ASTER—Towards Modality-Independent Electronic Documents

Digital publishing is changing the way in which research, particularly in the humanities, is being undertaken and it offers a range of transformative possibilities and challenges to traditional disciplines and to the nature of the printed text. The technical manipulation of information and the construction of new content that can be customised, modified, disseminated, and accessed within a global, distributed network provide new opportunities for the humanities researcher. As a way of illustrating our argument, we discuss the Children's Literature Digital Resources (CLDR) project, with with we are involved, and explore a range of emerging new media and their impact on research in the humanities and education.

Using the results from a publishers&apos survey conducted in June 1999 of the Association of American University Presses, Jennifer Siler creates a baseline record of university presses' current involvement in electronic publishing. Scholarly publishers launch electronic publishing projects for a variety of purposes, such as marketing and discussion tools for clothbound books, teaching and research tools for specialized markets, the timeliness of the electronic form (including the ability to update the material with relative ease), and the capability of on-demand printing. Other scholarly publishers prefer not to participate in forms of electronic publishing because of the need for specially trained staff, the additional cost of the technology and labour, a perceived limited market, and, in some cases, a lack of appropriate product for the electronic form. Siler argues that, given the rapid changes in technology and the developing trend towards electronic dissemination of research, publishers will have to be prepared to provide their markets with the markets' format of choice. Siler concludes that the book will nevertheless survive the new technology as it has in the past.

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Coming with the time of electronic information and network, the traditional mode of service function of library cannot meet far the diverse needs of readers of students. In this state, it has become an inevitable trend to establish a digital library with collection of network and electronic publications in the integrative multi-functional modern. In this paper, SWOT analysis on the strength, weakness, opportunity and threat of the digital library in universities in China, the development strategy of the digital library in universities is obtained. The results are useful for the digital library in universities in China to develop healthily.KeywordsDigital librarySWOT analysisdevelopment strategyuniversity


 
 
 
 Problem Statement: Cloud computing has the potential to increase literacy in Indonesia by enabling wider and more efficient access to sources of information through the creation of digital libraries that can be accessed anywhere and anytime. 
 Purpose: In this analysis we can understand how Indonesian digital libraries are doing right now and outlines the difficulties they confront in giving their users access to information and resources. 
 Method: This research is a descriptive qualitative research. Researchers chose to use this method because this research focuses on complex social phenomena, namely increasing literacy through the use of digital libraries supported by cloud processing technology. 
 Result: The advantages of cloud computing technology for digital libraries, such as improved accessibility, improved cooperation, and increased efficiency, are also covered in the article. 
 Conclusion: At the article's suggestions are made for using and implementing cloud computing technologies to increase literacy rates in Indonesia.
 
 
 
 
 
 Keywords: Literacy; Digital Libraries; Cloud Computing
 
 
 
 
 
 Abstrak
 
 
 
 
 Permasalahan: Komputasi awan memiliki potensi untuk meningkatkan literasi di Indonesia dengan memungkinkan akses yang lebih luas dan efisien ke sumber informasi melalui pembuatan perpustakaan digital yang dapat diakses di mana saja dan kapan saja.
 Tujuan: Dalam analisis ini kita dapat memahami bagaimana perpustakaan digital Indonesia saat ini dan menguraikan kesulitan yang mereka hadapi dalam memberikan akses informasi dan sumber daya kepada penggunanya.
 Metode: Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian kualitatif deskriptif. Peneliti memilih menggunakan metode ini karena penelitian ini berfokus pada fenomena sosial yang kompleks, yaitu peningkatan literasi melalui penggunaan perpustakaan digital yang didukung oleh teknologi pemrosesan awan.
 Hasil: Keuntungan teknologi komputasi awan untuk perpustakaan digital ini seperti, peningkatan aksesibilitas, peningkatan kerja sama, dan peningkatan efisiensi.
 Kesimpulan: Pada artikel tersebut diusulkan penggunaan dan implementasi teknologi komputasi awan untuk meningkatkan angka melek huruf di Indonesia.
 
 
 
 
 Kata kunci: Literasi; Perpustakaan Digital; Komputasi Awan
 
 
 

If the current move towards the creation of digital libraries is to be successful, solutions have to be found to reconcile the principle of copyright of material with the aim...

Knowledge-graph-based recommendation aims to provide personalized recommendation services to users based on their historical interaction information, which is of great significance for shopping transaction rates and other aspects. With the rapid growth of online shopping, the knowledge graph constructed from users’ historical interaction data now incorporates multiattribute information, including timestamps, images, and textual content. The information of multiple modalities is difficult to effectively utilize due to their different representation structures and spaces. The existing methods attempt to utilize the above information through simple embedding representation and aggregation, but ignore targeted representation learning for information with different attributes and learning effective weights for aggregation. In addition, existing methods are not sufficient for effectively modeling temporal information. In this article, we propose MTR, a knowledge graph recommendation framework based on mixture of experts network. To achieve this goal, we use a mixture-of-experts network to learn targeted representations and weights of different product attributes for effective modeling and utilization. In addition, we effectively model the temporal information during the user shopping process. A thorough experimental study on popular benchmarks validates that MTR can achieve competitive results.

