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Preparing DARIAH (Paper in Conference Proceedings) Constantopoulos, Panos; Dallas, Costis; Doorn,; Gavrilis, Dimitris; Gros,; Stylianou, Ioannides, Marinos (Ed.): Digital Heritage - proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia, Pages: 164-166, Archaeolingua, 2008, ISBN: 9789639911017. @inproceedings{Constantopoulos2008, title = {Preparing DARIAH}, author = {Panos Constantopoulos and Costis Dallas and Doorn and Dimitris Gavrilis and Gros and Stylianou}, editor = {Marinos Ioannides}, url = {http://vsmm2008.euromed2010.eu/vsmm2008/e_Proceedings/papers/shortpaper.pdf#page=170 http://www.dcu.gr/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Preparing-Dariah.pdf}, isbn = {9789639911017}, year = {2008}, date = {2008-01-01}, booktitle = {Digital Heritage - proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia}, pages = {164-166}, publisher = {Archaeolingua}, abstract = {In this paper, a preparatory project for an integrated European research infrastructure in the humanities is presented. This project, Preparing for the construction of the Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities - or Preparing DARIAH for short, is part of the ESFRI e-infrastructures programme and supports the emergence of a new collaborative framework in which researchers are able to maximise the impact of their work on the international stage and aims at providing the foundations for the timely construction of the infrastructure requisite for the arts, humanities and cultural heritage communities in the digital age. DARIAH uses an interdisciplinary approach and involves tackling a number of interrelated issues such as strategic, organisational, financial, technical and conceptual in order to facilitate long-term access to and use of all European humanities and cultural heritage information for the purposes of enhancing and expanding research, thereby increasing our knowledge and understanding of our histories, heritage, languages and cultures. The DARIAH network will act as a place where the incubation of new ideas and ways of working can be facilitated and developed, and then transitioned into established organisations thus ensuring long term sustainability and stability and the integration of these methods and techniques into everyday research practice. DARIAH will support research practitioners at all stages in the research process, and at differing levels of sophistication, from beginners through to those employing advanced techniques and methodologies.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {inproceedings} } In this paper, a preparatory project for an integrated European research infrastructure in the humanities is presented. This project, Preparing for the construction of the Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities - or Preparing DARIAH for short, is part of the ESFRI e-infrastructures programme and supports the emergence of a new collaborative framework in which researchers are able to maximise the impact of their work on the international stage and aims at providing the foundations for the timely construction of the infrastructure requisite for the arts, humanities and cultural heritage communities in the digital age. DARIAH uses an interdisciplinary approach and involves tackling a number of interrelated issues such as strategic, organisational, financial, technical and conceptual in order to facilitate long-term access to and use of all European humanities and cultural heritage information for the purposes of enhancing and expanding research, thereby increasing our knowledge and understanding of our histories, heritage, languages and cultures. The DARIAH network will act as a place where the incubation of new ideas and ways of working can be facilitated and developed, and then transitioned into established organisations thus ensuring long term sustainability and stability and the integration of these methods and techniques into everyday research practice. DARIAH will support research practitioners at all stages in the research process, and at differing levels of sophistication, from beginners through to those employing advanced techniques and methodologies. |
Using Handhelds to Search in Physical and Digital Information Spaces (Paper in Conference Proceedings) Veronikis, Spyros; Gavrilis, Dimitris; Zoutsou, Kyriaki; Papatheodorou, Chritos Proceedings of the 2008 The Second International Conference on Mobile Ubiquitous Computing, Systems, Services and Technologies, of the series UBICOMM '08 Pages: 225-230, IEEE Computer Society, 2008. @inproceedings{Veronikis2008, title = {Using Handhelds to Search in Physical and Digital Information Spaces}, author = {Spyros Veronikis and Dimitris Gavrilis and Kyriaki Zoutsou and Chritos Papatheodorou}, url = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1448098 http://www.dcu.gr/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Using-Handhelds-to-Search-in-Physical-and-Digital-Information-Spaces.pdf}, doi = {10.1109/UBICOMM.2008.9}, year = {2008}, date = {2008-01-01}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2008 The Second International Conference on Mobile Ubiquitous Computing, Systems, Services and Technologies}, pages = {225-230}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, series = {UBICOMM '08}, abstract = {In recent years a wealth of information is becoming available thanks to computer and networking technology. Modern libraries incorporate in their collections information content in both physical and digital form. Meanwhile, mobile computing enables the library patrons to access that content anytime, anywhere. In this paper we present the design procedure of a new library service that supports users in seeking information in hybrid collections while being in the stacks, thus enabling content retrieval from a unified information space. Moreover an evaluation model and methodology and the results of an experimental procedure are presented aiming to assess the user satisfaction for the new service.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {inproceedings} } In recent years a wealth of information is becoming available thanks to computer and networking technology. Modern libraries incorporate in their collections information content in both physical and digital form. Meanwhile, mobile computing enables the library patrons to access that content anytime, anywhere. In this paper we present the design procedure of a new library service that supports users in seeking information in hybrid collections while being in the stacks, thus enabling content retrieval from a unified information space. Moreover an evaluation model and methodology and the results of an experimental procedure are presented aiming to assess the user satisfaction for the new service. |
Enhancing Library Services with Web 2.0 functionalities (Paper in Conference Proceedings) Gavrilis, Dimitris; Kakali,; Papatheodorou, Christos Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. 12th European Conference, ECDL 2008, Aarhus, Denmark, September 14-19, 2008. Proceedings, Volume: 5173 of the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science Pages: 148-159, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008. @inproceedings{Gavrilis2008b, title = {Enhancing Library Services with Web 2.0 functionalities}, author = {Dimitris Gavrilis and Kakali and Christos Papatheodorou}, url = {http://www.dcu.gr/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Enhancing-Library-Services-with-Web-2.0-functionalities.pdf}, year = {2008}, date = {2008-01-01}, booktitle = {Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. 12th European Conference, ECDL 2008, Aarhus, Denmark, September 14-19, 2008. Proceedings}, volume = {5173}, pages = {148-159}, publisher = {Springer Berlin Heidelberg}, series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science}, abstract = {In this paper, a prototype of an Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC) is presented. This new OPAC features new functionalities and utilizes web 2.0 technologies in order to deliver improved search and retrieval services. Some of these new services include social tag annotations, user opinions and ranks and tag-based similarity searches. The prototype is evaluated by a user group through questionnaires, interviews and with the system's integrated logging mechanism. The results are encouraging enough and show that Library 2.0 technologies seem to be acceptable by the majority of the users. }, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {inproceedings} } In this paper, a prototype of an Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC) is presented. This new OPAC features new functionalities and utilizes web 2.0 technologies in order to deliver improved search and retrieval services. Some of these new services include social tag annotations, user opinions and ranks and tag-based similarity searches. The prototype is evaluated by a user group through questionnaires, interviews and with the system's integrated logging mechanism. The results are encouraging enough and show that Library 2.0 technologies seem to be acceptable by the majority of the users. |