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The Green Library Project In Algeria

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Enhancing Hungarian students’ English language skills on the basis of literary texts in the three-dimensional space

In our paper we introduce a bilingual language learning material developed in the framework of the so-called three dimensional virtual library model (3DVLM). This model inspired by the history and organization of the famous ancient Library of Alexandria forms the basis of the virtual library project which started about eight years ago as part of the Cognitive Infocommunications (CogInfoCom) research. The current version of the 3DVLM uses the excellent 3D features of the MaxWhere Seminar System which makes it suitable for both individual learning and classroom use. In the following, we would like to introduce first the basic framework of our development, then describe in detail the data structure and organization of the developed bilingual language learning material. The basic idea of the material is to present selected phrases and contexts from classical literary works in English and from their parallel translations in Hungarian in order to improve both the language skills and background knowledge of Hungarian language learners at an advanced level. We found that using web technology was especially useful for developing the language learning material and the developed hypertext structure formed a scale-free network of interconnected nodes.

Overview of the dissemination of n_TOF experimental data and resonance parameters

The n_TOF neutron time-of-flight facility at CERN is used for nuclear data measurements. The n_TOF Collaboration works closely with the Nuclear Reaction Data Centres (NRDC) network to disseminate the experimental data through the international EXFOR library. In addition, the Collaboration helps integrate the results in the evaluated library projects. The present contribution describes the dissemination status of n_TOF results, their impact on evaluated libraries and ongoing efforts to provide n_TOF resonance parameters in ENDF-6 format for further use by evaluation projects.

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During the past recent years, there has been tremendous development reaming the concept of digital libraries-a knowledge base that can be stored and retrieved through online networks. Digital libraries are the most complex form of information systems that support digital document preservation, distributed database management, hypertext, filtering, information retrieval, and selective dissemination of information. This has really overcome geographical barriers offering a wide range of academic, research, and cultural resources with multimedia effects that can be accessed around the world over the distributed networks. The paper examines the concept of Digital library, the technology that has enabled its emergence & architecture of the digital library system. It also highlights the digital library projects undertaken in USA, UK, and India. Here the authors explored the unique feature of digital library and possible challenges ahead for library and information professionals in the digital environment.

Content Features of Local History Resources of Libraries in the South of Ukraine

Due to the comprehensive use of information and communication technologies, there are changes in the information needs of local history content. The current audience’s readership demand encourages the expansion of information support, digitalisation of information, and an increase in local history content in the electronic segment. The aim of the article is to analyse the content of local history resources of libraries in the south of Ukraine and highlight the features of its formation to satisfy the readers’ needs. The research methodology includes the content monitoring of official websites, electronic libraries, and libraries’ weblogs of Mykolaiv, Kherson, and Odesa regions, as well as the review and analytical method of studying the existing theoretical heritage on the research topic. The scientific novelty is to highlight the features of the formation and diversity of content of electronic local history information resources with a focus on satisfying readers’ requests since users of local history documents have recently shown an increased interest in documents on the latest data carriers. Сonclusions define the role of local history electronic resources of libraries in the south of Ukraine in the region’s information space, as well as further prospects for their genesis and development. It is emphasised that one of the priority areas of local history activities of libraries in the formation of regional identity is the joint activity of library institutions with cultural, educational, research, archival institutions, community initiatives, and organisations. It is noted that the intensive development of digital library projects in combination with the study of local history information needs opens up additional ways to implement the tasks of libraries to ensure wide access of users to unique local history content resources and play an extremely important role in the information space of the region. The article offers suggestions for improving the digital content of local history in combination with the study of local history information needs.