The Information Age is fully upon us. A recent article noted that there are perhaps 50 million people using the Internet on a regular basis, and That “the current growth rate is about 15% per month (!) and this could well continue until almost all of those in the ‘developed world’ are connected” [FM94, p. 30]. In addition, the digital domain consists not only of text but increasingly of other media representations, from graphics images to audio to motion video. As the amount of information and number of users exponentially escalate, more attention focuses on the basic problems of information management: How do you digitize information? How can you then visualize it and find what you need? How do you use and manipulate it effectively? How is it stored and managed? The proliferation of technical articles and special issues addressing these questions underscore their importance; see for example the special issue on Content-based retrieval [Nar95] or digital libraries [F+95]. This chapter will survey some of that work, especially that which relates to the treatment of video and the use of digital video libraries For education.

The article describes the selection criteria for electronic library systems and the requirements for them. The main problem of the systems that are offered for purchase to universities is analyzed and summarized. The criteria that electronic libraries must meet, the basic principles of building and developing own electronic library and information systems of universities are considered. The types of users who can work with the system, the content that the electronic library should contain, are described. Structural schemes of the electronic library system of the university and its elements are given. The schemes meet regulatory requirements and take into account the specifics of the work of higher educational institutions. The basic elements and modules of the electronic library system, their main functionality and content components are presented. The approach proposed by the author of the article will allow universities to develop and organize electronic library systems within their educational institution.

In this article recent developments in the management of electronic journals at the Technical Knowledge Center & Library of Denmark (DTV) are outlined. Special emphasis is put on the reengineering of library services to take advantage of changes in electronic publishing, and on the development in house of a common user interface to electronic journals and databases. The human resource development activities including a domestic PC programme and distance learning as a primary means of educating staff are highlighted.

A digital library, together with its users and its contents, does not exist in isolated splendour; nor in hypertext terms is it merely the intertextual relationships between its texts. There is a cycle of activities which provides the context for the library's existence, and which the library supports through its various roles of information access, discovery, storage, dissemination and preservation. This paper describes the role of digital library systems in the undertaking of science, and in particular in the context of the recent developments of the Grid for computer-supported scientific collaboration and Virtual Universities for computer-supported education. This paper focuses on a specific framework, the Dynamic Review Journal, which supports the development and dissemination of documents by assisting authors in collating and analysing experimental results, organising internal project discussions, and producing papers. By bridging the gap between the undertaking of experimental work and the dissemination of its results through electronic publication, this work addresses the cycle of activity in which a digital library rests.

After studying the origins of the electronic library, from new technologies to research methods for library practices, the author reviews here the various uses of electronic publications in a library, their advantages and their difficulties. There are two aspects concerning these documents: one is the electronic document management and processing within the library, whatever the origin of that document may be (document integrity, bibliographic control, scholarly communications issue), the other is the subscriptions to periodicals on electronic media (storing, indexing, archiving, copying, browsing, etc.). The author also tries to give a few predictions about what she feels will happen in the immediate future in the libraries regarding electronic documents and what is now called «the electronic library». Special attention is being paid to the structure of the electronic documents, specially as most electronic publications are being currently structured with the Standard Generalized Mark-up Language (SGML). This may open new uses for cataloguing purposes and may lead to question the future of the various MARC formats used currently in libraries for automated cataloguing. The virtual library centainly opens new trends of thought and new possibilities for the librarian of the next century

Electronic Publishing offers many opportunities to today’s users and scholars that were not available to their predecessors. Because of the multidimensional features of e-Journals, they are becoming the choice of academic as well as public library users. Technology, and particularly the Internet, has great potential for altering scholarly communication and research inhumanities, sciences, social sciences, and health sciences disciplines. Results of scholarly surveys show that there is a significant interest in e-Publication of research. Thus, this research paper investigates the attitudes and perceptions of faculty members at the University of Jordan (UJ) of current issues associated with the use of electronic publishing and perceived obstacles to their extended use for scholarly communication and publication. Specifically, the primary focus of this study is to examine and perceive how faculty members’ use of electronic publications might affect their interest in publishing their own research in electronic formats; as well as to determine the contribution of scholars towards publishing in e-Journals. In order to achieve the research objectives, a questionnaire method was adopted to elicit the opinions of the faculty members; whereas personal interviews were conducted to fill in the gaps. The results of the study reveal that the majority of the faculty members prefer to publish in electronic formats refereed journals, due to the advantages of publishing in e-Journals. Furthermore, the findings show that faculty members are also concerned about the disadvantages of e-Publishing. On the basis of the findings, some suggestions have been recommended to make publishing in e-Journals more acceptable to those scholars at UJ who still do not use it, as well as to maximize the use of e-Publishing because of the advantages that it may offer.

Previous communications have described some of the many changes that will occur in the next few months as AGU makes the transition to fully electronic publishing. With the advent of the new AGU electronic publishing system, manuscripts will be submitted, edited, reviewed, and published in electronic formats. This piece discusses the review process from the point of view of the reviewer.

The ever-increasing flow of scientific and technical articles poses problems with respect to their retrieval. Many databases contain a wealth of information, but the users are confronted with several shortcomings, many of which are related in one way or another, with the technological nature of the publications. Another major problem is the duplicate storage of data by the numerous databases, whereas data on many other publications cannot be found in any of these databases. A solution is presented for those articles that will be published in an electronic form: a 'superdatabase' should be linked to all electronic publishers in such a way that the relevant data concerning online articles are automatically transferred to this superdatabase. Users can thus be sure that they can find all articles on a specific topic, without the possibility that some of the more important material might be overlooked. The solution proposed may increase the quality of the material to be published, may speed up the availability of data on newly published material, may result in payment for the authors, and will guarantee a reasonable fee for the publisher, for each article that will be downloaded.