Design and development of a user-centred digital library system: Some basic guidelines
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Design and development of a user-centred digital library system: Some basic guidelines
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Meyyappan, N.
Chowdhury, G.G. Foo, S. |
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General
Electrochemical Instrumentation |
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Beginning with an introduction and justifications for the need of user-centred digital
library development, this paper outlines the architecture, the basic components and
functionalities of a Digital Work Environment (DWE) that forms the basis of a usercentred
digital library development at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.
The information resources include full-text articles, online and other forms of databases,
collections of theses and dissertations, library OPAC, union catalogues, and so on, that
are scattered across the Internet, university’s intranet, NTU Library’s Gateway to
Electronic Media Services (GEMS) and Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) system.
The user-centred DWE design aims to provide a systematic access to these resources by
organising them using a task-based approach. With this, users are able to browse
through a hierarchy of tasks and sub -tasks and identify appropriate resources. In order
to support added search and information retrieval variety, DWE also supports browsing
of an alphabetical list of all resources, searching of individual information resource
attributes of intranet documents, GEMS and OPAC, user-selected Internet search
engines, and a combined search of these various options through a single unified query.
Based on the experience of a continued research on the design and development of the
DWE, a set of generic guidelines for the design of a user-centred digital library system is
provided.
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2001
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Conference or Workshop Item
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application/pdf
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http://cecri.csircentral.net/56/1/2001adl_fmt.pdf
Meyyappan, N. and Chowdhury, G.G. and Foo, S. (2001) Design and development of a user-centred digital library system: Some basic guidelines. In: International Conference of Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL2001), December 10-12, 2001, Bangalore. |
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http://cecri.csircentral.net/56/
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