[TopicMapsInLIS] Fwd: Handbook of Research on Digital Libraries

[Liliana Melgar E.]

Dear all,

this book seems quite relevant for the field of Digital Libraries and covers
many aspects of DL research, however Topic Maps don't appear there. Since it
will be a very important reference book in the future, I wanted to encourage
those who already have done some research to try to include some chapter on
it.

Regards,

-- 
Liliana Melgar
Erasmus Mundus student
International Master in Digital Library Learning
http://dill.hio.no


http://www.igi-global.com/reference/details.asp?ID=8350&v=tableOfContents

HANDBOOK OF RESEARCH ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES: Design, Development, and Impact
Edited By: Yin-Leng Theng, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore;
Schubert Foo, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Dion Goh,
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Jin-Cheon Na, Nanyang
Technological University, Singapore. ISBN: 978-1-59904-879-6

Will be published in Febrauary 2009

However, maybe the tentative table of contents helps to fccus your
research interests.

Table of Contents:
TENTATIVE
Section I: Design and Development
Chapter I: OpenDLib: a Digital Library Service System

Leonardo Candela, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione "A.
Faedo" , Italy
Donatella Castelli, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione "A.
Faedo" , Italy
Pasquale Pagano, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione "A.
Faedo", Italy
Manuele Simi, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione "A.
Faedo", Italy
This chapter describes OpenDLib, a Digital Library Service system
developed at ISTI-CNR to support the creation and management of digital
libraries. It addresses the characteristics of the contents that can be
managed by the system, a corresponding set of supporting functions, system
architecture paradigm and technologies utilised in the development of the
system.

Chapter II: Information Security and Privacy in Digital Libraries

Esther O. A. Fatuyi, Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom Public Charter
School, USA
Mohammed Nasser Al-Suqri, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman
This chapter examines how appropriate technologies and software must be
ensured to enable digital library systems to provide accurate, secure, and
timely information over a sustainable future. Specifically it addresses
issues protection of the information infrastructure and access control;
identification and authentication; standards and policies; and ethical
considerations.

Chapter III: Digital Learning Objects and Metadata

Sarah-Jane Saravani, Waikato Institute of Technology, New Zealand
This chapter describes a case study undertaken by the Waikato Institute of
Technology, New Zealand on OSLOR, an open source learning object
repository of digital resources that are contributed by various education
communities. The key success hinges on the ability to develop a metadata
application profile that is reducible and extensible to ensure
searchability, durability and ultimate value of the repository.

Chapter IV: Extensible Digital Library Service Platform

Jian-hua Yeh, Aletheia University, Taiwan
Shun-hong Sie, Fu-Jen Catholic University, Taiwan
Chao-chen Chen, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan
This chapter outlines a digital system architecture designed to support
flexible content management and development of user services. A data model
and storage with high portability and use of stackable service features
are proposed as part of the requirements of the X-System, which is a
general digital library platform that is capable of handling large-scale
digital contents with flexible, extensible management features.

Chapter V: Personal Digital Libraries

Juan C. Lavariega, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico
Lorena G. Gomez, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico
Martha Sordia-Salinas, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico
David A. Garza-Salazar, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico
This chapter presents the services and functionality that a personal
digital library system should provide, including a reference architecture
to support such a design. A current system, PDLib, is used to demonstrate
such a personal digital library that can be used to manage personal
collections and its potential to become a commodity and means of social
interaction.

Chapter VI: Comparing Open Source Digital Library Software

George Pyrounakis, University of Athens, Greece
Mara Nikolaidou, Harokopio University of Athens, Greece
This chapter does a comparative evaluation of the basic characteristics
and system features of five well-known and extensively used open source
digital library software, namely, DSpace, Fedora, Greenstone, Keystone and
EPrints. The findings are summarized in a score table along with cases
where each system is considered as most suitable are proposed.

Chapter VII: Greenstone Digital Library Software: Reconciling Production
Values with a Research Framework

Ian H. Witten, University of Waikato, New Zealand
David Bainbridge, University of Waikato, New Zealand
This chapter provides a definitive and coherent account of the Greenstone
open source digital library project developed at University of Waikato by
its developers. In addition to its production system that is widely
adopted globally, it also serves as a framework for digital library
research. It outlines a strategy for reconciling this conflict of these
two different dimensions of the project in the future.

