scholarly journals Document Analysis Systems for Digital Libraries: Challenges and Opportunities

2004 ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry S. Baird ◽  
Venugopal Govindaraju ◽  
Daniel P. Lopresti
Keyword(s):  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities

Socializing accounting practices in governing boards: dairy co-operatives down-under

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen VanPeursem ◽  
Kevin Old ◽  
Stuart Locke
Keyword(s):  
Chief Executive Officers ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Chief Executive ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Small Pool ◽  
Executive Officers ◽  
Accountability Practices ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the accountability practices of the directors in New Zealand and Australian dairy co-operatives. An interpretation of their practices, which focus on the relationship between directors and their farmer-shareholders, is informed by Roberts’ (2001a) understandings of a socializing accountability. Design/methodology/approach – The fieldwork consists of interviews with 23 directors, including all chief executive officers and chairmen, of six dairy co-operatives together with observations and document analysis. These co-operatives together comprise a significant portion of the regional dairy industry. The methodology draws from Eisenhardt’s (1989) qualitative approach to theory formation. Findings – The authors find that these directors engage in a discourse-based, community-grounded and egalitarian form of socializing accountability. As such, their practices adhere generally to Roberts (2001a) hopes for a more considerate and humble relationship between an accountor and an accountee. Social implications – Findings add to the small pool of research on the lived experiences of co-operative boards and to a parsimonious literature in socializing accountability practices. The contributions of the study are in advancing real understandings of alternative forms of accountability, in evaluating the conditions in which these alternatives may be likely to arise and in anticipating the challenges and opportunities that arise therefrom. Originality/value – The originality of the project arises from accessing the views of these industry leaders and, through their frank expressions, coming to understand how they achieve a form of a socializing accountability in their relationships with farmer-shareholders.

THC-DAT: a document analysis tool based on topic hierarchy and context information

2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Chen ◽  
Tian Tian Wang ◽  
Quan Lu
Keyword(s):  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Latent Dirichlet Allocation ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
Context Information ◽  
Analysis Tool ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Comparison Functions ◽  
Document Organization ◽  
Topic Hierarchy

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose a novel within-document analysis tool (DAT) topic hierarchy and context-based document analysis tool (THC-DAT) which enables users to interactively analyze any multi-topic document based on fine-grained and hierarchical topics automatically extracted from it. THC-DAT used hierarchical latent Dirichlet allocation method and took the context information into account so that it can reveal the relationships between latent topics and related texts in a document. Design/methodology/approach – The methodology is a case study. The authors reviewed the related literature first, then utilized a general “build and test” research model. After explaining the model, interface and functions of THC-DAT, a case study was presented using a scholarly paper that was analyzed with the tool. Findings – THC-DAT can organize and serve document topics and texts hierarchically and context based, which overcomes the drawbacks of traditional DATs. The navigation, browse, search and comparison functions of THC-DAT enable users to read, search and analyze multi-topic document efficiently and effectively. Practical implications – It can improve the document organization and services in digital libraries or e-readers, by helping users to interactively read, search and analyze documents efficiently and effectively, exploringly learn about unfamiliar topics with little cognitive burden, or deepen their understanding of a document. Originality/value – This paper designs a tool THC-DAT to analyze document in a THC way. It contributes to overcoming the coarse-analysis drawbacks of existing within-DATs.

scholarly journals TPACK FRAMEWORK: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN EFL CLASSROOMS

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lita Liviani Taopan
Keyword(s):  
Technology Integration ◽  
Content Knowledge ◽  
Curriculum And Instruction ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
English Teacher ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
Dynamic Framework ◽  
Internet Connection ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities

Technological pedagogical and content knowledge (TPACK) is a dynamic framework for defining teachers' knowledge. This framework is needed for designing, implementing, and evaluating curriculum and instruction with technology. TPACK framework was firstly developed by Shulman (1986) and then expanded by Mishra & Koehler (2006) by adding the technology element. The purpose of this inquiry is to explore and retell the story of an English teacher using the TPACK framework for teaching English. More specifically, the study is intended to know the challenges and the opportunities in using the TPACK framework in teaching English. A narrative inquiry with the thematic analysis used for analyzing the data. To collect the data, the researcher used a semi-structured interview, observation, and document analysis. The participant was an experienced English Teacher in a high school in Indonesia. The study revealed that technology integration in teaching English is quite complicated. The teacher deals with challenges like IT literate, internet connection, and lack of ideas to create meaningful tasks using technology. Otherwise, technology integration offers some opportunities such as a pleasant and flexible classroom, motivate students and teacher to improve themselves and various opportunities to develop the multimodal product. This finding is a useful input related to the EFL research on technology integration. 

scholarly journals ECLAP 2012 Conference on Information Technologies for Performing Arts, Media Access and Entertainment

2012 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Media Access ◽  
Technology Innovations ◽  
Innovative Solutions ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Access Service ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Information

It has been a long history of Information Technology innovations within the Cultural Heritage areas. The Performing arts has also been enforced with a number of new innovations which unveil a range of synergies and possibilities. Most of the technologies and innovations produced for digital libraries, media entertainment and education can be exploited in the field of performing arts, with adaptation and repurposing. Performing arts offer many interesting challenges and opportunities for research and innovations and exploitation of cutting edge research results from interdisciplinary areas. For these reasons, the ECLAP 2012 can be regarded as a continuation of past conferences such as AXMEDIS and WEDELMUSIC (both pressed by IEEE and FUP). ECLAP is an European Commission project to create a social network and media access service for performing arts institutions in Europe, to create the e-library of performing arts, exploiting innovative solutions coming from the ICT.