English Language Learning Using Literary Texts in the Virtual 3D Space of the MaxWhere Seminar System

Through this paper, we will provide a brief overview of the 3D virtual library project and a more detailed review of its current application for English language learning. The implementation of the library project makes use of the innovative 3D presentation features of the MaxWhere Seminar System. As an innovative application of the project, we compiled a bilingual learning material for Hungarian students to improve their language skills and competence in English at an advanced level. The complex structure and organization of the learning material is based partially on the hypertextual relationships between entries of selected keywords containing various contexts from different works of world literature. We developed the learning material taking into careful consideration the appropriate characteristics of the hyperlink structure. Our basic hypothesis was that if the bilingual learning material is organized as a more or less scale-free network of interconnected nodes, this might or would result in an optimized and efficient knowledge transfer in the learning process. After the first version of the material had been completed, we wanted to evaluate the overall difficulty of the material. As such, we were using the Google Translate (GT) service to check the proper understanding of a set of selected English language phrases and sentences through their Hungarian translations provided by GT. As a result, we created a more or less scale-free learning material whose linguistic content has been properly checked.

Characterizing and Understanding Development of Social Computing Through DBLP: A Data-Driven Analysis

During the past decades, the term “social computing” has become a promising interdisciplinary area in the intersection of computer science and social science. In this work, we conduct a data-driven study to understand the development of social computing using the data collected from Digital Bibliography and Library Project (DBLP), a representative computer science bibliography website. We have observed a series of trends in the development of social computing, including the evolution of the number of publications, popular keywords, top venues, international collaborations, and research topics. Our findings will be helpful for researchers and practitioners working in relevant fields.

The Residency as Diagram

For the month of October 2021, a group of nineteen artists from around the world convened for the online residency ‘Place, People and Time: Wild Ways’, hosted by The Walking Library (Misha Myers and Dee Heddon) and The Museum of Loss and Renewal (Tracy Mackenna and Edwin Janssen). Diagrammatic methods and online collaborative tools were used throughout the residency as a means not only to understand, share and translate different ways that the group held shared global time and space together, but also to mediate connection between one another in virtual and geographic space. This visual essay considers the diagrammatic methods used throughout the residency, which drew upon and extended further the existing practices of both The Walking Library project and The Museum of Loss and Renewal.

Professional standardization: requirements for the competences of a library and information specialist

The purpose of the article is to outline the information-digital and socio-educational competencies of a library and information specialist taking into account the interdisciplinary nature of library and information activities in the use of digital technologies and in accordance with current regulatory documents, as well as the practice of library activities. The research methodology is based on such methods as information analysis of the current Digital Competence Framework and Professional Standards of Specialists, content analysis of the subject field of the research subject – semantic and logical analysis of the document collection (academic papers, information content of Internet resources); the hypothetical method enabled us to formulate the relevant competencies of a library and information specialist based on the analysis of information resources. The scientific novelty of the research is to substantiate the current competences of a library and information specialist as a basis for the development of the Professional Standard Project. Conclusions. The need to develop the Professional Standard of a library and information specialist requires an outline of the information-digital and socio-educational competencies of a library and information specialist taking into account the interdisciplinary nature of library and information activities in the application of digital technologies. The analysis of a wide array of library information resources (websites, Facebook pages, blogs, Telegram channels, and others), which present the current state of job functions and actions performed by librarians, the Framework of Digital Competences of scientific and academic and teaching personnel and the Professional Standard of teaching personnel, extrapolation of the presented data on the competence field of a library and information specialist made it possible to formulate the information-digital, social-educational and psychological-pedagogical competences of a specialist. The personal competences of a specialist are formulated within the scope of the tasks of their professional development in the digital environment, reflection, and assessment of the level of their own digital competence. The obtained results regarding the types of activities and the necessary competencies of a modern library specialist might be the basis for completing the structure of the Professional Standard of the Library and Information Specialist Project. Keywords: specialist in library and information activities, professional standard, competences, job functions.

