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A Community-Driven Usability Evaluation: The Case of the Inuvialuit Settlement Region Digital Library
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Stobbs, Robyn, Shiri, Ali, Farnel, Sharon, Cockney, Cathy, Rathi, Dinesh, Campbell, Sandy
This paper reports a usability evaluation study of the Digital Library North prototype that was conducted in May 2016. It proposes a culturally-aware and community-informed approach to the usability of digital libraries for Northern communities in Canada along with the emerging themes and the...
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Developing Strong Data Roots in Fertile Library Soil: e-Science in Canadian Libraries
2013-06-01
Part of a CLA panel presentation entitled, \"Canadian eResearch Community: A Reunion and an Invitation.\" Collectively and individually Canadian academic libraries are turning our energy and resources towards eResearch/eScience initiatives. Initiatives may include data management, institutional...
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2016-01-28
This paper briefly examines various perspectives on digital libraries in order to discuss what constitutes a digital library, the value or necessity of digital libraries, and how digital libraries differ from physical libraries. Critical avenues for examining key socio-technological aspects of...
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Spring 2021
Digital libraries are online environments for organizing, sharing, and providing access to resources in digital form. Ideally, their content, functionality, organization, and metadata should reflect the needs, interests, and contexts of the communities they are meant to serve. Indigenous...
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2013-01-01
Vanderjagt, Leah, Sivak, Allison
The institutional repository (IR) is more than an end product that holds content. It is a complex system with a variety of participants and a development course that can most accurately be described as “perpetual beta.” As a software system with both commercial and open-source iterations, an...
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2012
This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the role of thesauri in search user interfaces across a range of information search and retrieval systems—from bibliographic and full-text databases to digital libraries, portals, open archives, and content management systems. It explores various...