This paper describes the study made to design and develop a digital library system able to manage the different types of information resources produced during a large-scale evaluation campaign and to support the different stages of it. In particular we present how the use of the Data, Information, Knowledge, and Wisdom (DIKW) hierarchy as a model helped us in the design of the user interface of...

this research attempted to study the reading behavior of graduate students in digital environment at university of isfahan through 2008-2009.  different elements such as types of electronic resources, reading methods, amounts of note taking, amounts of printing and the advantages of using the electronic resources are being discussed. the paper employs descriptive survey research method to answe...

objectives: the aim of this research was to study information seeking behavior and the pattern of reading behavior of faculty members of university of social welfare & rehabilitation sciences in using printed and electronic resources. methods: the descriptive research method was a survey method. the research was implemented by using an organized questionnaire which was distributed among the sta...

In the information society, the volume of born-digital contents and digitized contents from original resources is rapidly increasing. Therefore various types of digital contents, such as text, images, movies and other data types, are stored into digital archive systems and key technologies are long-term preserving storage, database management system, information retrieval, web service and other...

Because the eighteen online university digital museums of China confront a problem that the multi-discipline resources at digital museums are isolated and dispersed without sufficient interconnection, ChinaGrid (China Education & Research Grid) supports a project named UDMGrid (University Digital Museum Grid), which studies a grid application for University Digital Museums using grid technology...

TheWeb is probably the largest collection of digital resources ever built, and it maintains it’s continuous growth. But this large collection is not a digital library, according to the most accepted sense, since it lacks some fundamental mechanisms. While it is possible to create and maintain a structured site, with powerful cataloging mechanisms and information retrieval, in a way that can be ...