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Comparison of the characteristics and behaviour of people who are sorting and archiving physical and digital objects. There is limited selection –and also little interest– [...]

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Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia, is the first project to have been born specifically from and for the web and which has developed an authority control system for access [...]

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Research, its management and its policies represent a major effort for Spanish universities but few of these institutions have a scientific information system with bibliometric [...]

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National libraries have recently adopted a quality assessment culture using performance indicators. The project for devising Technical Report ISO/TR 28118 regarding performance [...]

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  The digital environment and information and communication technologies open up new ways of providing library services, including the reference service, the principal aim [...]

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InfoSud Digital promotes social awareness of international development collaborations. A VRS (Virtual Reference Service) using the Question Point tool from OCLC was created [...]

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Review and development of the Spanish virtual reference service Pregunte: las bibliotecas responden (Ask a librarian). Description of main characteristics, workflows and statistical [...]

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Reference services in academic libraries are far from dead and technologies of the social web are facilitating and encouraging an ever increasing demand for virtual reference [...]

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Robots.txt and sitemaps files are the main methods to regulate search engine crawler access to its content. This article explain the importance of such files and analyze robots.txt [...]

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The article presents a survey of international research studies and development in digital preservation, devoting a section to the situation in Spain. The author outlines [...]

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Personal information management (PIM) raises some problems because the software tools that are used don’t adequately respond to user behaviour and activities. The concept [...]

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Digital reference is the service offered by libraries and information centres so that users can ask questions through the Internet. The concept of digital reference is described, [...]

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Reference services have developed at the same pace as technology. Different aspects of the information society related to reference services provided by libraries and information [...]

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Patalano, Mercedes (2008). Prácticas de las bibliotecas universitarias argentinas. Reflexiones críticas en el contexto de la comunicación académica y sus representaciones [...]

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Gil-Leiva, Isidoro (2008). Manual de indización: teoría y práctica. Gijón: Trea, 432 p. (Biblioteca y administración cultural; 193). ISBN: 978 84 9704 367 0

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An interview with Karen Spence, assistant director of Information Systems, Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), United States Department of Energy, describes [...]

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In this paper we show that the aggregation of bibliometric indices is an appropriate way to evaluate scientific production of researchers because it allows us to develop much [...]

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The paper exposes a brief history of social network services on the Web that have evolved under the concept of Web 2.0, along with the most significant examples of these platforms. [...]

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The need to preserve audiovisual archives and the possibilities for their dissemination resulting from digitisation have generated a growing interest in the development of [...]

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The proper functioning of the Research, Development and Innovation (R&D&I) cycle requires an efficient processing of scientific information. The Institute for Catalan Studies [...]

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Scientific communication is being enriched by the introduction of new ways of storage, publication and dissemination of the results. These include the services of the Web [...]

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The Web of Science interface counts at most 100,000 retrieved items from a single query. If the query results in a dataset containing more than 100,000 items the number of [...]

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The ISOC database is presented as an information system that is very useful for the dissemination and the study of scientific production in human and social sciences in Spain [...]

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Given the importance of innovation and technology development in a country’s economy, there has been an increasing need for selecting indicators to measure the degree of [...]

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Google Scholar is a search engine that specializes in scientific information and in the identification of the citations that academic papers receive, making it a strong competitor [...]

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The validity of Google Scholar as a service that reflects properly the scientific output of a university is analyzed, comparing its coverage of Spanish public universities [...]

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Science is the most refined cultural element to describe and manage the environment. It is the result of a permanent evolutionary algorithm and represents an adaptive biological [...]

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Ramos-Simón, Luis-Fernando (2008). Bases de datos de libre acceso difundidas por la Administración General del Estado. Grupo Publidoc-UCM, coord. Madrid: Ministerio de Cultura, [...]

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Last February, following a change in Facebook’s use policies, a discussion about social networks began in IweTel, expanding on multiple facets of previous messages to the [...]

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Summary of developments presented at the traditional annual congress of Swets users held on June 4, 2009 in Barcelona: the tool SwetsWise Selection Support, PressDisplay news [...]

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A Premis Workshop (PREservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies) was held in Rome on 5-6 February 2009. The event, organized by the Foundation Rinascimento Digitale, was [...]

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The 11th Spanish Documentation Conference (Jornadas Españolas de Documentación) was held May 20-22, 2009 in Saragossa, Spain, organized by the Spanish Federation of Societies [...]

