2010-02-04 |
| Accessed | 2010-02-11 18:14:07 |
| Blog Title | Bitwacker Associates |