Theft in libraries or archives

Theft and Loss from Uk Libraries: a National Survey

Whither Libraries? or, Wither Libraries

Tfze claim is made that society is evolving from one whose formal communication patterns have~ for centuries, been based primarily on print on paper to one in which communication channels will be largely paperless (electronic). Some reasons why this transition seems inevitable are discussed. A scenario for a paperless communication system is presented, and some technological achievements that l...

Convergence of Digital Libraries, Museums and Archives to Collective Memories

This paper describes the effects and resulting information technology support requirements created by the increasing convergence of Digital Libraries, Archives, and Museums towards Collective Memories. It provides an introduction into Collective Memory (CM) / Knowledge Management (KM) models as well as into human computer interaction support for such models based on mechanisms of interactive in...

Knowledge Generation from Digital Libraries and Persistent Archives

This poster describes the ongoing research of the Cheshire project with a particular focus on knowledge generation and digital preservation. The infrastructure described makes use of tools from computational linguistics, distributed parallel processing and storage, information retrieval and digital preservation environments to produce new knowledge from very large scale datasets present in the ...

Standards for Digital Libraries and Archives: Digital Longevity

There is a lack of durable thinking on digital longevity. For this we require cross-domain communication and acceptation of standardized concepts, procedures, document formats and IT-tools. Four kinds of standards are required for preservation of digital documents over an indefinite period of time: standards for the architecture, document format standards for preservation, metadata standards fo...