Digital Library Platform Research Articles

The Development of Digital Library Platform in Indonesian School Library

The purposes of this research are to find the needs of Digital Library Application Development, to create the prototype of Digital Library Application Development and to find the validation level, practicality, and effectiveness of Digital Library Application Development. This research method used Research and Development, which uses ADDIE (analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, Evaluation). The subjects of this research were 1 expert, 1 media expert, 1 leader, 4 librarians, 10 teachers, and 35 students. The method of collecting data used in this research were interviews, observation, and questionnaires. Based on the result of this research, it shows that the digital library application development is necessary to improve the learning and teaching process, with the centralized database, it can help the users access the information and help the librarian to manage the school library. The prototype of the library application development of Athirah Islamic School provides some descriptions that the library application is suitable for the users' needs. The testing result by the expert shows that the digital library application of Athirah Islamic School has fulfilled the very valid category through some field-testing steps such as content validation and media validation. The level of practicality of digital library application can be seen from the testing result of the product based on the technical aspect given by the practitioners (libraries, students, and teachers) that fulfills the strongly agree criteria or very practical category. The level of effectiveness of the library application use can be seen from the questionnaire results given to the students, teachers, and librarians. It can be concluded that of 5 indicators such as: system quality, information quality, serving quality, users' satisfaction and the net benefit obtained that the library application is at a very effective qualification level.

Research on the Quality Control Method of Cultural Heritage Digital Information Service: A Case Study of the Digital Cultural Relics Library Platform of the Palace Museum in Beijing

Abstract: The Palace Museum in Beijing manages a wealth of tangible and intangible cultural heritage, including the world-famous Forbidden City and many ancient collections. For the past thirty years, informatization has gradually become an important method in the Palace Museum to protect, promote, and research their precious cultural heritages. Although museum service quality and user experience and satisfaction have received growing attention, the quality control of museum digital information services remains a less explored research area. The challenges faced by the Palace Museum include how to follow changes in the technological environment, user needs, and the large scale of digital resources and how to continuously and effectively control and improve the service quality of digital information. This research, based on total quality management (TQM) and LibQUAL as well as the relevant indicators of museum quality assessment in the literature review, uses the Digital Cultural Relics Library Platform of the Palace Museum as the research case and constructs a user-centered control model to measure and improve the service quality of cultural heritage digital information, and puts the model into practice. The paper proposes theoretical advances and has implications for future improvements in the quality control of cultural heritage digital information services.

Research on the influencing factors of continuous use behavior of users of digital library platform based on TAM

Research on the influencing factors of continuous use behavior of users of digital library platform based on TAM

Platform “Get Epic” Sebagai Perpustakaan Digital di Masa Pandemi Covid-19

Research Purpose. The aim of this study is to provide an overview of the use of the Get Epic platform as a digital library during the Covid-19 pandemic in terms of its use, seen from its appearance, menus, and collections provided. Methods. The research method used in this study is the literature study method. The library study tool in this study was sourced from the Get Epic utilization report, which has been used by the Nation Star Academy Middle School library as a digital library platform, as well as scientific journals related to the use of digital libraries during the Covid-19 pandemic. Results and Discussion. The Covid-19 pandemic is not an obstacle for libraries to provide collections and carry out compulsory reading activities at schools—easy access to use the collection with smartphones is a solution for libraries to provide online reading resources. Get Epic's digital library also makes it easy for parents to see what their children read during activities at home. Conclusion. The application of Get Epic as a means of digital reading resources provides benefits in the Nation Star Academy Junior High School environment. Initially, the library had no visitors, and the library could carry out borrowers with the platform for one-year reading activities.Keywords: Online Learning, Covid-19, Digital Library, Get Epic

Sentiment Analysis of iPusnas Application Reviews on Google Play Using Support Vector Machine

