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Open Access 28.05.2024 | Correction

Correction: ORKG-Leaderboards: a systematic workflow for mining leaderboards as a knowledge graph

verfasst von:
Salomon Kabongo, Jennifer D’Souza, Sören Auer

28.05.2024

Editorial to special issue of IJDL: digital library research at the inception of a pandemic

verfasst von:
J. Stephen Downie, Dana McKay, Hussein Suleman

Open Access 27.05.2024

Digital detection of play characters’ relationships in Shakespeare’s plays: extended cross-correlation analysis of the character appearance frequencies

We propose a method for visualizing literary works that quantitatively extracts the mutual relationships among play characters from the narrative of a storyline. The method first determines the cross-correlation of the appearance frequencies in …

verfasst von:
Miyuki Yamada, Yuichi Murai, Ichiro Kumagai

14.05.2024

Book recommendation system: reviewing different techniques and approaches

E-reading has become more popular by making the number of book readers high in number. With online book reading websites, it is much simpler to read any book at any time by simply typing its name into a search engine. These websites offer free …

verfasst von:
P. Devika, A. Milton

Open Access 07.05.2024

Structured abstract generator (SAG) model: analysis of IMRAD structure of articles and its effect on extractive summarization

An abstract is the most crucial element that may convince readers to read the complete text of a scientific publication. However, studies show that in terms of organization, readability, and style, abstracts are also among the most troublesome …

verfasst von:
Ayşe Esra Özkan Çelik, Umut Al

Open Access 03.05.2024

Building datasets to support information extraction and structure parsing from electronic theses and dissertations

Despite the millions of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) publicly available online, digital library services for ETDs have not evolved past simple search and browse at the metadata level. We need better digital library services that …

verfasst von:
William A. Ingram, Jian Wu, Sampanna Yashwant Kahu, Javaid Akbar Manzoor, Bipasha Banerjee, Aman Ahuja, Muntabir Hasan Choudhury, Lamia Salsabil, Winston Shields, Edward A. Fox

Open Access 10.04.2024

Author name disambiguation literature review with consolidated meta-analytic approach

Name ambiguity is a common problem in many bibliographic repositories affecting data integrity and validity. This article presents an author name disambiguation (AND) literature review using the theory of the consolidated meta-analytic approach …

verfasst von:
Natan S. Rodrigues, Ari M. Mariano, Celia G. Ralha

Open Access 07.03.2024

Robots still outnumber humans in web archives in 2019, but less than in 2015 and 2012

The significance of the web and the crucial role of web archives in its preservation highlight the necessity of understanding how users, both human and robot, access web archive content, and how best to satisfy this disparate needs of both types …

verfasst von:
Himarsha R. Jayanetti, Kritika Garg, Sawood Alam, Michael L. Nelson, Michele C. Weigle

Open Access 21.02.2024

Towards privacy-aware exploration of archived personal emails

This paper examines how privacy measures, such as anonymisation and aggregation processes for email collections, can affect the perceived usefulness of email visualisations for research, especially in the humanities and social sciences. The work …

verfasst von:
Zoe Bartliff, Yunhyong Kim, Frank Hopfgartner

Open Access 24.01.2024

Image searching in an open photograph archive: search tactics and faced barriers in historical research

During the last decades, cultural heritage collections have been digitized, for example, for the use of academic scholars. However, earlier studies have mainly focused on the use of textual materials. Thus, little is known about how digitized …

verfasst von:
Elina Late, Hille Ruotsalainen, Sanna Kumpulainen

23.01.2024

A BERT-based sequential deep neural architecture to identify contribution statements and extract phrases for triplets from scientific publications

Research in Natural Language Processing (NLP) is increasing rapidly; as a result, a large number of research papers are being published. It is challenging to find the contributions of the research paper in any specific domain from the huge amount …

verfasst von:
Komal Gupta, Ammaar Ahmad, Tirthankar Ghosal, Asif Ekbal

Open Access 22.01.2024

Sequential sentence classification in research papers using cross-domain multi-task learning

The automatic semantic structuring of scientific text allows for more efficient reading of research articles and is an important indexing step for academic search engines. Sequential sentence classification is an essential structuring task and …

verfasst von:
Arthur Brack, Elias Entrup, Markos Stamatakis, Pascal Buschermöhle, Anett Hoppe, Ralph Ewerth

Open Access 12.01.2024

Academics’ experience of online reading lists and the use of reading list notes

Reading Lists Systems are widely used in tertiary education as a pedagogical tool and for tracking copyrighted material. This paper explores academics' experiences with reading lists and in particular the use of reading lists notes feature. A …

verfasst von:
P. P. N. V. Kumara, Annika Hinze, Nicholas Vanderschantz, Claire Timpany

08.01.2024

SciND: a new triplet-based dataset for scientific novelty detection via knowledge graphs

Detecting texts that contain semantic-level new information is not straightforward. The problem becomes more challenging for research articles. Over the years, many datasets and techniques have been developed to attempt automatic novelty …

verfasst von:
Komal Gupta, Ammaar Ahmad, Tirthankar Ghosal, Asif Ekbal

Open Access 16.12.2023

OAVA: the open audio-visual archives aggregator

The purpose of the current article is to provide an overview of an open-access audiovisual aggregation and search service platform developed for Greek audiovisual content during the OAVA (Open Access AudioVisual Archive) project. The platform …

verfasst von:
Polychronis Charitidis, Sotirios Moschos, Chrysostomos Bakouras, Stavros Doropoulos, Giorgos Makris, Nikolas Mauropoulos, Ilias Nitsos, Sofia Zapounidou, Afrodite Malliari

02.12.2023

Enhancing the examination of obstacles in an automated peer review system

The peer review process is the main academic resource to ensure that science advances and is disseminated. To contribute to this important process, classification models were created to perform two tasks: the review score prediction (RSP) and the …

verfasst von:
Gustavo Lúcius Fernandes, Pedro O. S. Vaz-de-Melo

Open Access 27.10.2023

Universities, heritage, and non-museum institutions: a methodological proposal for sustainable documentation

To provide a sustainable methodology for documenting the small (and underfunded) but often important university heritage collections. The sequence proposed by the DBLC (Database Life Cycle) (Coronel and Morris, Database Systems: Design …

verfasst von:
Marina Salse-Rovira, Nuria Jornet-Benito, Javier Guallar, Maria Pilar Mateo-Bretos, Josep Oriol Silvestre-Canut

26.08.2023

Challenges in replaying archived Twitter pages

Historians and researchers rely on web archives to preserve social media content that no longer exists on the live web. However, what we see on the live web and how it is replayed in the archive are not always the same. In this study, we document …

verfasst von:
Kritika Garg, Himarsha R. Jayanetti, Sawood Alam, Michele C. Weigle, Michael L. Nelson

15.08.2023

Graduate student search strategies within academic digital libraries

When searching within an academic digital library, a variety of information seeking strategies may be employed. The purpose of this study is to determine whether graduate students choose appropriate information seeking strategies for the …

verfasst von:
Orland Hoeber, Dale Storie

Open Access 10.08.2023

Cross-lingual extreme summarization of scholarly documents

The number of scientific publications nowadays is rapidly increasing, causing information overload for researchers and making it hard for scholars to keep up to date with current trends and lines of work. Recent work has tried to address this …

verfasst von:
Sotaro Takeshita, Tommaso Green, Niklas Friedrich, Kai Eckert, Simone Paolo Ponzetto