scholarly journals Personalization of Search Results Representation of a Digital Library

2021 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ljubomir Paskali ◽  
Lidija Ivanovic ◽  
Georgia Kapitsaki ◽  
Dragan Ivanovic ◽  
Bojana Dimic Surla ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Digital Library ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
User Behavior ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Search Mode ◽  
Frequent Change ◽  
Search Results ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Types Of Information ◽  
Novi Sad

The process of discovering appropriate resources in digital libraries within universities is important, as it can have a big effect on whether retrieved works are useful to the requester. The improvement of the user experience with the digital library of the University of Novi Sad dissertations (PHD UNS) through the personalization of search results representation is the aim of the research presented in this paper. There are three groups of PHD UNS digital library users: users from the academic community, users outside the academic community, and librarians who are in charge of entering dissertation data. Different types of textual and visual representations were analyzed, and representations which needed to be implemented for the groups of users of PHD UNS digital library were selected. After implementing these representations and putting them into operation in April 2017, the user interface was extended with functionality that allows users to select their desired style for representing search results using an additional module for storing message logs. The stored messages represent an explicit change in the results representation by individual users. Using these message logs and ELK technology stack, we analyzed user behavior patterns depending on the type of query, type of device, and search mode. The analysis has shown that the majority of users of the PHD UNS system prefer using the textual style of representation rather than the visual. Some users have changed the style of results representation several times and it is assumed that different types of information require a different representation style. Also, it has been established that the most frequent change to the visual results representation occurs after users perform a query which shows all the dissertations from a certain time period and which is taken from the advanced search mode; however, there is no correlation between this change and the client’s device used.

scholarly journals Transformasi Perpustakaan di Era Big Data

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ishak ◽  
Eva Rabita
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Digital Library ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
User Behavior ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Database Access ◽  
Digital Literature ◽  
Library Management ◽  
Research Decision

Berdasarkan perkembangan teknologi informasi, pengelolaan perpustakaan tidak hanya bersumber pada koleksi cetak. Perkembangan perpustakaan dewasa ini memperlihatkan bahwa koleksi elektronik menjadi sumber daya utama dalam membangun perpustakaan, terutama perpustakaan digital. Perpustakaan digital memiliki karakteristik tersendiri dalam sistem pengelolaan dan pelayanan pengguna. Artinya perpustakaan digital tidak lagi mengandalkan besarnya jumlah koleksi yang dimiliki, tetap berapa banyak akses database yang dimiliki dan dapat diakses oleh pengguna. Pertumbuhan e-rosurces di era revolusi industri 4.0 begitu cepat dan terus berkembang sehingga muncul istilah big data.  Pengelolaan perpustakaan digital di era big data perlu menggunakan metode untuk mencapai transformasi dan inovasi dalam pelayanan kepada pengguna. Perpustakaan digital perlu memposisikan dirinya dalam menghadapi perilaku pengguna dalam mengakses sumber daya literatur digital, dan pemanfaatan scholarly big data diluar koleksi perpustakaan. Perpustakaan digital di era big data menjadi tantangan dan kompetensi baru bagi pustakawan. Pustakawan di tuntut untuk dapat  memahami karakteristik kebutuhan pemustaka serta mampu menganalisis data untuk keperluan riset, pengambilan keputusan, sumber belajar, serta meberikan sumber informasi yang bermanfaat bagi masyarakat luas.   Based on the development of information technology, library management does not only come from print collections. The development of libraries today shows that electronic collections are the main resources in building libraries, especially digital libraries. Digital library has its own characteristics in the management system and user services. This means that digital libraries no longer rely on the large number of collections that are owned, still how much database access is owned and can be accessed by users. The growth of e-rosurces in the era of the industrial revolution 4.0 is so fast and growing that the term big data appears. Digital library management in the era of big data needs to use methods to achieve transformation and innovation in service to users. Digital libraries need to position themselves in dealing with user behavior in accessing digital literature resources, and the use of scholarly big data outside of library collections. Digital libraries in the era of big data become new challenges and competencies for librarians. Librarians are required to be able to understand the characteristics of the needs of users and be able to analyze data for research, decision making, learning resources, and to provide sources of information that are beneficial to the wider community.