The iPusnas application is a digital library platform that allows users to borrow and read books online, free, and legally. Digital libraries provide literacy facilities without having to come to the library, take part in reducing the spread of the Covid-19 virus, and one of the government's efforts to increase reading interest in Indonesia. User experience in using the application usually conveyed in form of positive or negative reviews on Google Play which can be used to determine the quality of an application. However, too many reviews often make it difficult for readers to conclude the contents of the reviews. Based on that, this research aims to determine user sentiment of iPusnas application by conducting sentiment analysis using Support Vector Machine. The dataset used is iPusnas application reviews on Google Play with 6.946 clean data. Classification produces 94,24% accuracy, 92,38% precision, 83,86% recall, and 87,82% f1-score. This application has 75.1% positive sentiment and 24.9% negative sentiment with a list of frequently appearing words displayed in wordcloud. The final result of this analysis can be used as an evaluation to determine the steps for developing the application to be more optimal so that it can provide a better user experience.

Construction of Cloud Library Intelligent Service Platform Relying on Artificial Neural Network

With the advanced development of data center and network information technology, digital library has become a user sharing platform with a variety of digital information sources, providing users with flexible and diverse personalized services. However, the existing digital library lacks data analysis information and only publishes book information and related borrowing frequency and other information. As an ideal architecture model for library applications, cloud library can integrate distributed digital information sources, optimize digital libraries, and provide users with flexible, diverse, and personalized services. Therefore, based on the related research on cloud library and neural network algorithm, this paper not only focuses on the artificial network algorithm, but also focuses on the concept, features, and method of building the digital library platform based on the artificial network algorithm. Under the support of related theories and technologies of cloud library service platform, it also builds a cloud library intelligent service platform model based on artificial neural network. The research results showed that the time spent by BPNN in processing borrowed books was generally about 6 minutes, while the time required by RNN was 10 minutes. However, the processing of BPNN is not stable. Therefore, when building an intelligent service platform, different algorithms need to be selected according to individual needs.

Building an archaeological data repository: a digital library and digital humanities collaboration at the University of South Florida

Digital Humanities projects have shown to be projects of collaboration and interdisciplinary cooperation. As digital humanities researchers are creating and discovering new methods of collaboration, libraries have been reflecting on how they can best support and nurture such collaborations. This paper aims to demonstrate a practical case of what the University of South Florida Digital Collections has done to support the accessibility and discoverability of a new archaeological dataset in collaboration with a Digital Humanities research facility on campus. This paper is a case study to showcase the process employed by the University of South Florida Libraries in its partnership with an on campus digital humanities institute in the creation of a new digital collection. The partnership resulted in a prototype archaeological data repository named the Andean Archaeological Data Project, and a digital collection that was successfully housed in the existing digital library platform, through which public access to the material is natively enabled through the library web pages. The authors have come to the conclusion that with the proper infrastructure and the appropriate skill sets, a digital library can be a long-term platform for dynamic digital humanities research data.

How to protect reader lending privacy under a cloud environment: a technical method

PurposeIn this paper, the authors propose an effective mechanism for the protection of digital library readers' lending privacy under a cloud environment.Design/methodology/approachThe basic idea of the method is that for each literature circulation record, before being submitted to the untrusted cloud database of a digital library for storage, its reader number has to be encrypted strictly at a client, so as to make it unable for an attacker at the cloud to know the specific reader associated with each circulation record and thus protect readers' lending privacy. Moreover, the authors design an effective method for querying the encrypted literature circulation records, so as to ensure the accuracy and efficiency of each kind of database queries related to the encrypted reader number field of literature circulation records.FindingsFinally, both theoretical analysis and experimental evaluation demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed methods.Originality/valueThis paper presents the first study attempt to the privacy protection of readers' literature circulations, which can improve the security of readers' lending privacy in the untrusted cloud, without compromising the accuracy and efficiency of each kind of database queries in the digital library. It is of positive significance to construct a privacy-preserving digital library platform.

