Imperfectly Moving Towards Acceptance

Moving towards Adaptive Search

Information retrieval has become very popular over the last decade with the advent of the Web. Nevertheless, searching on the Web is very different to searching on smaller, often more structured collections such as intranets and digital libraries. Such collections are the focus of the recently started AutoAdapt project. The project seeks to aid user search by providing well-structured domain kn...

Moving towards shareable metadata

A focus of digital libraries, particularly since the advent of the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, is aggregating from multiple collections metadata describing digital content. However, the quality and interoperability of the metadata often prevents such aggregations from offering much more than very simple search and discovery services. Shareable metadata is metadata...

User Participation and Technology Acceptance: Towards Ex-Ante Acceptance Predictions

The current work is positioned at the point where technology acceptance research and user participation in information systems development research intersect. More specifically, this paper purports to achieve three objectives: (a) explain how technology acceptance determinants can be elicited from users during their participation in the ISD activities, (b) investigate the influence of user part...

Moving towards Demand Networks

A product’s end user, located in B o rdeaux for example, re c e i v e s on his/her WAP phone a new on-line retail catalogue from a retail outlet, in Toulouse, from which it regularly buys goods. The end user places an on-line order. The retail outlet discovers that the art i c l e is not available at its Bord e a u x warehouse, and decides to place an order with the manufacture r (i.e., in Barc...

Moving towards scientific citizenship