History, Evolution, and Impact of Digital Libraries

2011 ◽  
pp. 1-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonardo Candela ◽  
Donatella Castelli ◽  
Pasquale Pagano
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Knowledge Discovery ◽  
Digital Library ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Evolutionary Process ◽  
Knowledge Repository ◽  
The World ◽  
Museum Archives ◽  
The Impact

Digital Libraries have achieved a fundamental role in our knowledge society. By making the wealth of material contained in libraries, museum, archives and any knowledge repository worldwide available they are giving citizens in every place of the world the opportunity to appreciate their global cultural heritage and use it for study, work or leisure. They are revolutionising the whole knowledge management lifecycle. In this chapter, the history characterizing these “knowledge enabling technologies” is described. The history starts from the early attempts toward systems supporting knowledge discovery and reaches the current age in which a plethora of different realizations of digital library systems coexist. The evolutionary process conducting to the current, multi-instanced and still evolving status of affairs as well as the motivations governing it are identified and presented. The main initiatives and milestones producing the nowadays instances of these knowledge enabling systems are mentioned. Finally, the impact these systems had and are having on various aspects of our society is discussed.

scholarly journals THE IMPACT OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT ON SUSTAINABLE ACTIVITIES OF HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTION

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 17-29
Author(s):  
Ieva Grybauskienė ◽  
Žymantė Jankauskienė ◽  
Erika Kubilienė
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Future Market ◽  
Effective Implementation ◽  
Future Behavior ◽  
Trained Staff ◽  
The Impact

The main responsibilities for the European Higher Education Area are based on processes‘ execution through the knowledge, therefore each institution has to evaluate its own knowledge and organize activities implementing these knowledge goals. Knowledge management (KM) is considered one of the main disciplines of the 21st century, which helps organizations to create a competitive advantage, to identify unique knowledge within the organization and to develop further knowledge creation and integration into activities. KM can be analyzed specifically, however it‘s recognized that human resources remain the most important factor, which leads to effective implementation of the stages of KM. Preparing trained staff for the knowledge society and economy, who are able to assess the benefits and importance of knowledge, higher education institutions (HEI) shape the future behavior of future market players, define the need for future competences and values. Following this example, it‘s useful to analyze, how KM processes are integrated into the academic community and which role the KM plays in the development of HEI‘s activity and competence.

Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval

2005 ◽  
pp. 153-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Yang ◽  
Kar W. Li
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
Digital Library ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Semantic Interoperability ◽  
Library Research ◽  
The World ◽  
Cross Lingual ◽  
Multiple Languages

Structural and semantic interoperability have been the focus of digital library research in the early 1990s. Many research works have been done on searching and retrieving objects across variations in protocols, formats, and disciplines. As the World Wide Web has become more popular in the last ten years, information is available in multiple languages in global digital libraries. Users are searching across the language boundary to identify the relevant information that may not be available in their own language. Cross-lingual semantic interoperability has become one of the focuses in digital library research in the late 1990s. In particular, research in cross-lingual information retrieval (CLIR) has been very active in recent conferences on information retrieval, digital libraries, knowledge management, and information systems. The major problem in CLIR is how to build the bridge between the representations of user queries and documents if they are of different languages.

Digital Libraries Overview and Globalization

2009 ◽  
pp. 562-573
Author(s):  
Soh Whee Kheng Grace
Keyword(s):  
Digital Library ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
First Century ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
The World ◽  
Library Development ◽  
National Libraries ◽  
Collaborative Efforts

Library digitization on a global basis is essential in the twenty-first century. The digital library development initiatives in most countries depend substantially on their national libraries. This chapter focuses on an overview of how national libraries of 14 countries in the Asia-Pacific region are involved in digital library initiatives. Most libraries participate in the collaborative efforts to build digital libraries with support from their government. Some focus on digitization and preservation activities, while others concentrate on digitization standards. Requirements for digital library implementation from a global perspective are essential. With the understanding of the current situation in Asia Pacific, we can understand the readiness of national libraries aiming for globalization in this part of the world, and action can be taken to achieve the aim. The globalization of digital libraries is what the world should be heading towards as we enter the next century.

