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Where the speed matters... zero-response-time search engine for small collections

Gamage, Ruwan (Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005)

Users with slow internet connections experience slow retrieval of results in web catalogues. JavaScript search engines can be used to enable client side search, reducing the load on the server, and increasing the ...
JavaScript tools for online information retrieval

Gamage, Ruwan; Dong, Hui (Emerald, 2006)

Purpose Efficiency of server side search engines is very low in cases of slow internet connections. Therefore, this study aims to examine use of client side search tools. Design/methodology/approach A previously introduced ...
1911-1949 චීන ජනරජ සාහිත්‍ය එකතුව: අංකිතකරණ අත්දැකීම්

Gamage, Ruwan; Meng, Z.; Fei, Y. (Sri Lanka Library Association, 2008)

වර්‍ශ 1911-1949 කාලය අතරතුර චීනයේ ප්‍රකාශයට පත් වූ පොත් පත් හැඳින්වෙන්නේ චීන ජනරජ එකතුව නමිනි. එහි තෝරාගත් කොටසක් අංකිතකරණයට (Digitize) බඳුන්කරන ලද ...
Extended Roles and Responsibilities of Library Association Web Sites

Gamage, Ruwan (University Librarians Association of Sri Lanka, 2009)

Library associations have used Web based mediums from a long time to disseminate information to their membership. However, most of these sites were static, and were not updated frequently. This is mainly due to the lack ...
පුස්තකාලය 2.0 මගින් සංශෝධනය වන පුස්තකාලයාධිපති කාර්යභාරය

Gamage, Ruwan (Sri Lanka Library Association, 2009)

It is a long time ago that information scientists predicted Web 2.0 services and technologies are going to affect libraries. Now it's not the time to debate on pros and cons of these. The task at the moment is to explore ...
පාඨකයන්ගේ තොරතුරු සාක්ෂරතාවය ඉහළ නැංවීම සඳහා තොරතුරු සිතියම්කරණය ඉගැන්වීම

Gamage, Ruwan (Sri Lanka Library Association, 2010)

Mind mapping is a technique used for organizing information. The article describes an effort of enhancing information literacy skills of undergraduates at the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka.
Digital repository of University of Moratuwa library

Gamage, Ruwan; Punchihewa, C.N.D.; Kumara, A.D.B. (University Librarians Association of Sri Lanka, 2012)

The Postgraduate theses Collection of University of Moratuwa constitutes of Theses submitted to academic programmes of faculties Architecture, Engineering, and Information Technology. There are over 2000 theses and ...
Automatic document classification using a domain ontology

Wijewickrema, P.K.C.M.; Gamage, Ruwan (Sri Lanka Library Association (SLLA), Sri Lanka, 2012)

Automatic classification has become an important research area due to the rapid increase of digital information today. Evidently, manual classification of documents is a tough work due to occurrences of vocabulary ambiguities ...
An Ontology Based Fully Automatic Document Classification System Using an Existing Semi-Automatic System

Wijewickrema, C.M.; Gamage, Ruwan (IFLA, 2013)

Automatic classification of documents has become an important research area due to the exponential growth of digital content and because manual or semi-automatic organization is not effective. On one hand, manual and ...
Identification of Information Needs of Local Herbal Industry Using Critical Success Factors Approach

Abeysekara, K.H.T.; Gamage, Ruwan (Sri Lanka Library Association, 2013)

Aim of this study was to identify information needs of local herbal industry through identifying CSFs pertaining to the local herbal industry. This was a qualitative study. Semi-structured interviews were carried out with ...
A personal history of e- Librarianship in Sri Lanka : 2000-2004

Gamage, Ruwan (Professor Piyadasa Ranasinghe Foundation, 2014)

E-librarianship can be recognized as provision of access to electronic information, making portals and Web interfaces, automating library housekeeping, and promotion of libraries using ...
Towards implementing a next-generation resource discovery tool: virtual union catalogue of digital repositories in Sri Lanka

Mariyapillai, J.; Gamage, Ruwan (National Institute of Library & Information Sciences (NILIS), University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2015)

Information managers have a strategic interest in the tools and technologies that facilitate the discovery and access to the resources for the communities that their serve. Traditional online catalogues, repositories ...
An Evaluation of Transport Related Government Web Sites in Sri Lanka

De Silva, A.P.U.; Gamage, Ruwan (Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2015)

A Website is a mirror of the institute or the company. It has to play the main role of displaying vision, mission, tasks and everything of the institutes. So that, many government institutes use Websites to disseminate ...
A Comparative Study on the Fair Use Doctrine in Copyright Laws of Sri Lanka and Japan

Gamage, Ruwan (University Librarians Association of Sri Lanka, 2017)

This is a comparison on clauses regarding fair use doctrine between the Sri Lanka Intellectual Property Act No. 36 of 2003 and the Japan Copyright Act No. 35 ofMay 14, 2014. The objective was to shed light on the Sri Lankan ...
Current Status of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) initiatives in University Libraries of Sri Lanka

Rathnabahu, R.M.N.; Gamage, Ruwan (FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES, UNIVERSITY OF KELANIYA, 2018)

Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) is most important for academic research and plays an esteemed role in improving university ranking at present. The objective of this study is to find out the current status of ...
A Demographic Profile of Heads of Public Libraries in Sri Lanka

Gamage, Ruwan; Kumara, B.; Samaradiwakara, G.D.S.M.; Ananda Tissa, R.D.; Sunil, W.; Rathnayake, S. (3RD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LIBRARY AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT, 2019)

This study reuses data extracted from a previous report to create a profile of public library leaders in Sri Lanka. Accordingly, it was recognized that the country has a group of library leaders mostly in their early 40s, ...
Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAIPMH): A Strategy for Sharing Metadata

Mariyapillai, J.; Gamage, Ruwan (Uva Wellassa University of Sri Lanka, 2019)

There are a vast and continually growing number of information resources on the World Wide Web such as text, image, audio, video and so on. Many of these resources remain hidden from commonly used search methods, such as ...
The right time to think: challenges of serving older adults in public libraries services in Colombo Municipal Council, Sri Lanka

Alikhan, Sakeena (The Library Network, University of Colombo, 2020)

The primary objective of a public library is to provide resources and services to each category of its community members. The older adults are a significant category in the jurisdiction of the public libraries, yet the ...
A luxury at first, and then the only hope; the first 100 days of e-learning in a LIS education institute

Gamage, Ruwan; Wijesundara, Chiranthi (IOS Press, 2020)

The following reflection briefly describes the unpredicted drive of online LIS education during the COVID-19 lockdown at the National Institute of Library and Information Sciences (NILIS), University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. ...
Enhancing Internet Search Abilities for People with Intellectual Disabilities in Sri Lanka

Arachchi, T.K.; Sitbon, Laurianne; Zhang, Jinglan; Gamage, Ruwan; Hewagamage, Priyantha (ACM, 2021)

This article presents how young adults with intellectual disability (ID) from Sri Lanka, who had not previously used the Internet, interacted with Google search while enhancing their web search abilities throughout three ...

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