D-Lib Magazine: Its First 13 Years

D-Lib Magazine

Current systems for exploring scholarly data exhibit a number of shortcomings in their ability to facilitate the identification of research trends and identify 'interesting' connections between researchers. To address these issues we have developed Rexplore, a novel system which combines statistics, human-computer interaction, and semantic technologies, to support knowledge-based exploration an...

D-Lib Magazine

OpenAIRE is the European infrastructure for Open Access scholarly communication. It populates and provides access to a graph of objects relative to publications, datasets, people, organizations, projects, and funders aggregated from a variety of data sources, such as institutional repositories, data archives, journals, and CRIS systems. Thanks to infrastructure services, objects in the graph ar...

Information Retrieval by Semantic Analysis and Visualization of the Concept Space of D-Lib Magazine

In this article we present a method for retrieving documents from a digital library through a visual interf based on automatically generated concepts. We used a vocabulary generation algorithm to generate a se concepts for the digital library and a technique called the max-min distance technique to cluster them. Additionally, the concepts were visualized in a spring embedding graph layout to de...

The Availability and Persistence of Web References in D-Lib Magazine

We explore the availability and persistence of URLs cited in articles published in D-Lib Magazine. We extracted 4387 unique URLs referenced in 453 articles published from July 1995 to August 2004. The availability was checked three times a week for 25 weeks from September 2004 to February 2005. We found that approximately 28% of those URLs failed to resolve initially, and 30% failed to resolve ...

Chapter 13 : ADAPT : The First Five Years