The Emergence of Digital Libraries -- Research and Practices, 2014 16th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, ICADL 2014, Chiang Mai, Thailand, November 5-7, 2014, Proceedings Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI Series

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, ICADL 2014, held in Chiang Mai, Thailand, in November 2014. The 20 full papers, 19 short papers and 9 poster papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 141 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on digital preservation and archiving; digital repositories and tools; scholarly documents repositories; metadata and ontologies; linked data and knowledge sharing; digital books and e-books; digital libraries usage and applications; data management and classification; information retrieval and search methods; user skills and experiences.

Digital preservation and archiving.- Digital repositories and tools.- Scholarly documents repositories.- Metadata and ontologies.- Linked data and knowledge sharing.- Digital books and e-books.- Digital libraries usage and applications.- Data management and classification.- Information retrieval and search methods.- User skills and experiences.