Waterfall method: a necessary tool for implementing library projects


 
 
 This paper describes a methodology for implementing effectively library projects. The authors explain how the Waterfall Method for information system development and organizational design, created by Winston W. Royce can be applied to library projects. The proposed adaptation of the method for library projects is presented in stages; where each stage has a set of activities that produce deliverables that serve as evidence documentation for management or governing agencies. The stages are given a percentage to establish relevance and a basis to inform progress to top management. The benefits of applying the Waterfall Methodology include maintaining the scope of a project within the requirements and needs of all stakeholders; establishing cost control and time management for all the required activities; and provide documented evidence of the activities that govern the project. . It can be applied to every project and discipline, including education. The technique itself is so flexible that it could be used to manage research proposals, investigations, and even operational plans, but as in library sciences, the lack of information in the educational area present some challenges to this method followers
 
 

“Halls Which Are Everywhere Denied Us”: Using Archival Research to Recover African American Feminist Media Activism

ABSTRACT This article investigates the public activism of TheWoman’s Era newspaper (1894–97), which was one of the first African American feminist periodicals to derive national circulation in the United States in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Considering TheWoman’s Era’s coverage of activist efforts to build African American public reading rooms and libraries, this article suggests that African American feminist writers and editors, such as Florida R. Ridley and Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, sought to revise the concept of the public sphere by broadening who had access to public space and altering how blackness was represented within these spaces. This article draws from archival work derived from Emory University’s Emory Women Writers Resource Project in collaboration with the Lewis H. Beck Center at Woodruff Library and the Virtual Library Project, which offers transcribed reproductions of TheWoman’s Era and includes downloadable images of individual pages and advertisements. Given the scope of such research, which attempts to read African American women’s public writing through a rhetorical and close-textual lens, Emory University’s digital archives provide a valuable frame of reference for charting the currency of specific terms, such as “public space,” “public interest,” “public opinion,” and “public good.” The goal of this project is to offer a discursive interpretation of how appeals to “the public” as both a material and a conceptual space denoting citizen rights and resources was used and deployed by African American feminist activists for the purposes of uplifting minority communities and developing African American women’s voices.

Coupling of an SPH-based solver with a multiphysics library

A two-way coupling between the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics-based (SPH) code with a multiphysics library to solve complex fluid-solid interaction problems is proposed. This work provides full access to the package for the use of this coupling by releasing the source code, completed with guidelines for its compilation and utilization, and self-contained template setups for practical uses of the novel implemented features, is provided here. The presented coupling expands the applicability of two different solvers allowing to simulate fluids, multibody systems, collisions with frictional contacts using either non-smooth contact (NSC) or smooth contact (SMC) methods, all integrated under the same framework. The fluid solver is the open-source code DualSPHysics, highly optimised for simulating free-surface phenomena and structure interactions, uniquely positioned as a general-purpose Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software with a GPU-accelerated solver. Mechanical systems that comprise collision detection and/or multibody dynamics are solved by the multiphysics library Project Chrono, which uses a Discrete Element Method (DEM). Therefore, this SPH-DEM coupling approach can manage interactions between fluid and complex multibody systems with relative constraints, springs, or mechanical joints. Program summaryProgram title: DualSPHysics-ChronoCPC Library link to program files:https://doi.org/10.17632/g2cc37dw4f.1Licensing provisions: DualSPHysics and DSPHChronoLib under GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL); Project Chrono under BSD-3-Clause License.Programming language: C++ and CUDANature of problem: The simulation of turbulent free-surface flows in interaction with complex fixed or floating structures is essential to address typical marine and coastal engineering problems. The Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method is particularly suitable for solving this type of nonlinear problems. However, this type of application usually requires mechanical restrictions between the different structural elements (spherical joints, hinges, or springs), as well as the correct simulation of collisions between solid objects. In these cases, it is necessary to combine the SPH method with other numerical methods that allow performing these multiphysics simulations.Solution method: DualSPHysics-Chrono is a two-way coupling between an SPH solver and a multiphysics library that combines fluid simulation using a Lagrangian approximation and interactions between solids using Discrete Element Method (DEM). DualSPHysics solver is a GPU-optimized implementation of the SPH method that allows efficient simulation of fluid-structure interaction problems. Whereas Project Chrono is a DEM implementation for simulating multibody dynamics that includes collision detection and numerous mechanical constraints to solve complex mechanisms. The coupling of DualSPHysics and Project Chrono combines the capabilities of both models under a free software framework.Additional comments including restrictions and unusual features: The SPH solver includes a version implemented with CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture) to exploit the parallelism of NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs).

