This open access book provides an in-depth description of the EU project European Language Grid (ELG). Its motivation lies in the fact that Europe is a multilingual society with 24 official European ...Union Member State languages and dozens of additional languages including regional and minority languages. The only meaningful way to enable multilingualism and to benefit from this rich linguistic heritage is through Language Technologies (LT) including Natural Language Processing (NLP), Natural Language Understanding (NLU), Speech Technologies and language-centric Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications. The European Language Grid provides a single umbrella platform for the European LT community, including research and industry, effectively functioning as a virtual home, marketplace, showroom, and deployment centre for all services, tools, resources, products and organisations active in the field. Today the ELG cloud platform already offers access to more than 13,000 language processing tools and language resources. It enables all stakeholders to deposit, upload and deploy their technologies and datasets. The platform also supports the long-term objective of establishing digital language equality in Europe by 2030 – to create a situation in which all European languages enjoy equal technological support. This is the very first book dedicated to Language Technology and NLP platforms. Cloud technology has only recently matured enough to make the development of a platform like ELG feasible on a larger scale. The book comprehensively describes the results of the ELG project. Following an introduction, the content is divided into four main parts: (I) ELG Cloud Platform; (II) ELG Inventory of Technologies and Resources; (III) ELG Community and Initiative; and (IV) ELG Open Calls and Pilot Projects.
Institutional repositories (IRs) are increasingly gaining prominence among African academic institutions, and Ghana is no exception. This can largely be attributed to the enduring value of hosting ...research outputs from institutional and individual depositors. Despite its increasing adoption, there is a growing concern about the sustainability of open access IRs, particularly in Africa. However, most of these factors that threaten the sustainability of IRs on the continent can be mitigated by enacting comprehensive institutional policies. Thus, this study sought to examine the role of institutional policies in the sustainability of IRs in Ghana. A total of 830 respondents comprised of IR managers, library staff, postgraduate students, lecturers and university librarians (management) from five public universities in Ghana took part in this study. Questionnaires, semi-structured interviews and document analysis were the main instruments used for data collection. The study yielded an overall response rate of 92.8%. The study findings revealed that public universities in Ghana have institutional IR policies that guide the operation, usage and management of their IRs. However, these policies were persuasive in nature and mainly focused on content submission and generation issues. The study underscored the IR policy’s importance in addressing content generation, awareness, advocacy and copyright restriction challenges. The study recommends the necessity of IR policies to focus on other factors such as technical requirements, expertise and others to ensure the sustainability of these repositories.
Health sciences libraries in medical schools, academic health centers, health care networks, and hospitals have established institutional repositories (IRs) to showcase their research achievements, ...increase visibility, expand the reach of institutional scholarship, and disseminate unique content. Newer roles for IRs include publishing open access journals, tracking researcher productivity, and serving as repositories for data sharing. Many repository managers oversee their IR with limited assistance from others at their institution. Therefore, IR practitioners find it valuable to network and learn from colleagues at other institutions.
This case report describes the genesis and implementation of a new initiative specifically designed for a health sciences audience: the Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL) Symposium. Six medical librarians from hospitals and academic institutions in the U.S. organized the inaugural symposium held virtually in November 2021. The goal was to fill a perceived gap in conference programming for IR practitioners in health settings. Themes of the 2021 and subsequent 2022 symposium included IR management, increasing readership and engagement, and platform migration. Post-symposium surveys were completed by 73/238 attendees (31%) in 2021 and by 62/180 (34%) in 2022. Feedback was overwhelmingly positive.
Participant responses in post-symposium surveys rated MIRL highly. The MIRL planning group intends to continue the symposium and hopes MIRL will steadily evolve, build community among IR practitioners in the health sciences, and expand the conversation around best practices for digital archiving of institutional content. The implementation design of MIRL serves as a blueprint for collaboratively bringing together a professional community of practice.
