NSF/DARPA/NASA Digital Libraries Initiative

Digital school libraries

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) highly affected the people anywhere in the world. Iran has also been highly affected by this disease. We do not know if it is either a man-made or natural disease, which is beyond the scope of this paper. In any case, each disaster has two sides and brings both limitations and opportunities, and we must try our best to change the limitations into opportunitie...

NSF/DARPA/NASA Digital Libraries Initiative: A Program Manager's Perspective

Digital Libraries in Asian Languages - A TCL Initiative

The Greenstone Digital Library (GSDL) system, developed by the New Zealand Digital Library (NZDL) Consortium at the University of Waikato is a suite of open-source software for building and distributing digital library collections. At the Thai Computational Linguistic (TCL) Laboratory of CRL Asia Research Center, we plan to implement and host digital libraries in several major Asian languages. ...

Using Interactive Search Elements in Digital Libraries

Background and Aim: Interaction in a digital library help users locating and accessing information and also assist them in creating knowledge, better perception, problem solving and recognition of dimension of resources. This paper tries to identify and introduce the components and elements that are used in interaction between user and system in search and retrieval of information in digital li...

Digital libraries

The Domain and Its Origins This is the third time that digital libraries have been the primary focus of a chapter in the Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) and, not surprisingly, it reflects a third perspective. Five years ago, Fox and Urs (2002) reported on the literature of the digital library largely as an engineering construct and a research domain. A few years earl...