Transforming Digital Worlds
13th International Conference, iConference 2018, Sheffield, UK, March 25-28, 2018, Proceedings
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Open AccessUser versus institutional perspectives of metadata and searching: an investigation of online access to cultural heritage content during the COVID-19 pandemic
Findings from log analyses of user interactions with the digital content of two large national cultural heritage institutions (National Museums of Scotland and National Galleries of Scotland) during the COVID-...
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Are Older People Battling with Digital Financial Services?
The proliferation of technology is the cause of converting many of the services to digital form which pressurizes everyone to adopt the internet. Online services which consist of financial transactions are req...
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Automation of University Library Operations: An Analysis of the COVID-19 Pandemic Experience in the United Kingdom and Nigeria
This study examined how automation systems enhanced the operations of university libraries in Nigeria and the United Kingdom (UK) during the COVID-19 pandemic. It reviewed literature on the extent of automatio...
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Accessing Digital Cultural Heritage Information: Users vs Institutional Perspectives of Metadata and Searching
A controlled experiment with ten participants, involving two tasks and a selected set of digital cultural heritage content, explored (a) how does the metadata assigned by cultural heritage organisations meet o...
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Identifying Design Requirements of a User-Centered Research Data Management System
Research data repositories perform many useful functions, the key ones being the storage of research datasets, and making the same discoverable for potential reuse. Over the years, various criteria for assessi...
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A Method for Retrieval of Tweets About Hospital Patient Experience
Analysis of Twitter communications can capture data on hospital patient experience, and this will be more appropriate for hospital management and patient care because the data represent patients’ and carers’ e...
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Data Retrieval = Text Retrieval?
Due to the comparatively more recent emergence of data retrieval systems than text-based search engines, the former have still yet to achieve similar maturity in terms of standards and techniques. Most of the ...
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Information Seeking Behaviour of Aspiring Undergraduates on Social Media: Who Are They Interacting with?
In this paper we consider how aspiring undergraduates are utilising social media to meet their information needs during their application and transition into university. In particular, we ask who some of the p...
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Is Data Retrieval Different from Text Retrieval? An Exploratory Study
The fundamental characteristics of and form of user interaction with research datasets differ considerably from those of research publications. Notwithstanding these differences, however, the majority of curr...
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Preparedness for Research Data Sharing: A Study of University Researchers in Three European Countries
Many government and funding bodies around the world have been advocating open access to research data, arguing that such open access can bring a significant degree of economic and social benefit. However, the...
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Sustainability of digital libraries: a conceptual model and a research framework
This paper aims to develop a conceptual model and a research framework for study of the economic, social and environmental sustainability of digital libraries. The major factors that are related to the economi...
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Book and Conference Proceedings
The Outreach of Digital Libraries: A Globalized Resource Network
14th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, ICADL 2012, Taipei, Taiwan, November 12-15, 2012, Proceedings
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Main Trends in Digital Library Research (1990-2010): Analyzing the Past and Predicting the Future
This paper briefly presents the major research trends in digital library (DL) research (1990-2010). Bibliometrics and R-Squared (R2) values were used to analyze and predict the trends. The findings show that ther...
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Digital Library Research (1990-2010): A Knowledge Map of Core Topics and Subtopics
In the paper, we briefly present a methodology and a digital library (DL) research knowledge map of core topics and subtopics (1990-2010) which can be used to create a visual knowledge map of DL research, and ...
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Book and Conference Proceedings
The Role of Digital Libraries in a Time of Global Change
12th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, ICADL 2010, Gold Coast, Australia, June 21-25, 2010. Proceedings
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Large-Scale Impact of Digital Library Services: Findings from a Major Evaluation of SCRAN
This paper reports on an evaluation carried out on behalf of the Scottish Library and Information Council (SLIC) of a Scottish Executive initiative to fund a year’s use of a major commercial digital library se...
