Digital Library Management System Research Articles

The Digital Library Management System for Law Schools in Asia

The Digital Library Management System for Law Schools in Asia is a specialized technological solution aimed at streamlining information access and research processes within legal academia. Tailored to the unique needs of law students and educators across Asia, this article provides a background study of digital library systems. We have identified the existing problems in the digital library. We explained the overview of digital library systems in this article moreover we have presented the importance of digital libraries in law schools. Finally, we have identified the findings and recommendations for the digital library management system in law schools in Asia.

Application of FCM Clustering Algorithm in Digital Library Management System

Traditional library systems are gradually being replaced by digital libraries. Digital libraries are developing from simple database-based storage and retrieval to knowledge-based implementation. The fuzzy C-means (FCM) clustering algorithm is an example of data collection and data processing technology. It evaluates and draws conclusions based on mathematics, large data, and other technologies. In order to better improve the digital library management system, this paper applied FCM clustering algorithm to the digital library management system. Based on the in-depth study of the FCM clustering algorithm, this paper built a digital library management system. The clustering algorithm was used to cluster library borrowing records and reader information. It provided technical support and suggestions on library collection construction and book purchase and promoted book management to form a good spitting cycle. The experimental results extracted during the evaluation phase demonstrated that the overall error rate of the suggested FCM clustering algorithm for information clustering is 3.66%, which is better than the existing comparative models. This shows that applying the FCM clustering algorithm to a digital library management system has some practical significance.

Key features of digital library management system (DLMS) for developing digital libraries: An investigation from LIS practitioners in Pakistan

The main objectives of the study were to identify key features of the digital library management system (DLMS) for developing and managing digital libraries, to reveal the satisfaction level of the library professionals in using digital library management system, and the problems being encountered in using these systems. The current study was quantitative in nature as quantitative measures were applied through a survey research strategy. Keeping in view the nature of the study, a purposive sampling technique was used to collect data from the target librarians who had been involved in operating digital library systems for building digital libraries in their respective libraries. Descriptive and inferential statistical tests were used to analyze the data. Findings revealed that in most of the university libraries in Pakistan, free and open source software (FOSS) had been implemented. DSpace was the most widely used software by library professionals in Pakistan. Key features of the digital library software included a user-friendly interface, customization, reliability and security, use of metadata standards (Dublin Core), web-based, advanced searching, consultancy and technical support, sharing e-books to devices (mobile, tabs), full-text searching, use of Boolean operators, and access control. The study recommended that library professionals of universities should be careful in planning library digitization and they should consider the above features before implementing any digital library software in their libraries.

Analysis of Institutional Repository Software for Knowledge Management in Universities

Introduction: Institutional Repositories (IR) as an element of great relevance in the processes of organization, dissemination, research and preservation of information. These processes are carried out freely and free of charge following the premises of the Open Access (OA) movement, which allow applying elements of interoperability, access, and long-term preservation of universal access to information. Objective: The research has a descriptive scope and will be developed through the use of the analytical and comparative method. In the analytical phase, it is intended to carry out an exhaustive collection and review of information, which allows characterizing the use of the software, this information will access to delimit the use of the different DLMS worldwide. Method: This study, framed in a descriptive investigation, reveals the main characteristics of usability, use of metadata and interoperability of digital library management systems. Results: Regarding the benefits that can be determined with the implementation of one of the two DLMS evaluated, they are, mainly, to improve the experience and satisfaction of visitors to the IR and to achieve greater communication and feedback with the user, this by making use of communication channels offered by the IR. Conclusions: Any organization or institution can use the inputs and data obtained from this research as a reference guide to determine which system is best to create and display their digital collections. The choice generally depends on the type/format of the material, the distribution of the material, the software platform and the time frame for the establishment of the digital library.