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Reference managing tools are one of the most useful devices for researchers and librarians due to their ability to compile, storeand format information related to different [...]

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From the information provided for free by Thomson Reuters in ScienceWatch.com, production and citation dataof the scientific disciplines are analyzed for Spain, determining [...]

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Analysis of the citations received by the journal El profesional de la información (EPI) according to the databases ISI Science Citation Index (WoS) from Thomson Reuters, [...]

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The identification of individuals on television using facial recognition biometrics can help the work of audiovisual documentation departments. Basic biometrics concepts are [...]

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The publishers of yellow pages and business directories are suffering strong competition from the internet and are forced to seek new ways of income, taking refuge in local [...]

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The profession of information scientist is considered with a historical perspective and the author tries tofigure out the reason for his identity crisis. It is suggested that [...]

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The great interest that health generates in people has led to several Spanish institutions of the health sector to improve the communication value of newsletters, online patients [...]

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Management decision to initiate or develop internationalization depends on the ability to take advantage of opportunities afforded by foreign markets. Factors determining [...]

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Personal information management (PIM) studies how people should organize and use the information they get to solve everyday needs, in order to take full advantage of personal [...]

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Public administration in the developed countries is designing information initiatives to manage risk information using web-based systems. These sites are intended to deliver [...]

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The objective of this study is to measure the relationship between the digital information sources (Google, Yahoo and Encyclopaedia Britannica) and the turnover of the international [...]

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The traditional need to collect, care for and make available a huge collection of physical items has shaped the education, work and even the sense of identity of information [...]

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A large part of the research on personal information management is scattered through many journals due to the intrinsic characteristics of this topic. This work tries to compile [...]

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Realizamos esta entrevista en los días previos a la aparición de La información.com el 23 de abril de 2009. En el contexto actual de crisis de los medios de comunicación [...]

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Professional trends for television programme researchers and opportunities that arise in the labour market due to the widespread media consumption and the increasing number [...]

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One of the aims proposed in the Radiotelevision Valenciana (RTVV) Digitalization of Audio-visual Documentation project was to migrate the information that we had been describing, [...]

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The creation of autonomous public Television in the Principality of Asturias inside of digital environment, involved the use of the latest technologies in production of audiovisual [...]

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Newsroom convergence at El País and its online edition means a challenge for the department of Documentation, whose history is one of evolution from analogical to digital [...]

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Summary of the historical evolution of document management processes in the Spanish regional newspaper Levante-EMV from its privatization in 1984 to the present. First, it [...]

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The explosion of information and communication technologies (ICTs) has affected the work routines of professional journalists. Immediacy, one of the essential characteristics [...]

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The pathway to the complete digitisation and substitution of printed press is now a reality. The imminent commercialisation of new mobile devices using e-ink, licensed by [...]

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In this article we present a proposal for sequence based audiovisual markup and retrieval which can be applied to information management in television. To achieve this we [...]

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Digitization of media archives has improved both news librarians’ and journalists’ work. However, a significant proportion of Spanish journalists prefer searching for [...]

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A study of the impact and influence of Digital Photography on the Press Documentation Departments. The photographic archives of the Documentation Departments of the Spanish [...]

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The consolidation of cyberjournalism as a new form of journalistic production in recent years brought about the need to evaluate the quality of newspapers and magazines produced [...]

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The majority of online newspapers provide access to retrospective information through press archive services, a product of great interest for libraries and other information [...]

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The biography of news researcher Liz Donovan, who died in 2008, serves as a thread of a journey through the profession of news librarian and describes the evolution of newspaper [...]

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The Rector Gabriel Ferraté Library (BRGF) at the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) has recently launched an electronic books lending service. This paper describes the [...]

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A set of recommendations are presented that are intended to be useful for the externalization of a SEO service. The recommendations are articulated around four phases: (1) [...]

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There are a lot of services that can be accessed using a mobile phone by sending a premium short message (SMS premium). This article describes how the technology behind these [...]

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According to some studies, in 2009 the number of mobile web devices worldwide will be six times greater than that of desktop or laptop devices. These data have awakened the [...]

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In recent years, mobile technologies have become more and more important in the social information ecosystem and they are a real option for accessing the Web. Each time there [...]

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Architectural documentation is a key element of knowing our cultural heritage. The heterogeneity and complexity of this documentation causes problems in their proper description [...]

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We propose a procedure for the linguistic treatment of Spanish questions as a step prior to their classification in question answering systems. The main types of questionanswering [...]

