The Usages and Expectations of Multilingual Information Access in Chinese Academic Digital Libraries
Dan Wu, Nanhui Gu, Daqing He · Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) · 2010
Digital library, because of its resource demanding and other issues to solve, is an important application of multilingual information access (MLIA). However, the requirements of MLIA systems and applications are not typically addressed or assessed in our evaluations of digital libraries. This paper, therefore, aims to study the usages and expectations of MLIA in Chinese academic digital libraries. We conducted two surveys to study MLIA in current Chinese academic digital libraries and to get to know the users’ real requirements for MLIA in Chinese academic digital libraries. The initial results offer thoughts on specific MLIA functions and insights on future digital library design and developments. Categories and Subject Descriptors