Assessment of Annotation Needs of Botanists

Annotation (i.e., making comments on a resource) is an important part of the vision for the Semantic Web as defined by the standards set by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Its goal is to make Internet-published information and data, machine-readable to better utilize it. Despite the important role that annotation plays in the Semantic Web, many cultural heritage institutions have been slow to adopt it. The access to open historical biological literature hosted in digital libraries, like the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), has improved the efficiency of biodiversity research, especially in the taxonomic field. This amount of information has even greater potential for research if annotation capabilities are incorporated within those legacy digital repositories. As part of the project Consumers as Creators, developed by the Missouri Botanical Garden (MOBOT) with partners at Saint Louis University (SLU), the Web annotation needs of the botanical community were analyzed. Likewise, the practicality of using existing annotation tools to satisfy this community’s particular needs was assessed, including technical and operational considerations. To do so, 15 users of a botanical virtual library from five institutions were interviewed. Their answers were analyzed and classified taking into account the user role and purpose. Desirable functionalities of annotation software were classified into three orders of priority (Must, Should, and Could). Subsequently, six open-source annotation tools were evaluated (i.e. Digilib, hypothes.is, Pundit Annotator Pro, Recogito, rerum, and VGG Annotator) to explore if they fulfilled the annotation needs of botanists. The selected annotation tools were installed (when necessary), assessed based on different functional aspects, and their advantages and disadvantages were identified. Finally, a proof-of-concept prototype was developed to exemplify how those needs could be met within a digital library platform. Botanicus, a free portal to historic botanical literature from the Peter H. Raven Library at MOBOT, and rerum, functioning as a repository of annotations, were used to explore the implementation of a minimal subset of these requirements. A summary of the results of the assessment, the lessons learned and some of the best practices recommended are presented.

Grants and Acquisitions

The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) has been awarded $1.12 million by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to implement a sustainable, extensible digital library platform and set of curatorial processes to federate records relating to the cultural heritage of the Middle East. CLIR and its Digital Library Federation program will work with technical partners at Stanford University and content providers worldwide to build on the Digital Library of the Middle East (DLME) prototype and create processes to extend the DLME. DLME is envisioned as a nonproprietary, multilingual library of digital objects providing greater security for, preservation of, and access to digital surrogates of cultural heritage materials.

Architecture and Initial Development of a Digital Library Platform for Computable Knowledge Objects for Health.

Throughout the world, biomedical knowledge is routinely generated and shared through primary and secondary scientific publications. However, there is too much latency between publication of knowledge and its routine use in practice. To address this latency, what is actionable in scientific publications can be encoded to make it computable. We have created a purpose-built digital library platform to hold, manage, and share actionable, computable knowledge for health called the Knowledge Grid Library. Here we present it with its system architecture.

R2 Digital Library Review

ABSTRACTThe R2 Digital Library is an e-book platform of Rittenhouse Book Distributors. Exclusively focusing on the health sciences, the R2 Digital Library collection comprises medical, nursing, and allied health e-books. This article will explore the features and functionality of the R2 Digital Library platform, including how to build an e-book collection; how to access, browse, and search an e-book collection; and how to manage e-book collection usage statistics.

Digital Library Promotion Project Boosts the Chinese Library Community

Abstract This paper describes the development of the Digital Library Promotion Project (DLPP) at the National Library of China and the ways in which it has enhanced the access to cultural heritage. In May 2011, China launched the DLPP as one of a series of digital library initiatives which have been developed in recent years. By building an interconnected and distributed digital library platform and resource clusters, and providing digital cultural services in a variety of media, the DLPP enhances public library services in China. The authors found that digital projects such as the DLPP enrich social discourse and increase access to China’s cultural heritage.

