From Digital Library to Open Datasets

Wittmann, Rachel; Neatrour, Anna; Cummings, Rebekah; Myntti, Jeremy

doi:10.6017/ital.v38i4.11101

Cited by 10 publications

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“…The traditional utilization of digital library collections needs to be broadened by making computation-ready collections meant to be used and consumed in multiple domains. 94 An effort was made by researchers to digitize and archive a digital repository of images and convert them to PDF/A documents but, unfortunately, the researchers came up with limited semantics as they did not consider the elements within the documents themselves. 95 The accessibility of these converted documents may be compromised with these limited semantics.…”

Section: Accessibility Of Digital Library Collectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Accessibility of Tables in PDF Documents

Fayyaz

Khusro

Ullah

2021

ITAL

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People access and share information over the web and in other digital environments, including digital libraries, in the form of documents such as books, articles, technical reports, etc. These documents are in a variety of formats, of which the Portable Document Format (PDF) is most widely used because of its emphasis on preserving the layout of the original material. The retrieval of relevant material from these derivative documents is challenging for information retrieval (IR) because the rich semantic structure of these documents is lost. The retrieval of important units such as images, figures, algorithms, mathematical formulas, and tables becomes a challenge. Among these elements, tables are particularly important because they can add value to the resource description, discovery, and accessibility of documents not only on the web but also in libraries if they are made retrievable and presentable to readers. Sighted users comprehend tables for sensemaking using visual cues, but blind and visually impaired users must rely on assistive technologies, including text-to-speech and screen readers, to comprehend tables. However, these technologies do not pay sufficient attention to tables in order to effectively present tables to visually impaired individuals. Therefore, ways must be found to make tables in PDF documents not only retrievable but also comprehensible. Before developing such solutions, it is necessary to review the available assistive technologies, tools, and frameworks for their capabilities, strengths, and limitations from the comprehension perspective of blind and visually impaired people, along with suitable environments like digital libraries. We found no such review article that critically and analytically presents and evaluates these technologies. To fill this gap in the literature, this review paper reports on the current state of the accessibility of PDF documents, digital libraries, assistive technologies, tools, and frameworks that make PDF tables comprehensible and accessible to blind and visually impaired people. The study findings have implications for libraries, information sciences, and information retrieval.

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Section: Accessibility Of Digital Library Collectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…11 The traditional usage of a digital library makes a canned or routine utilization of its collections, which may be broadened by making computational ready collections. 12 The accessibility of these documents will help in knowledge dissemination to blind and visually impaired people.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Accessibility of Tables in PDF Documents

Fayyaz

Khusro

Ullah

2021

ITAL

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“…In addition, some publications are focused on the development of machine actionable collections from several digital collections providing case studies to test digital humanities methods such as text mining, topic modeling and GIS (Geographic Information System). 24 Furthermore, machine actionable datasets 27 Other approaches are based on data visualizations including graphs, charts and maps in order to help users better understand the scope and coverage of Chronicling America. 28 Cultural changes and innovation in collections are transforming GLAM institutions in research centres.…”

Section: Overviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Following these practices, many institutions such as the Royal Danish Library [23] in Denmark provide prototypes based on digital methods including topic modelling, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and exploration and visualisation tools. In addition, some publications are focused on the development of machine actionable collections from several digital collections providing case studies to test digital humanity methods such as text mining, topic modelling and GIS (Geographic Information System) [24]. Furthermore, machine actionable data sets combined with Jupyter Notebooks [25] provide transparent, collaborative, reproducible and reusable data analyses.…”

Section: Related Work 21 Overviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reusing digital collections from GLAM institutions

Candela

Esteban

Such

2020

Journal of Information Science

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For some decades now, Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM) institutions have published and provided access to information resources in digital format. Recently, innovative approaches have appeared such as the concept of Labs within GLAM institutions that facilitates the adoption of innovative and creative tools for content delivery and user engagement. In addition, new methods have been proposed to address the publication of digital collections as data sets amenable to computational use. In this article, we propose a methodology to create machine actionable collections following a set of steps. This methodology is then applied to several use cases based on data sets published by relevant GLAM institutions. It intends to encourage institutions to adopt the publication of data sets that support computationally driven research as a core activity.

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“…Digital products can be digital books or scientific articles from online journals, but they can also take the form of conference results and repositories which are maintained in a digital library as has been done in Ukraine [6]. In addition to hosting collections of objects in digital form, the existence of digital libraries is also used to develop existing research, namely the humanities in digital form as is done in China [7] and America [8].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

E-book limitation with library portable document format java script for accessing digital library

Agustian¹,

Nugraha²

2021

Compiler

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The function of the Adisutjipto-Aerospace Institute of Technology (ITDA) library is to provide borrowing and reimbursement services for books insured by members of the library. The books which increase in number each year occupy a lot of space in the library, it is therefore necessary to study it so that the form of this book is no longer physical but digital or paperless to be able to be stored on a server computer. This form of library is known as a digital library or e-library. The electronic library is a modern library as a place which provides a source of educational information with more convenience and security. The flow in the application is not very different from the flow in the manual library. Security becomes an important part of an application, by limiting network access, accessing PDF documents and implementing PDF Viewer using the PDF.js library by rendering PDF documents on a canvas capable of blocking illegal downloads. Based on the test results, the electronic library application can work properly. The speed of opening a PDF document is influenced by the speed of the server, the content contained in the PDF and the size of the PDF file.

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From Digital Library to Open Datasets

Cited by 10 publications

References 4 publications

Accessibility of Tables in PDF Documents

Accessibility of Tables in PDF Documents

Reusing digital collections from GLAM institutions

E-book limitation with library portable document format java script for accessing digital library

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