Digital publishing resources contain a lot of useful and authoritative knowledge. It may be necessary to reorganize the resources by concepts and recommend the related concepts for e-learning. A recommender system is presented in this paper based on the semantic relatedness of concepts computed by texts from digital publishing resources. Firstly, concepts are extracted from encyclopedias. Infor...

This article presents a study of online digital library (DL) uses, based on three data sources (online questionnaire, Internet traffic data and interviews). We show that DL users differ from average Internet users as well as from classical library users, and that their practices involve particular contexts, among which personal researches and bibliophilism. These results lead us to reconsider t...

Advancing technology has made document image processing an important feature in automation of office documentation. Digital filing system save space, paper and printing cost. The problem arises when document to be read is not placed correctly in scanner, which leads to the miss interpretation of document and increases the storage space .This paper deals with extraction of text from those skewed...

Digital tools are increasingly being used to support teaching in higher education. These tools place new demands on the tasks and responsibilities of the teacher, and can influence teacher roles. In this study we investigate the long-term use and development of a tool for facilitating the negotiation of meaning in argumentative student texts, through teacher and peer feedback. From this setting...

The AXIOM project is a collaboration between researchers in knowledge representation (KR), markup languages such as XML, linguistic analysis, text encoding, databases, humanities computing, and other related fields, whose goal is to develop technologies that will enable a large scale digital library. The central theme of the project is the exploitation of “intelligent tools” and “intelligent te...

Here we describe a framework built upon Tesseract optical character recognition software for transcribing old texts having non-standard fonts. Further, we illustrate our software on creating a digital version of two volumes of a 17 century French text. The volumes consist of 808 pages having 84,366 words, and our system initially correctly transcribes 88% of the words. Further, we identify a me...

This article puts operationalization as a research practice and its theoretical consequences into focus. As all sciences well humanities areas use concepts to describe their realm of investigation, digital projects are usually faced with the challenge ‘bridging gap’ from (whose meaning(s) depend on certain theory which used expectations, hypothesis results) results derived data. The process dev...

UNCITRAL texts on electronic commerce successfully addressed and effectively tackled the challenges posed by the use of electronic communications in the formation and the performance of contracts. These are essentially ‘transaction-oriented’ rules and represent the first generation of e-commerce law. The accelerated evolution of digital economy has shown that technology is not only transforming...

As the title of the Dagstuhl Seminar Digital Historical Corpora Architecture, Annotation, and Retrieval already suggests, corpus architecture and corpus annotation is an important topic for representing (historical) texts. Especially the limitation of SGML-based markup languages to tree structured annotations raises a special problems when dealing with manuscripts: How is it possible to represe...