A Review of Context Awareness Research for Smart Library Services

Abstract

[Purpose / Significance] Smart service is an important orientation of library research. Its development and construction needs to integrate many intelligent technologies and realize a series of technological innovation of management and services. As a key application among intelligent technologies, the context-awareness technology has been widely concerned by the academic community. [Method / Process] This review summarizes the latest research of context-awareness technologies from the perspectives of data collection,data description and modeling, perceived service and smart service applications. [Results / Conclusions] Based on the literature review, we present a context awareness framework for smart library services. Finally, the development trends of the context awareness technologies for smart services are provided.

Keywords

• smart library|smart service|context-awareness