scholarly journals Patterns of information – clustering books and readers in open access libraries

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald Snijder
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Success Rate ◽  
Digital Library ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Analysis Techniques ◽  
Online Retailers ◽  
User Groups ◽  
The Individual

Open access libraries operate in a continuum between two distinct organisation models: online retailers versus ‘traditional’ libraries. Online retailers such as Amazon.com are successful in recom-mending additional items that match the specific needs of their customers. The success rate of the recommendation depends on knowledge of the individual customer: more knowledge about persons leads to better suggestions. Thus, to optimally profit from the retailers’ offerings, the client must be prepared to share personal information, leading to the question of privacy.In contrast, protection of privacy is a core value for libraries. The question is how open access librar-ies can offer comparable services while retaining the readers’ privacy. A possible solution can be found in analysing the preferences of groups of like-minded people: communities. According to Lynch (2002), digital libraries are bad at identifying or predicting the communities that will use their collections. It is however our intention to explore the possibility to uncover sets of documents with a meaningful connection for groups of readers – the communities. The solution depends on examining patterns of usage, instead of storing information about individual readers. This paper will investigate the possibility to uncover the preferences of user groups within an open access digital library using social networking analysis techniques.

Intellectual Property Challenges in Digital Library Environments

2018 ◽  
pp. 225-240
Author(s):  
James Macharia Tutu
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Digital Library ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Digital Content ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Creative Commons ◽  
Property Owners ◽  
Copyright Ownership ◽  
The Right

Intellectual property poses a major challenge to digital libraries. This is because access to information in digital libraries is limited by laws, licenses and technology adopted by intellectual property owners. Similarly, intellectual property renders it difficult for digital libraries to make orphan works discoverable and accessible. Furthermore, intellectual property fragments copyright ownership, making it difficult for digital libraries to obtain the right clearance on content. To cope with these challenges, digital libraries have embraced the open access movement which allows reading, copying, downloading and sharing of digital content as long as the creators of the works are cited and acknowledged. Besides, digital libraries offer access to digital works produced under creative commons licenses. These licenses give the copyright owners the liberty to modify the copyright of their works to give room for sharing, use, and building upon the work.

Social Media and Social Networking in Digital Libraries

2019 ◽  
pp. 17-35
Author(s):  
Elisha Ondieki Makori
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Digital Library ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Information Professionals ◽  
Networking Technologies

The modern knowledge economy has transformed library and information organizations to adopt and embrace digital social media platforms. Proliferation and growth of social media and social networking technologies continue to play pivotal roles in establishment and operation of digital library and information systems in organizations. The purpose of the chapter is to examine the extent to which information professionals and practitioners understand the impact of social media and social networking technologies on digital library and information systems. The author also analyzes how information professionals manage and promote the adherence to copyright and intellectual property laws in digital library contexts. This chapter specifically discusses the rationale for social media and social networking in digital library and information systems; emerging social media platforms and their applications; legal aspects of social media, copyright and intellectual property protection, and risk management; as well as professional ethics and guidance on social media.

Role of Social Networking for Information Seeking in a Digital Library Environment

2016 ◽  
pp. 272-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ganiyu Ojo Adigun ◽  
Oluwole Akanmu Odunola ◽  
Adewale Joel Sobalaje
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Digital Library ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Information Seeking ◽  
Evolutionary Development ◽  
Other Information ◽  
Information Professionals ◽  
Social Networking Tools

This chapter discusses how to use social networking tools for information seeking in a digital library environment. Social networking is an evolutionary development of online participation, where people of common interest communicate, share and contribute content on the social cyberspace. The role of social networking for information seeking in libraries, most especially digital library is still evolving and cannot be over-emphasized. There is the need for libraries to exploit the advantages presented by these new media in providing better services. Social networking tools enable librarians and other information professionals to communicate, network and share documents with many clients regardless of location, and at little or no expense and viz. The chapter looks at: information seeking / search process; digital libraries; social networking as a concept; relationship between web 2.0, library 2.0, social media and social networking; role of social networking in digital library environment; role of information professionals in using social networking; social media platforms in digital library environment; challenges and prospects of integrating social networking with digital libraries and ways to improve the use of social networking for information seeking and dissemination in the future.

Collaborative Digital Library Development in India

2010 ◽  
pp. 206-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anup Kumar Das ◽  
B. K. Sen ◽  
Chaitali Dutta
Keyword(s):  
Digital Library ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Indian Languages ◽  
Funding Agencies ◽  
Efficient Retrieval ◽  
Retrieval Engine ◽  
Digitized Documents ◽  
The Individual

Digital library provides an excellent opportunity to widely disseminate our documentary heritages and greatly increases access to library collections of rare documents as well as current research literature. Indian digital library initiatives aim at producing a vast amount of digitized documents pertaining to different forms of recorded human knowledge, ranging from the rare manuscripts to current research literature. Digitized documents are made accessible in online information systems either through intranet or Internet channels. However, maintaining an Internet-based online digital library system has several problems such as availability of web server for 24X7 timeframe, robust broadband connectivity, efficient retrieval engine, ownership of digitized documents, etc. This chapter tries to address and document some of the prevailing social networking issues affecting Indian digital library initiatives, particularly the collaboration patterns among participating institutions as well as funding agencies. This chapter also tries to identify social relationships amongst the networked institutions in terms of nodes and ties. Nodes are the individual actors within the networks, and ties are the relationships between the actors. This chapter shows how social networks in the collaborative digital libraries play a critical role in determining the way problems are solved, organizations are run, and the degree to which individual projects succeed in achieving their goals. Digital Library of India (DLI) is the largest digitization initiative in India spreading across states of India and involving over ninety organizations to ensure several thousands of rare books written in Indian languages as well as non-Indian languages are accessible through Internet channel. This chapter critically appraises the formation of a formal social network in the DLI project embracing local memory institutions across the states of India as well as the funding agencies. Similarly, this chapter also critically analyses and elaborates another collaborative digital library initiative in India, namely, Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL).

