Library www-site based on Web-IRBIS

A WWW-based digital library for antiquarian collections

Digital library technologies have benefited during the last years from the impressive increase of digital data capture, storage and transmission capabilities along with the consequent fall of their cost [7]. The widespread use of the World-wide Web (WWW) also enables digital libraries to meet a very large, international, population. Relying on digital resources for academic researches is now a ...

Academic Library Instruction Using the WWW

Usability and evaluation of a library mobile web site

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to develop and evaluate the use of a library mobile website at a university library. This paper aims to present the approach adopted to investigate users’ reactions to the new mobile platform. A usability test was also conducted to examine its effectiveness. Design/methodology/approach – Mobile websites for academic libraries were first reviewed prior to i...

Assessment of WWW-Based Ranking Systems for Smaller Web Sites

A comparison between a number of search engines from three different families (HITS, PageRank, and Propagation of Trust) is presented for a small web server with respect to perceived relevance. A total of 307 individual tests have been done and the results from these were disseminated to the algorithms, and then handled using confidence intervals, Kolmogorov-Smirnov and ANOVA. We show that the ...

Topic-based web site summarization

Purpose Summarization of an entire Web site with diverse content may lead to a summary heavily biased towards the site’s dominant topics. This paper presents a novel topic-based framework to address this problem. Design/methodology/approach A two-stage framework is proposed. The first stage identifies the main topics covered in a Web site via clustering and the second stage summarizes each topi...