Chapter VIII: Design and Development of a Taxonomy Generator: A Case
Example for Greenstone

Yin-Leng Theng, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Nyein Chan Lwin Lwin, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Jin-Cheon Na, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Schubert Shou-Boon Foo, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Dion Hoe-Lian Goh, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
This chapter addresses the issues of resource discovery and the importance
of using knowledge organization tools to build digital libraries. A
prototype Taxonomy Generation Tool, utilizing a hierarchical
classification of contents by subjects, was designed and built to
categorize contents in the Greenstone Digital Library software. The
taxonomy template supports controlled vocabulary terms and allows users to
select the labels for the taxonomy structure.

Chapter IX: From Digital Archives to Virtual Exhibitions

Schubert Foo, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Theng Yin Leng, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Dion Goh Hoe-Lian, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Na Jin-Cheon, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
This chapter demonstrates how digital archives, and in particular, its
derivative in the form of virtual exhibitions can be developed using the
multimedia digital contents of the archives. It presents a number of
concepts and design considerations and illustrates this with a proposed
generic system architecture that encapsulates the important issues of
metadata, system architecture design and developmental techniques for
creating effective and usable virtual exhibitions.

Section II: Information Processing and Content Management
Chapter X: Standardization of Terms Applying Finite-State Transducers (FST)
Carmen Galvez, University of Granada, Spain
This chapter introduces the standardization methods of terms using the two
basic approaches, computational and linguistic techniques, and justifies
the application of processes based on Finite-State Transducers (FST).
Standardization of terms is the procedure of matching and grouping
together variants of the same term that are semantically equivalent.

Chapter XI: Extracting the Essence: Automatic Text Summarization

Fu Lee Wang, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Christopher C. Yang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
This chapter presents a hierarchical summarization approach that generates
a summary for a document based on the hierarchical structure and salient
features of the document. User evaluations conducted by the authors
indicate that the hierarchical summarization outperforms traditional
summarization.

Chapter XII: Metadata Interoperability

K S Chudamani, Indian Institute of Science, India
H C Nagarathna, Indian Institute of Science, India
This chapter describes the various Metadata standards for digital document
description in the context of bibliographic databases. It also examines
metadata interoperability and mapping issues among the various standards.

Chapter XIII: Semantic Association Analysis in Ontology-based Information
Retrieval
Payam M. Barnaghi, University of Nottingham, Malaysia
Wei Wang, University of Nottingham, Malaysia
Jayan C Kurian, University of Nottingham, Malaysia
This chapter firstly introduces various approaches towards ontology
development, ontology population from heterogeneous data sources, semantic
association discovery, semantic association ranking and presentation, and
social network analysis. Then the authors present their approach for an
ontology-based information search and retrieval.

Chapter XIV: User Profiles for Personalizing Digital Libraries

Giovanni Semeraro, University of Bari, Italy
Pierpaolo Basile, University of Bari, Italy
Marco de Gemmis, University of Bari, Italy
Pasquale Lops , University of Bari, Italy
This chapter introduces a machine learning-based approach which builds
user profiles for intelligent document filtering in digital libraries.
This study exploits knowledge stored in machine-readable dictionaries to
obtain accurate user profiles that describe user interests by referring to
concepts in those dictionaries.

Chapter XV: Automatic Text Summarization in Digital Libraries

Shiyan Ou, University of Wolverhampton, UK
Christopher S.G. Khoo, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Dion H. Goh, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
This chapter provides the literature review of various text summarization
and evaluation techniques, and discusses the application of text
summarization in digital libraries. This chapter helps the reader to
obtain a clear overview of the text summarization field and facilitate the
application of text summarization in digital libraries.

Chapter XVI: Speechfind: Advances in Rich Content Based Spoken Document
Retrieval

John H. L. Hansen, University of Texas at Dallas, U.S.A
Wooil Kim, University of Texas at Dallas, U.S.A
This chapter describes a number of advances in formulating spoken document
retrieval for the National Gallery of the Spoken Word (NGSW) and the
U.S.-based Collaborative Digitization Program (CDP). Their experimental
online system called "SpeechFind" is presented which allows for audio
retrieval from the NGSW and CDP corpus.

Chapter XVII: Using Topic-Specific Ranks to Personalize Web Search

Sofia Stamou, Patras University, Greece
This chapter introduces a personalized ranking function that encapsulates
the user interests in the process of ordering retrieved results so as to
meet the user needs. The ranking function relies on a lexical ontology
that encodes a number of concepts and their inter-relations, and
determines the semantics of both the query keywords and the query matching
pages. Based on the correlation between the query and document semantics,
it decides upon the ordering of search results so that these are
personalized.

Chapter XVIII: Guidelines for Developing Digital Cultural Collections

Irene Lourdi, University of Athens, Greece
Mara Nikolaidou, University of Athens, Greece
This chapter introduces basic guidelines for developing and maintaining
digital cultural collections in order to be interoperable and easily
retrievable from users. The requirements of cultural material are
discussed and it is shown how in combination with the adequate metadata
schema policy, a digital cultural collection can cover the various needs
for learning and retrieving information.

Chapter XIX: Digital Libraries and Ontology

Neide Santos, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Fernanda C. A. Campos, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Brazil
Regina M. M. Braga Villela, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Brazil
This chapter describes a digital library for the e-learning domain which
main service is a search engine that retrieves information by tracing the
domain vocabulary met on ontology. The digital library extends Web
portal's functionalities, providing technical information and
communication and collaboration spaces, and hosts a wide variety of
information. It provides services for cataloging, storing, searching, and
retrieving information, based on ontology-based semantic queries.

Chapter XX: A Suggestion for the Classification of Innovative Types in
Scholarly Communication

Svenja Hagenhoff, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Austria
Modern information and communication technologies (ICT) introduce new
publication forms and services in the area of scholarly communication
which seem to enable a faster and more cost efficient distribution of
research results. This chapter presents a classification scheme which aims
to allow describing new forms of scholarly communication in a standardized
way.

Chapter XXI: Improving Multimedia Digital Libraries Usability Applying NLP
Sentence Similarity to Multimodal Sentences

Stefano Paolozzi, Istituto di Ricerca sulla Popolazione e le Politiche
Sociali Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy
Fernando Ferri, Istituto di Ricerca sulla Popolazione e le Politiche
Sociali Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy
Patrizia Grifoni, Istituto di Ricerca sulla Popolazione e le Politiche
Sociali Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy
This chapter describes multimodality as a means of augmenting information
retrieval activities in multimedia digital libraries. Multimodal
interaction systems combine visual information with voice, gestures and
other modalities to provide flexible and powerful dialogue approaches. The
authors propose a new approach to match a multimodal sentence expressed by
the user with a template stored in a knowledge base to interpret the
multimodal sentence and define the multimodal templates similarity.

Chapter XXII: Duplicate Journal Title Detection in References

Ana Kovaèeviæ, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Vladan Devedžiæ, University of Belgrade, Serbia
This chapter explores text mining techniques for matching abbreviated
journal titles from citations with journals in existing digital libraries.
The main problem is that for one journal there is often a number of
different abbreviated forms in the citation report, hence the matching
depends on the detection of duplicate records. The author uses
character-based and token-based metrics together with a generated
thesaurus for detecting duplicate records.

Chapter XXIII: Word Segmentation in Indo-China Languages for Digital
Libraries

Jin-Cheon Na, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Tun Thura Thet, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Dion Hoe-Lian Goh, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Yin-Leng Theng, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Schubert Foo, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Paul Horng-Jyh Wu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
This chapter introduces word segmentation methods for Indo-China
languages. It describes six different word segmentation methods developed
for the Thai, Vietnamese, and Myanmar languages, and compare different
approaches in terms of their algorithms and results achieved. It provides
underlying views about how word segmentation can be employed in Indo-China
languages to support search functionality in digital libraries.

Chapter XXIV: On the Effectiveness of Social Tagging for Resource Discovery

Dion Hoe-Lian Goh, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Schubert Shou-Boon Foo, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Jin-Cheon Na, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Yin-Leng Theng, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
This chapter explores the effectiveness of social tags as resource
descriptors. Social tags are freely selected terms by users to resources,
and shared among other users. Two text categorization experiments via
Support Vector Machines (SVM) were done for this research. The first study
concentrated on the use of terms as its features while the second used
both terms and its tags as part of its feature set.

