The breadth of biodiversity literature available through the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is potentially of great use to agricultural research. It provides access to literature drawn from across the world, and its archives document the Earth as it was one hundred years ago and more. However, this strength of BHL is also its weakness: the breadth of coverage of BHL can complicate finding ...

Digital Koguryo is a virtual reality reconstruction of a Koguryo mural tumulus, Anak No. 3, designed to help educate visitors in the cultural background and life style of the ancient Koguryo. The focus of Digital Koguryo was to give users an interactive, entertaining experience and to feel engaged in the activity of finding the life aspects of the Koguryo culture and enjoy the spectacle of hist...

An important question for the acculturation of adolescents from immigrant families is whether they retain ethnic labels that refer to their national origin (e.g., Mexican, Chinese) or adopt labels that are dominant in American society (e.g., Latino, Asian American, American). Approximately 380 adolescents from Asian and Latin American immigrant families selected ethnic labels during each of the...

Modern technology is believed to be the panacea for all issues; nevertheless, it has both merits and demerits. Many aspects of technology of today have not been time-tested nor known for their adverse effects on the natural environment. On contrary, local knowledge had been timetested and eco-friendly, though it is slow to exert in terms of mass industrial outcome. With the growing concern for ...

Purpose: One of the unresolved problems of the global information society is ensuring the longterm accessibility of digital documents. The project kopal tackles this problem head-on: In a threeyear project kopal’s objective is the practical testing and implementation of a cooperatively created and operated long-term archival system for digital resources. Design/methodology/approach: The system ...