The Electronic Library: Volume 39 Issue 2

A ten-year literature review of content-based image retrieval (CBIR) studies in the tourism industry

Chanattra Ammatmanee, Lu Gan

Due to the worldwide growth of digital image sharing and the maturity of the tourism industry, the vast and growing collections of digital images have become a challenge for those…

Mobile vs desktop user search behaviours of the 1300K site, a Korean shopping search engine

Soyeon Park, Kihun Cho

This study aims to investigate and compare mobile and desktop user search behaviours of the 1300K site, a Korean shopping search engine, by using transaction log analysis.

Archivists’ golden egg: environmental sustainability practices of archives

James Faulkner, Liuxing Lu, Jiangping Chen

Archivists are charged with the preservation of their collections by reducing deterioration because of temperature, relative humidity, atmospheric pollutants and other factors…

Using latent features for building an interpretable recommendation system

Ziming Zeng, Yu Shi, Lavinia Florentina Pieptea, Junhua Ding

Aspects extracted from the user’s historical records are widely used to define user’s fine-grained preferences for building interpretable recommendation systems. As the aspects…

Evaluation of open health data portals for COVID-19 from the perspective of the user experience

Dan Wu, Le Ma, Hui Zhang

The purpose of this paper is to construct an indicator framework for evaluating open health data portals from the perspective of user experience (UX) to reduce users’ learning…

The effect of multilingual suggested tags on cross-language information tagging behaviour

Xiaoyue Ma, Siya Zhang, Pengwei Zhao

Suggested tag was considered as one of the critical factors affecting a user’s tagging behaviour. However, compared to the findings on the suggested tags for the monolingual…

Applications of Semantic Web in integrating open data and bibliographic records: a development example of an infomediary of Taiwanese indigenous people

Han-Yu Sung, Yu-Liang Chi

This study aims to develop a Web-based application system called Infomediary of Taiwanese Indigenous Peoples (ITIP) that can help individuals comprehend the society and culture of…

A comparative analysis on digital libraries and academic search engines from the dual-route perspective

Fenfang Cao, Jinchao Zhang, Xianjin Zha, Kunfeng Liu, Haijuan Yang

Digital libraries and academic search engines have developed as two important online scholarly information sources with different features. The purpose of this study is to compare…

Trust mechanisms underlying the self-efficacy-rumour use relationship

Ping Wang, Yixia Hu, Qiao Li, Hanqin Yang

Journalism students, a special user group with the dual perspective of both social media general users and online journalists, and their trust in rumours is a valued but…