Portrait of Digital Library Islamic Collection: Study of PTKIN Digital Library Management System in North Sumatera

This research aims to reveal at the management of human resources and the management of digital systems in the libraries of state Islamic universities, specifically in the North Sumatra region, namely UIN North Sumatra Medan, IAIN Padangsidimpuan and STAIN Mandailing Natal. This study used a qualitative approach with data sources are the head of the library, librarians and users, both lecturers and students. This research data collection technique used observation sheets, interviews and focus group discussions so that the resulting data is more comprehensive. The data that has been collected is analyzed with interpretation. The results of the study indicate that there is an imbalance between users and human resources, this is the cause of the service in the library is not good. Increasing the quality of human resources in the PTKIN library in the North Sumatra region is very urgent to be carried out to optimize performance and become a driver of other resources more optimally. This optimization is also to support the competitiveness of libraries in this massive digitalization era, so scientific knowledge development is progressively advanced in Islamic universities in North Sumatra. This optimization is also to support the competitiveness of libraries in this massive digitalization era, so that the development of scientific knowledge is progressively advanced in Islamic universities in North Sumatra.

NERWS: Towards Improving Information Retrieval of Digital Library Management System Using Named Entity Recognition and Word Sense

An information retrieval (IR) system is the core of many applications, including digital library management systems (DLMS). The IR-based DLMS depends on either the title with keywords or content as symbolic strings. In contrast, it ignores the meaning of the content or what it indicates. Many researchers tried to improve IR systems either using the named entity recognition (NER) technique or the words’ meaning (word sense) and implemented the improvements with a specific language. However, they did not test the IR system using NER and word sense disambiguation together to study the behavior of this system in the presence of these techniques. This paper aims to improve the information retrieval system used by the DLMS by adding the NER and word sense disambiguation (WSD) together for the English and Arabic languages. For NER, a voting technique was used among three completely different classifiers: rules-based, conditional random field (CRF), and bidirectional LSTM-CNN. For WSD, an examples-based method was used to implement it for the first time with the English language. For the IR system, a vector space model (VSM) was used to test the information retrieval system, and it was tested on samples from the library of the University of Kufa for the Arabic and English languages. The overall system results show that the precision, recall, and F-measures were increased from 70.9%, 74.2%, and 72.5% to 89.7%, 91.5%, and 90.6% for the English language and from 66.3%, 69.7%, and 68.0% to 89.3%, 87.1%, and 88.2% for the Arabic language.

About Digital Library Personalized Knowledge Service

Based on the research on the personalized knowledge services of digital libraries, this article starts with two aspects of the main components and existing problems of personalized knowledge services of digital libraries, to improve the quality of personalized knowledge services of digital libraries. Perform analysis. It is concluded that the relevant personnel need to increase the degree of attention to the improvement of resource utilization, promote the timely reform of the digital library management system, ensure that the digital book use system is reasonable and complete, and deepen the grasp of user information and needs. People to help.

Web based Digital Library Management System

Web based Digital Library Management System

Advantages and Limitations of Open Source Software for Library Management System Functions: The Experience of Libraries in India

ABSTRACTThe explosion of availability of information on the Internet requires that libraries evolve into value-added information providers, rather than mere curators of collections. Modern libraries need to stay relevant to a diverse, technologically savvy patron base and to facilitate and add value to the research community, while facing significant resource constraints. To face these challenges, libraries need to embrace digital technologies and library management systems (LMS) in order to work smart and achieve more with less. While LMS systems have been around for decades, libraries can explore the new frontier by embracing open source solutions, like open source software (OSS) library systems, which are free to acquire. They need to collaborate with computer experts and become technologically savvy to harness the full power of OSS solutions to meet the specific needs of the library and patron base. This article provides an overview of the availability, benefits, and drawbacks of various LMS systems and OSS variants, drawing from experiences in the present Indian context.

Greenstone Digital Library Management System – a functional review based on selected criteria

Purpose – This paper aims to provide a functional review of Greenstone based on selected criteria, viz., user friendliness, administration, customization, international metadata standards and interoperability, search and browse capabilities, security aspects, statistical reports, unique features and limitations. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is solely based on secondary information collected from different sources like books, articles from national and international journal articles, reports of various organizations and local newspapers as well as the resources available in various websites. Findings – It was observed that the Greenstone on Windows is less robust than the other operating systems such as Linux. It was reported that during the collection building process of some documents, the system hangs and the user has to turn off the browsers and the interfaces, and no alternate method is available to restore normalcy. The software has been reviewed on selected criteria, and it is suggested to use Greenstone Digital Library Management System (DLMS) system as the most suitable and convenient for installation, uploading of documents and usage for small- and medium-type organizations. Practical implications – This paper would be of great help for library professionals to learn about diverse features available in the software and in selecting the best DLMS. Originality/value – The Greenstone DLMS is functionally reviewed and analysed based on selected broad criteria, viz., user friendliness, administration, customization, international metadata standards and interoperability, search and browse capabilities, security aspects and statistical functions.