Revisiting Instructional Approaches in Response to Emerging Cataloging Standards

The ever-shifting landscape of cataloging standards over the last decade has kept library and information science (LIS) educators on their toes, and continuing developments only promise to maintain this trend. Examples include the publication of the International Federation of Library Association & Institution’s (IFLA’s) conceptual model Library Reference Model (LRM) in 2017, the release of the new and heavily revised version of the cataloging content standard Resource Description and Access (RDA) in 2020, and Library of Congress’ upcoming Bibliographic Framework (BIBFRAME) standard for encoding and publishing library data. These new standards have altered the way in which cataloging work is conceived and discussed, radically changed the interfaces used for accessing cataloging documentation, and are now spurring the creation of new software and tools for cataloging work, including Library of Congress’ new Marva metadata editor. At the same time, the increasing inclusion of linked data projects in libraries, archives, and other cultural heritage institutions are requiring new skills, practices, and workflows that cataloging and metadata librarians must be prepared for. With many of these standards and initiatives not fully implemented in the majority of libraries, cataloging educators face a dilemma in deciding how best to prepare their students to successfully navigate this time of change, where old and new standards and practices intersect.
 The Technical Services Education SIG session will include a panel of three educators (two of whom are current cataloging practitioners) with unique perspectives on strategies for teaching toward emerging cataloging standards. After brief presentations by each of the panelists, audience members will be encouraged to ask questions and offer their own experiences and ideas concerning this area of LIS education.
 This conversation aligns well with the ALISE conference theme of “Go Back and Get It: From One Narrative to Many” as cataloging practice and education must be in constant dialogue about the preparation of LIS students for the lifespan of their careers. How can LIS educators prepare students for an environment in which different institutions are facing drastically different plans and timelines for the implementation of new standards? How can teaching practices be adjusted to best leverage current best practices alongside new strategies? And how can study of past, present, and emerging cataloging standards and practices provide a solid foundation on which LIS students can build throughout their careers? This panel will offer opportunities for LIS educators to reach back to knowledge and experiences concerning previous standards transitions, share best practices for addressing the current, dynamic environment, and look toward the future of cataloging and metadata education and preparation.

Scientific Collaboration Network Views: A Brazilian Computer Science Graduate Programs Case

Scientific collaboration networks can present different views of researchers’ interactions. This work presents SCI-synergy, an online navigable artifact aiming to promote mechanisms and views of scientific collaboration networks. The artifact focuses on the researchers’ interaction in the co-authorship of publications considering intra- and interprogram relationships. SCI-synergy is developed upon the design science research paradigm using scientific publication data available on the large Digital Bibliography & Library Project (DBLP) repository. Official data from the Sucupira repository of six Brazilian graduate program members including Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), State University of São Paulo (USP), Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Federal University of Amazonas (UFAM), University of Brasília (UnB), and University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS) is used. Data from these graduate programs illustrate the artifact usage regarding the scientific collaboration network of each program, how each researcher cooperates, and what relationship patterns exist in intra- and inter-programs views. We advocate that, even though it is necessary to consider data from each program’s history and current contextualization regarding politics, economics, and administration, the collaboration network views provided by SCI-synergy might help to understand collaboration network patterns.

