Ionian University (http://www.ionio.gr/) Archive and Library Science Department (http://www.ionio.gr/tab/eng/) Laboratory on Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing (http://dlib.ionio.gr/) Prof. Sarantos Kapidakis
Research in Ionian University focuses on: (a) models and criteria for evaluation of electronic documents and collections, how to propose models (for libraries and users) for better managing, using and evaluating the Digital Libraries, (b) policies of accessing digital material in Digital Libraries, exploring policies that will make the Digital Libraries more user friendly and closer to user and author expectations, (c) User Behaviour Tendencies on Data Collections in a Digital Library, studying the user behaviour on collections with different characteristics, and cluster the collections and the users into classes of similar behaviour, (d) concurrent access interoperability problems are studied when using the same communication protocols and searching in one domain and how to extend the basic interoperability that is defined by the existing protocols to serve this goal (e) issues in real-time concurrent access systems, such as duplicate detection and records consolidation (f) cultural heritage multimedia collections interoperability metadata schemata, (g) semantics interoperability and the automatic fusion of multimedia features in higher level contexts, not explicitly expressed, by using information extraction and feature selection techniques, on subject gateway resources and digital collections described by different and non-compatible metadata and ontologies. |