The Electronic Library: Volume 20 Issue 4
Digital information organization and use
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Perspectives for electronic books in the World Wide Web age
François Bry, Michael KrausWhile the World Wide Web (WWW or Web) is steadily expanding, electronic books (e‐books) remain a niche market. In this article, it is first postulated that specialized contents…
Creating e‐books in a distributed and collaborative way
Ruth Cobos Pérez, Xavier AlamánThis paper describes how groups of authors may create electronic books about the knowledge area of their interest by means of unsupervised collaborative work. For this task we…
Participative knowledge production of learning objects for e‐books
Juan Manuel Dodero, Ignacio Aedo, Paloma DíazIn a distributed learning environment, the development of learning objects is a participative task. We consider learning objects as knowledge pieces, which are subject to the…
Obtaining feedback for indexing from highlighted text
Miguel Villarroel, Pablo de la Fuente, Alberto Pedrero, Jesús Vegas, Joaquín AdiegoThe indexing techniques most commonly applied in information retrieval systems associate weights to the terms of documents; this association is carried out in order to quantify…
A system to generate electronic books on programming exercises
C. Gregorio‐Rodríguez, L.F. Llana‐Díaz, C. Pareja‐Flores, R. Martínez‐Unanue, J.Á. Velázquez‐Iturbide, P. Palao‐GostanzaElectronic books offer a number of possibilities for innovation over paper books in certain fields. It is the case of programming exercises, which have a complex but…
A user‐centred approach to e‐book design
Ruth Wilson, Monica Landoni, Forbes GibbThis paper considers the Electronic Books ON‐screen Interface (EBONI) Project’s research into the importance of the user when designing electronic textbooks. The results of the…
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- Prof. Jeonghyun Kim
- Assistant Prof Haihua Chen
- Ms Marie Bloechle