The Electronic Library: Volume 30 Issue 2

Multilinguality in the digital library: A review

Together, increasing globalization and the internet created fertile grounds for the establishment of multilingual digital libraries. Providing cross‐lingual access to materials is…

Multilingual needs and expectations in digital libraries: A survey of academic users with different languages

This study aims to survey academic users in order to identify their needs and expectations about multilingual information processing when they interact with digital libraries. The…

Analysing user's queries for cross‐language image retrieval from digital library collections

This paper aims to describe a study of the queries generated from a user experiment for cross‐language information retrieval (CLIR) from a historic image archive.

Collaboration and crowdsourcing: The cases of multilingual digital libraries

This study aims to understand key features of existing multilingual digital libraries and to suggest strategies for building and/or sustaining multilingual information access for…

Exploration and study of multilingual thesauri automation construction for digital libraries in China

The paper aims to explore multilingual thesauri automation construction based on the freely available digital library resources. The key methods and study results are presented in…

Effective medical resources searching using an ontology‐driven medical information retrieval system: H1N1 case study

As international users increase rapidly, multilingual systems have become a very important service for global users. The purpose of this paper is to design and implement an…

A preliminary evaluation of metadata records machine translation

The purpose of this study is to evaluate freely available machine translation (MT) services' performance in translating metadata records.

Mapping multilingual lexical semantics for knowledge organization systems

The study aims to investigate, through mapping analysis, the operation of knowledge organization systems (KOS) in different languages (English and Chinese), the types of term…

Bilingual terminology extraction using multi‐level termhood

Terminology is the set of technical words or expressions used in specific contexts, which denotes the core concept in a formal discipline and is usually applied in the fields of…

Preparing Collections for Digitization

Getting Started with Cloud Computing

Innovations in Information Retrieval: Perspectives for Theory and Practice

Preserving Digital Materials

E‐books in Libraries: A Practical Guide

Implementing Cost‐effective Assistive Computer Technology

Multilinguality in digital libraries