Taking Libraries’ Cultural Content to the User – Approaches and Experiences from the EEXCESS Project

Abstract

Before the advent of the internet users had to physically visit libraries and other cultural institutions in order to search, find and access content. With the emergence and massive use of the World Wide Web and associated tools and technologies this situation has changed drastically. If content is to be found and used, it must be present where users do their daily digital work. The aim of the EU project EEXCESS (http://eexcess.eu/) is to inject the content into the working environments of the users. In this paper, we show some of the approaches, use cases and technical implementations we developed in the project.

Compiling Scholarly Profile Pages by Integrating External Authority Data

“…A well linked open access repository can even provide users with more innovative and unorthodox functionality, i.e. a) providing instant access to internal and external related resources in the way of recommendations [1], b) promoting persons in their role as contributors by keeping their scientific activities up to date [2] and c) fostering collaborations between institutions and contributors [3]. At the current state, these OA repositories are providing freely available scientific content, but not well connected with respect to their objects and metadata items.…”