In the 21st century, digital libraries will have a tremendous positive impact on education, as
sharing of learning resources increases, supporting not only distance education but also on …

Providing education and training to the masses on gigantic scale, for economic survival and
to meet the ever-changing requirements of the society and also to meet the individual's …

Information retrieval (IR) has changed considerably in recent years with the expansion of the
World Wide Web and the advent of modern and inexpensive graphical user interfaces and …

Digital libraries (DLs) are complex information systems and therefore demand formal
foundations lest development efforts diverge and interoperability suffers. In this article, we …

Успешная творческая деятельность в современном мире невозможна вне сетевых
коллективов. Единицами культурной эволюции становятся сетевые гибридные …

The richness in knowledge has changed access methods for all stake holders in retrieving
key knowledge and relevant information. This paper presents a study of three open source …

In 1991, a group of researchers chose the term digital libraries to describe an emerging field
of research, development, and practice. Since then, Virginia Tech has had funded research …

Abstract The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) is a
collaborative effort of universities around the world to promote creating, archiving …

People who create digital libraries need to gather together the raw material, add metadata
as necessary, and design and build new collections. We set out the requirements for these …

Naturally, digital library systems focus principally on the reader: th e consumer of the
material that constitutes the library. In contrast, this paper describes an interface that makes …