The Emergence of Digital Libraries -- Research and Practices

1. Front Matter

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2. Digital Preservation and Archiving

   1. Content Profiling for Preservation: Improving Scale, Depth and Quality

      • Artur Kulmukhametov, Christoph Becker

      Pages 1-11

   2. Digital Preservation of Palm-Leaf Manuscripts in Thailand

      • Prasittichai Lertratanakehakarn

      Pages 12-21

   3. A Distributed Platform for Archiving and Viewing Cultural Artifacts in 3D

      • Weeraphan Chanhom, Chutiporn Anutariya, Sumanta Guha

      Pages 22-29

3. Digital Repositories and Tools

   1. Comparative Study of Digital Repositories: A Case Study of DESIDOC Journal of Library & Information Technology

      • Alka Bansal, Dipti Arora

      Pages 30-38

   2. Personal Digital Libraries: Keeping Track of Academic Reading Material

      • Mohammed Al-Anazi, Annika Hinze, Nicholas Vanderschantz, Claire Timpany, Sally Jo Cunningham

      Pages 39-47

   3. Quality Assurance Tool Suite for Error Detection in Digital Repositories

      • Roman Graf, Ross King

      Pages 48-58

   4. Altmetrics for Country-Level Research Assessment

      • Hamed Alhoori, Richard Furuta, Myrna Tabet, Mohammed Samaka, Edward A. Fox

      Pages 59-64

4. Scholarly Document Repositories

   1. OA Policies and the Sustainability of Digital Libraries of Scholarly Information

      • Gobinda G. Chowdhury

      Pages 65-75

   2. Evaluating the Academic Performance of Institutions within Scholarly Communities

      • Lili Lin, Zhuoming Xu, Yuanhang Zhuang, Jie Wei

      Pages 76-86

   3. Axis-Based Alignment of Scholarly Papers and Its Presentation Slides Considering Document Structure

      • Yuhei Kawakami, Atsuto Nishida, Toshiyuki Shimizu, Masatoshi Yoshikawa

      Pages 87-97

5. Metadata and Ontologies

   1. An Evaluation Study of the Automating Metadata Interoperability Model at Schema Level: A Case Study of the Digital Thai Lanna Archive

      • Churee Techawut, Lalita Tepweerapong, Choochart Haruechaiyasak

      Pages 98-106

   2. The Construction of an Ontologies Using Recommender Management System for Tourism Website of Northeast Thailand

      • Issara Chuenta

      Pages 107-121

   3. Learning Object Metadata Mapping for Linked Open Data

      • Noppol Thangsupachai, Suphakit Niwattanakul, Nisachol Chamnongsri

      Pages 122-129

   4. Transformation of DSpace Database into Ontology

      • Humaira Farid, Sharifullah Khan, Muhammad Younus Javed

      Pages 130-137

6. Linked Data and Knowledge Sharing

   1. An Application Profile for Linked Teacher Profiles and Teaching Resources

      • Chariya Nonthakarn, Rathachai Chawuthai, Vilas Wuwongse

      Pages 138-148

   2. Knowledge Sharing by Students: Preference for Online Discussion Board vs Face-to-Face Class Participation

      • Shaheen Majid, Pan Yang, Huang Lei, Guo Haoran

      Pages 149-159

7. Digital Books and eBooks

   1. A Comparative Analysis of Children’s Reading Activity for Digital Picture Books in Local Public Libraries

      • Keizo Sato, Chihiro Arakane, Makoto Nakashima

      Pages 160-170

   2. A Log Analysis Study of 10 Years of eBook Consumption in Academic Library Collections

      • Haley Littlewood, Annika Hinze, Nicholas Vanderschantz, Claire Timpany, Sally Jo Cunningham

      Pages 171-181

   3. Family Visits to Libraries and Bookshops: Observations and Implications for Digital Libraries

      • Nicholas Vanderschantz, Claire Timpany, Annika Hinze, Sally Jo Cunningham

      Pages 182-195

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, ICADL 2014, held in Chiang Mai, Thailand, in November 2014. The 20 full papers, 19 short papers and 9 poster papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 141 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on digital preservation and archiving; digital repositories and tools; scholarly documents repositories; metadata and ontologies; linked data and knowledge sharing; digital books and e-books; digital libraries usage and applications; data management and classification; information retrieval and search methods; user skills and experiences.

• data classification
• data extraction
• data management
• digital archives
• digital books
• digital libraries
• human-computer interaction
• information packaging
• information retrieval
• information sharing
• institutional repositories
• knowledge sharing
• linked open data
• metadata
• ontology
• recommender systems
• scholarly community
• search methods
• social image search
• web application

• Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand

  Kulthida Tuamsuk

• Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Japan

  Adam Jatowt

• University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

  Edie Rasmussen

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