In the past two decades, the use of digital libraries (DLs) has grown significantly.
Accordingly, questions about the utility, usability and cost of DLs have started to arise, and …

Digital libraries (DLs) are new and innovative information systems, under constant
development and change, and therefore evaluation is of critical importance to ensure not …

This article reports the author's recent research in developing a holistic model for various
levels of digital library (DL) evaluation in which perceived important criteria from …

Purpose For digital libraries, it is useful to understand how users search in a collection.
Investigating search patterns can help them to improve the user interface, collection …

Аннотация Рассматриваются проекты создания и эксплуатации распределенных
информационных систем на основе протокола ANSI/NISO Z39. 50 (ISO-23950) …

Three months of server transaction logs containing complete clickstream data for an image
collection digital library were analysed for usage patterns to better understand user …

This article presents a study of online digital library (DL) uses, based on three data sources
(online questionnaire, Internet traffic data and interviews). We show that DL users differ from …

Abstract Evaluation of digital libraries assesses their effectiveness, quality and overall
impact. To facilitate the comparison of different evaluations and to support the re-use of …

Cultural Heritage (CH) collections store and represent numerous historical objects such as
images and documents, which are often of unique type and of high cultural and historical …

This dissertation explores devices practitioners utilize to discover the reuse of digital library
materials. The author performs two verification studies investigating two previously …