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We cannot expect the user to come to the library any more

In a pre-network world, where information resources were relatively scarce and attention relatively abundant, users built their workflow around the library. In a networked world, where information resources are relatively abundant, and attention is relatively scarce, we cannot expect this to happen. Indeed, the library needs to think about ways of building its resources around the user workflow. We cannot expect the user to come to the library any more

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#information-resources #users #workflow #library #resources

Purpose of a digital library: much more than search engine portals

As suggested by Borgman [14-16], digital libraries should match and indeed dramatically extend traditional libraries. As such, they should be much more than…

What Is A Digital Library Anymore, Anyway ? #digital-libraries #library #resources

Facet (of a topic map)

Sometimes it is convenient to be able to assign metadata to the information resources that constitute the occurrences of a topic from within the topic map. To…

The Tao Of Topic Maps #information-resources #Topic-Maps #metadata #resources #language

How URIs identifying information and non-information resources are dereferenced

URI Dereferencing is the process of looking up a URI on the Web in order to get information about the referenced resource. The W3C’s Dereferencing HTTP URIs…

Making Uris Dereferenceable | Ontogenealogy #information-resources #URI #server #clients #resources #representation

Information architecture, an old term

Information Architecture is a relatively old term. Old in the sense of the web and old in the sense of our progression through technology. It focuses on the…

The Difference Between Information Architecture And Ux Design - Ux Booth | Ux Booth #information-architects #users #-designers #designers #workflow

Strategies for nanopublications: structured note taking

The second strategy for building research maps piggybacks on activities that are part of the research community’s typical workflow, such as note taking. From…

The Need For Research Maps To Navigate Published Work And Inform Experiment Planning #users #workflow #database

A graph information model for a digital library

This paper describes an information model for digital libraries that intentionally moves "beyond search and access", without ignoring those basic functions…

What Is A Digital Library Anymore, Anyway ? #digital-libraries #information-model #users #library #services #web-services