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Digital libraries to knowledge portals : towards a global knowledge portal for secondary schools in Singapore
(2002)
For digital libraries to remain relevant in the new
millennium where the ability to manage
knowledge is critical, this paper explores how
digital libraries could strategically ...
A flexible classification scheme for metadata resources
(2002)
We introduce a flexible mechanism to classify metadata resources using their elements and
attributes. The metadata resources are represented in XML and we assume that they
have been created based on some ...
Java-based digital library portal for geography education
(2004)
G-Portal is a Java-based digital library system to manage the metadata of geography-related resources on the Web. In addition to providing a flexible repository subsystem to accommodate metadata of different formats using ...
G-Portal : a map-based digital library for distributed geospatial and georeferenced resources
(2002)
As the World Wide Web evolves into an immense information network, it is tempting to build new digital library services and expand existing digital library services to make use of web content. In this paper, we present the ...
Collaborative query previews in digital libraries
(2004)
A novel method named collaborative query previews (CQPs) to augment information seeking
in digital libraries is proposed. CQPs aim to help users make better sense of the collection of a
digital ...
Developing a digital library of reusable historical artifacts
(2002)
This paper discusses the design and implementation of a digital library of historical artifacts. A major goal of the project is to create an architecture in which artifacts are reusable across various digital library ...
Discourse parsing of sociology dissertation abstracts using decision tree induction
(2003)
In this study, we investigated the use of decision tree induction to
parse the macro-level discourse structure of sociology dissertation abstracts.
We treated discourse parsing as a sentence ...
Social tags for resource discovery : a comparison between machine learning and user-centric approaches
(2011)
The objective of this paper is to investigate the effectiveness of tags in facilitating resource discovery through machine learning and user-centric approaches. Drawing our dataset from a popular social tagging system, ...
The ALA, public libraries and the Great Depression
(2007)
During the Great Depression of the 1930s, the American Library Association (ALA) became active in an alliance of public administrators, bank executives and teachers defending public spending from powerful populist anti-tax ...
Reading, the library, and the elderly : a Singapore case study
(2011)
Singapore is now one of the fastest aging societies in the world. By 2030 those over 65 years old are expected to number 1.41m strong, 26.8 percent of the country’s entire population. Given these numbers, it is not surprising ...