Learning styles in the digital library and their application in academic communities in the biomedical and health areas

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvia Méndez-Govea ◽  
Celia Mireles-Cárdenas ◽  
Javier Tarango
Keyword(s):  
Learning Styles ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Digital Library ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Scientific Information ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Health Sciences ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Information Skills

Purpose This paper aims to confirm the importance of developing knowledge, skills and attitudes in the permanent use of digital scientific information, which complements the training of professionals in the biomedical and health areas, considering that this type of user communities require up-to-date and truthful information for future decision-making which will directly affect the health of patients. Design/methodology/approach The study started from the elaboration of a diagnosis on learning styles in a student community at the undergraduate level in the area of biomedical and health sciences of the Autonomous University of San Luis Potosí (Mexico) (UASLP), through the application of the Honey-Alonso Learning Styles questionnaire (CHAEA), and by using such results it was possible to derive learning strategies for the achievement of digital information competencies that were effective in practice. Findings According to the diagnostic results, the learning styles with the greatest presence in students in the area of Biomedical and Health Sciences were identified and from this, precise didactic strategies were derived to enhance information skills in the use of digital sources. For this case, the Big6 Model was used and its implementation was combined (face-to-face and virtual) in the academic community studied, integrating an information skills development program in the digital library of the Center for Information in Biomedical Sciences (CICBI) from the university itself. Originality/value A practical experience is presented, which also offered concrete solutions, based on particular characteristics of the users. There is a low presence of studies of digital libraries’ users that consider aspects related to learning styles, especially applied from the perspective of information sciences and the digital library.

Use analysis of the digital library of PhD dissertations defended at the University of Novi Sad

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ljubomir Paskali ◽  
Lidija Ivanovic ◽  
Dragan Ivanović
Keyword(s):  
Digital Library ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Usage Patterns ◽  
System Improvement ◽  
Scientific Results ◽  
Novi Sad ◽  
The University

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to determine the digital library usage patterns as a means of improving the system, as well as the user experience, to give appropriate recognition to the most popular dissertations’ authors and to measure the interest of non-academic users for dissertations defended at the University of Novi Sad (UNS). Design/methodology/approach A logging module of the digital library of theses and dissertations of University of Novi Sad (PHD UNS) application has been implemented. The module recorded the messages relating to the search queries and downloads over a three-year period from 2017–2019. These logs are analysed using the Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana (ELK) technology stack and the results are shown using graphs and tables. Findings The analysis determined the perfect time for weekly maintenance of the system, defined a recommendation for improving the system and revealed the most popular dissertations. A significant number of downloads and queries originated from citizens, i.e. users outside the academic community. Practical implications The conducted analysis defined recommendations for the system improvement which can be used by PHD UNS research and development (R&D) team and revealed the most popular dissertations which are used for the promotion of its authors through faculties’ websites. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first study of ELK based log analysis of a Serbian language documents’ repository. Besides, the value of results for the PHD UNS R&D team and UNS rector team, the study proves that PhD digital library presents an important Open Science communication channel for presenting scientific results to the citizens.

Effect of sleep on memory for binding different types of visual information

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
John J Shaw ◽  
Zhisen Urgolites ◽  
Padraic Monaghan
Keyword(s):  
Visual Information ◽  
Storage Capacity ◽  
Declarative Memory ◽  
Recognition Task ◽  
Forced Choice ◽  
Long Term Memory ◽  
Term Memory ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Types Of Information

Visual long-term memory has a large and detailed storage capacity for individual scenes, objects, and actions. However, memory for combinations of actions and scenes is poorer, suggesting difficulty in binding this information together. Sleep can enhance declarative memory of information, but whether sleep can also boost memory for binding information and whether the effect is general across different types of information is not yet known. Experiments 1 to 3 tested effects of sleep on binding actions and scenes, and Experiments 4 and 5 tested binding of objects and scenes. Participants viewed composites and were tested 12-hours later after a delay consisting of sleep (9pm-9am) or wake (9am-9pm), on an alternative forced choice recognition task. For action-scene composites, memory was relatively poor with no significant effect of sleep. For object-scene composites sleep did improve memory. Sleep can promote binding in memory, depending on the type of information to be combined.

scholarly journals How the Multiplicity of Suggested Information Affects the Behavior of a User in a Recommender System

Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 741
Author(s):  
Yuseok Ban ◽  
Kyungjae Lee
Keyword(s):  
High Precision ◽  
Recommender System ◽  
Visual Information ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Supplementary Information ◽  
Digital Platform ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Types Of Information

Many researchers have suggested improving the retention of a user in the digital platform using a recommender system. Recent studies show that there are many potential ways to assist users to find interesting items, other than high-precision rating predictions. In this paper, we study how the diverse types of information suggested to a user can influence their behavior. The types have been divided into visual information, evaluative information, categorial information, and narrational information. Based on our experimental results, we analyze how different types of supplementary information affect the performance of a recommender in terms of encouraging users to click more items or spend more time in the digital platform.

