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Integrating automatic genre analysis into digital libraries
With the number and types of documents in digital library systems incr easing, tools for automatically organizing and presenting the content have to be found. While many approaches focus on topic-based organization and structuring, hardly any system ...
Text categorization for multi-page documents: a hybrid naive Bayes HMM approach
Text categorization is typically formulated as a concept learning prob lem where each instance is a single isolated document. In this paper we are interested in a more general formulation where documents are organized as page sequences, as naturally ...
Automated name authority control
This paper describes a system for the automated assignment of authoriz ed names. A collaboration between a computer scientist and a librarian, the system provides for enhanced end-user searching of digital libraries without increasing drastically the ...
Automatic event generation from multi-lingual news stories
We propose a novel approach for automatic generation of topically-rela ted events from multi-lingual news sources. Named entity terms are extracted automatically from the news content. Together with the content terms, they constitute the basis of ...
Linked active content: a service for digital libraries for education
A service is described to help enable digital libraries for education, such as the NSDL, to serve as collaboration spaces for the creation, modification and use of active learning experiences. The goal is to redefine the line between those activities ...
A component repository for learning objects: a progress report
We believe that an important category of SMET digital library content will be highly interactive, explorable microworlds for teaching science, mathematics, and engineering concepts. Such environments have proved extraordinarily time-consuming and ...
Designing e-books for legal research
In this paper we report the findings from a field study of legal resea rch in a first-tier law school and on the resulting redesign of XLibris, a next-generation e-book. We first characterize a work setting in which we expected an e-book to be a useful ...
The open archives initiative (panel session): perspectives on metadata harvesting
The Open Archives Initiative [www.openarchives.org] has developed a me tadata harvesting protocol to further its aim of efficient dissemination of content through interoperability standards. In early 2001, at meetings in the U.S. and Europe, the version ...
Mapping the interoperability landscape for networked information retrieval
Interoperability is a fundamental challenge for networked information discovery and retrieval. Often treated monolithically in the literature, interoperability is multifaceted and can be analyzed into different types and levels. This paper discusses an ...
Distributed resource discovery: using z39.50 to build cross-domain information servers
This short paper describes the construction and application of Cross-D omain Information Servers using features of the standard Z39.50 information retrieval protocol[11]. We use the Z39.50 Explain Database to determine the databases and indexes of a ...
The open archives initiative: building a low-barrier interoperability framework
The Open Archives Initiative (OAI) develops and promotes interoperabil ity solutions that aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination of content. The roots of the OAI lie in the E-Print community. Over the last year its focus has been extended to ...
Enforcing interoperability with the open archives initiative repository explorer
The Open Archives Initiative (OAI) is an organization dedicated to sol ving problems of digital library interoperability by defining simple protocols, most recently for the exchange of metadata. The success of such an activity requires vigilance in ...
Arc: an OAI service provider for cross-archive searching
The usefulness of the many on-line journals and scientific digital lib raries that exist today is limited by the lack of a service that can federate them through a unified interface. The Open Archive Initiative (OAI) is one major effort to address ...
Managing change on the web
Increasingly, digital libraries are being defined that collect pointers to World-Wide Web based resources rather than hold the resources themselves. Maintaining these collections is challenging due to distributed document ownership and high fluidity. ...
Measuring the reputation of web sites: a preliminary exploration
We describe the preliminary results from a pilot study, which assessed the perceived reputation - authority and trustworthiness - of the output from five WWW indexing/ranking tools. The tools are based on three techniques: external link structures, ...
Personalized spiders for web search and analysis
Searching for useful information on the World Wide Web has become incr easingly difficult. While Internet search engines have been helping people to search on the web, low recall rate and outdated indexes have become more and more problematic as the web ...
Salticus: guided crawling for personal digital libraries
In this paper, we describe Salticus, a web crawler that learns from us ers web browsing activity. Salticus enables users to build a personal digital library by collecting documents and generalizing over the user's choices.
Different cultures meet (panel session): lessons learned in global digital library development
This panel is organized to share the experience gained and lessons lea rned in developing cutting-edge technology applications and digital libraries when different cultures meet together. “Culture”ù is interpreted in different ways and different ...
Power to the people: end-user building of digital library collections
Naturally, digital library systems focus principally on the reader: th e consumer of the material that constitutes the library. In contrast, this paper describes an interface that makes it easy for people to build their own library collections. ...
Web-based scholarship: annotating the digital library
The DL offers the possibility of collaborative scholarship, but the ap propriate tools must be integrated within the DL to serve this purpose. We propose a Web-based tool to guide controlled data annotations that link items in the DL to a domain-...
A multi-view intelligent editor for digital video libraries
Silver is an authoring tool that aims to allow novice users to edit di gital video. The goal is to make editing of digital video as easy as text editing. Silver provides multiple coordinated views, including project, source, outline, subject, storyboard,...
VideoGraph: a new tool for video mining and classification
This paper introduces Videograph, a new tool for video mining and visu alizing the structure of the plot of a video sequence. The main idea is to “stitch” together similar scenes which are apart in time. We give a fast algorithm to do stitching and we ...
The Alexandria digital earth prototype
This note summarizes the system development activities of the Alexandr ia Digital Earth Prototype (ADEPT) Project.5 ADEPT and the Alexandria Digital Library (ADL) are, respectively, the research and operational components of the Alexandria Digital ...
Iscapes: digital libraries environments for the promotion of scientific thinking by undergraduates in geography
This paper reviews considerations associated with implementing the Ale xandria Digital Earth Prototype (ADEPT) in undergraduate geography education by means of Iscapes (or Information landscapes). In particular, we are interested in how Iscapes might ...
Project ANGEL: an open virtual learning envoronment with sophisticated access management
This paper describes a new project funded in the UK by the Joint Infor mation Systems Committee, to develop a virtual learning environment which combines a new awareness of internet sources such as bibliographic databases and full-text electronic ...
NBDL: a CIS framework for NSDL
In this paper, we describe the NBDL (National Biology Digital Library) project, one of the six CIS (Core Integration System) projects of the NSF NSDL (National SMETE Digital Library) Program.
Automatic identification and organization of index terms for interactive browsing
The potential of automatically generated indexes for information acces s has been recognized for several decades (e.g., Bush 1945 [2], Edmundson and Wyllys 1961 [4]), but the quantity of text and the ambiguity of natural language processing have made ...
Digital library collaborations in a world community
Digital libraries and their user communities are increasingly internat ional in nature. However - though technological progress and global education have brought American and European communities closer - cross-cultural and other crosscutting issues ...
Public use of digital community information sstems: findings from a recent study with implications for system design
The Internet has considerably empowered libraries and changed common p erception of what they entail. Public libraries, in particular, are using technological advancements to expand their range of services and enhance their civic roles. Providing ...
Evaluating the distributed national electronic resource
The UKs development of a Distributed National Electronic Resource (DNE R) is being subjected to intensive formative evaluation by a multi-disciplinary team. In this paper the Project Director reports on initial actions designed to characterise the DNER ...
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Marshall C (2009). Reading and Writing the Electronic Book, Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services, 10.2200/S00215ED1V01Y200907ICR009, 1:1, (1-185), Online publication date: 1-Jan-2009.
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Dedeoglu C and Dedeoglu C (2020). Information Infrastructures and the Future of Ecological Citizenship in the Anthropocene, Social Sciences, 10.3390/socsci9010003, 9:1, (3)
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- Proceedings of the 1st ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries