Digital libraries

This dissertation studies the challenges and issues faced in federating heterogeneous digital libraries (DLs) by metadata harvesting. The objective of federation is to provide high-level services (e.g. transparent search across all DLs) on the collective metadata from different …

This study contributes to the academic literature concerning social tag systems for digital libraries, addressing the identified information gap from the user’s perspective. It defines social tagging tools and tests users’ perceptions about possible practices. Moreover, it evalu…

In response to the rapid development of digital libraries over the past decade, researchers have focused on the use of metadata as an effective means to support resource discovery within online repositories. With the increasing involvement of libraries in digitization projects a…