Chapter XXV: Semantic Annotation and Retrieval of Images in Digital
Libraries

Taha Osman, Nottingham Trent University, U.K
Dhavalkumar Thakker, Nottingham Trent University, U.K
Gerald Schaefer, Aston University, U.K.
This chapter presents an ontology-based semantic annotation scheme for
image retrieval in digital libraries. The authors show that the employment
of a semantic framework for image annotation provides more accurate
retrieval results than general search techniques typically relying on
statistical analysis of keyword recurrences in image annotations.

Section III: Users, Interactions and Experiences
Chapter XXVI: Metadata and Metaphors in Visual Interfaces to Digital
Libraries

Ali Shiri, University of Alberta, Canada
Drawing on earlier information retrieval visual interfaces that have made
use of thesauri, this chapter explores metadata-enhanced visual
interfaces. The chapter describes a study to explore the design of visual
interfaces for digital libraries design ideas and discusses implications
for digital library interface design in terms of metadata-based
information search and retrieval features for visualization.

Chapter XXVII: Usability Evaluation of Digital Library

Judy Jeng, Rutgers University, USA
This chapter gives a critical review of common usability evaluation
methods and describes empirical user studies employing a combination of
usability methods to understand user interaction issues.

Chapter XVIII: Digital Library Requirements: A Questionnaire-Based Study

Stephen Kimani, Institute of Computer Science and Information Technology
JKUAT, Kenya
Emanuele Panizzi, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy
Tiziana Catarci, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy
Margerita Antona, FORTH-ICS, Greece
This chapter describes a questionnaire-based study covering a wide range
of issues pertinent to the design of user interfaces for DLs, including:
user characteristics/profiles, current experience in DL usage, functional
requirements, non-functional requirements, and contextual requirements.

Chapter XXIX: Handhelds for Digital Libraries

Spyros Veronikis, Ionian University, Greece
Giannis Tsakonas, Ionian University, Greece
Christos Papatheodorou, Ionian University, Greece
This chapter examines the services that can be accessed by means of
portable devices and analyzes the main socio-technical issues that arise
and influence user interaction. Factors that affect acceptance of these
devices are discussed, and future trends are presented to outline the
research landscape in the future.

Chapter XXX: The CGIAR Virtual Library Bridging the Gap Between
Agricultural Research and Worldwide Users

Mila M. Ramos, International Rice Research Institute, Philippine
Luz Marina Alvaré, International Food Policy Research Institute, USA
Cecilia Ferreyra, International Potato Center, Peru; Peter Shelton,
International Food Policy Research Institute, USA
This chapter introduces the Consultative Group on International
Agricultural Research (CGIAR) Virtual Library as a tool linking
researchers and agricultural research results. The CGIAR is a strategic
alliance of countries, international and regional organizations, and
private foundations supporting 15 international agricultural Centers that
work in partnerships with national agricultural research institutions and
societies. The chapter explains their work, and discusses implications to
the design of virtual libraries.

Chapter XXXI: Map-Based User Interfaces for Music Information Retrieval

Robert Neumayer, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Andreas Rauber, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
This chapter reviews alternative ways to access digital audio collections,
and describes two applications, PlaySOM and PocketSOM, for accessing audio
files that are based on the Self-Organising Map, an unsupervised neural
network model. Alternative interfaces to large audio collections for both
desktop computers and mobile devices are discussed, and presents a
practical approach to pressing issues in accessing digital collections.

Chapter XXXII: Patent and Trade Secrets in Digital Libraries

Hideyasu Sasaki, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
This chapter reviews the patent and trade secret issues in digital
libraries, especially, patentable parameter setting components implemented
as computer-related inventions in digital libraries, restricted within the
current standard of the U.S. laws and cases in transnational transaction
and licensing of intellectual properties regarding digital libraries. The
chapter then discusses the directions for embedding and protecting
numerical parametric information as trade secret in the patentable
parameter setting components performing retrieval operations of digital
libraries and the future of intellectual property protection in multimedia
digital libraries.

