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Archival materials --- Archives users --- Archives --- Blogs --- Online social networks --- Web 2.0 --- Web archives --- Web archiving --- Web sites --- Wikis (Computer science) --- World Wide Web --- Data processing --- Administration --- Technological innovations --- Automation --- Information technology --- Design

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This book examines various views and perspectives on digitisation. Topics covered include electronic theses, search engine technology, digitisation in Africa, citation indexing, reference services, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, new media and scholarly publishing. The final chapter explores virtual libraries, and poses some interesting questions for possible futures. The book will be of particular interest to information professionals, educators, librarians, academics and I.T. and knowledge experts.

Digital libraries. --- Digital preservation. --- Education --- Social Sciences --- Education, Special Topics --- Digital curation --- Digital media collections --- Digital media libraries --- Digital repositories --- Electronic libraries --- Electronic publication collections --- Electronic publication libraries --- Electronic text collections --- Repositories, Digital --- Virtual libraries --- Computer files --- Digital media --- Electronic preservation --- Preservation of digital information --- Conservation and restoration --- Preservation --- Education. --- Educational Philosophy. --- Philosophy. --- Libraries --- Information storage and retrieval systems --- Web archives --- Preservation of materials --- Digital media. --- Electronic publications. --- Online publications --- Publications --- Children --- Education, Primitive --- Education of children --- Human resource development --- Instruction --- Pedagogy --- Schooling --- Students --- Youth --- Civilization --- Learning and scholarship --- Mental discipline --- Schools --- Teaching --- Training --- Electronic media --- New media (Digital media) --- Mass media --- Digital communications --- Online journalism --- Education—Philosophy.

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This book introduces a new approach to designing E-Librarian Services. With the help of this system, users will be able to retrieve multimedia resources from digital libraries more efficiently than they would by browsing through an index or by using a simple keyword search. E-Librarian Services combine recent advances in multimedia information retrieval with aspects of human-machine interfaces, such as the ability to ask questions in natural language; they simulate a human librarian by finding and delivering the most relevant documents that offer users potential answers to their queries. The premise is that more pertinent results can be retrieved if the search engine understands the meaning of the query; the returned results are therefore logical consequences of an inference rather than of keyword matches. Moreover, E-Librarian Services always provide users with a solution, even in situations where they are unable to offer a comprehensive answer.

Academic librarians. --- Information retrieval. --- Reference librarians. --- Semantic Web. --- Social Sciences --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Library & Information Science --- Computer Science --- Electronic information resource searching. --- Digital libraries. --- Digital curation --- Digital media collections --- Digital media libraries --- Digital repositories --- Electronic libraries --- Electronic publication collections --- Electronic publication libraries --- Electronic text collections --- Repositories, Digital --- Virtual libraries --- Computer searching --- Electronic searching --- Online searching --- Searching electronic information resources --- Computer science. --- Computer communication systems. --- Computers. --- Information storage and retrieval. --- Multimedia information systems. --- User interfaces (Computer systems). --- Computational linguistics. --- Computer Science. --- Information Storage and Retrieval. --- Multimedia Information Systems. --- User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction. --- Information Systems and Communication Service. --- Language Translation and Linguistics. --- Computer Communication Networks. --- Automatic language processing --- Language and languages --- Language data processing --- Linguistics --- Natural language processing (Linguistics) --- Applied linguistics --- Cross-language information retrieval --- Mathematical linguistics --- Multilingual computing --- Interfaces, User (Computer systems) --- Human-machine systems --- Human-computer interaction --- Computer-based multimedia information systems --- Multimedia computing --- Multimedia information systems --- Multimedia knowledge systems --- Information storage and retrieval systems --- Automatic computers --- Automatic data processors --- Computer hardware --- Computing machines (Computers) --- Electronic brains --- Electronic calculating-machines --- Electronic computers --- Hardware, Computer --- Computer systems --- Cybernetics --- Machine theory --- Calculators --- Cyberspace --- Communication systems, Computer --- Computer communication systems --- Data networks, Computer --- ECNs (Electronic communication networks) --- Electronic communication networks --- Networks, Computer --- Teleprocessing networks --- Data transmission systems --- Digital communications --- Electronic systems --- Information networks --- Telecommunication --- Cyberinfrastructure --- Electronic data processing --- Network computers --- Informatics --- Science --- Data processing --- Distributed processing --- Libraries --- Web archives --- Information retrieval --- Information storage and retrieva. --- Multimedia systems. --- Information systems. --- Natural language processing (Computer science). --- Natural Language Processing (NLP). --- NLP (Computer science) --- Artificial intelligence --- Semantic computing --- Information storage and retrieval systems. --- Automatic data storage --- Automatic information retrieval --- Automation in documentation --- Computer-based information systems --- Data processing systems --- Data storage and retrieval systems --- Discovery systems, Information --- Information discovery systems --- Information processing systems --- Information retrieval systems --- Machine data storage and retrieval --- Mechanized information storage and retrieval systems --- Electronic information resources --- Data libraries --- Digital libraries --- Information organization