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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Reading is a complex human activity that has evolved, and
co-evolved, with technology over thousands of years. Mass printing
in the fifteenth century firmly established what we know as the
modern book, with its physical format of covers and paper pages,
and now-standard features such as page numbers, footnotes, and
diagrams. Today, electronic documents are enabling paperless
reading supported by eReading technologies such as Kindles and
Nooks, yet a high proportion of users still opt to print on paper
before reading. This persistent habit of "printing to read" is one
sign of the shortcomings of digital documents -- although the
popularity of eReaders is one sign of the shortcomings of paper.
How do we get the best of both worlds? The physical properties of
paper (for example, it is light, thin, and flexible) contribute to
the ease with which physical documents are manipulated; but these
properties have a completely different set of affordances to their
digital equivalents. Paper can be folded, ripped, or scribbled on
almost subconsciously -- activities that require significant
cognitive attention in their digital form, if they are even
possible. The nearly subliminal interaction that comes from years
of learned behavior with paper has been described as lightweight
interaction, which is achieved when a person actively reads an
article in a way that is so easy and unselfconscious that they are
not apt to remember their actions later. Reading is now in a period
of rapid change, and digital text is fast becoming the predominant
mode of reading. As a society, we are merely at the start of the
journey of designing truly effective tools for handling digital
text. This book investigates the advantages of paper, how the
affordances of paper can be realized in digital form, and what
forms best support lightweight interaction for active reading. To
understand how to design for the future, we review the ways reading
technology and reader behavior have both changed and remained
constant over hundreds of years. We explore the reasoning behind
reader behavior and introduce and evaluate several user interface
designs that implement these lightweight properties familiar from
our everyday use of paper. We start by looking back, reviewing the
development of reading technology and the progress of research on
reading over many years. Drawing key concepts from this review, we
move forward to develop and test methods for creating new and more
effective interactions for supporting digital reading. Finally, we
lay down a set of lightweight attributes which can be used as
evidence-based guidelines to improve the usability of future
digital reading technologies. By the end of this book, then, we
hope you will be equipped to critique the present state of digital
reading, and to better design and evaluate new interaction styles
and technologies.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th
International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, ICADL
2013, held in Bangalore, India, in December 2013. The 15 revised
full papers, 6 revised short papers and 10 poster papers were
carefully reviewed and selected from 87 submissions. The papers are
organized in topical sections on information retrieval; social
architecture for digital libraries and information policy; digital
library applications and systems; data mining for digital
libraries; collaboration and communities; analysing social media
and social networks; mobile devices and services; and metadata and
information extraction.
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Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries - Second International Conference, TPDL 2012, Paphos, Cyprus, September 23-27, 2012, Proceedings (Paperback, 2012 ed.)
Panayiotis Zaphiris, George Buchanan, Edie Rasmussen, Fernando Loizides
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R1,656
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second
International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital
Libraries, TPDL 2012 - the successor of the ECDL (European
Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital
Libraries) - held in Paphos, Cyprus, in September 2012. The 23 full
papers, 19 short papers, 15 posters and 8 demonstrations presented
in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 139
submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on user
behavior, mobiles and place, heritage and sustainability,
preservation, linked data, analysing and enriching documents,
content and metadata quality, folksonomy and ontology, information
retrieval, organising collections, as well as extracting and
indexing.
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Digital Libraries: Universal and Ubiquitous Access to Information - 11th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, ICADL 2008, Bali, Indonesia, December 2-5, 2008, Proceedings (Paperback, 2008 ed.)
George Buchanan, Masood Masoodian, Sally Jo Cunningham
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R1,626
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th
International C- ference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL 2008)
held in Bali, Indonesia, in December 2008. The objective of this
conference series is to provide a forum for presentation of
high-quality research in the ?eld of digital libraries. ICADL 2008
provided an opportunity for digital libraries researchers and
practitioners in the Asia Paci?c area and beyond to gather to
explore ideas, exchange and share experiences, and further build
the research network in this region. ICADL 2008 was a truly
international event, with presenters from 21 countries. A total of
63 papers were accepted for inclusion in the proceedings: 30 full
papers, 20 short papers, and extended abstracts of 13 posters.
Submissions were subject to a rigorous, blind peer-review process.
The research topics cover the spectrum of digital libraries,
including multimedia digital libraries, usab- ity and evaluation,
information retrieval, ontologies, social tagging, metadata issues,
multi- and cross-language retrieval, digital preservation,
scholarly p- lishing and communities, and more. Additionally, three
tutorials were o?ered in association with the conference by Andreas
Rauber (Vienna University of Technology), David Bainbridge
(University of Waikato), and George Buchanan (Swansea University).
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Opera Omnia (Hardcover)
George Buchanan, Thomas Ruddiman
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R1,367
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Opera Omnia (Paperback)
George Buchanan, Thomas Ruddiman
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R1,072
Discovery Miles 10 720
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