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Περιέχει το πλήρες κείμενο. The circulation of books was the motor of classical civilization. However, books were both expensive and rare, and so libraries - private and public, royal and civic - played key roles in articulating intellectual life. This collection, writt...

This paper describes on-going research investigating movement and behaviour patterns of visitors in archaeological sites as a way of informing interpretive planning. A critical point of this study was the development of a hybrid methodology for collecting and assessing ...

Περιέχει το πλήρες κείμενο The quality of the metadata affects the interoperability of the collections and the quality of all search results, and is important to the success of Europeana. It is not obvious how to define quality metrics, on different kinds of metadata an...

Being able to exchange metadata is the key to ensuring access to collections, establishing interoperability among collections, and between different types of cultural heritage institutions, such as across libraries, museums and audiovisual archives. Motivated by two use...

There are in the National Library of Portugal (BNP) about fifty paintings from former convents, mainly portraits executed between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, which are hung in rooms and along corridors, far from the eyes of the public and simultaneously prot...

Περιέχει τη περίληψη Presents the text of a speech delivered by G.S. Georghallides at the Second International Congress of Cypriot Studies, held in Nicosia in April 1982. Management of public records under the British colonial administration in Cyprus; Holdings of the C...

Περιέχει το πλήρες κείμενο This paper discusses the foundation of the Library of Alexandria, probably to be dated under Ptolemy I, and argues for its location within the temple complex of the Mouseion. Modelled in part on Aristotle's library in Athens, the Library is pl...

This study considers the expressiveness (that is the expressive power or expressivity) of different types of Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS) and discusses its potential to be machine-processable in the context of the Semantic Web. For this purpose, the theoretical ...

Περιέχει τη περίληψη The Scandinavian Library of Athens concentrates on literature on Greek archaeology, on ancient Greek history, religion, art and history of culture. Since the library use in Greece is not as common as in Scandinavia, the Library provides a good examp...

Περιέχει το πλήρες κείμενο The focus of our study is zero-hit queries in keyword subject searches and the effort of increasing recall in these cases by reformulating and, then, expanding the initial queries using an external source of knowledge, namely a thesaurus. To t...