Digital library 2.0 for educational resources

  • Authors:
  • Monika Akbar;Weiguo Fan;Clifford A. Shaffer;Yinlin Chen;Lillian Cassel;Lois Delcambre;Daniel D. Garcia;Gregory W. Hislop;Frank Shipman;Richard Furuta;B. Stephen Carpenter;Haowei Hsieh;Bob Siegfried;Edward A. Fox

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA;Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA;Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA;Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA;Department of Computing Sciences, Villanova University, Villanova, PA;Department of Computer Science, Portland State University, Portland, OR;Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA;Department of Computer Science, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA;Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M, College Station, TX;Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M, College Station, TX;Art Education Program, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA;School of Library & Information Science, Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA;Department of Computing Sciences, Villanova University, Villanova, PA;Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA

  • Venue:
  • TPDL'11 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Theory and practice of digital libraries: research and advanced technology for digital libraries
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

We report on focus group feedback regarding the services provided by existing education-related Digital Libraries (DL). Participants provided insight into how they seek educational resources online, and what they perceive to be the shortcomings of existing educational DLs. Along with useful content, social interactions were viewed as important supplements for educational DLs. Such interactions lead to both an online community and new forms of content such as reviews and ratings. Based on our analysis of the focus group feedback, we propose DL 2.0, the next generation of digital library, which integrates social knowledge with DL content.