Purpose/significance Data resources of the institutional repository to get involved in academic evaluation show its service function, and actually can test the effectiveness of the current ...institutional repository construction from the application level. Method/process Firstly, this paper introduced the contents of scholars in the institutional repository of Chinese Academy of Sciences and universities, summarized the relevant information of scholars, and demonstrated the advantages of institutional repository in academic evaluation. Then, from the perspective of academic metrology evaluation of scholars, this paper clarified the role of institutional repository in metrological evaluation, and investigated all kinds of relevant information about scholars in domestic institutional repositories under the guidance of data consciousness, so as to transform those relevant information into three types of data resources which should support academic metrological evaluation of scholars. Finally, the prerequisite,
Canada's deep geological repository (DGR) design includes an engineered barrier system where highly compacted bentonite (HCB) surrounds the copper-coated used fuel containers (UFCs). ...Microbial-influenced corrosion is a potential threat to long-term integrity of UFC as bisulfide (HS−) may be produced by microbial activities under anaerobic conditions and transported via diffusion through the HCB to reach the UFC surface, resulting in corrosion of copper. Therefore, understanding HS− transport mechanisms through HCB is critical for accurate prediction of copper corrosion allowance. This study investigated HS− transport behaviour through MX-80 bentonite at dry densities 1070–1615 kg m−3 by performing through-diffusion experiments. Following HS− diffusion, bromide (Br−) diffusion and Raman spectroscopy analyses were performed to explore possible physical or mineralogical alterations of bentonite caused by interacting with HS−. In addition, accessible porosity ε was estimated using extended Archie's law. Effective diffusion coefficient of HS− was found 2.5 × 10−12 m2 s−1 and 5.0× 10−12 m2 s−1 for dry densities 1330 and 1070 kg m−3, respectively. No HS− breakthrough was observed for highly compacted bentonite (1535–1615 kg m−3) over the experimental timeframe (170 days). Raman spectroscopy results revealed that HS− reacted with iron in bentonite and precipitated as mackinawite and, therefore, it was immobilized. Finally, results of this study imply that HS− transport towards UFC will be highly controlled by the available iron content and dry density of the buffer material.
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•Bisulfide diffusion coefficient decreased with increasing bentonite dry density.•Immobilization of HS− by geochemical reactions inhibited its diffusive transport.•Raman anawlysis revealed immobilization occurred via formation and precipitation of mackinawite.•Transport of HS− had negligible effects on bentonite pore structure.•Density and iron content of bentonite will control HS− transport towards UFC.
Purpose / significance At the important node of IR development entering a stable period and in the transition to the next generation of IR, this paper reviews the construction process, status quo and ...challenges of institutional repository in China, so as to achieve the purpose of accelerating and deepening the development of IR in China., Method/process First, it adopts the empirical research method combining the network survey method and telephone and email survey methods, and takes domestic universities, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and other scientific research institutes as the survey object to investigate the development status of the national IR; second, the survey results According to the comparative analysis of the university system, scientific research system and the overall situation, summarize the IR development achievements and problems. Result/conclusionSome achievements have been made in IR construction. The number of IR under construction and to be
This research is motivated by information technology advances that force users to use repositories as a source of information. The capabilities and challenges users face in using the repository ...website can be a benchmark for achieving a flow experience. Objectives: To determine the level of flow experience, the factors that influence the flow experience, and the most dominant factors affecting users' flow experience. Input and considerations in making website development decisions and achieving excellent service. The research method used is quantitative research and exploratory factor analysis. The sample is 106 using purposive sampling. The result is that most users who use the UNSRI repository are women, 64.49%, aged 16-25 years, 88.79% with the latest educational background, the majority being senior high school students, amounting to 63.55%. The assumption is that the users using the UNSRI repository are students pursuing undergraduate education. The level of users' flow experience on the UNSRI repository website, as many as 57 users, is categorized as flow. Then there are 33 users classified as frustrated. Libraries can review procedures for accessing files stored in the repository. Training or information literacy on using repository files should be carried out regularly
Purpose/significance At present, IR has reached a relatively mature stage. This article combs, analyzes and summaries the development of domestic IR, to provide reference for the next stage of IR ...development. Method/process Using the software of Excel, VOSviewer, CiteSpace and programming, 1 362 articles of IR were collected from CNKI in 2000-2018 year for visual analysis. Result/conclusion The results of this study are as follows: IR articles publishing had experienced rapid development period, the relative stationary period, and downturn period, which means that the current research of domestic IR has reached a new stage, and have new research hotspots; the high-frequency authors (groups) are mainly composed of the authors of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and universities, the former's research is more advanced and deeper than the latter; "Library and Information Service", "Journal of Modern Information", "Researches in Library Science", etc. are the most published journals with IR research papers,
Introduction. The development in the field of information technology is growing rapidly from time to time. Digital-based repositories are a form of the use of information technology. Therefore, this ...study focuses on knowing the extent to which an information source such as a repository has a quality system that is able to produce quality information so as to provide satisfaction to its users.
Research methods. This study used a correlational study method with a quantitative approach. The population were users of the National Scientific Repository, namely LIPI researchers in the Bandung area.
Data Analysis. This study used a descriptive and inferential statistical analysis using the Spearman Rank test with SPSS application.
Analysis Data. The results showed that the information quality variable has a significant relationship with the level of user satisfaction of the National Scientific Repository.
Results and Discussion. The results of the study provide an illustration that the information quality variable has a significant relationship with the level of user satisfaction of the National Scientific Repository.
Conclusions and Suggestions. This study shows that the system of National Scientific Repository is able to provide quality to the information provided, that having an impact on the level of satisfaction of the users of National Scientific Repository itself. Information quality should consider several dimensions such as time, content and format.
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