Mehdi Alipour Hafezi
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Purpose: Library users need to have integrated access to digital library content and services. Preparing these services needs syntactic and semantic interoperability infrastructure. Nowadays most digital library applications syntactically have the ability to exchange with each other. Therefore the purpose ...
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Purpose: Library users need to have integrated access to digital library content and services. Preparing these services needs syntactic and semantic interoperability infrastructure. Nowadays most digital library applications syntactically have the ability to exchange with each other. Therefore the purpose of this paper is to propose semantic integration architecture for digital libraries to enable them to prepare new semantic services for their users.Method: This study was carried out in the following steps: firstly research literature was collected and studied. Studying research literature helps the researcher to prepare a primary version of the checklist to collect data in this study. The next step aimed to survey the semantic interoperability ability of digital library management systems. In this regard, 26 Iranian digital library management systems were studied by the researcher-made checklist in the previous step. The studied digital library management systems have syntactic interoperability functionalities. Then this study’s semantic integration architecture was proposed according to the analysis and results of the study. Finally, the "demonstration" method was used to assess the proposed architecture.Findings: Findings showed that studied digital library management systems focused on textual materials and paid very little attention to other library information resource formats. Moreover, in many cases, the studied digital library systems did not fill the contents of semantically needed metadata fields. On average, they attempt to document metadata fields such as subject and keywords, by existing reference materials such as Library of Congress Subject Headings and subjective thesauruses that they needed.Conclusion: According to the findings, the architecture of the semantic integration model based on the results of this study was proposed with three data, inference machine, and application layers.
Mehdi Alipour-Hafezi; Nastaran Saberi; Hamidreza Radfar
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Purpose: Regarding the design of an applicable electronic book reading system for children and adolescents, this study struggles to prepare a conceptual model in this case.Method: So we used the quantitative approach and the Delphi method to analyze data. In this regard, criterion-based sampling is used ...
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Purpose: Regarding the design of an applicable electronic book reading system for children and adolescents, this study struggles to prepare a conceptual model in this case.Method: So we used the quantitative approach and the Delphi method to analyze data. In this regard, criterion-based sampling is used to identify the research population. Therefore, 15 experts were identified who had criteria such as having subjective publications, teaching experience, and so on. We factually supposed that these experts could present much more information than we expected to collect. Moreover, 8 electronic book systems were selected to be reviewed, because of their many active audiences, and their international and also standard presence. In fact, we firstly identified practical criteria in designing electronic books by extracting them from related resources and also checking active systems. The data helped us to prepare the checklist draft and it was completed after passing the validity control step with the participation of three experts. Then the checklist was presented to experts in the Delphi panel. Finally, consensus on the components was reached after three rounds of the Delphi panel.Findings: The findings showed that in designing electronic books for children and adolescents, there are five original components. The components include display screen features with 12 criteria, screen organization with 13 criteria, interaction and feedback with 8 criteria, search and retrieval features with 10 criteria, and help and guidance features with 10 criteria.Conclusion: The study, display screen features with a score of 3, 706, and interaction and feedback with a score of 3, 700 were selected as the most important components in designing electronic book systems by Delphi experts interface children and adolescents library.
