scholarly journals Creation of the Resources on Culture and Art in Russian by the National Libraries of the CIS

2018 ◽  
Vol 67 (6) ◽  
pp. 617-629 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milena L. Sukhotina
Keyword(s):  
Information Resources ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Kyrgyz Republic ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
National Library ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Electronic Publications ◽  
Cis Countries ◽  
National Libraries

The author present the results of study of the activities of national libraries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) on the creation and promotion of electronic information resources.The article analyses the open resources on culture and art presented in Russian on the official websites of the national libraries (NL) of the CIS countries.The author identified and structured the main types of resources of the National libraries of the CIS: electronic publications; electronic libraries; databases; virtual exhibitions, collections; photo-, video-, audio reports. The article presents in detail the resources of the National Libraries of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Republic of Belarus, Republic of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Republic of Uzbekistan and Ukraine. The author notes that the most common resources are electronic exhibitions and collections, but other types of resources — electronic publications, electronic libraries, databases — are rarely created. Innovation in the activities of the NL of the CIS on the creation of information resources is preparation of electronic reports on the results of past cultural events. The leader in creating and providing online resources in Russian on culture and art is the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine, followed by the National Library of Uzbekistan named after A. Navoi and the National Library of Belarus. Monitoring of Russian-language sources of information on the websites of the NL of the CIS countries demonstrated that the efforts of libraries in the creation and presentation of resources on culture and art are quite active. Their further development by the libraries will contribute to the expansion of knowledge about the national culture and history of the CIS countries, disclosure and promotion of the collections and widening of the boundaries of free access to the national cultural and historical heritage.

scholarly journals Ebola Outbreak Response: The Role of Information Resources and the National Library of Medicine

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia B. Love ◽  
Stacey J. Arnesen ◽  
Steven J. Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Information Resources ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Outbreak Response ◽  
National Library ◽  
Online Data ◽  
Journal Literature ◽  
The Us ◽  
Variation Database ◽  
Disaster Event

AbstractThe US National Library of Medicine (NLM) offers Internet-based, no-cost resources useful for responding to the 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak. Resources for health professionals, planners, responders, and researchers include PubMed, Disaster Lit, the Web page “Ebola Outbreak 2014: Information Resources,” and the Virus Variation database of sequences for Ebolavirus. In cooperation with participating publishers, NLM offers free access to full-text articles from over 650 biomedical journals and 4000 online reference books through the Emergency Access Initiative. At the start of a prolonged disaster event or disease outbreak, the documents and information of most immediate use may not be in the peer-reviewed biomedical journal literature. To maintain current awareness may require using any of the following: news outlets; social media; preliminary online data, maps, and situation reports; and documents published by nongovernmental organizations, international associations, and government agencies. Similar to the pattern of interest shown in the news and social media, use of NLM Ebola-related resources is also increasing since the start of the outbreak was first reported in March 2014 (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2014;0:1-4)

The Swiss National Library

1992 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 187-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean Frédéric Jauslin
Keyword(s):  
Information Service ◽  
Information Resources ◽  
Federal State ◽  
National Library ◽  
Information Centre ◽  
General Review ◽  
Provision Of Services ◽  
National Libraries ◽  
Information And Technology

This Swiss National Library, which dates from 1894, initially had the function of collecting Helvetica; later the construction of a union catalogue and the creation of a central information service were added to its responsibilities. It achieved much success, but from the 1970s reduced funds and a lack of foresight severely eroded its standing and role. Following the appointment of a new Director in 1990, a team of experts in information and technology was formed, a general review of the library's strengths and weaknesses was carried out, and an automation programme was started. A new policy has had to be defined for the role of a national library in a federal state. It is proposed that the library's responsibilities should include all kinds of information resources, and give equal attention to conversation and the provision of services, the latter particularly as an information centre for material of Swiss interest. Greatly increased funds and staff are being sought. A revision of the law relating to the National Library has been submitted to Parliament; this defines its collection policy (including legal deposit, which the library has not hitherto had) and prescribes its bibliographic services. These developments should lead to the regaining of a prominent position for the library and thence to a national coordination plan for Swiss libraries. The National Library will seek solutions for the problems posed by multilingualism. It will also look for cooperation with other national libraries in Europe.

