Monthly Archives: April 2014

Information retrieval book

Multimedia information retrieval: Theory and techniques
by Roberto Raieli. 2013.
ISBN978-1-84334-722-4 (Print) 978-1-78063-388-6 (Online)
https://chandos.metapress.com/content/g767j6/resource-secured/?target=fulltext.pdf&sid=eq55v4ao3nj0p35y5skkguzq&sh=www.chandospublishingonline.com
ToC: http://goo.gl/3rdCjk

Novel processing and searching tools for the management of new multimedia documents have developed. Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR) is an organic system made up of Text Retrieval (TR); Visual Retrieval (VR); Video Retrieval (VDR); and Audio Retrieval (AR) systems. So that each type of digital document may be analysed and searched by the elements of language appropriate to its nature, search criteria must be extended. Such an approach is known as the Content Based Information Retrieval (CBIR), and is the core of MIR. This novel content-based concept of information handling needs to be integrated with more traditional semantics. Multimedia Information Retrieval focuses on the tools of processing and searching applicable to the content-based management of new multimedia documents. Translated from Italian by Giles Smith, the book is divided into two parts. Part one discusses MIR and related theories, and puts forward new methodologies; part two reviews various experimental and operating MIR systems, and presents technical and practical conclusions.

Information retrieval book

Multimedia information retrieval: Theory and techniques
by Roberto Raieli. 2013.
ISBN978-1-84334-722-4 (Print) 978-1-78063-388-6 (Online)
https://chandos.metapress.com/content/g767j6/resource-secured/?target=fulltext.pdf&sid=eq55v4ao3nj0p35y5skkguzq&sh=www.chandospublishingonline.com
ToC: http://goo.gl/3rdCjk

Novel processing and searching tools for the management of new multimedia documents have developed. Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR) is an organic system made up of Text Retrieval (TR); Visual Retrieval (VR); Video Retrieval (VDR); and Audio Retrieval (AR) systems. So that each type of digital document may be analysed and searched by the elements of language appropriate to its nature, search criteria must be extended. Such an approach is known as the Content Based Information Retrieval (CBIR), and is the core of MIR. This novel content-based concept of information handling needs to be integrated with more traditional semantics. Multimedia Information Retrieval focuses on the tools of processing and searching applicable to the content-based management of new multimedia documents. Translated from Italian by Giles Smith, the book is divided into two parts. Part one discusses MIR and related theories, and puts forward new methodologies; part two reviews various experimental and operating MIR systems, and presents technical and practical conclusions.

New UNESCO publications

UNESCO has several new and forthcoming titles of interest to librarians:
UNESCO and Institute for Lifelong Learning. (2014). Action reseach to improve youth and adult literacy: Empowering learners in a multilingual world.
UNES0. (2014, May). Overview of information literacy resources worldwide.
UIL Policy Brief 3: Gender equality matters: Empowering women through literacy programmes (downloadable in English, French, Spanish)
UIL Policy Brief 4: Community matters: Fulfilling learning potentials for young men and women. This brief looks as the involved of youth in multipurpose community learning spaces and community development activities. (downloadable in English)
UIL compilation of 102 lifelong learning policy and strategy documents from national and international organizations

For more information, go to http://uil.unesco.org and http://www.unesco.org

ICT Professional Development for African academic librarians

Enhancing librarians’ ICT skills for research enablement in African universities: a Carnegie-funded CPD programme

Applications are now open for the first intake of the Carnegie-funded Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programme, which is aimed at enhancing ICT skills for research enablement in African universities. Academic librarians and LIS faculty in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda are eligible to apply for admission to this programme. Eight four-week training sessions will take place over a period of three years. 32 participants will be selected for each intake. This four-week residential training programme with both practical (70%) and theoretical (30%) components will cover the following topics:
1. Setting the context: Libraries, ICTs and research
2. Leadership and innovation
3. Information literacy
4. Social media for research discoverability in an academic environment
5. Mobile technology and mobility
6. Managing and organising information
7. Personal Information Management
8. Open Scholarship and Open Science (OS/S) – Publishing
9. Open Scholarship and Open Science – Institutional Repositories.
10. Open Scholarship and Open Science – Understanding and using research data management
11. Digitisation
12. Evaluating website architecture
13. Cloud computing and storage
14. Virtual research environments
15. The next generation librarian
This is a fully funded programme which will take place in Pretoria, South Africa. The funding covers books and other academic expenditures, flights, accommodation, and a daily stipend while in Pretoria. All participants are expected to reside in the accommodation provided in Pretoria for the duration of the programme.

Grant exclusions:
· Visa applications, personal expenses (for example medicine, laundry, phone calls, etc.)
· ICT equipment such as laptops, modems, internet access top-ups etc.
· Travel to and from the airport in your home country

Application for the first intake of 2014 closes on 29 April 2014. No late applications will be considered. (There will be a second intake in November 2014, as well as further intakes in 2015 and 2016.) For additional information on the programme content, eligibility and selection criteria, application procedures, important dates, etc., please see:
http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=22719&subid=22719&ipklookid=7.

All correspondence or enquiries: Joan de la Haye at Carnegie-cpd@up.ac.za