Manuscript Fragments in Greek Libraries

Internet usage in Greek libraries

Purpose – The specific goal of this research study is to point out the utilization, integration and exploitation of the Internet among libraries in Greece. Design/methodology/approach – A survey consisting of 44 questions was distributed to librarians in Greece to collect the data for the study. Findings – The study reveals that the Internet is an essential and rigorous tool for librarians in G...

Document delivery system for Greek libraries

Small libraries of protein fragments model native protein structures accurately.

Prediction of protein structure depends on the accuracy and complexity of the models used. Here, we represent the polypeptide chain by a sequence of rigid fragments that are concatenated without any degrees of freedom. Fragments chosen from a library of representative fragments are fit to the native structure using a greedy build-up method. This gives a one-dimensional representation of native ...

Public Services and Outreach in Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Libraries

RAREBOOK, MANUSCRIPT, A N D SPECIAL COLLECTIONS libraries remain both more difficult and more forbidding to use than any other parts of most libraries.A shift from an ethos that emphasized acquisition, catalogmg, and preservation has brought into new prominence issues generally grouped together under the rubric of “promotion.” This essay considers some of the ways in which this addition to the ...

A Segmentation-Free Recognition Technique to Assist Old Greek Handwritten Manuscript OCR

Recognition of old Greek manuscripts is essential for quick and efficient content exploitation of the valuable old Greek historical collections. In this paper, we focus on the problem of recognizing early Christian Greek manuscripts written in lower case letters. Based on the existence of hole regions in the majority of characters and character ligatures in these scripts, we propose a novel, se...