Social Media and Social Networking in Digital Libraries

2021 ◽  
pp. 249-267
Author(s):  
Elisha Ondieki Makori
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Digital Library ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Information Professionals ◽  
Networking Technologies

The modern knowledge economy has transformed library and information organizations to adopt and embrace digital social media platforms. Proliferation and growth of social media and social networking technologies continue to play pivotal roles in establishment and operation of digital library and information systems in organizations. The purpose of the chapter is to examine the extent to which information professionals and practitioners understand the impact of social media and social networking technologies on digital library and information systems. The author also analyzes how information professionals manage and promote the adherence to copyright and intellectual property laws in digital library contexts. This chapter specifically discusses the rationale for social media and social networking in digital library and information systems; emerging social media platforms and their applications; legal aspects of social media, copyright and intellectual property protection, and risk management; as well as professional ethics and guidance on social media.

The Study of the Digital Library Knowledge Services in the Process of Integration of the Tri-Networks

2011 ◽  
Vol 268-270 ◽  
pp. 1390-1394
Author(s):  
Lin Zhang ◽  
Wei Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Digital Library ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Individual Knowledge ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Knowledge Services

In the Context of integration of the Tri-networks, digital libraries start running its individual knowledege service to express its using value. Basic on the gereral introduction of integration of the Tri-networks, this paper will discuess the stratiges of running the individual knowledge services.

Intellectual Property Challenges in Digital Library Environments

2021 ◽  
pp. 219-234
Author(s):  
James Macharia Tutu
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Digital Library ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Digital Content ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Creative Commons ◽  
Property Owners ◽  
Copyright Ownership ◽  
The Right

Intellectual property poses a major challenge to digital libraries. This is because access to information in digital libraries is limited by laws, licenses and technology adopted by intellectual property owners. Similarly, intellectual property renders it difficult for digital libraries to make orphan works discoverable and accessible. Furthermore, intellectual property fragments copyright ownership, making it difficult for digital libraries to obtain the right clearance on content. To cope with these challenges, digital libraries have embraced the open access movement which allows reading, copying, downloading and sharing of digital content as long as the creators of the works are cited and acknowledged. Besides, digital libraries offer access to digital works produced under creative commons licenses. These licenses give the copyright owners the liberty to modify the copyright of their works to give room for sharing, use, and building upon the work.

Digital Libraries and Society

2005 ◽  
pp. 191-215
Author(s):  
Ian H. Witten
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Digital Library ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
New Information ◽  
Information Collections ◽  
Humanitarian Information ◽  
Available Technology ◽  
Socially Motivated

Digital libraries are large, organized collections of information objects. Well-designed digital library software has the potential to enable non-specialist people to conceive, assemble, build, and disseminate new information collections. This has great social import because, by democratizing information dissemination, it provides a counterbalance to disturbing commercialization initiatives in the information and entertainment industries. This chapter reviews trends in today’s information environment, introduces digital library technology and explores the use of digital libraries for disseminating humanitarian information in developing countries, a context that is both innovative and socially motivated. We demonstrate how currently available technology empowers users to build and publish information collections. Conventional public libraries are founded on the principle of open access, and extending this to digital libraries presents a challenge to human-computer interaction—a challenge that is magnified if open access is extended to those who create library collections too.

Interoperability in Digital Libraries

2011 ◽  
pp. 31-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hussein Suleman
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Digital Library ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
Symbiotic Relationship ◽  
Major Aspect ◽  
Digital Repositories ◽  
What Works ◽  
Web Standards ◽  
The Creation

This chapter present the principles and practices of interoperability – the ability of systems to work together – as it pertains to digital libraries. While there is no well-defined theoretical basis for interoperability, it has gradually emerged as a major aspect in the creation of digital library systems, particularly in modern digital repositories such as those adopted by the Open Access movement. The need for standardisation is a key element of interoperability, and is considered in tandem with the more technical elements. Principles of interoperability have emerged through experimentation and any future attempts to infuse interoperability into a system should build on these principles, such as simplicity and orthogonality. In practice, experiments with system and protocols have demonstrated what works and what does not and where there is a need for additional interventions, such as the successful OAI-PMH and RSS standards. The key interoperability technologies currently in use in digital library systems are introduced and contextualised in terms of their applicability and motivations. In this discussion, the line between digital library standards and Web standards is intentionally fuzzy because of the increasingly symbiotic relationship between these communities.

Privacy Loss

2011 ◽  
pp. 25-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanne H. Pratt
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Data Sharing ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Information Privacy ◽  
Use Of Data ◽  
Considerable Research ◽  
Grey Area ◽  
Privacy Model ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Self Protection

Considerable research shows that personal information privacy has eroded over the last 30 years. Prior research, however, takes a consumer-centric view of personal information privacy, a view that leads to the conclusion that the individual is responsible for his/her own information. This research presents a comprehensive personal information privacy model of extra-organizational data sharing and use in ecommerce and social networking. It incorporates how data is actually passed and leaked to entities of which the individual has no knowledge and no control. This research presents support for the existence of legal, illegal, and legally-grey area extra-organizational parties and the need for more complete comprehension of personal information privacy. In addition, the research identifies the magnitude of privacy violations in spite of legal and self-protection policies. The model can serve as a guide for privacy research and for social discussion and legislation to manage and regulate use of data once collected.

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