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The trend of resources organization is the semantization of library resources in the internet environment. Nowadays, Library resources are beginning to transform to multidimensional revelation of library resources, a major support of library knowledge service. With the help of automatic ontology construction platform, we attempt to make a corpus of terminologies in dermatology and make semantic annotations...
This paper presents the results of an academic research about Information Technology Service Management (ITSM) conducted in 2012 in a public regional organization in Madeira Autonomous Region, the Culture, Tourism and Transport Regional Department. We select the Configuration Management process of Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) as a model to implement in this organization to...
This study examines the virtual infrastructures of the regional Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences System (BIREME )based in Brazil. BIREME offers a regional health information system for collaboration in scientific research, education, and evidence-based health care. Virtual infrastructures refer to an environment characterized by overlapping distribution networks accessible through Internet...
Of all the benefits public access computers (PAC) offer users, one stands apart: stronger personal connections with friends and family. A closer look at the results of a qualitative study among users of libraries, telecenters, and cybercafes in Colombia, South America, shows that social media and personal relationships can also have an important community and sociopolitical dimension. By fostering...
As the role of webometrics playing in organization management and information management of network appears more and more important, how to mine the new data sources to improve the application level of webometrics is becoming the trend of making use of the efficiency of network information resources. This article discussed the feasibility of extracting the new data sources of webometrics relying on...
One of the most unpredictable forms of terrorism acts are those committed by a single individual, a so-called "lone wolf terrorist". The most difficult part in detecting a lone wolf is that they can come in any size, shape, and ethnicity and represent any ideology. However, there are some characteristic similarities that many lone wolves share. In this paper we identify three different areas...
As far as possible, the generally-known supporting techniques of Internet of Things and the widely-used Internet techniques are adopted to develop the interactive network platform of ubiquitous service, which can not only achieve the "stupidization" of its ways of using, but also is beneficial to march towards Ubiquitous Society. At present, according to changes of users' requirements in...
Applications based on SaaS platform have been appeared as services for common users and enterprise users and an integration management of literature contents of libraries in the country is needed in the future. SaaS based literature contents integration has not been done here yet. Therefore, this paper presents SaaS based technology which integrates literature contents of public organizations or libraries...
This thesis emphaticly analizes and studies undergraduates' information demand and information behavior through investigation. Based on the conclusion of this investigation, we try to understand the demand awareness, the information needs, information seeking patterns and evaluation items and purchase intention of undergraduates' for business information in China. At the end of the study, we also...
In a federation, single sign-on (SSO) for web applications can be achieved by performing authentication at the user's home organization called identity provider (IdP) and authorization at the service provider (SP). The IdP provides the user's information to the SP though the attribute exchange and the SP assigns the authorized access level for the user according to the data in the attributes. The...
Business intelligence used by an enterprise is an effective tool to help and guide our decision making to improve our products and services quantity. This paper describes SharePoint Server 2007, what business intelligence is, discusses Office SharePoint Server 2007 features for business intelligence, data integration features of Office SharePoint Server 2007, and finally, describes information presentation...
In order to solve software complexity crisis problem, policy-based method and agent-based system is combined to build autonomic computing system, where agent stands for autonomic element and policy stands for administrator's goal. Due to dynamic nature of administrator's goal, a mechanism must be provided to commit policy modification. This paper proposes an integrative framework where policy modification...
Considered in this paper are the possibilities and peculiarities of creating knowledge portal on the basis of ontologies, as well as basic ontologies of scientific knowledge portal and offline knowledge avantportal. Proposed is two-level concept for development of scientific knowledge portal. According to this concept, the “lower” level (resource) is digital library, created on the basis of ontologies,...
This paper aims to investigate the additional information value provided by user-created social tags and author-provided metadata as well as their effectiveness in facilitating Web clustering and discovery. We collected a data set of Web pages that includes both social tags from the del.icio.us website and author-provided metadata crawled from the internet. Based on this data set, we first checked...
This paper discussed library under the network environment of the movement and the development and its network turn the existent problem in the construction, put forward the method of resources organization and exploitation of the network information and points out digitization is the developing direction of libraries on this foundation.
Digital information resources are the key link for the formation of digital library federation. In this paper, several basic issues on the information resources development and utilization of digital library federation were studied. Domain analysis theory and new theory under Web2.0 information basic environment were respectively applied to carry out analysis on the digital information resources organization...
The NSTL was developed as an information resource infrastructure for supporting research and education in science and technology. The article sums up its development model and mechanism, the way and experience in providing networked information service, from the aspects of its establishment background, current development, construction achievement and service activity, based on literature and website...
This study investigates how undergraduate and graduate students search the web for consumer health information. The 32 participants were asked to find answers to four health related topics. Data was collected through pre- and post search questionnaires, think-aloud protocol, and transaction logs. The results presented focus on the search process as a whole and by question and on the user satisfaction.
Emergence of open access repositories has extended digital libraries, while evaluation of the digital libraries has drawn great attention in recent years. Discipline repository is a major type of open repositories which have developed quickly with the open access movement. The present research proposes an evaluation criteria system and applies it to assess the usability of three selected discipline...
University libraries are currently facing their greatest challenge. For more than a decade, university libraries have been under the pressure to change its way of operation and management due to the tight of budget and the appearance of online resources. These situations cause the libraries to value their development of resources and the application of business marketing to better service. How to...
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