scholarly journals THE FORMATION OF THE REPOSITORY OF PERSONAL BIBLIOGRAPHIC INDEXES: DEFINITION OF REQUIREMENTS AND STATEMENT OF TASKS

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Filippova
Keyword(s):  
Information Resources ◽  
Free Access ◽  
National Library ◽  
Institutional Repositories ◽  
Bibliographic Information ◽  
Biographical Research ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
Bibliographical Information ◽  
Universal Structure ◽  
Definition Of

The purpose of the article. The paper is devoted to updating the study of the formation of the repository of personal bibliographic indexes as a part of the research and information project of the Institute of Biographical Research of the V. I. Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine "Ukrainian National Biographical Archive". The methodology is based on the use of methods of scientific analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction, review-analytical, classification, and terminological methods. These methods have identified the repository as one of the most representative forms of presentation of consolidated biobibliographic resources, designed to provide free access to bibliographic information about documents and their full-text versions. The scientific novelty of the paper lies in the intensification of scientific research on repositories as a universal structure for the presentation of electronic data of various thematic areas, including biographical and bibliographical content. Conclusions. The historiography of the problem of electronic repositories of consolidated information resources developing is highlighted. It was conditionally divided into two groups of sources. The first one includes works devoted to the formation of integrated biographical and bibliographic information resources. The second group presents the experience of creating institutional repositories by domestic scientific institutions. The requirements for the repository of the personal bibliographic indexes of the "Ukrainian National Biographical Archive" are determined. The tasks, that the Institute of Biographical Researches of the V. I. Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine has as its disposer on the providing the accumulation, preserving, systematizing, and representing the records of biobibliographical character by giving the open access to descriptive, bibliographical information and electronic versions of the records, are formulated.

scholarly journals Ways of Electronic Publications' Classification in the Legal Deposit System

2012 ◽  
pp. 28-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena I. Kozlova
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Information Resources ◽  
National Standards ◽  
Information Collection ◽  
National Library ◽  
Electronic Documents ◽  
Audio Books ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Electronic Publications

On the problems of liberal interpretation of responsibilities for the delivery of electronic publications and audio-visual products by the producers, which leads to significant losses in the acquisition of National Library and Information Collection as an object of cultural heritage and in informing of libraries on information resources published in the territory of the Russian Federation. A comparison of classification features of audio books and audio-visual products as defined by law and national standards. Particular attention is paid to expediency of enhancement of electronic documents varieties as a part of an obligatory copy by amending the existing regulations.

scholarly journals DISNET: a framework for extracting phenotypic disease information from public sources

PeerJ ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. e8580 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerardo Lagunes-García ◽  
Alejandro Rodríguez-González ◽  
Lucía Prieto-Santamaría ◽  
Eduardo P. García del Valle ◽  
Massimiliano Zanin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Language Processing ◽  
Clinical Manifestations ◽  
Medical Knowledge ◽  
Signs And Symptoms ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Disease Networks ◽  
Disease Information ◽  
Interesting Approach ◽  
The Creation