Teams of Leaders Concept (ToL) and E-Business Operations

2010 ◽  
pp. 488-503
Author(s):  
Dag von Lubitz
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Scientific Revolution ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Business Operations ◽  
The World ◽  
Impact Of Technology ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Information And Knowledge Management

Information Technology (IT), and the subsequent broad acceptance of Information and Knowledge Management (IM/KM) methods revolutionized the way business is thought of and practiced. With e-business facilitating the ability to do more, more, faster, at a wider range, and to influence ever larger and more diverse consumer groups, the impact of technology on commerce, finance, and global economy has been frequently compared to the “paradigm shift” that Kuhn (1970) proposed as the essence of scientific revolution. Yet, despite the transformational influence of modernity on the ancient art, the fundamental principles of business have not changed: overreliance on the facilitation of business operations as the substitution for the adherence to the soundness of their conduct fuelled rampant growth of corporate laisse faire, and already twice brought the world to the brink of economic disaster (Stiglitz, 2003; Steingart, 2008).

Institutional Repository as a Knowledge Management Tool for the Enhancement of Library Visibility in the 21st Century

2021 ◽  
pp. 81-93
Author(s):  
Austin Tonderai Nyakurerwa
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Management Tool ◽  
Situational Analysis ◽  
Institutional Repository ◽  
Digital Repository ◽  
Institutional Repositories ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact

The chapter focused on the institutional repository as a knowledge management tool that enhances the visibility of libraries in the 21st century. The researcher mainly relied on content analysis to gather research data. The researcher took a swipe on the uptake of institutional repositories the world over and an analysis of how an institutional repository could be used as a knowledge management tool was done. The researcher also conducted a situational analysis of the MSU institutional repository and assessed the impact of the digital repository on the visibility of the library. The author used the Webometrics Ranking of Universities in Zimbabwe to assess how universities are ranked in Zimbabwe.

Semantic Web and Digital Libraries

2011 ◽  
pp. 271-285
Author(s):  
Giorgio Poletti
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Web ◽  
Data Warehouse ◽  
Digital Library ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Specialized Software ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Access To Documents ◽  
The Web

An analysis of the reality surrounding us clearly reveals the great amount of information, available in different forms and through different media. Volumes of information available in real time and via the Web are concepts perceived as closely related. This perception is supported by the remark that the objective of the Web was the definition and construction of a universal archive, a virtual site in which the access to documents was possible with no limits of time or space. In this digital library, documents have to be equipped with logical connections making possible for each user the definition of a reading map that expands according to the demand for knowledge gradually built up. This perspective is pointing now in the direction of the Semantic Web, a network satisfying our requests while understanding them, not by some magic telepathic communication between browser and navigator, but rather a data warehouse in which documents are matched to meta-data,1 letting specialized software to distinguish fields, importance, and correlation between documents. Semantic Web and library terms have an ever increasing close relationship, fundamental for the progress and the didactic efficiency in knowledge society.

scholarly journals Utilization of Alkin-WP-Based Digital Library Evaluation Software as Evaluation Tool of Digital Library Effectiveness

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 731-746
Author(s):  
Dewa Gede Hendra Divayana ◽  
I Putu Wisna Ariawan ◽  
I Made Ardana ◽  
P. Wayan Arta Suyasa
Keyword(s):  
Digital Library ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Evaluation Model ◽  
Educational Evaluation ◽  
Dissemination And Implementation ◽  
Evaluation Tool ◽  
Library Management ◽  
Library Evaluation ◽  
The Impact

