Catálogo de publicaciones - libros

This poster addresses the problem of the publication of digitized works. It presents the solution developed at the National Library of Portugal, where nearly one million of images were created in the last year, from a wide range of original genres (manuscripts, maps, posters, books, newspapers, etc.). The solution is based on a tool named ContentE, which supports the creation, import and editing of structural descriptions of works, making it possible to record them in XML using the METS schema. The tool manages also collections of style sheets, making it possible to create multiple publication copies, as XHTML sites. This solution can be used as a standalone tool, with a graphic user interface, or embedded in a web-service, for automatic publishing.

This poster describes the first steps in creating a metadata registry for the UNIMARC formats. This registry aims to hold formal descriptions of the structure of the formats, keeping track of their versions, as also the register of the textual descriptions in multiple languages. These structural representations are recorded in XML. This poster gives a special focus to the results already available for the bibliographic format: its on-line textual publication and the automatic validation of bibliographic records.

This poster will present the results of a pilot study that examined the efficacy of a computational model to support users in determining quality in educational digital libraries. The subsequent research design of a larger follow-on project will also be presented. It is anticipated that the conceptual and computational models that will be created for scaffolding quality judgments about library resources can be empirically validated, and ultimately integrated into digital library tools and services.