Phonograph Record Libraries: Their Organisation and Practise

Knowledge Organisation for Digital Libraries

Today research data and output from nearly every disciplinary and interdisciplinary domain exist also (and sometimes only) in digital form. Consequently, to ensure the data’s efficient retrieval as well as long term usage and relevance, Knowledge Organisation and its tools/systems, i.e. lexical resources like thesauri and ontologies, play a major role in the Digital Libraries world. In this pap...

Spectral libraries and their uncertainties

Libraries of stellar spectra are fundamental tools in the study of stellar populations and in automatic determination of atmospheric parameters for large samples of observed stars. In the context of the present volume, here I give an overview of the current status of stellar spectral libraries from the perspective of stellar population modeling: what we have currently available, how good they a...

Essentials in the Organisation of Acquisition Work in University Libraries

THE PURPOSE of this article is to give a brief summary of the essential processes which are involved in university acquisition work. Further articles will treat in detail the organization and function of each process. If much that is seemingly obvious is touched upon here, it is because our experience has shown that some of the more elementary and basic principles of acquisition are frequently ...

Organisation-Oriented Super-Peer Networks for Digital Libraries

The transition from traditional paper libraries to digital libraries enables new strategies for the use and maintenance of artifact collections. We present an organisation-oriented super-peer network which represents the organisational structures of distributed digital libraries in a natural way and is able to integrate distributed resources as well as local devices. Organisational structures c...

The medieval universities: their development and organisation