Library faculty members at the Health Sciences Library at the LSU Health Shreveport campus offer a database searching class for third-year medical students during their surgery rotation. For a number of years, students completed "ten-minute clinical challenges," but the instructors decided to replace the clinical challenges with innovative exercises using The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus to emp...

Based on the designing and implementation of metadata standard of Peking University Digital Library, this paper discusses the Chinese metadata standard and its related issues. It involves the metadata methodology – Metadata Standard Framework, and an analysis of an applied case – the generation of Rubbing Metadata Standard of Peking University Rare Book Digital Library.

Nothing is more distributed than the Web, with its content spread across thousands of servers. High performance hardware and software is essential for an effective download, analysis, and organization of this content. We describe our experience with a highly parallel Web crawling system (Mercator) to construct – automatically – collections of scientific resources for the National Science Digita...

the present research endeavors to discover similarities and differences among digital libraries in iran and to clarify the extent of their consistency in terms of main library requisites. using a qualitative -quantitative method, i.e. a survey research method using content analysis, it identifies iranian digital libraries (idls) and explores their characteristics. reviewing the literature, we i...

Harvested metadata often suffers from uneven quality to the point that utility is compromised. Although some aggregators have developed methods for evaluating and repairing specific metadata problems, it has been unclear how these methods might be scaled into services that can be used within an automated production environment. The National Science Digital Library (NSDL), as part of its work wi...

in the september 15, 2016 issue of science, dr. richard stone wrote a report regarding selling theses and research articles in iran. there are noteworthy points in this report which truly disturb the iranian scientific community, but the present report is not the whole truth about the iranian scientific community. iran’s scientific infrastructure was destroyed in the eight-year imposed war by s...

Presented is the metadata research and development in China. Beginning in the 1980s, the research project aimed at developing Chinese metadata standards, schemes, and specifications was first launched in 1997. Since then, many metadata-related projects have been conducted and completed. This paper summarizes the achievements of these projects, and introduces Chinese metadata standards, schemes,...