The Electronic Library: Volume 38 Issue 5/6

Textbook ranking and an assessment method and system: a case study using surveying textbooks

Chien-Min Kuo, Kuan-Yu Chen, Yi-Ching Lin

Teachers, students, librarians, scholars and domain experts often spend a lot of time and effort to select good and suitable textbooks. This study aims to propose and construct a…

Presenting a proposed framework for evaluating university websites

Monireh Gharibe Niazi, Masumeh Karbala Aghaei Kamran, Amir Ghaebi

This study aims to design a proposed framework for evaluating university websites.

HerCulB: content-based information extraction and retrieval for cultural heritage of the Balkans

Ivana Tanasijević, Gordana Pavlović-Lažetić

The purpose of this paper is to provide a methodology for automatic annotation of a multimedia collection of intangible cultural heritage mostly in the form of interviews…

An ontology-improved vector space model for semantic retrieval

Mingwei Tang, Jiangping Chen, Haihua Chen, Zhenyuan Xu, Yueyao Wang, Mengting Xie, Jiangwei Lin

The purpose of this paper is to provide an integrated semantic information retrieval (IR) solution based on an ontology-improved vector space model for situations where a digital…

Knowledge map: a creative visual path to library guides and resources

Weiling Liu

This paper aims to indicate that library guides seem to be unfamiliar to most students or not easy to find or use. Some improvements have been made by embedding the guides in the…

Analysis of performance-based issues in green transportation management systems in smart cities

Liang Chen, Prathik Anandhan, Balamurugan S.

In this paper, an intelligent information assisted communication transportation framework (II-CTF) has been introduced to reduce congestion, data reliability in transportation and…

Achieving data security and privacy across healthcare applications using cyber security mechanisms

Shanying Zhu, Vijayalakshmi Saravanan, BalaAnand Muthu

Currently, in the health-care sector, information security and privacy are increasingly important issues. The improvement in information security is highlighted in adopting…

The importance of public support in the implementation of green transportation in smart cities using smart vehicle bicycle communication transport

Ning Li, Parthasarathy R., Harshila H. Padwal

Smart mobility is a major guideline in the development of Smart Cities’ transport systems and management. The issue of transition into green, secure and sustainable transport…

Spam detection and high-quality features to analyse question –answer pairs

Hei Chia Wang, Yu Hung Chiang, Si Ting Lin

In community question and answer (CQA) services, because of user subjectivity and the limits of knowledge, the distribution of answer quality can vary drastically – from highly…

Application of linked data technologies in libraries: Pakistani information professionals’ attitudes and perceptions

Nosheen Fatima Warraich, Abebe Rorissa

This study aims to ascertain the information professionals’ perceptions and attitudes towards the application of linked data (LD) technologies in libraries in the context of a…

Research on the key perception points in the process of e-book selection

Sisi Xing, Aidong Peng, Yihong Mao

This paper aims to propose some suggestions for libraries and other digital reading service institutions to improve the utilization rate of e-books, based on the theoretical and…

Identification of phishing websites through hyperlink analysis and rule extraction

Chaoqun Wang, Zhongyi Hu, Raymond Chiong, Yukun Bao, Jiang Wu

The aim of this study is to propose an efficient rule extraction and integration approach for identifying phishing websites. The proposed approach can elucidate patterns of…

Do not perish outdated CDS/ISIS data: ABCD ILS from the same family is there to make it alive

Md. Zahid Hossain Shoeb, Md. Mukhlesur Rahman

This paper aims to outline the migration of outdated computerized documentation system/integrated set for information systems (CDS/ISIS) database in to fully functional Web-based…

Examining the factors influencing information poverty in western China

Xiaobo Mou, Fang Xu

The purpose of this study is to explore the factors impacting information poverty in western China and investigate to what extent these determinants contribute to information…

Professional competencies for librarians working in special libraries: the case of Pakistan

Shakeel Ahmad Khan, Abida Parveen

The purpose of this study is to identify the core competencies for librarians working in special libraries. It also measures the competencies of librarians working in special…