Background Within the global endeavour of improving population health, one major challenge is the identification and integration of medical knowledge spread through several information sources. The creation of a comprehensive dataset of diseases and their clinical manifestations based on information from public sources is an interesting approach that allows one not only to complement and merge medical knowledge but also to increase it and thereby to interconnect existing data and analyse and relate diseases to each other. In this paper, we present DISNET (http://disnet.ctb.upm.es/), a web-based system designed to periodically extract the knowledge from signs and symptoms retrieved from medical databases, and to enable the creation of customisable disease networks. Methods We here present the main features of the DISNET system. We describe how information on diseases and their phenotypic manifestations is extracted from Wikipedia and PubMed websites; specifically, texts from these sources are processed through a combination of text mining and natural language processing techniques. Results We further present the validation of our system on Wikipedia and PubMed texts, obtaining the relevant accuracy. The final output includes the creation of a comprehensive symptoms-disease dataset, shared (free access) through the system’s API. We finally describe, with some simple use cases, how a user can interact with it and extract information that could be used for subsequent analyses. Discussion DISNET allows retrieving knowledge about the signs, symptoms and diagnostic tests associated with a disease. It is not limited to a specific category (all the categories that the selected sources of information offer us) and clinical diagnosis terms. It further allows to track the evolution of those terms through time, being thus an opportunity to analyse and observe the progress of human knowledge on diseases. We further discussed the validation of the system, suggesting that it is good enough to be used to extract diseases and diagnostically-relevant terms. At the same time, the evaluation also revealed that improvements could be introduced to enhance the system’s reliability.

The Library and Freedom of Information: Agent or Icon?

2001 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Sturges
Keyword(s):  
Information Resources ◽  
Freedom Of Information ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
National Library ◽  
Information Agent ◽  
The Right ◽  
Iconic Representations ◽  
National Libraries ◽  
Right Of Access ◽  
Access Mechanisms

It is through freedom of information legislation that states come closest to providing the full mechanism for access to files. Because the library holds information resources and provides services that promise access to information, it seems natural to suggest that the library, particularly the national library, is an agent for freedom of information. But the first element of true freedom of information is that a set of transparent and effective mechanisms exists so as to allow the right of access to be realized in practice; the second element is that access to files should not require the demonstration of any ‘need to know’. National libraries have collections of great size and diversity, and they can call on the resources of other libraries, nationally and internationally; but they are seldom open to all. Library access mechanisms can also be unduly complex, to the extent that only the committed user can get full value from them; in effect, libraries operate on a ‘need to know’ system. Libraries serve many invaluable purposes, but they are not so much agents of freedom of information as iconic representations of national commitment to freedom of information.

scholarly journals Online Bibliographic Products: Theory Issues and the Practice of the Russian State Library and the National Library of Russia

2018 ◽  
Vol 67 (5) ◽  
pp. 501-512
Author(s):  
Grigoriy L. Levin
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Information Resources ◽  
Specific Structure ◽  
Bibliographic Databases ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
National Library ◽  
Russian State ◽  
State Library ◽  
National Libraries

The article highlights the research work “Information and bibliographic activities in the modern electronic environment”, “Electronic bibliographic products in the structure of information resources of Federal and Central regional libraries” carried out by the Scientific research Department of bibliography of the Russian State Library in 2017 — the first half of 2018. The author considers a number of general theoretical and methodological issues: what are the library’s information resources; what is the place of bibliographic resources in their structure; and what is the type-specific structure of bibliographic resources of library, including electronic ones. The important part of the library’s information resources are bibliographic resources, including electronic of two main types (classes): innovative (bibliographic databases, electronic catalogues), and traditional (bibliographic catalogues-inventories, indexes, lists, reviews, etc.). The article presents the results of the comparative analysis of resources of the second type created in the Russian State Library and the National Library of Russia in 2009—2017.The websites of both libraries contain digital copies and electronic versions of printed bibliographic publications, as well as original bibliographic products (which have no printed analogues). Online bibliographic products have firmly taken their place in the structure of information resources of national libraries, somewhere supplementing them and somewhere replacing the printed format.

Measuring Progress: Recent Developments in Digital Preservation in the Library Community

2007 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-122
Author(s):  
Ingeborg Verheul ◽  
Hilde Van Wijngaarden
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Digital Preservation ◽  
National Library ◽  
Library Community ◽  
Commercial Interest ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Technical Solutions ◽  
National Libraries

The article notes that over the last decade digital preservation has changed from a niche subject to an integrated part of library organization. It summarizes the results of a survey conducted in 2005 by the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, national library of the Netherlands, on best practice in digital preservation, which involved 15 national libraries. As well as the essential technical solutions, the need for the creation of preservation policy plans emerged from the survey as crucial to the whole digital preservation process. The article also describes important developments since the survey was conducted. It shows how best practice is evolving into de facto standards and identifies the beginnings of commercial interest in the marketing of tools for digital preservation.

