Digital Library 2.0: Source of Knowledge and Research Collaboration Platform

Włodzimierz Gruszczyński, Maciej Ogrodniczuk


Abstract
Digital libraries are frequently treated just as a new method of storage of digitized artifacts, with all consequences of transferring long-established ways of dealing with physical objects into the digital world. Such attitude improves availability, but often neglects other opportunities offered by global and immediate access, virtuality and linking ― as easy as never before. The article presents the idea of transforming a conventional digital library into knowledge source and research collaboration platform, facilitating content augmentation, interpretation and co-operation of geographically distributed researchers representing different academic fields. This concept has been verified by the process of extending descriptions stored in thematic Digital Library of Polish and Poland-related Ephemeral Prints from the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries with extended item-associated information provided by historians, philologists, librarians and computer scientists. It resulted in associating the customary fixed metadata and digitized content with historical comments, mini-dictionaries of foreign interjections or explanation of less-known background details.
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L14-1164
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Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14)
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May
Year:
2014
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Reykjavik, Iceland
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Hrafn Loftsson, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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1649–1653
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Włodzimierz Gruszczyński and Maciej Ogrodniczuk. 2014. Digital Library 2.0: Source of Knowledge and Research Collaboration Platform. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14), pages 1649–1653, Reykjavik, Iceland. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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