Ten years of ElPub : an analysis of its major trends

Electronic publishing constitutes one of the hottest topics discussed amongst researchers from a variety of disciplines since the seminal work by Harnad, in the 1980's, “The scholarly skywriting”, when its potentialities started to challenge the well-established business model of commercial publishers. It was certainly in this context that the first ElPub thinkers initiated the conference. In fact, the International Conference on Electronic Publishing (ElPub) is the realisation of an idea that was brought into reality in 1997 by a group of librarians, including the most persistent ElPubers Peter Linde and John Smith. In its very beginning, ElPub only comprised the presentation of papers. In 1999, there were two panel debates whose speakers were invited to participate and received grants from the conference for that. Over the subsequent years, ElPub has gradually incorporated features of greater, well-established international conferences. Especially since 2003, a variety of sessions started to be part of the conference programme, annually organised in two tracks, namely general and technical. Those sessions comprise: special sessions focusing on a specific topic and sponsored by a specific organisation, workshops - mostly on technical aspects of electronic publishing -, posters and demonstrations. A gradual increasing variety of topics has also been defined in the Call for Papers of the conference, as constituents of the topic. Since then, ElPub has covered a number of interesting topics, presented by people from ca. 44 countries so far

NAVEGANTE: An intrusive browsing framework

NAVEGANTE is a generic framework to build superior order proxies for intrusive browsing. This framework provides the means for developing tools that behave as proxies, but perform some processing task on the content that is being browsed. Parallel to this content processing, applications can also run other user-defined functions with different purposes and interfaces, but we'll explain those later. Currently, NAVEGANTE only builds applications that run as CGIs, but this is intended to change in a near future. Applications are built writing programs in NAVEGANTE's Domain Specific Language (DSL). NAVEGANTE is a work in progress. This article aims to describe the current state of development. What applications can be built and how. Also, we identify some implementation problems, and briefly discuss some future improvements. Finally, we try to illustrate most of the concepts described using a couple of case studies

Portrait of a Consortium: ANKOS (Anatolian University Libraries Consortium)

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Cultural Heritage Digitization in Serbia: Standards, Policies, and Case Studies

The paper identifies necessary steps to create a national information system for management and preservation of cultural heritage documentation. The Republic of Serbia, where the digitization of cultural heritage is recognized as a segment of cultural development and officially accepted as one of the methods for preservation and presentation of heritage documentation, is taken as a case study. The paper describes the evolutionary path of the digitization process in Serbia and analyzes the importance of the adoption of a legal framework and establishment of national standards in the process of achieving the uniqueness in cultural heritage long-term sustainable documentation management and preservation across cultural institutions

Evaluation Measures for Text Summarization

We explain the ideas of automatic text summarization approaches and the taxonomy of summary evaluation methods. Moreover, we propose a new evaluation measure for assessing the quality of a summary. The core of the measure is covered by Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) which can capture the main topics of a document. The summarization systems are ranked according to the similarity of the main topics of their summaries and their reference documents. Results show a high correlation between human rankings and the LSA-based evaluation measure. The measure is designed to compare a summary with its full text. It can compare a summary with a human written abstract as well; however, in this case using a standard ROUGE measure gives more precise results. Nevertheless, if abstracts are not available for a given corpus, using the LSA-based measure is an appropriate choice