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One of the most popular services in web 2.0 is the social promotion of news. Digg and Menéame –the second one in Spain and Latin America–, are very well known. Using [...]

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Spanish telecentres are a catalyst and inclusion instrument in the information society. Nevertheless, there is a lack of studies describing the activities performed by these [...]

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Due to their increasing connectivity and processing power, mobile devices are engaged in a process of mediatization that involves, on one side, conventional media related [...]

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The main goal of the analysis summarized in this paper is to identify essential economic, technological, social and legal forces that are currently shaping the mobile content [...]

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In the last years we have seen many attempts to transfer the desktop browser experience to the mobile sphere, with poor results. Nonetheless, both devices’ performance improvement [...]

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Mobility and access to Web contents and services from any place having an internet connection are both advantages of using mobile devices like mobile phones, pdas, smartphones, [...]

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This note takes a brief look at trends in the usage of Web from mobile devices, specifically studying data regarding Opera Mini. It looks for unexpected results, and for differences [...]

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Pérez-Montoro Gutiérrez, Mario. Gestión del conocimiento en las organizaciones: fundamentos, metodología y praxis. Gijón: Trea, 2008, 264 p. (Biblioteca y administración [...]

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Unas 150 personas procedentes de casi todas las Comunidades Autónomas asistieron a las 3as jornadas sobre repositorios institucionales que el grupo de trabajo ”OS repositorios” [...]

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Tuvo lugar en la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de León, los días 17-18 de octubre de 2008. Su objetivo era reflexionar sobre los requisitos que el mercado [...]

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Personal bibliographic software helps to organize references. These packages can create bibliography and footnotes in combination with popular word processing programs. They [...]

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Production and citation rankings of the top 25 world science countries are presented from the free data provided by Thomson Reuters in ScienceWatch.com. The development of [...]

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The concept of Science 2.0 is introduced and analysed based on its principal characteristics: user participation and collaboration, as well as free information exchange by [...]

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On the internet, statistical tools are essential to measure the results of online marketing campaigns. The lack of those tools is annoying because companies cannot make decisions [...]

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The history of the municipal web of the city of Barcelona –Bcn.cat– goes back to 14 years ago. In this time has passed to be a small web, static and with little content [...]

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The evolution of the mailing list IweTel is presented, including a description of its evolution and how it has been used by its subscribers, by analysing the content of the [...]

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The results of a study of social networking by professors’ co-memberships in library and information science PhD juries between 1993 and 2006 are presented. Degree reduction [...]

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With the increasing number of web sites, the time spent by users reviewing the results also increases. In addition, the nature of web content is semantically heterogeneous [...]

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During the last decade we have witnessed the generalized use of email as a tool for communication in our society. Its use within organizations follows this general trend and [...]

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The analysis of web usage information is an important cybermetric tool for describing the visits and visitors to a website, and their navigation behaviour, which can help [...]

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Effectiveness of longitudinal search analytics is studied, in the sense that search log analysis can be used as a tool to enhance website information architecture. A methodology [...]

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Overview and trends of different aspects and applications of data mining on the Internet, in relation to Web 2.0, spam, analysis of searches, social networks and privacy.

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The aim of this paper is to review some recent progress in the preparation of professionals to design and implement information literacy services in documentary institutions, [...]

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The article discusses the presence of blogs in two types of publications with different characteristics: digital newspapers and scientific journals in Spain. The case of the [...]

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The internet has facilitated the creation of large collections of documents by the aggregation of documents sent from different suppliers. Europeana is an example. In general, [...]

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This reflection focuses on the role of the public library in providing leadership to the social construction of cultural needs and values and offering services beyond the [...]

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Until now, the paradigm of Human-Computer Interaction has focused on the interaction with two-dimensional interfaces showing the strong dichotomy between the real and the [...]

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The main virtues of the document management software developed by Alfresco are described as well as the economic viability of open source in general. Despite criticism that [...]

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Since its origins the man has always sought ways to enhance their cognitive abilities: memory, learning, understanding, preservation and dissemination of information. And [...]

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The evolution of internet to a multitude of social networks and sites where anyone can communicate and publish what they want and in any format they want, is causing a growing [...]

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The concept of microblogging is described. Some of the main tools there are (Twitter, Jaiku, Pownce, Jisko, etc.) and how they work. Then the concept of liveblogging is introduced, [...]