Browsing SAM - Joint Master Degree in Digital Library Learning (DILL) by Title
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Data sharing in the life sciences : a study of researchers at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences
(Master thesis, 2012)Digital research data collected in the sciences has the potential to be reused and shared openly. Several arguments for such sharing have come forward both from funders and researchers during the last decade. This study ... -
Digital Curation in the Italian context: new roles and professions for Digital Librarians
(Master thesis, 2015)The aim of this research is to analyse the activity of digital curation in the Italian context, focusing the attention on the IT skills and competencies of the digital curator. The main hypothesis comes from a reflection ... -
The digital library professionals’ learning culture : a study on digital libraries’ community of practice in Europe
(Master thesis, 2011)In the context of knowledge management (KM) in the field of digital libraries (DL), communities of practice (CoPs) is one of the unexplored areas of interests for research, as compared with those in the fields of business ... -
Digital Preservation in Norway’s Record Keeping and Archiving Traditions : an exploration of authenticity practices using mixed methods research
(Master thesis, 2010)This work is a study of the current authenticity practices of records in Norway. The study is limited to public administration records at municipality level, specifically municipality and city archives. Norway has a well ... -
Digital preservation of scientific e-journals: Colombian case study
(Master thesis, 2015)Largest publishers and biggest libraries around the world have treated the long-‐term preservation of scientific e-‐journals with high standard practices. There are international initiatives tha ... -
Digital Reference Services in a digital environment: user’s perceptions of the Library and Information Center of Harokopio University
(Master thesis, 2015)Digital Reference Service operates as a supplementary service for traditional libraries by embracing the potentials of new technologies with the purpose of supporting distant users. On the contrary, in digital libraries ... -
Enriching Metadata Contents in Repositories: A case study in Institution Repositories of HIOA(ODA)
(Master thesis, 2015)This thesis aims to explore the current state of metadata practices in Institution Repositories of HiOA in terms of the awareness of Institution Repositories, metadata and metadata types, the availability of guidelines, ... -
Essential competencies of an information professional working in a digital library environment, in the opinions of Norwegian and Thai library and information science educators
(Master thesis, 2010)Essential competencies required of an information professional to work in the digital environment have been a significant discussion topic the Library and Information science (LIS) world. Both in Norway and Thailand, one ... -
Evaluating the Web Usability – An Interpretive Study of the Bazar portal in Oslo Public Library, Norway
(Master thesis, 2010)The vast pool of information and the development of technology have given thousands of choices for users when using Internet for searching purposes. With all available websites and the diverse set of user skills, website ... -
The evaluation of real-world digital libraries : a case at the Loughborough University Library
(Master thesis, 2011)Evaluation is a crucial step for the development and improvements of digital libraries. Unfortunately, nowadays only few studies are focused on this matter and even fewer concentrate on how evaluation is conducted in ... -
Exploring the academic libraries' readiness for research data management: cases from Hungary and Estonia
(Master thesis, 2015)The aim of this thesis was to examine the academic libraries readiness for research data management in countries where this issue is only getting recognised. Therefore, eight academic libraries from Estonia and Hungary has ... -
Exploring Users’ Information Behavior in Social Networks
(Master thesis, 2010)Social networks are most commonly seen as a technology used only for entertainment purposes. However, they can also be used for serious purposes in business and education environments because they are powerful tools that ... -
Expressing the Needs of Digital Audio-Visual Applications in Different Communities of Practice for Long Term Preservation
(Master thesis, 2014)Digital audio-visual preservation is nerve of the research nowadays in this digital world, where use of audio-visuals in creation and storage of research data has increased rapidly. Thereby it has created many opportunities ... -
Ghanaian Library and Information Science Professionals’ Conceptions of Digital Libraries : A phenomenographic study
(Master thesis, 2009)Digital libraries (DLs) have received much attention from many institutions and countries in recent times. Discussions on the concept are concentrated in the advanced world. Contribution to the discussion on DLs from ... -
Google analytics for digital library evaluation
(Master thesis, 2011)This master dissertation use the evaluative purposes and e-metrics found in the literature review to examine the appropriateness of applying the web analysis tool, Google Analytics (GA), for the evaluation of digital ... -
Graduate Students’ Views on Information Literacy
(Master thesis, 2010)The purpose of this study is to examine graduate students‟ views on information literacy with the aim of understanding their opinions and experience about some aspects of information literacy and its importance in academic ... -
Impact of mobile technology on digital libraries
(Master thesis, 2012)With the rapid advancement in technology in last two decades, mainly because of the advent of internet, the world no longer works the same. The advent of wireless networks and more recently mobile devices such as smart ... -
Implementation of e-Inclusion in public libraries : a case study of Tallinn Central Library
(Master thesis, 2012)This study aims to explore the e-Inclusion concept from the librarians’ point of view and analyse how Tallinn Central Library (TCL) has implemented it in order to ensure an inclusive digital society that provides ... -
Implementing an XML Object Identification System on an archive data
(Master thesis, 2011)Despite the existence of various techniques and tools at early stage, the data quality problem was not given the attention it deserves, until recent time,1990s the data quality was restricted to certain sectors, but later ... -
(In) formal classification : connecting formal and informal knowledge organization systems
(Master thesis, 2012)Recent developments in knowledge organization systems (KOS) have added new dimensions to traditional classification practices, as knowledge is now not only organized by official committees and editors, but also by the users ...