Chapter XXXIII: User Adapted Information Services

Thomas Mandl, University of Hildesheim, Germany
This chapter describes personalization strategies adopted in digital
libraries as a means to improve the usability of digital library services,
and the modeling of these strategies based on users' interests, search
histories and documents accessed during the search process. Typical
approaches and systems for individualizing the results of information
retrieval systems are also presented.

Chapter XXXIV: An Empirical Analysis of the Utilization of University
Digital Library Resources

Hepu Deng, RMIT University, Australia
This chapter presents a study based on an online survey in a university
environment aimed to investigate the extent to which digital resources are
utilized and to identify the critical factors for the effective use of
digital resources. The study reveals that the usage of digital resources
is significant in higher education and the utilization of digital
resources is very much dependent on users and purposes. The awareness and
the quality of information are critical for the use of digital resources.
The findings of this study shed light on the use of digital resources and
help libraries better understand users' perceptions and experiences of
using digital resources services in university libraries.

Chapter XXXV: Visualisation of large image databases

Gerald Schaefer, Aston University, U.K
Simon Ruszala, Aston University, U.K
Following the ever-growing sizes of image databases, effective methods for
visualising such databases and navigating through them are much sought
after. These methods should provide an "overview" of a complete database
together with the possibility to zoom into certain areas during a specific
search. It is crucial that the user interacts in an intuitive way with
such a system in order to effectively arrive at images of interest. In
this chapter, several techniques are presented that allow for effective
browsing and navigation of large image databases.

Section IV: Case Studies and Applications
Chapter XXXVI: Towards Multimedia Digital Libraries

Cláudio de Souza Baptista, University of Campina Grande, Brazil
Ulrich Schiel, University of Campina Grande, Brazil
This chapter presents a multimedia digital library that copes with the
storage and retrieval of resources of different media such as video,
audio, maps, images and text documents. The main improvement with regard
to textual digital libraries is the possibility of retrieving documents in
different media combining metadata and content analysis. We discuss the
problems and solutions associated each media.

Chapter XXXVII: BIVALDI the digital library of the Valencian Bibliographic
Inheritance

Nuria Lloret Romero, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
Margarita Cabrera Méndez, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
Alicia Sellés Carot, Masmedios Ltd, Spain
Lilia Fernandez Aquino, Masmedios Ltd, Spain
The Biblioteca Valenciana was created to meet, conserve and provide access
to the Valencian bibliographic inheritance and all the printed, sound and
visual production, about the Comunidad Valenciana. To support this work,
the Biblioteca Valenciana has embarked on the design and implementation of
a digital library project, the Biblioteca Valenciana Digital, BIVALDI.
This chapter describes this endeavour as well as discusses the unique
challenges associated with the project.

Chapter XXXVIII: Digital Libraries as a Foundation of Spatial Data
Infrastructures

Ruben Béjar, University of Zaragoza, Spain
J. Nogueras-Iso, M.Á. Latre, University of Zaragoza, Spain
P.R. Muro-Medrano, University of Zaragoza, Spain
F.J. Zarazaga-Soria, University of Zaragoza, Spain
This chapter introduces Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI) and establishes
their strong conceptual and technical relationships with geographic
digital libraries (geolibraries). The authors describe the origin of SDIs,
and highlight their role as geographic resources providers. The chapter
also discusses the key differences between SDIs and geolibraries, in order
to provide a broader view of these infrastructures.

Chapter XXXIX: DL and GIS: Path to a new collaboration paradigm

Oscar Cantán, University of San Jorge, Spain
J.Nogueras-Iso, University of Zaragoza, Spain
F.J. Zarazaga-Soria, University of Zaragoza, Spain
Challenges remain in serving users of Digital Libraries (DL) and
Geographic Information (GI) services. This is due to the proliferation of
different representation formats, proprietary standards, protocols and
platforms in which information is published. In this chapter, we share
some of the lessons learned during architectural design and
standardization activities carried out in the GI domain.

Chapter XL: Digital Libraries beyond Cultural Heritage Information

Piedad Garrido Picazo, University of Zaragoza, Spain
Jesús Tramullas Saz, University of Zaragoza, Spain
Manuel Coll Villalta, University of Zaragoza, Spain
This chapter introduces Digital Libraries as a means of cultural heritage
access and diffusion. It argues that Digital Libraries, combined with
superimposed information techniques, offer a potentially more substantive
approach to understanding the historical documentation analysis problem.
The chapter also discusses how techniques such as agents, information
management and information visualization can be incorporated to implement
a versatile digital library that meets the cultural heritage information
needs of users need.

