Using a Native XML Database for Encoded Archival Description Search and Retrieval

Using a Native XML Database for Encoded Archival Description Search and Retrieval

This article is an attempt to develop Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology into an analytical tool for examining the relationships between the height of the bookshelves and the behavior of library readers in utilizing books within a library. The tool would contain a database to store book...

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Main Author: Alan Cornish
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Library Association 2017-09-01
Series:Information Technology and Libraries
Online Access:https://ejournals.bc.edu/ojs/index.php/ital/article/view/9662
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spelling doaj-9e4055c74d694ddea6cda34f3408de0f2020-11-24T22:30:22ZengAmerican Library AssociationInformation Technology and Libraries0730-92952163-52262017-09-0123418118410.6017/ital.v23i4.96628673Using a Native XML Database for Encoded Archival Description Search and RetrievalAlan CornishThis article is an attempt to develop Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology into an analytical tool for examining the relationships between the height of the bookshelves and the behavior of library readers in utilizing books within a library. The tool would contain a database to store book-use information and some GIS maps to represent bookshelves. Upon analyzing the data stored in the database, different frequencies of book use across bookshelf layers are displayed on the maps. The tool would provide a wonderful means of visualization through which analysts can quickly realize the spatial distribution of books used in a library. This article reveals that readers tend to pull books out of the bookshelf layers that are easily reachable by human eyes and hands, and thus opens some issues for librarians to reconsider the management of library collections.https://ejournals.bc.edu/ojs/index.php/ital/article/view/9662
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Using a Native XML Database for Encoded Archival Description Search and Retrieval
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title Using a Native XML Database for Encoded Archival Description Search and Retrieval
title_short Using a Native XML Database for Encoded Archival Description Search and Retrieval
title_full Using a Native XML Database for Encoded Archival Description Search and Retrieval
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title_full_unstemmed Using a Native XML Database for Encoded Archival Description Search and Retrieval
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publisher American Library Association
series Information Technology and Libraries
issn 0730-9295
2163-5226
publishDate 2017-09-01
description This article is an attempt to develop Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology into an analytical tool for examining the relationships between the height of the bookshelves and the behavior of library readers in utilizing books within a library. The tool would contain a database to store book-use information and some GIS maps to represent bookshelves. Upon analyzing the data stored in the database, different frequencies of book use across bookshelf layers are displayed on the maps. The tool would provide a wonderful means of visualization through which analysts can quickly realize the spatial distribution of books used in a library. This article reveals that readers tend to pull books out of the bookshelf layers that are easily reachable by human eyes and hands, and thus opens some issues for librarians to reconsider the management of library collections.
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