Transmedia is a set of techniques that use multiple media platforms (books, films, games, live performances, etc.) to create a single narrative. The thesis investigates how transmedia resources can be described and accessed within the conceptual framework provided by the FR family of data models and the FRBRoo ontology. Principal characteristics of transmedia compositions will be analysed in or...

We report findings from experiments with IFLA’s Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) as applied to the domain of science fiction (Abbott’s Flatland) in the OCLC’s WorldCat. The objective is to gauge the characteristics of bibliographic entities under study, to examine the types of relationships these entities exhibit, and to collocate bibliographic entities according to the ...

One of the main library network function is so–called shared cataloguing, i.e. the exchange of bibliographic records on national and international level. In this paper we present a system for creating valid bibliographic records based on XML technology, as a basis for exchange of these records within default library network. To perform the exchange of XML bibliographic records it is necessary t...

To support future digital library systems which draw information from different sources on the intemet, we have to provide integrated queries to pre-existing database servers which contain structured, semistructured and unstructured data. In this paper, we specijically examine the problem of querying both existing structured relational databases and bibliographic databases. By adopting the well...

How to use PubMed for bibliographic research in the field of therapeutic patient education. Introduction: Therapeutic patient education (TPE) is a field of research which is providing an increasing number of scientific publications in medical journals. An interface developed by the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) to query its MEDLINE bibliographic database, PubMed, is considered to be t...

This paper reports an experiment exploring the hypothesis that an innovative application of the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) principles can complement traditional bibliographic resource discovery systems in order to improve the user experience. A specialized service was implemented that, when given a plain list of results from a regular online catalogue, it is able t...

Every author and publisher is interested in adding their publications to the widely used bibliographic databases freely accessible in the world wide web: This ensures the visibility of their publications and hence of the published research. However, the inclusion requirements of publications in the bibliographic databases are heterogeneous even on the technical side. This survey paper aims in s...

Bibliographic information is required and important in many application areas and for many different tasks. For example, students write reports, master theses, and PhD dissertations. Researchers write journal articles, conference papers, workshop papers, and books. Managers write sales reports and market analysis studies. All these tasks have in common that they contain bibliographic references...

The retrieval precision and recall of a specialist bibliographic toxicity database (TRACE) and a range of widely available bibliographic databases used to identify toxicity papers were compared. The analysis indicated that the larger size and resources of the major bibliographic databases did not, for a series of test queries, assure superior retrieval of relevant papers. The specialist databas...

Personal Bibliographic Systems (PBS) manage the input, storage, retrieval, and output of bibliographic references. The software allows for references to a number of different document types such as journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, reports, unpublished papers, electronic documents, etc. Unlike general-purpose database management packages, PBS are made for bibliographic info...