Chapter XLI: Reference Services in Digital Environment

Wan Ab. Kadir Wan Dollah, MARA University of Technology, Malaysia
Diljit Singh, University of Malaya, Malaysia
Rapid development in information and communication technologies have
significantly influenced both the way libraries provide information
services to their users and the way they choose to access information.
Digital reference services are thus gaining popularity especially in
academic and public libraries. This chapter discusses how such services
can play a vital role in terms of providing personalized assistance to
library users in accessing resources to meet their information needs.

Chapter XLII: USGS Digital Libraries for Coastal and Marine Science

Frances L. Lightsom, U.S. Geological Survey USGS Woods Hole Science
Center, U.S.A
Alan O. Allwardt, USGS Pacific Science Center, U.S.A.
This chapter describes the design and implementation of three related
digital libraries developed by the U.S. Geological Survey for topical and
georeferenced information for coastal and marine science: the Marine
Realms Information Bank (MRIB) and its two offshoots, the Monterey Bay
Science Digital Library and Coastal Change Hazards Digital Library. The
chapter also discusses important challenges facing digital library
developers.

Chapter XLIII: Digital Preservation

Stephan Strodl, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Christoph Becker, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Andreas Rauber, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Digital preservation is one of the most pressing challenges not only
within the digital library community, but also in other areas such as
archives and data centres. This chapter introduces the concepts and
challenges in the field of digital preservation. We provide an overview of
the projects and initiatives worldwide dealing with this challenge, and
present preservation planning as a key concept at the heart of
preservation endeavours.

Chapter XLIV: Music Information Retrieval

Thomas Lidy, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Andreas Rauber, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
This chapter provides an overview of the increasingly important domain of
Music Information Retrieval, which investigates efficient and intelligent
methods to analyze, recognize, retrieve and organize music. The chapter
describes the background and problems that are addressed by research, and
introduces methods for the extraction of semantic descriptors from music.
Next, music retrieval, music classification and music library
visualization systems are described.

Chapter XLV: The Strategic Plan of Digital Libraries

Juha Kettunen, Turku University of Applied Sciences, Finland
This chapter describes the cooperation of academic libraries and the
consortium of digital libraries of Finnish universities of applied
sciences. It argues that it is necessary to adopt networking and
cooperative strategies among libraries to provide electronic services of
users. The findings of this chapter are useful to administrators of
educational institutions aiming to plan a networked strategy and improve
the cost-efficient cooperation of otherwise independent organizations.

Chapter XLVI: Software Process Asset Libraries using Knowledge Repositories

Leonardo Bermón-Angarita, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain
Antonio Amescua-Seco, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain
Maria Isabel Sánchez-Segura, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain
Javier García-Guzmán, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain
This paper establishes the incorporation of Knowledge Management
techniques as a means to improve actual software process asset libraries.
It presents how Knowledge Management contributes to the creation of a new
generation of process libraries as repositories of knowledge as well as
the mechanisms to allow the acquisition, storage, collaboration, sharing
and distribution of knowledge related to the software development
processes.

Chapter XLVII: The role and integration of digital libraries in e-learning

Han Lee Yen, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Educators and learners have long relied on libraries as their main sources
of learning resources and libraries have in turn provided the
infrastructure that promotes the creation, assimilation and leverage of
knowledge. However, with the growth of e-learning in recent years,
libraries are facing new challenges to the way they develop, manage and
deliver their services and resources to their users. This chapter
discusses how libraries can meet these challenges by providing electronic
or partially electronic services.

Chapter XLVIII: Development of Digital Libraries in Pakistan

Kanwal Ameen, University of the Punjab, Pakistan
Muhammad Rafiq, University of the Punjab, Pakistan
This chapter aims to discuss the development of digital libraries in
Pakistan. It gives an account of the digital transformation taking place
in the country and reviews a few digital library initiatives. It discusses
a number of issues associated with the development of digital libraries
with specific reference to Pakistan. The major issues appear are as
follows: Misconception about digital libraries; Lack of technological
applications; Lack of human resources with needed skills; Copyright and
Publishing; Cultural Divide; Digital Divide' and Insufficient financial
support. The authors believe that understanding the underlying issues will
not only accelerate the development of DL in Pakistan, but also in other
developing countries with more or less common environment.