“I did not realize that my teacher had taken away part of my identity”: bilingual preservice teachers’ virtual libraries project

Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate how participating in a multicultural education course impacted bilingual preservice teachers' (BPSTs) conceptions of identity and how they were able to use their experiential knowledge to create a virtual library based on a variety of topics related to multicultural education. Design/methodology/approach This qualitative case study examines the experiences of three BPST candidates within a multicultural education course during the fall 2020 semester. The authors focused on three preservice teachers’ written reflections, interviews and work samples based on a virtual library project. Findings The authors describe the critical role BPST preparation programs have in developing coursework that provides opportunities for building a positive self-identity that values life experiences. Such opportunities foster BPSTs’ ability to create lessons that are reflective of identity and diversity inclusive of culture, language, immigration and LGBTQ+. Originality/value For some time now, researchers have examined how teacher education programs should include opportunities to interrogate preservice teachers' own experiences in K-12. However, few researchers have directly documented how to connect these experiences to preservice teacher coursework and create classroom resources based on these critical reflections.

Methodological measures to promote publishing projects in university libraries: from theory to practice

Today, in the era of digitalization, large arrays of educational and scientific literature data are presented in the libraries of educational institutions. The availability of sources, including through open access resources, on the one hand, facilitates the work of users, on the other hand, presents difficulties in the selection and structuring of resources. In the course of the study, we analyzed the websites of libraries of pedagogical universities and considered the main types of measures to promote educational resources, identified further vectors of development in the context of digital transformation. The object of the study is to identify the features of the promotion of publishing projects. The subject of the study is methodological activities carried out within the walls of libraries. The article describes in detail the types of methodological measures offered by publishers in offline and online formats. The joint work of libraries and publishing houses to popularize electronic resources is an important component on which the quality of the educational process depends.Main conclusions: methodological support of publishers is very important for the promotion of educational resources, which cannot be limited to instructions or other methodological materials. Field workshops and online events are designed to increase interest in electronic resources and structure work with large amounts of data. Professional development of library specialists in modern conditions also depends on the support of publishers.

A Visual Comprehensive Evaluation of Cultural and Creative Industry Projects Based on Improved Literature Measurement Method

The innovation of cultural and creative industries is not only helpful to improve the ability of independent innovation and optimize the industrial structure but also beneficial to the improvement of national competitiveness. The research on the innovation system of cultural and creative industry based on soft innovation can not only meet the needs of the development of the times but also will be an important mission of discipline innovation. Based on this, this paper makes multidimensional statistics and analysis of the literature on cultural and creative industry projects published in recent ten years through the method of literature measurement. At present, the research on cultural and creative industry projects in domestic university libraries has made some progress, but there are also some problems, such as small amount of papers, weak research force, wide and deep research, in order to provide reference for the promotion and evaluation of cultural and creative industry projects and promote the in-depth and effective development of cultural and creative industry projects.

Connecting the Dots: Joint development of best practices between infrastructures in support of bidirectional data linking

Working together is key in terms of knowledge exchange and in the Biodiversity Community Integrated Knowledge Library project (BiCIKL), infrastructures involved in the biodiversity data landscape are working together to connect data from their different but related data domains. This will be key to connecting the dots towards the development of global collections and global specimen networks in line with e.g., the Extended Specimens Network (Lendemer et al. 2019), which describes a strategy to enhance US biodiversity collections and promote research and education by enabling seamless data integration, attribution and use tracking. It will enable and improve linkages in the fragmented landscape of literature, specimens, collections, species and sequence data. It is required to reliably connect collection level data and specimen level data with derived and related data served through these infrastructures. BiCIKL is a project funded by the European Commission that will develop bidirectional data linkages through persistant identifiers between the data so that they become part of a big FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) data pool available to researchers, public authorities and business to foster innovation in the digital economy and to contribute in solving global environmental challenges. This will enable end-users to seamlessly access a larger pool of enriched data and knowledge, thereby bypassing the traditional barrier of having to search multiple databases and then link up different data types, or to manually extract data from literature. Two elements are key for development of the data linkages: 1) the global adoption of agreed upon persistent identifiers for digital specimen objects, taxonomic treatments, collections, persons, sequences and taxa across stakeholders, and 2) best practices for the generation, management and curation of the linked data. We will present the best practices that have been jointly developed by the infrastructures in the BiCIKL project for findability, re-use and accessibility. The presentation will focus on the best practices that are essential for reliably linking specimen- and collection-level data with other types of data. Implementing these practices will be an important contribution towards connecting the dots in the biodiversity data landscape and will enrich the information at the data provider level.

