The managers of the valuable resources held by museums, archives and libraries compile descriptions of their holdings both so that they can administer and control those resources more effectively and in order to enhance access to those resources by disclosing information about their existence and availability to potential users. The channels through which resource managers provide that informat...

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We discuss building digital language resources (such as annotated corpora, lexicons, ontologies, terminologies, tools), which are the main prerequisite for successful communication and information management in the e-society of the 21 century. We give an overview of the main requirements and best practices, and point to necessary steps for creation and maintenance of standardsbased and reusable...

The current crop of digital libraries for the computing community are strongly grounded in the conventional library paradigm: they provide indexes to support searching of collections of research papers. As such, these digital libraries are relatively impoverished; the present computing digital libraries omit many of the documents and resources that are currently available to computing researche...

Digital libraries represent a recent advancement for information access. They may meet the needs of specialized audiences or, increasingly, general audiences in the form of state digital libraries. Covi & Kling (1996) broadly defined digital libraries “as a collection of electronic resources and services for the delivery of materials in a variety of formats. Digital libraries include personal, ...

The Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) is a concept mapping tool that enables faculty and students to successfully integrate digital resources into their teaching and learning. VUE provides a visual environment for structuring, presenting, and sharing digital information and an OKI-compliant OSID implementation for connecting to FEDORA-based digital repositories. Using VUE, faculty and stud...

Clinical requirements for quick accessibility to reputable, up-todate information have increased the importance of web accessible digital libraries for this user community. To understand the social and organisational impacts of ward -accessible digital libraries (DLs) for clinicians, we conducted a study of clinicians’ perceptions of electronic information resources within a large London based ...