Section V: Digital Library Education and Future Trends
Chapter XLIX: Core Topics in Digital Library Education

Seungwon Yang, Virginia Tech, U.S.A
Barbara M. Wildemuth, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, U.S.A
Jeffrey P. Pomerantz, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, U.S.A
Sanghee Oh, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, U.S.A
Edward A. Fox, Virginia Tech, U.S.A.
This chapter presents the effort of developing a digital library (DL)
curriculum by an interdisciplinary group from Virginia Tech and the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It describes the foundations
of the curriculum building, the DL curriculum framework, the DL
educational module template, a list of draft modules that are currently
developed and evaluated by multiple experts in the area, and more details
about the resources used in the draft modules and DL-related workshop
topics mapped to the DL curriculum framework.

Chapter L: Digital Libraries as Centres of Knowledge: Historical
Perspectives from European Ancient Libraries

Natalie Pang, Monash University, Australia
This chapter focuses on the core role of libraries as centres of knowledge
using historical perspectives from ancient libraries in Europe. The ways
technological and social contexts have been adapted in ancient libraries
are discussed. This chapter contributes to a collective understanding of
immediate and future directions of libraries, their challenges and
promises, and how they have evolved as places for local communities.

Chapter LI: The European Approach towards Digital Library Education: Dead
End or Recipe for Success?

Wolfgang Ratzek, Stuttgart Media University, Germany
With the rapid development of effective and efficient information and
communication technology (ICT) and the vital change of patron behavior, a
library cannot offer its services without qualified staff. Thus this
chapter describes the LIS (library and information science) educational
and training programs in Europe, especially in Germany, Great Britain and
the Nordic Countries.

Chapter LII: New Roles of Digital Libraries

Faisal Ahmad, University of Colorado at Boulder, U.S.A
Tamara Sumner, University of Colorado at Boulder, U.S.A
Holly Devaul, University of Colorado at Boulder, U.S.A.
This chapter proposes the future of digital libraries (DLs) in terms of
the support provided for the end users and distributed computer
applications. The authors briefly present their methodology for
systematically exploring the future of DLs and then highlight some of the
roles a DL can play to support its diverse set of users. A new breed of
consumer is introduced with discussion on how DLs can provide support to
this consumer group.

Chapter LIII: A Review of Progress in Digital Library Education

Yongqing Ma, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Warwick Clegg, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Ann O'Brien, Loughborough University, U.K
This chapter reviews the history, development and current status of
digital library (DL) courses and programmes now being offered, mainly by
universities/institutions with accredited programmes or courses by CILIP
(the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals) and ALA
(American Library Association). Trends in digital library education (DLE)
are also presented.

Chapter LIV: The future of learning with Digital Libraries

Chew-Hung Chang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
John G Hedberg, Macquarie University, Australia
This chapter discusses the issues of current digital libraries (DLs) for
learning. Then it proposes that the future of learning with DLs rests on
integrating supportive tools into a seamless learning environment.

Chapter LV: Computational Sense for Digital Librarians

Michael B. Twidale, University of Illinois, USA
David M. Nichols, University of Waikato, New Zealand
This chapter presents the role of technology in digital library education.
It investigates how elements of computer science and library science can
be merged to produce an appropriate 'computational sense' for future
digital librarians. The discussion in this chapter aims to inform the
development of digital library software tools – particularly those used in
educational contexts.

Chapter LVI: Digital Libraries Overview and Globalization

Soh Whee Kheng, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
This chapter presents an overview of how national libraries of 14
countries in Asia-Pacific region are involving in the digital library
initiatives. Most libraries participate in the collaborative efforts to
build the digital libraries with the support from their government. With
the understanding of the current situation in Asia Pacific, the reader can
understand the readiness of national libraries aiming for globalization.

MORE INFORMATION:
http://www.igi-global.com/reference/details.asp?ID=8350&v=preface
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