The Maryland Electronic Learning Community (www.learn.umd.edu) is building a multimedia digital library of educational resources. Now in the fourth year of the project, we evaluate early decisions we made about segmenting and indexing videos. We also discuss an experiment in encouraging collaborative community indexing with a Quick Indexing Tool. We conclude that a broader base of users would b...

ions for certain documents. Exploring Cultural Origins and Evolution by Navigating Searchable Video and Film Archives Howard D. Wactlar Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. [email protected] International Conference on Digital Libraries, IT Opportunities and Challenges in the New Millenium (invited speaker), Beijing, China, July 8-12, 2002.

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This paper illustrates the results of an investigation that aimed at clarifying to what extent the system that is used for implementing the ERCIM Technical Reference Digital Library can support the new metadata “relation with other documents”. Particular solutions for this extension are discussed.

* Corresponding Author: Hamed Ekhtiari, MD Neurocognitive Laboratory, Iranian National Center for Addiction Studies, Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Tel/Fax: 0098-21-55421177 E-mail: [email protected] Seyyed-Ehsan Parhizgar , Hamed Ekhtiari 1*

BACKGROUND Surveying valuable and most recent information from internet, has become vital for researchers and scholars, because every day, thousands and perhaps millions of scientific works are brought out as digital resources which represented by internet and researchers can't ignore this great resource to find related documents for their literature search, which may not be found in any librar...

Nowadays, Academic exchanges evolve with the development of information technology. Researchers pay more and more attention on Open resources including FREE Resources and Open Access Resources. In China, open resources and Open Conference and Resources (OCR) are also attracted great attention. National Science Library of Chinese Academic Science (NSLCAS) attempted to do some researches on openi...