One source of learning in universities is a digital library. In the era of industry 4.0, most universities have implemented digital libraries in supporting the learning process. However, the reality shows that digital library management is still ineffective. Therefore, the implementation of digital libraries needs to be evaluated for determining the digital library effectiveness used as learning resources in supporting the learning process in universities. Many evaluation tools are used to evaluate the effectiveness of digital libraries but have not provided accurate recommendation results to support decision-making. This research presents an innovation in the form of an evaluation tool that can be used to evaluate the digital library effectiveness in universities. That evaluation tool is called the Alkin-WP-based digital library evaluation software. This software is a desktop platform that contains aspects of measuring the digital library effectiveness by referring to the components of the Alkin evaluation model and the WP (Weighted Product) method. This research aimed to show the effectiveness level of the utilization of Alkin-WP-based digital library evaluation software. This research method was R & D (Research & Development) which refers to the ten development stages of the Borg and Gall model. In this research, development was focused only on a few stages, included: usage trials, final product revision, dissemination, and implementation. The subjects involved in assessing the implementation/utilization of the Alkin-WP-based digital library evaluation software were 35 people, in the usage trials were six people, in product revision were three people, and at the stage of dissemination were 15 people. The tools used to collect data were questionnaires and interview guidelines. The data analysis technique used was descriptive quantitative. The effectiveness level of utilizing the Alkin-WP-based digital library evaluation software was 88.34%. It showed that the evaluation software had effective. The impact of this research results on the scientific field of educational evaluation is being able to show the existence of a new evaluation tool based on educational evaluation and artificial intelligence. That evaluation tool can easier for library heads to make policies for revamping digital library services based on accurate recommendations. Doi: 10.28991/esj-2021-01308 Full Text: PDF

Information Analysis in Digital Library Environments

2013 ◽  
pp. 87-92
Author(s):  
Lauren Harrison
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
Text Mining ◽  
Knowledge Discovery ◽  
Digital Library ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Semantic Content ◽  
Direct Access ◽  
Pipeline Pilot ◽  
Analysis Of Results ◽  
Mining Tools

This chapter addresses the question of how the analysis of results retrieved from online bibliographic information systems changed over the last 32 years as digital libraries have evolved. It demonstrates that Digital Libraries of the future will enable knowledge discovery by providing direct access to the semantic content of documents through the implementation of text mining tools. To achieve this research with IR systems and text-mining tools, pipeline pilot (Bandy, et al., 2009), I2E (Vellay, 2009), and BioText will need to be conducted by experts in information retrieval not just subject scientific specialists.

Infrastructure-Based Research Digital Libraries

2013 ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonardo Candela ◽  
Donatella Castelli ◽  
Paolo Manghi ◽  
Pasquale Pagano
Keyword(s):  
Digital Library ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Dynamic Environments ◽  
Maintenance Costs ◽  
Economy Of Scale ◽  
Research Communities ◽  
The World ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Innovative Approaches

Digital Libraries have evolved from a digital counterpart of traditional libraries to highly dynamic environments conceived to provide a community with the data and services needed to accomplish its tasks. This trend is particularly frequent in the context of scientific research communities, whose members are scattered among multiple organizations across the world, with requirements that are very large, multi-disciplinary, and evolving with innovation. The realization of such Research Digital Libraries calls for innovative approaches, capable of handling the inherent complexity of such systems while keeping their realization and maintenance costs under sustainable thresholds. Digital Library Infrastructures have been recently proposed as suitable candidates for the realization of Research Digital Libraries. They build on service-oriented infrastructure technologies to offer an environment where organizations can share and exchange their data and service resources to grow in synergy, exploiting an economy of scale approach. This chapter describes the peculiar challenges that designers, developers, and administrators have to face when realizing Research Digital Libraries, and presents the concepts and technologies of Digital Library Infrastructure as possible solutions to these issues.

Knowledge Management Initiatives in Indian Public Sector

2014 ◽  
pp. 53-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neeta Baporikar
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Continuous Process ◽  
The Public ◽  
Km Strategy ◽  
Public Sector Organizations ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Impact

Today, knowledge management has come to be accepted and recognized as a source of competitive advantage in the private sector. Although Knowledge Management (KM) has been gaining attention all over the world, KM as a discipline is still in its infancy, and adoption of KM is still at its nascent stage when it comes to the Public Sector. It is vital for any organization to understand the concept of KM so as to align its KM strategy with the organization’s strategy. This is all the more important when it is the Public Sector because the impact of Public Sector organizations directly affects the common man. Knowledge creation, generation, and application are a continuous process. Without thorough understanding and awareness of KM, the Public Sector may not be able to reap true and full benefits. This chapter aims to bring a comprehensive understanding of KM application to the Public Sector and through cases recognizes the initiatives of KM in the Indian Public Sector.

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