Library Automation and Digital Libraries Questions and Answers

Answer: C

The augmented reality app Timescape : Kolkata was developed by the University of Liverpool, Jadavpur University and the British Library, which is code (i), (ii) and (iii).

It came out of a UK-India partnership supported by the UK-India Education and Research Initiative. The project lead was Nandini Das of the University of Liverpool, with Supriya Chaudhuri of Jadavpur University and a curator from the British Library. It was launched at the Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata, in November 2015. The phone's GPS picks a nineteenth-century photograph, many of them from the British Library collections, and overlays it on the camera view at over a hundred places in the city. The paper spells the university as 'Jadhavpur'.

The other items do not fit. Reports on the app name Liverpool, Jadavpur and the British Library as its makers and mention neither a University of Kolkata nor the Mellon Foundation, so options A, B and D, each of which needs one of those, are not supported.

Answer: A

ALTO was first created by the METAe project group.

The Analyzed Layout and Text Object schema, which records the layout and OCR text of digitised pages, was developed in the METAe project (Metadata Engine), a European Union funded project of the early 2000s. It is now maintained by the Library of Congress with an editorial board.

RLG, the University of Michigan and Wikipedia did not create ALTO.

Answer: B

SANJAY was developed by DESIDOC.

SANJAY is a library automation package built by the Defence Scientific Information and Documentation Centre (DESIDOC), Delhi, on top of UNESCO's CDS/ISIS, so that Indian libraries could automate acquisition, cataloguing, circulation and serials control.

DELNET is a library network in Delhi, INSDOC was the CSIR documentation centre (later part of NISCAIR), and MALIBNET was the Madras library network. None of them produced SANJAY.

Answer: C

The answer is (i), (iii) (iv) are correct.

Virtual reality headsets and controllers are tracked with inertial measurement units (accelerometers and gyroscopes), laser-based tracking such as the base stations that sweep a room with infrared lasers, and ultrasonic sensors that time sound pulses, as well as camera-based optical tracking.

GPS is not used: it works poorly indoors and is accurate only to metres, while VR needs millimetre accuracy within a room, so options containing (ii) are wrong.

Answer: C

The answer is (i), (ii) (iv) are correct.

Web-scale discovery services such as Primo, Summon, EBSCO Discovery Service and WorldCat Discovery are subscription platforms that search a library's catalogue together with its licensed and open article-level content through one central index. They are taken up mainly by large national, research and institutional libraries with big licensed collections, which is why the key accepts the Library of Congress, Harvard University Library and the European Parliament Library.

Small public libraries rarely hold enough licensed content to justify such a service, so the key leaves out (iii) and every option containing it.

Answer: A

The answer is (i), (ii) (iii) are correct.

Mobile OPAC apps put the catalogue on a phone and add what the phone can do: barcode scanning to look up or check out an item, geolocation to show the nearest library or branch, and social media integration to share and recommend books.

Virtual reality book browsing is not a feature of mobile OPACs; it needs a VR headset and has appeared only in experiments, so every option containing (iv) is wrong.

Answer: A

The correct match is a-iv, b-i, c-ii, d-iii.

The New York Public Library ran Find the Future, an overnight game in its building for its centenary in 2011 (a-iv). ShelvAR, an augmented reality app for checking shelf order, came from Miami University's augmented reality research group (b-i). The University of Oulu library in Finland developed the Smart Library location-based guidance service (c-ii). North Carolina State University built WolfWalk, a mobile historical tour of its campus (d-iii).

Only option A gives all four.

Answer: C

The answer is (i) and (ii) are correct.

DRAMBORA (Digital Repository Audit Method Based on Risk Assessment), printed here as DROMBORA, is a self-audit toolkit for digital repositories. It was developed and released in 2007 jointly by the Digital Curation Centre (UK) and DigitalPreservationEurope.

IIT Bombay and C-DAC Pune are Indian institutions working in digital libraries and computing, but neither produced DRAMBORA, so options containing (iii) or (iv) are wrong.

Answer: C

Both (A) and (B) are true.

Linked data is the practical method for building the Semantic Web: publish data with URIs, describe it in RDF, and link it to other datasets so machines can follow the links. Tim Berners-Lee, who proposed the Semantic Web, set out the linked data principles in 2006 as the way to realise it.

So linked data is closely related to the Semantic Web (A), and it grew out of the Semantic Web vision, which is the sense of calling it its brainchild (B). The options marking either statement false are wrong.

Answer: A

The correct match is a-ii, b-iii, c-iv, d-i. OCLC produces WebDewey, the web version of the Dewey Decimal Classification. INFLIBNET runs N-LIST, the consortium for college libraries. The Indian Institute of Science hosts the Digital Library of India, and the National Library of Medicine (NLM), which runs PubMed, is matched with Bio-Med. This gives the code ii iii iv i, which is option (A). The pairing shows institutions matched to the services or products for which they are best known.