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Governments have utilized Open Government Data (OGD) portals as a means to enhance citizen comprehension of government policies. However, conventional portals are primarily designed for data publication, rather than presentation in a user-friendly manner ...

This paper presents the idea and implementation of integrating faceted search and browsing with data-analytic tools in the user interface design of the new in-use semantic portal ParliamentSampo.

This paper presents the implementation of a new user interface (UI) for the Finnish fiction literature BookSampo knowledge graph. The UI utilizes possibilities of semantic web technologies to provide the end-user an enhanced search and browsing ...

This study explores how the quality and credibility of information on healthcare websites can be enhanced through the simultaneous delivery of multiple information sources. Such information integration is achieved using a new experimental Web API called ...

Open government data (OGD) paradigm gained momentum in the recent years resulting in numerous OGD initiatives. These initiatives assured reliable and faster development of open data ecosystem on different administration levels. Diversity of government ...

BookSampo – Finnish Fiction Literature on the Semantic Web is a Linked Data (LD) service and portal deployed in 2011 by the Public Libraries of Finland with nearly 2 million annual users. However, BookSampo’s user interface (UI) on top of the ...

Government policies focused on Open Government Data (OGD) often aim to stimulate the provision of public, interoperable data towards any user, including lay citizens, through online portals. However, these OGD portals are mostly ...

• Open Government Data (OGD) portals are tailored for experts and not for lay citizens.

In this paper, we propose ALDO (Active e-Learning by DOing), a novel, advanced digital framework supporting integrated facilities for effective, active e-Learning. The ALDO framework includes an active repository for collecting/sharing relevant ...

A lot of virtual reality (VR) experiences require switching between different environments or scenes. To achieve a plausible and perspicuous transition between those scenes, transition techniques can be used. These techniques visualize the change and ...

We consider distance queries in vertex-labeled planar graphs. For any fixed 0

Every HPC system consists of numerous processing nodes interconnect using a number of different inter-process communication protocols such as Messaging Passing Interface (MPI) and Global Arrays (GA). Traditionally, research has focused on optimizing ...

This paper focuses on distributed data query in intermittently connected passive RFID networks, which are characterized by extraordinarily limited communication capacity and asynchronous and opportunistic communication links. To address such unique ...

In this paper, we describe the user experience evaluation results of a 3D Portal Room UI for sharing 3D objects from private space to remote public virtual environments. The user evaluation with 30 participants was conducted with a functional prototype ...

Web portal services have become an important medium to deliver digital content and service, such as news, advertisements, and so on, to Web users in a timely fashion. To attract more users to various content modules on the Web portal, it is necessary to ...

A fundamental data integration task faced by online commercial portals and commerce search engines is the integration of products coming from multiple providers to their product catalogs. In this scenario, the commercial portal has its own taxonomy (the ...

Peer-to-peer networks' widespread use makes multimedia files available to users worldwide. However, such networks are often used to spread illegal material while the data source and acquiring users remain anonymous. This article analyzes activity ...

Large scientific repositories risk losing value as their holdings expand, because scientists must work harder to locate particular datasets of interest. In an effort to resolve this issue, the Data Near Here application applies information retrieval ...

Researchers around the world propose different ways to assess the performance of electronic government portals in order to understand the factors that influence the quality of the information and services they provide to citizens, businesses, and other ...

The European Library provides access to research materials from the collections of Europe's national and research libraries, representing members from 46 countries. This paper presents the current status, on-going work, and future plans of the resource ...

How to rationally allocate the limited advertising budget is a critical issue in sponsored search auctions. There are plenty of uncertainties in the mapping from the budget into the advertising performance. This paper presented some preliminary efforts ...