Evaluation Constructs and Criteria for Digital Libraries

2013 ◽  
pp. 126-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soohyung Joo ◽  
Iris Xie
Keyword(s):  
Digital Library ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
System Performance ◽  
Interface Design ◽  
Evaluation Research ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
Information Organization ◽  
Design System ◽  
User Engagement ◽  
Performance Effects

The intent of this chapter is to identify constructs and criteria for Digital Library (DL) evaluation based on document analysis. Eighty-five relevant articles and five websites were reviewed to generate the evaluation constructs and criteria. The findings consist of ten constructs, including collection, information organization, interface design, system performance, effects on users, user engagement, services, preservation, sustainability/administration, and context of use with associated criteria for each dimension. In addition, this chapter discusses challenges in DL evaluation research and practices.

THC-DAT helps in reading a multi-topic document

2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 685-704
Author(s):  
Jing Chen ◽  
Dan Wang ◽  
Quan Lu ◽  
Zeyuan Xu
Keyword(s):  
Digital Libraries ◽  
User Satisfaction ◽  
Latent Dirichlet Allocation ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
Reading Performance ◽  
Analysis Tool ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Analysis Tools ◽  
Cognitive Overload ◽  
Topic Hierarchy

Purpose With a mass of electronic multi-topic documents available, there is an increasing need for evaluating emerging analysis tools to help users and digital libraries analyze these documents better. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the effectiveness, efficiency and user satisfaction of THC-DAT, a within-document analysis tool, in reading a multi-topic document. Design/methodology/approach The authors reviewed related literature first, then performed a user-centered, comparative evaluation of two within-document analysis tools, THC-DAT and BOOKMARK. THC-DAT extracts a topic hierarchy tree using hierarchical latent Dirichlet allocation (hLDA) method and takes the context information into account. BOOKMARK provides similar functionality to the Table of Contents bookmarks in Adobe Reader. Three novel kinds of tasks were devised for participants to finish on two tools, with objective results to assess reading effectiveness and efficiency. And post-system questionnaires were employed to obtain participants’ subjective judgments about the tools. Findings The results confirm that THC-DAT is significantly more effective than BOOKMARK, while not inferior in efficiency. There is some evidence that suggests THC-DAT can slow down the process of approaching cognitive overload and improve users’ willingness to undertake difficult task. Based on qualitative data from questionnaires, the results indicate that users were more satisfied when using THC-DAT than BOOKMARK. Practical implications Adopting THC-DAT in digital libraries or electrical document reading systems contributes to promoting users’ reading performance, willingness to undertake difficult task and general satisfaction. Moreover, THC-DAT is of great value to addressing cognitive overload problem in the information retrieval field. Originality/value This paper evaluates a novel within-document analysis tool in analyzing a multi-topic document, and proved that this tool is superior to the benchmark in effectiveness and user satisfaction, and not inferior in efficiency.

scholarly journals On The Current State of Scholarly Retrieval Systems

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 3863-3870 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Khalid ◽  
S. Khusro ◽  
I. Ullah ◽  
G. Dawson-Amoah
Keyword(s):  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Citation Network ◽  
Retrieval Systems ◽  
Current State ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Citation Network Analysis ◽  
Efficient Information ◽  
Academic Search

The enormous growth in the size of scholarly literature makes its retrieval challenging. To address this challenge, researchers and practitioners developed several solutions. These include indexing solutions e.g. ResearchGate, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Digital Bibliography & Library Project (DBLP) etc., research paper repositories e.g. arXiv.org, Zenodo, etc., digital libraries, scholarly retrieval systems, e.g., Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic Search, Semantic Scholar etc., digital libraries, and publisher websites. Among these, the scholarly retrieval systems, the main focus of this article, employ efficient information retrieval techniques and other search tactics. However, they are still limited in meeting the user information needs to the fullest. This brief review paper is an attempt to identify the main reasons behind this failure by reporting the current state of scholarly retrieval systems. The findings of this study suggest that the existing scholarly retrieval systems should differentiate scholarly users from ordinary users and identify their needs. Citation network analysis should be made an essential part of the retrieval system to improve the search precision and accuracy. The paper also identifies several research challenges and opportunities that may lead to better scholarly retrieval systems.

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