Sistem Informasi Perpustakaan Berbasis Web Application

Digital library system contributes the development of digital resource digital resource that can be accessed via the Internet. Librarymanagement system contributed to the development of automation membership data processing, circulation and cataloging. In this thesisis to develop a new concept of digital library systems and library management system by integrating these two systems architecture. Integration architecture implemented by inserting component library management system into the digital library system architecture. Web application technology required for these components in order to be integrated with the digital library system components. The newsystem has the advantage of this development application utilization of borrowing, membership and kataloging to a sharable over the internet, so applications that can be used together. Information can be delivered between the library catalog, without leaving the digitallibrary function in the utilization of shared digital resources derived from uploading by each librarian. Keywords : Digital library system; Library management system; Web application

Harvesting latent and usage-based metadata in a course management system to enrich the underlying educational digital library

In this case study, we demonstrate how in an integrated digital library and course management system, metadata can be generated using a bootstrapping mechanism. The integration encompasses sequencing of content by teachers and deployment of content to learners. We show that taxonomy term assignments and a recommender system can be based almost solely on usage data (especially correlations on what teachers have put in the same course or assignment). In particular, we show that with minimal human intervention, taxonomy terms, quality measures, and an association ruleset can be established for a large pool of fine-granular educational assets.

Digital Libraries and Portals Saving National Cultural Heritage (IMI – BAS Experience)

The current research activities of the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IMI — BAS) include the study and application of knowledge-based methods for the creation, integration and development of multimedia digital libraries with applications in cultural heritage. This report presents IMI- BAS’s developments at the digital library management systems and portals, i.e. the Bulgarian Iconographical Digital Library, the Bulgarian Folklore Digital Library and the Bulgarian Folklore Artery, etc. developed during the several national and international projects: - ―Digital Libraries with Multimedia Content and its Application in Bulgarian Cultural Heritage‖ (contract 8/21.07.2005 between the IMI– BAS, and the State Agency for Information Technologies and Communications; - FP6/IST/P-027451 PROJECT LOGOS "Knowledge-on-Demand for Ubiquitous Learning", EU FP6, IST, Priority 2.4.13 "Strengthening the Integration of the ICT research effort in an Enlarged Europe" - NSF project D-002- 189 SINUS ―S emantic Technologies for Web Services and Technology Enhanced Learning‖. - NSF project IO-03- 03/2006 ―Development of Digital Libraries and Information Portal with Virtual Exposition ―Bulgarian Folklore Heritage‖‖. The presented prototypes aims to provide flexible and effective access to the multimedia presentation of the cultural heritage artefacts and collections, maintaining different forms and format of the digitized information content and rich functionality for interaction. The developments are a result of longstanding interests and work in the technological developments in information systems, knowledge processing and content management systems. The current research activities aims at creating innovative solutions for assembling multimedia digital libraries for collaborative use in specific cultural heritage context, maintaining their semantic interoperability and creating new services for dynamic aggregation of their resources, access improvement, personification, intelligent curation of content, and content protection. The investigations are directed towards the development of distributed tools for aggregating heterogeneous content and ensuring semantic compatibility with the European digital library EUROPEANA, thus providing possibilities for pan- European access to rich digitalised collections of Bulgarian cultural heritage.