The Design of Digital Library Platform from the Perspective of Knowledge Management

As the fresh product of education informatization, the digital library is not only considered as the new version of traditional library, but also can lead to a new trend of digital reading. It provides the implement of knowledge management of teachers, with the school built as a learning organization. The digital library is designed from a perspective of knowledge management, in order to construct a platform of teachersknowledge management implements and to improve the development of teachersmajor

X-System:

In this paper, the authors describe X-System, a general digital library platform which is capable of handling large-scale digital contents with flexible, extensible management features. The development of X-System achieves several important goals of modern digital library systems, including fully functional system, neutral and portable architecture, stackable modules, data exchange, and universal access. Several open source digital library systems are selected as a comparison of platform features. The model and architecture of X-System are also discussed in this paper. Moreover, several extension case studies of X-System are demonstrated to show the extensibility of their system. In addition to act as a basic digital archive/library system, the X-System has been adopted as various different usages, including E-learning platform, knowledge management platform, library circulation system, and embedded metadata framework.

The Architecture of Digital Library Platform Based on Cloud Computing

Cloud computing will bring great change for the function and application service of digital library. In this paper, combined with cloud computing technology, the cloud service platform of digital library is constructed, to give the digital library platform system model based on cloud computing, and then the digital library platform structure of model data layer, control layer and application layer is introduced in detail.

New SPIE Digital Library Platform brings enhanced features, more content

New SPIE Digital Library Platform brings enhanced features, more content

MXMLiszt: a preliminary MusicXML digital library platform built on available open‐source technologies

PurposeThe aim of this article is to describe the genesis and structural components for an open‐source MusicXML digital library platform.Design/methodology/approachAfter briefly discussing music information retrieval within the context of emerging approaches to digital music notation formats, specifically MusicXML, the article discusses how the author's graduate school project evolved into a search and delivery platform for MusicXML files and their manifestations, with particular emphasis on the platform's underlying software structure. A discussion of the platform's end user interface and administrative scripts provides further explanation regarding how the system functions.FindingsAlthough work remains to be done, digital libraries are poised to use MusicXML and its supporting software for the advancement of music‐related services offered to patrons.Originality/valueThe paper discusses a proof‐of‐concept, open‐source MusicXML digital library platform that may be of interest to librarians with and without musical and/or programming backgrounds.

User's Behaviour inside a Digital Library

CASPUR allows many academic Italian institutions located in the Centre-South of Italy to access more than 7 million articles through a digital library platform. The behaviour of its users were analyzed by considering their “traces”, which are stored in the web server log file. Using several web mining and data mining techniques the author discovered a gradual and dynamic change in the way articles are accessed. In particular there is evidence of a journal browsing increase in comparison to the searching mode. Such phenomenon were interpreted using the idea that browsing better meets the needs of users when they want to keep abreast about the latest advances in their scientific field, in comparison to a more generic searching inside the digital library.

Demonstration Project of Interoperability Between UC Digital Law Libraries and Legal Clinical Training Opportunities Based in California County Law Libraries

David A. Greenbaum, then Director, Interactive University Project, UC Berkeley provided the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation with a report of work undertaken by UC Berkeley, Indiana University, Stanford University, and the UC California Digital Library to plan a demonstration project of digital library and educational technology interoperability. The work on which that report was based was conducted from August to September 2004 with the generous support of a $12,000 Officer’s Grant. This proposal revisits some of the core concepts outlined in that preliminary work and suggests a demonstration project wherein a UC-based digital law library partners with an existing County Law Library to offer legal clinical education and training. For discussion purposes only, the present proposal posits a relationship between the Hugh and Hazel Darling Law Library at UCLA Law and the LA Law Library. In reality, productive public university - public agency partnerships could be formed at any UC Law School (UC Berkeley - Alameda County; UC Irvine - Orange County; UC Hastings - San Francisco County; UC Davis - Yolo / Sacramento County). The fullest realization would be to leverage a common digital library platform to offer clinical training on “retail” level legal problems which many patrons of the county law library must confront on a pro se footing (bankruptcy, foreclosure, divorce separation in both marital and domestic partnership arrangements and the formation of sole proprietorship or limited liability businesses). Mr. Greenbaum is presently the Director, Data Services a unit at UC Berkeley that provides stewardship of both academic and administrative data, as well as tools for data presentation, visualization, analysis, and collaboration.