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Accessibility and provision of digital library resources to the visually impaired students in academic libraries: A case study of University of Oslo Library
(Master thesis, 2011)The study explored the accessibility and provision of digital library resources to the visually impaired (VI) students in academic libraries, and it used the library of university of Oslo as a case institution. This study ... -
Analysis of the usability of a preliminary design for an EDM metadata mapping tool
(Master thesis, 2012)Europeana aims to bring together metadata for cultural heritage objects from institutions throughout Europe, to increase their visibility and accessibility. This project requires that metadata created and stored in a ... -
Because research data matters : a case at the Loughborough University Library
(Master thesis, 2012)Research data management is increasingly gaining importance in academic libraries, and there is a growing body of literature dedicated to this area of interest. However, only a few studies explored opinions and requirements ... -
Case studies on digitization and metadata creation and management
(Master thesis, 2012)This thesis’ initial aim is to study the life-cycle of metadata from its creation, its development and management and the role they play during digitization processes. Three memory institutions and their respective ... -
Collaborative virtual reference services in Norway : a case study
(Master thesis, 2012)With the increasing availability of electronic information services, and the emergence of digital libraries, Virtual Reference Services have occurred as natural extensions of library works and, the Virtual Reference Services ... -
Crowdsourcing for image metadata : a comparison between game-generated tags and professional descriptors
(Master thesis, 2012)One way to address the challenge of creating metadata for digitized image collections is to rely on user-created index terms, typically by harvesting tags from the collaborative information services known as folksonomies ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
(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 ... -
Investigation of the digital non-text-based use and requirements of a group of academic staff in a South African open distance learning institution
(Master thesis, 2009)The main purpose of this study was to investigate whether academic staff members in an ODL institution use digital non-text-based resources (e.g, graphs, photographs and video clips) in research and teaching practice and ... -
Personalization and usage data in academic libraries : an exploratory study
(Master thesis, 2012)Personalization is a service pattern for ensuring proactive information delivery tailored to an individual based on learned or perceived needs of the person. It is credited as a remedy for information explosion especially ... -
Processes of tagging behaviors : case studies of CiteULike, LibraryThing, YouTube and Flickr
(Master thesis, 2011)This work is a study of tagging behavior processes in different types of documents and tagging sites. Moreover, the tagging challenges are addressed following tagging behavior processes. The study is limited to CiteULike, ... -
Reference Management Software as digital libraries : a survey at the University of Torino
(Master thesis, 2012)Reference Management Software are used by researchers in academics to manage the bibliographic citations they encounter in their research. With these tools, scholars keep track of the scientific literature they read, and ... -
Similarities and Differences Between Cloud Service Vendors
(Master thesis, 2015)The purpose of this study is to find out the Similarities and differences between different Cloud Service Vendors in terms of their fundamental technical aspects and range of service provided by them. This research has ... -
Students’ conceptions of the use of Web 2.0 tools
(Master thesis, 2010)In the past five years the emergence of Web 2.0 tools has permeated many human spheres including higher education sector. Some higher educational institutions had experimented with it and evidences showed that before its ... -
Topic Maps : a bibliometric study
(Master thesis, 2012)Topic Maps is an international standard (ISO/IEC 13250) to describe and encode knowledge structures and associating them with relevant information resources. This thesis seeks to investigate what has been written about ... -
The use of Wikipedia in secondary level education in an academic curriculum in Nepalese context
(Master thesis, 2015)Information and knowledge are the key components to be success in this 21st century. For this each and every one is searching or seeking information to make more knowledgeable. The use of Wikipedia pages as an academic ... -
Web 2.0 technologies for library internal communications : a case study of Loughborough University Library, UK
(Master thesis, 2010)The aim of the thesis is to find out whether current Web 2.0 applications function well, and the possibilities to implement more similar tools in the future in Loughborough University Library. The purpose is to examine ...