Educational Technology & ICT Infrastructures

The recent improvements in computing, networking, storage, and information technology have enabled the collection and distribution of vast amounts of multimedia data in a variety of applications such as entertainment, education, environmental protection, e-commerce, public safety, digital government, homeland security and manufacturing. The explosion of multimedia data and its rich semantics have created the needs for advanced techniques for in-depth content processing, analysis, indexing, learning, mining, searching, management, and retrieval. In the context of global educational objectives, Multimedia Data Engineering and Management through the Digital Library Information System will address the corresponding issues and challenges in novel educational theories, algorithms, technologies, system design, and implementations. The Academic libraries are expected to provide access to information and digital material resources available within their reach. This book therefore among other things proposed establishment of Multimedia Information system to drive library ICT infrastructures to promote changing roles of the professional librarian in the emerging digital new world.