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IPSA: A Digital Archive of Herbals to Support Scientific Research

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Digital Libraries: Technology and Management of Indigenous Knowledge for Global Access (ICADL 2003)

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The work reported in this paper has been carried out in the context of a multidisciplinary project, named Ipsa, which has been launched at the University of Padua in 2002. Aim of the project is the design and the construction of a digital library of drawings and illustrations of historic documents, where the digital library is constructed for use of researchers of art and history of scientific illustration. This paper presents the first results of the ongoing project on the development of the digital archive of herbals, that are manuscripts containing hand drawings of real plants. The paper has a specific focus on the user requirements analysis, which has been conducted with a user-centred approach. According to user requirements, we designed tools to provide researchers with novel ways of accessing the digital manuscripts and sharing and transferring knowledge in a collaborative environment.

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  1. Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Italy

    Maristella Agosti, Lucio Benfante & Nicola Orio

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  1. Department of Information Science, Faculty of Information Science & Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, 43600, UKM Selangor, Malaysia

    Tengku Mohd Tengku Sembok

  2. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Malaysia

    Halimah Badioze Zaman

  3. Department of Management Information Systems, Eller College of Management, The University of Arizona, AZ 85721, USA

    Hsinchun Chen

  4. International School of Information Management, University of Mysore, Mysore, India

    Shalini R. Urs

  5. School of Engineering, Information and Communications University, 119, Munjiro, Yuseong-gu, 305-732, Daejeon, Korea

    Sung-Hyon Myaeng

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Agosti, M., Benfante, L., Orio, N. (2003). IPSA: A Digital Archive of Herbals to Support Scientific Research. In: Sembok, T.M.T., Zaman, H.B., Chen, H., Urs, S.R., Myaeng, SH. (eds) Digital Libraries: Technology and Management of Indigenous Knowledge for Global Access. ICADL 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2911. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24594-0_24

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