Free access to full-text scientific papers in major digital libraries and other web repositories is limited to only their abstracts consisting of no more than several dozens of words. Current keyword-based techniques allow for clustering such type of short texts only when the data set is multi-category, e.g., some documents are devoted to sport, others to medicine, others to politics, etc. Howe...

The Information Retrieval System "Manuscript" is intended for storing, editing and processing electronic copies of manuscripts. By retaining all the peculiarities of the ancient treasures, the Manuscript system provides a thorough input of texts/manuscripts under study while preserving the integrity of the original electronic copy of the manuscript, text transcription, and transliteration for t...

Electronic document standards such as TEI and METS provide the means to digitally encode sophisticated hierarchical document structures. This naturally leads to digital libraries using document structure to support user navigation, which can be particularly useful for large or complex documents that are studied closely by their readers, e.g. those found in large historical and literary source t...

Digital adaptations of literary works possess an ambiguous status in education. Even though they have been in use several decades, their impact on learning is not sufficiently studied. Apart from lacking technological confidence, educators are skeptical about viewing digital texts as relevant to literary discourse. In their turn, developers are not always interested in fitting the school needs ...

With respect to the increasing volume of textual data which is available through digital resources today, the identification of the main concepts in those texts becomes increasingly important and can be seen as a vital step in the analysis of unstructured information. Research in this area has focused on the detection of named entities like person names or organization names, which only cover a...

This research paper explores the roles of electronic texts in research projects in the humanities and seeks to deepen the understanding of the nature of scholars’ engagement with e-texts. The study used qualitative methodology to explore engagement of scholars in literary and historical studies with primary materials in electronic form (i.e., e-texts). The study revealed a range of scholars’ in...

The digital imaging of cultural and heritage objects has become commonplace as memory institutions create digital surrogates and representation of their holdings, generally to increase public access by providing the resulting images online, but also to provide accurate and detailed records, and to facilitate detailed analysis of objects, documents, buildings, and artefacts. Commercially availab...

Images are important information carriers which are often used in email messages and web pages to attach textual information. In Born digital compound image (BDCI) text and graphics/pictures come together on digital devices having certain distinct characteristics like low resolution (easy for online transmission and to display on screen) and text is created digitally on image. Text from BDCI ca...

Accessibility of digital libraries and other web-based repositories has caused the illusion of accessibility of the full texts of scientific papers. However, in the majority of cases such an access (at least free access) is limited only to abstracts having no more then 50-100 words. Traditional keyword-based approach for clustering this type of documents gives unstable and imprecise results. We...

This paper describes a digital watermarking service which allows the publisher and information provider to mark and identify their copyrighted materials through the World Wide Web (WWW). First a general copyright watermarking scheme is proposed to aim at identifying the ownership and distribution path of multimedia works. Then a class of digital watermarking methods for images, videos and struc...