DelosDLMS

DelosDLMS is a novel digital library management system (DLMS) that has been developed as an integration effort within the DELOS Network of Excellence, a European Commission initiative funded under its fifth and sixth framework programs. In this paper, we describe DelosDLMS that takes into account the recommendations of several activities that were initiated by DELOS including the DELOS vision for digital libraries (DLs). A key aspect of DelosDLMS is its novel generic infrastructure that allows the generation of digital library systems out of a set of basic system services and DL services in a modular and extensible way. DL services like feature extraction, visualization, intelligent browsing, media-type-specific indexing, support for multilinguality, relevance feedback and many others can easily be incorporated or replaced. A further key aspect of DelosDLMS is its robustness against failures and its scalability for large collections and many parallel user requests. We discuss the current status of an effort to build DelosDLMS, a Digital Library Management System that integrates in various ways several components developed by DELOS members and showcases a great variety of functionality that is outlined as part of the DELOS vision.

A formal model of annotations of digital content

This article is a study of the themes and issues concerning the annotation of digital contents, such as textual documents, images, and multimedia documents in general. These digital contents are automatically managed by different kinds of digital library management systems and more generally by different kinds of information management systems. Even though this topic has already been partially studied by other researchers, the previous research work on annotations has left many open issues. These issues concern the lack of clarity about what an annotation is, what its features are, and how it is used. These issues are mainly due to the fact that models and systems for annotations have only been developed for specific purposes. As a result, there is only a fragmentary picture of the annotation and its management, and this is tied to specific contexts of use and lacks-general validity. The aim of the article is to provide a unified and integrated picture of the annotation, ranging from defining what an annotation is to providing a formal model. The key ideas of the model are: the distinction between the meaning and the sign of the annotation, which represent the semantics and the materialization of an annotation, respectively; the clear formalization of the temporal dimension involved with annotations; and the introduction of a distributed hypertext between digital contents and annotations. Therefore, the proposed formal model captures both syntactic and semantic aspects of the annotations. Furthermore, it is built on previously existing models and may be seen as an extension of them.

Digital libraries at a crossroads

Digital libraries constitute a relatively young scientific field whose life spans roughly the last 10?years. Despite its youth, the field has made a long journey from its initial conception to the present state of the art and has reached a level of maturity that warrants taking stock of its course so far and paving a path for the immediate and long-term future. In this paper, we analyse the recommendations of several activities that were initiated by the DELOS Network of Excellence under the Fifth Framework Programme of the European Commission and demonstrate that there are several issues that arise in similar form in most digital library efforts. We thus conclude that generic digital library management systems that address all these issues in a common fashion can and should be developed, so that future digital library efforts are able to build on such platforms and focus only on the hard issues that specialised functionality raises.

The Design and Implementation of Parallel Digital Library Management System

As the number of documents in digital library grows, it becomes increasingly difficult to store, manage the large amount of documents and finding requested relevant documents by users. Parallel Digital Library management System (PDLS) is used for this purpose. PDLS is a general tool for building and managing digital libraries of all kinds of documents to meet user needs. It implements system management and query processing in parallel. The functions of PDLS include data collection, format standardization, information extraction, automatic classification, data loading, data maintenance, query processing, external data entering, personalized recommendation etc. This study introduces the design and implementation of PDLS.

디지털도서관과 지식관리시스템의 비교 분석을 통한 지식관리 통합모형 구현

지식관리 인프라의 구축에는 다양한 정보시스템간의 인터페이스와 통합이 필요하다. 특히 디지털도서관과 지식관리시스템은 조직 내·외부 지식의 유기적인 상호작용을 위해 통합적인 시각에서 구현되어야 한다. 본 연구에서는 지식관리의 주요 요소별로 두 시스템을 비교·분석하여 공통기반과 차이점을 도출하고 각각의 제한요소를 상호 보완할 수 있는 지식관리 통합모형을 제시하고자하였다. 정제된 외부지식을 적시적소에 공급하는 디지털도서관과 이를 기반으로 새로운 지식의 창출을 지원하는 지식관리시스템의 유기적인 연계와 통합은 지식관리의 성과제고에 기여할 수 있을 것이다.

From information gateway to digital library management system: a case analysis

This paper discusses the design, implementation and evolution of the Cornell University Library Gateway using the case analysis method. It diagnoses the Gateway within the conceptual framework of definitions and best practices associated with information gateways, portals, and emerging digital library management systems, in particular the product ENCompass.

From information gateway to digital library management system: a case analysis

From information gateway to digital library management system: a case analysis