A new issue of JoDI has been published. It includes

• an article on browsing web sites in ways designers didn’t anticipate (Exploring Out-of-turn Interactions with Websites),
• a study on longitudinal database use (A Longitudinal Study of Database Usage Within a General Audience Digital Library),
• an article that describes how a combination of  an object-oriented database and a full-text index improved performance for named entity extraction from historical texts (CONDITOR1: Topic Maps and DITA labelling tool for textual documents with historical information ), and
• an article that describes text mining for building ontologies (Text and Web Mining Approaches in Order to Build Specialized Ontologies).

This is a regular issue that follows three themed issues of JoDI, covering topics such as spatial hypermedia, social information retrieval for learning, and user-generated content for digital libraries. These, and many other, issues may be found in the JoDI archive.

Well, almost.  JoDI, the Journal of Digital Information, founded by Wendy Hall and Gary Marchionini, has been publishing papers online since 1997 with Cliff McKnight as the Editor-in-Chief.  JoDI is a peer-reviewed online journal organized into several themes, including digital libraries, hypermedia systems, hypertext criticism, information discovery, information management, social issues of digital information, and usability of digital information.

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