scholarly journals A Survey on Blockchain-Based Search Engines

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (15) ◽  
pp. 7063
Author(s):  
Esmaeel Rezaee ◽  
Ali Mohammad Saghiri ◽  
Agostino Forestiero
Keyword(s):  
Search Engines ◽  
Research Field ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Search System ◽  
Search Results ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Research Article ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Search History

With the increasing growth of different types of data, search engines have become an essential tool on the Internet. Every day, billions of queries are run through few search engines with several privacy violations and monopoly problems. The blockchain, as a trending technology applied in various fields, including banking, IoT, education, etc., can be a beneficial alternative. Blockchain-based search engines, unlike monopolistic ones, do not have centralized controls. With a blockchain-based search system, no company can lay claims to user’s data or access search history and other related information. All these data will be encrypted and stored on a blockchain. Valuing users’ searches and paying them in return is another advantage of a blockchain-based search engine. Additionally, in smart environments, as a trending research field, blockchain-based search engines can provide context-aware and privacy-preserved search results. According to our research, few efforts have been made to develop blockchain use, which include studies generally in the early stages and few white papers. To the best of our knowledge, no research article has been published in this regard thus far. In this paper, a survey on blockchain-based search engines is provided. Additionally, we state that the blockchain is an essential paradigm for the search ecosystem by describing the advantages.

scholarly journals Increasing University Competitiveness through Assessment of Green Content in Curriculum and Eco-Labeling in Higher Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 712
Author(s):  
Andrea Okanović ◽  
Jelena Ješić ◽  
Vladimir Đaković ◽  
Simonida Vukadinović ◽  
Andrea Andrejević Panić
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Green Jobs ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Novi Sad ◽  
The University

Growing environmental problems and increasing requirements of green jobs force universities around the world not only to transform their curricula but also to enrich existing ones with contents related to the promotion of sustainable development. This paper aims to show the importance of measuring and monitoring the share of green contents in all university activities, as only in that way it is possible to monitor trends and give realistic assessments of their effect and importance. The paper presents a comparative analysis of different types of methodologies for assessing sustainable activities at universities as well as research conducted at the University of Novi Sad in Serbia and its comparison with the University of Gothenburg (Sweden). This research aims to point out the importance of increasing competitiveness in higher education through assessment of green content in a curriculum and its promotion. In this way, through eco-labeling methodology, it would be easier to identify those contents that, in a certain share, contribute to the promotion of sustainable development. Furthermore, this methodology can easily be extended across the country and the region, which would bring positive effects to all stakeholders in higher education.

scholarly journals The Effects of Task Complexity on the Use of Different Types of Information in a Search Assistance Tool

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bogeum Choi ◽  
Austin Ward ◽  
Yuan Li ◽  
Jaime Arguello ◽  
Robert Capra
Keyword(s):  
Task Complexity ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Types Of Information ◽  
Assistance Tool

scholarly journals Perceptions of usability and usefulness of digital libraries

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 133-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krystyna K. Matusiak
Keyword(s):  
Digital Library ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
User Intention ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Content Coverage ◽  
Visual Materials

This paper provides an overview of a case study research that investigated the use of Digital Library (DL) resources in two undergraduate classes and explored faculty and students' perceptions of educational digital libraries. This study found that students and faculty use academic DLs primarily for textual resources, but turn to the open Web for visual and multimedia resources. The study participants did not perceive academic libraries as a useful source of digital images and used search engines when searching for visual resources. The limited use of digital library resources for teaching and learning is associated with perceptions of usefulness and ease of use, especially if considered in a broader information landscape, in conjunction with other library information systems, and in the context of Web resources. The limited use of digital libraries is related to the following perceptions: 1) Library systems are not viewed as user-friendly, which in turn discourages potential users from trying DLs provided by academic libraries; 2) Academic libraries are perceived as places of primarily textual resources; perceptions of usefulness, especially in regard to relevance of content, coverage, and currency, seem to have a negative effect on user intention to use DLs, especially when searching for visual materials.

Import Metadata through EPrints for Institutional Digital Repository

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Sukumar Mandal
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Digital Library ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Information Services ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Digital Repository ◽  
Library System ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Digital Library System ◽  
Important Field

Digital library is a collection of electronic objects. Information retrieval is a part of digital library system. Digital library can be developed through open source software and tools. Institutional digital repository is also an important field in present and next generation automated and digital library system. Now, this paper is present how to import metadata formats from different database by EPrints for the development of institutional digital repository. There are different types of metadata formats available in open source environment but this paper is shows some high and matured level software for development and designing this integrated framework. However, in this section has a show how to data import from Koha, Emerald, D-Space, and Vu-Find for the better management of digital information services among the users as well as library professionals.

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