While a person’s internal state might not be easily inferred through an automatic computer system, within a group, people express themselves through their interaction with others. The group members’ interaction can be then helpful to understand, to certain extent, its members’ affective behavior in any case toward the task at hand. In this context, a Collaborative Virtual Environment for learni...

In this article, I historicise a particular site of historical research that rose to prominence in the nineteenth century : state archives. In looking into the archive politics surrounding the historical studying of records and files, this examination explores the exchange between petitioners and the authorities, governmental administrative practices and measures of control, and the administrat...

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INTRODUCTION National surveys show a low prevalence of tobacco cigarette smoking within the Asian American/Pacific Islander population. However, smoking rates loom higher when data is disaggregated by ethnicity and gender. Nevertheless, few data are available on how smokers in this population quit smoking. The aim of this study was to collect first-hand perspectives from adult male Chinese and ...

Currently, there exist a large number of superb digital libraries, all of which are, unfortunately, vertically integrated and all presenting a monolithic interface to their users. Ideally, a user would want to locate resources from a variety of digital libraries dealing only with one interface. A number of approaches exist to this interoperability issue exist including: defining a universal pro...

The information published on the web, a representation of our collective memory, is rapidly vanishing. At least 77 web archives have been developed to cope with the web’s transience problem, but despite their technology having achieved a good maturity level, the retrieval effectiveness of the search services they provide still presents unsatisfactory results. In this work, we propose an evaluat...

This paper presents an empirical study of expanding and extending DSpace digital repository system for an academic institution. National Taiwan University created a portal web site, the Digital Archives Resource Centre (DARC), to provide the digital archives communities with preservation base for their rich research materials, and to provide the public with a helpful information retrieval servi...

As an indicator that shows the existence and the structure of a society, cultural heritage is a concept that is fundamentally based on the transmission of cultural values and objects among the generations. This feature of the concept requires effective use of information and communication technologies (ICT). Libraries, archives and museums are cultural institutions that efficiently use ICT in o...