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Instant Audio Processing with Web Audio
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 160

Instant Audio Processing with Web Audio

Filled with practical, step-by-step instructions and clear explanations for the most important and useful tasks. A concise, recipe-based approach to use Web Audio's automation functionality to produce interesting audio effects such as audio stitching and ducking.This book is designed for developers with some HTML and JavaScript programming experience who are seeking to learn about Web Audio. Experience with AJAX and web server installation/configuration is a plus but is not a necessity in order to follow the content of the book.

The Semantics of Relationships
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 237

The Semantics of Relationships

The genesis of this volume was the participation of the editors in an ACMlSIGIR (Association for Computing Machinery/Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval) workshop entitled "Beyond Word Relations" (Hetzler, 1997). This workshop examined a number of relationship types with significance for information retrieval beyond the conventional topic-matching relationship. From this shared participation came the idea for an edited volume on relationships, with chapters to be solicited from researchers and practitioners throughout the world. Ultimately, one volume became two volumes. The first volume, Relationships in the Organization of Knowledge (Bean & Green, 200 I), examines the role of r...

Breast Reconstruction
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 249

Breast Reconstruction

Drawing upon 50 personal accounts from women who have faced the issues surrounding whether or not to have breast reconstruction as a result of breast cancer surgery, this book aims to help you understand breast reconstruction and the surgical process involved as well as the benefits and problems that can arise.

The Role of Digital Libraries in a Time of Global Change
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 281

The Role of Digital Libraries in a Time of Global Change

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  • Published: 2010-06-18
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  • Publisher: Springer

The year 2010 was a landmark in the history of digital libraries because for the first time this year the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) and the annual International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL) were held together at the Gold Coast in Australia. The combined conferences provided an - portunity for digital library researchers, academics and professionals from across the globe to meet in a single forum to disseminate, discuss, and share their valuable - search. For the past 12 years ICADL has remained a major forum for digital library - searchers and professionals from around the world in general, and for the Asia-Pacific region in particular. Res...

Service Excellence in Tourism and Hospitality
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 222

Service Excellence in Tourism and Hospitality

Service operations management in the tourism and hospitality industry requires a high level of coordination, communication and facilitation to satisfy visitors. In all of these activities, service excellence means a lot to visitors in terms of their experience, and to the business it means repeat customers and word-of-mouth marketing. Based on fresh empirical evidence from the field, this book captures the different approaches and challenges to service excellence in the Asian tourism and hospitality industry. Focusing on hotels, attractions, transport providers and other segments in tourism and hospitality, this book presents new case studies underlining and detailing global and local travel industry practices. The book is meant as a reference and supplementary reading for students, researchers and industry practitioners.

The Outreach of Digital Libraries: A Globalized Resource Network
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 389

The Outreach of Digital Libraries: A Globalized Resource Network

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  • Published: 2012-11-02
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, ICADL 2012, held in Taipei, China, in November 2012. The 27 revised full papers, 17 revised short papers, and 13 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 93 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on cultural heritage preservation, retrieval and browsing in digital libraries, biliometrics, metadata and cataloguing, mobile and cloud computing, human factors in digital library, presevation systems and algorithms, social media, digital library algorithms and systems, recommendation applications and social networks.

Metadata for Semantic and Social Applications
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 235

Metadata for Semantic and Social Applications

Metadata is a key aspect of our evolving infrastructure for information management, social computing, and scientific collaboration. DC-2008 will focus on metadata challenges, solutions, and innovation in initiatives and activities underlying semantic and social applications. Metadata is part of the fabric of social computing, which includes the use of wikis, blogs, and tagging for collaboration and participation. Metadata also underlies the development of semantic applications, and the Semantic Web -- the representation and integration of multimedia knowledge structures on the basis of semantic models. These two trends flow together in applications such as Wikipedia, where authors collective...

First Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-1)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 527

First Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-1)

Held in Gaithersburg, MD, Nov. 4-6, 1992. Evaluates new technologies in information retrieval. Numerous graphs, tables and charts.

Digital Libraries: People, Knowledge, and Technology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 552

Digital Libraries: People, Knowledge, and Technology

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  • Published: 2003-07-01
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  • Publisher: Springer

The International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL) is an annual international forum for participants to exchange research results, innovative ideas, and state-of-the-art developments in digital libraries. Built upon the successes of the first four ICADL conferences, the 5th ICADL Conference in Singapore was aimed at further strengthening the position of ICADL as a premier digital library conference that draws high quality papers and presentations from all around the world, while meeting the needs and interests of digital library communities in the Asia-Pacific region. The theme of the conference, “Digital Libraries: People, Knowledge & Technology,” reflects the shared belief...

Library and Information Science Research in Asia-Oceania: Theory and Practice
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 372

Library and Information Science Research in Asia-Oceania: Theory and Practice

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  • Published: 2014-02-28
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

Historically, the major Library and Information Science (LIS) research-producing centers of the world have largely been the universities and information institutions of North America, the United Kingdom, and Europe. This is changing with the growth of Asian economies, universities, and information industries. Library and Information Science Research in Asia-Oceania: Theory and Practice presents evolving and emerging research and development in the field of library and information science (LIS) in diverse countries in Asia-Oceania as the region continues to develop. This book is intended as a useful resource for LIS researchers, scholars, students, professionals, and practitioners, and is an appropriate text for courses in LIS. In addition, anyone interested in understanding the LIS field in the region will find this book a fascinating and enlightening read.