SAM - Joint Master Degree in Digital Library Learning (DILL): Recent submissions
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Invisible literature, or Through the looking-glass in the library of Babel - Disseminating and curating born digital literary works in the public library’s physical and digital rooms.
(Master thesis, 2014)The paper analyzes the two case studies, Bergen public library and Roskilde library’s work with born digital literary resources, in light of conversation theory and facilitation theory by Gordon Pask and David R. Lankes. ... -
Organizational and Regulatory Risks of Distributed Digital Preservation
(Master thesis, 2014)The main aim of this study is to investigate the major organizational and regulatory risks in the context of distributed digital preservation in libraries and archives in particular, which will be referred to as memory ... -
Role of Health Information Professionals (HIP)s in Promoting Health Information Literacy(HIL) among Nurses: A Case Study of Selected Norwegian Health institutes.
(Master thesis, 2014)Background As health has direct and indirect bearings upon many other issues like economy, environment, social progress etc., information literacy in health sector is one of the very important aspects, which has emerged ... -
Is UniPR ready for Open Education and… MOOP?
(Master thesis, 2014)Open education , fostered by developments in ICT over the last three decades, is recognized to be a potentially transforming factor , but has not led to the expected deep revolution in teach ... -
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 ... -
Supportive Services for Digital Scholarly Editors in the National Library: A Marriage of Necessity or the Necessity of a Marriage?
(Master thesis, 2014)Due to the constantly evolving nature of digital scholarly editions, this user group has some unmet needs. A supportive service in a national library can help meet these needs since they are service-centered institution ... -
Knowledge management in a distance education environment : a leveraging tool
(Master thesis, 2012)Purpose: Taking into account that the primary mission of educational institution is the creation, preservation, integration and application of knowledge vis-a-vis with the rapid advancement in information and communication ... -
(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 ... -
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 ... -
A case study of library professionals’ attitudes towards marketing electronic resources in Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Science
(Master thesis, 2012)Marketing as a commercial term has already been implemented in the public sectors for example library. There are a lot of research studies paid attentions to marketing policies, activities as well as users. Meanwhile, there ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Integrating semantic web technologies for Norwegian Records Management Standard Noark5 : an exploratory case study
(Master thesis, 2012)Digital archives, Electronic records management (ERM), and digital libraries are organizations that entitle themselves as information providers. Their primary function is often constrained to selecting, organizing, storing, ... -
Proposal of a method for assessing the quality of stock photography websites
(Master thesis, 2012)The advent of the Internet, the advent of digital photography and the chance of digitalizing large volumes of photographs, negatives, slides or daguerreotypes revolutionized the field of commercial stock photography. This ... -
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 ... -
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 ...