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ELPUB
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
A New Concept in High Resolution Internet Image Browsing
Various new imaging techniques have been used at the C2RMF, in order to digitize paintings and objects. These techniques are used for extensive and detailed non-destructive analys...
Denis Pitzalis, Ruven Pillay, Christian Lahanier
ELPUB
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Using SVG for an User-Interface to a Digital Library
Interfaces for users on the web are usually created using standard HTML-technologies. Although dynamic textbased features are widely available on the web (e.g. by using DHTML) the...
Harald Krottmaier, Christian Scherngell
ELPUB
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Knowledge-Based Search in Collections of Digitized Manuscripts: First Results
The paper presents in brief a methodology for development of tools for knowledge-based search in repositories of digitized manuscripts. It is designated to assist the search activ...
Pavel Pavlov, Maria Nisheva-Pavlova
ELPUB
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Electronic Publications of Old Geographical Maps and Studying Names on Them
Some aspects of digitizing old printed maps and suitable forms of storing are pointed to discussion. Questions arising about practical use of a resolution level, which is necessar...
Emil Kelevedjiev, Jordan Tabov, Desislava Dimkova
ELPUB
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
The Practices and Popularity of British Bloggers
A snapshot of the British blogosphere focusing on the blogging habits and technical abilities of a sample of British bloggers. Most of the academic research that has so far been p...
Sarah Pedersen, Caroline Macafee
ELPUB
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Using a Walk Ontology for Capturing Language Independent Navigation Instructions
Walking is becoming increasingly popular as a leisure activity across Europe. Outdoor equipment has modernized, gained flexibility and lost weight. GPS devices are gaining popular...
Bert Paepen, Jan Engelen
ELPUB
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Automated Building of OAI Compliant Repository from Legacy Collection
In this paper, we report on our experience with the creation of an automated, human-assisted process to extract metadata from documents in a large (>100,000), dynamically growi...
Jianfeng Tang, Kurt Maly, Steven J. Zeil, Mohammad...
ELPUB
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Technology and Culture: Integration or Disintegration?
This paper deals with the problems of weakening of human memory due to the increasing use of machine memories in many ways. It enumerates the advantages of machine memory as state...
Mortaza Kokabi
ELPUB
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Open Access and Bakhtinian Dialogism
The article explores Open Access in the context of recent contributions in communication and public relations theory, notably Bakhtinian dialogism. Increasingly since the 1960s co...
Robert W. Vaagan