Purpose This paper aims to present an overview of the challenges encountered in
integrating visual search interfaces into digital libraries and repositories. These challenges …

The continuously growth of learning resources available in on-line repositories has raised
the concern for the development of automated methods for quality assessment. The current …

The open educational resources (OER) movement has gained momentum in the past few
years. With this new drive towards making knowledge open and accessible, a large number …

Europeana is a European project aimed to become the modern “Alexandria Digital Library”,
as it targets providing access to thousands of resources of European cultural heritage …

Repositories are web portals that provide access to learning objects. Resources can be
easily located through the use of metadata, an important factor to increase the ease of …

The present paper presents the results of an alternative approach for automatically
evaluating quality inside learning object repositories that considers lower-level measures of …

El etiquetado de un Objeto de Aprendizaje generalmente es una actividad extenuante y
propensa a errores, lo cual afecta directamente la reutilización e interoperabilidad del …

Los repositorios digitales han experimentado unnotable desarrollo en los últimos años, en
especiala partir de la formulación de la Open ArchivesInitiaitive (OAI) y de la aparición de …

Learning objects have been the promise of providing people with high quality learning
resources. Initiatives such as MIT OpenCourseWare, MERLOT and others have shown the …

Digital resource objects (DRO) are among the most valuable resources that store the
accumulated knowledge of humankind. Nowadays, many organisations aim to make these …