Developing a conceptual framework for short text categorization using hybrid CNN- LSTM based Caledonian crow optimization

Due to the continuous progression of social media networking sites, people share their thoughts, viewpoints, videos, speech and images through short texts. But the short texts are manually understandable but hard for the machine to collect data for clarification. The limited terms present in the short texts seem difficult while categorizing, analyzing as well as evaluating. Since social media and Bibliographic repositories like Digital Bibliography and Library Project (DBLP) contains a substantial amount of information, it is necessary to mine only useful information from the existing short texts. To achieve effectiveness and efficiency in short text categorization, the content-related characteristics derived from various machine learning techniques are admired. The significant objective of the proposed approach involves the categorization of short text and enhancing its accuracy, which can improve further finding collaborative research communities.. In this work, a hybrid convolutional neural network-long short term memory (CNN-LSTM) based new Caledonian crow optimization (NC2LO) model is utilized to classify the short texts. The crows utilize both social and asocial learning for developing tool modelling skills. Getting attracted to the behaviour of this variety of crows, and motivated by the learning strategy of crows, a new Caledonian crow optimization model referred to as NC2LO model is established. The conceptual framework of the proposed methodology consists of four different phases namely the data collection phase, data preparation phase, data pre-processing phase and short text categorization phase to classify the short texts with a high accuracy rate. Then, the proposed CNN-LSTM based NC2LO for short text categorization is evaluated using four different types of datasets namely IMDb, AG news, Twitter, and Tagmy News. Finally, the comparative analysis is carried out to evaluate the accuracy rate for various approaches and the analysis demonstrated that the proposed approach achieves a high accuracy rate of about 97%.

Zen and the Art of Persistent Identifier Service Development for Digital Specimen

One of the most desired (and still missing) elements to enable the concept of Digital Extended (Webster et al. 2021) Specimens is a persistent identifier (PID) for the new digital specimen object. Digital Specimens are created to act as a digital surrogate of the physical objects. Digital Specimens contain all data relevant to the specimens as well as derived data like genetic sequences, trait information, and references to publications, species and environmental information. A PID for the Digital Specimen is thus essential to link it to the extended information. Furthermore, the extended information also needs PIDs to create unique and resolvable references to enable bidirectional linking. DiSSCo, Distributed System of Scientific Collections, has done extensive work to select the most appropriate PID scheme (Hardisty et al. 2021) and design a PID infrastructure for the pan-European specimen collections. The design was created in the Biodiversity Community Integrated Knowledge Library project (BiCIKL) with funding from the European Commission. The draft design has been discussed with technical specialists in the joint DiSSCo and Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities (CETAF) community, with international stakeholders like GBIF and iDigBio. The draft was also presented at the 2022 conference of SPNHC (the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections) for further feedback, after which it was finalised. This talk will provide a short overview of the key elements in the design of the Persistent Identifier system for Digital Specimens such as the metadata schema, a human friendly string format, and PID lifecycle with support for state changes of the physical object such as splitting and merging. We will illustrate this by showing the current status of development. The Digital Specimen forms the backbone of the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) services (Addink et al. 2021) in development by the DiSSCo Prepare project, a project to prepare for the new research infrastructure which currently involves 170 institutions in 23 countries holding an estimated 1,5 billion specimens. The Digital Specimen is a FAIR Digital Object with a PID and machine actionable metadata to make it FAIR. The PID service ensures the identifiers’ integrity and preserves these linkages, improving the FAIR quality of all specimen data. The talk will describe the system design and current test deployment setup, as well as delve into a few technical details of the Handle Server architecture, PID Kernel records, and a roadmap for the service development. The design and test work are done under the auspices of the BiCIKL project that aims to foster collaboration between infrastructures and develop bidirectional connections between the data so that they become part of a big FAIR data pool seamlessly available to researchers (Penev et al. 2022).