scholarly journals Digital Services of the National Library of Korea: Current State and Tasks

2018 ◽  
Vol 67 (6) ◽  
pp. 673-680 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sulhee Cho
Keyword(s):  
Information Resources ◽  
Information Storage ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
National Library ◽  
Digital Service ◽  
Digital Services ◽  
The World ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Information Materials

The National Library (NL) of Korea holds about 16.3 million digital information materials. Since 2016, the NL has been receiving legal deposit copies of e-books, digital copies of publications, magazines and newspapers. The article analyses digital services of the NL of Korea and identifies the main problems in this area.The NL of Korea is the main library of the country, actively developing the inter-library relations, cooperating with libraries of the Republic of Korea and around the world. It developed the Reference service “Ask a Librarian”, created the Catalogue of digital books, the System “Free Access to Korea” and offers the services on providing information in alternative forms for people with disabilities. The NL designed the automated library system and implemented it in 1094 library. The NL of Korea started the work on creation of the China-Japan-Korea Digital Library Portal. There is a number of problems: acquisition of electronic legal deposit copies, lack of the content for some projects, lack of information services, optimized for the users requirements. The purpose of this study: professional dialogue in the world library community for the exchange of experience, knowledge information resources and for sharing of library content. The article presents the Three-year digital service plan. The author describes the goals and objectives of the NL of Korea: the expansion of the library holdings in the digital environment, the improvement of operation of digital resources, the activation of mobile services and popularization of humanities knowledge through digitization.The principle of operation of all Korean libraries is changing from data collecting and information storage to implementation of information. The author concludes that libraries should quickly respond to the information technology changes. Nowadays, there increases the importance of collecting and storing of all information resources of the national value.

Language as a Factor in the New Identity Formation (Illustrated by Central Asian States)

2019 ◽  
pp. 175-187
Author(s):  
Tetiana Liashenko
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Political Space ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Positive Image ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
National Languages ◽  
The Russian Language

Attempts to build a “Russian world” within the former Soviet republics of Central Asia by introducing an idea of a single linguistic, cultural and political space with the Russian Federation are studied in the article. The threats to the Central Asian countries’ information space are analyzed. The data on gradual changing of orientations of the Central Asian states’ citizens when choosing sources of information is provided. It is concluded that the technologies of the Russian Federation’s propaganda in Central Asia are aimed primarily at the formation of the president of Russia positive image among the widest possible groups of population. Attempts to push so-called “the Russian world”, which already jeopardize global peaceful balance, are grounded, in particular, on a widespread use of the Russian language within the territories of the former USSR that serves to propagate an idea of a single linguistic, cultural and political space. At the same time, a revival and development of national languages and cultures are intensively ongoing in all new independent states. It provokes a confrontation that often causes points of tension and conflicts. A large number of the Russian media, including federal state editions, TV channels. the Sputnik news agency etc. operates in Central Asian information space. Using own controlled media, the Kremlin seeks to convince the Central Asian states’ citizens that the Russia’s foreign policy is a right one, as well as to form a positive image of Russia and president Putin as a politician who is capable to ensure stability and security in the Central Asian region. The Russian Federation pays a special attention to Eastern Kazakhstan, where a large number of ethnic Russians is concentrated. Kazakhstan has much in common with Ukraine on its ethnic population composition, economic situation and geographical proximity to Russia. As in Ukraine, the ethnic Russians make up about 1/5 of the population in Kazakhstan, meanwhile the Russian language is widely used in all spheres. Russia calls its initiative a “humanitarian project”, but there is no doubt that the Kremlin is fighting for minds of younger generation, trying to impose own culture and values on young people. Recently, while alternative sources of information have been spreading, more and more Central Asian habitants opt for online information in their national languages, considering Russianspeaking news resources to be a propaganda.

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