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A recent pilot program pioneered the development of Teaching Boxes by the Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE) with the Univ. of CA. Berkeley Museum of Paleontology, SF State Univ., USGS, and seven San Francisco area middle/high school teachers. This paper shares the current DLESE Teaching Box effort, explains the pilot program, and highlights the use of web services to create a context...
In recent years we have witnessed a dramatic increase in the volume of electronic and digital information that has been produced and as a result we feel increasingly overwhelmed by the amount of digital information that needs to be managed. This paper describes a Web-based personal digital library system, myPDL, which was designed and developed to allow individual users to create, store, organize,...
Catalogers of Web sites for a digital library face unique challenges. There are no well-established rules for cataloging the less structured and constantly-changing information object. Identifying problems arising from Web site cataloging process will provide insights in designing better cataloging systems to support the process. One of the approaches of exploring the problems and how they are dealt...
Terrorist organizations and their sympathizers are using Web sites and online bulletin boards for propaganda, recruitment and communication purposes. We call this alternate side of the Web used by terrorists, the Dark Web. Dark Web information can be analyzed to enable better understanding and analysis of the terrorism phenomena. However, several problems such as information overload and language...
Summary form only given. The field of ethnomusicology depends heavily on ethnographic research or "fieldwork" by researchers that often involves the capture and subsequent analysis of audio and video information, to help document and understand the musical practices of people all over the world. Ethnomusicologists have used a variety of recording technologies over the years to capture film...
The Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) project at Tufts' Academic Technology department provides faculty and students with tools to successfully integrate digital resources into their teaching and learning. VUE provides a visual environment for structuring, presenting, and sharing digital information and an OKI-compliant software bridge for connecting to FEDORA-based digital repositories. Using...
This introductory tutorial is intended for anyone concerned with subject access to digital libraries. It provides a bridge by presenting methods of subject access as treated in an information studies program for those coming to digital libraries from other fields. It elucidates through examples the conceptual and vocabulary problems users face when searching digital libraries. It then shows how a...
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