British Library colloquium in resources for Japanese studies

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The validation of segmentation algorithms is often based on manual expert delineations, but they are subject to variability. The standard approach of using a single binary reference segmentation may therefore provide misleading results. While using multiple references increases reliability, the effort required from the experts may become infeasible. As a solution, we developed a tool that allow...

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Digital Library 2.0 for Educational Resources

We report on focus group feedback regarding the services provided by existing education-related Digital Libraries (DL). Participants provided insight into how they seek educational resources online, and what they perceive to be the shortcomings of existing educational DLs. Along with useful content, social interactions were viewed as important supplements for educational DLs. Such interactions ...

Estimating the audience level for library resources

WorldCat, OCLC’s bibliographic database, identifies books and the libraries that hold them. The holdings provide detailed information about the type and number of libraries that have acquired the material. Using this information, it is possible to infer the type of audience for which the material is intended. A quantitative measure, the audience level, is derived from the types of libraries tha...