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Guohui Li, Graduate School Library, the People's Bank of China
Michael B. Huang, Health Sciences Center Library, Stony Brook University,
USA
At present, the construction of digital city is fast unfolding worldwide. Each country and region regards informationization as an important strategic step to enhance its own competitiveness in the world. The building of digital city has already achieved satisfactory social and economic effects in countries that possess advanced information industry. Quite a number of cities that have sophisticated information technology and availability of fast speed networks have launched their own digital cities. Digital Beijing is one of the examples. It is noticeable that in the vigorous construction of city informationization of Digital Beijing the most discussed questions are digital city information infrastructure, digital maps, city space data, geographic information system (GIS), and 3D scene system. Most participants are researchers in such disciplines as geography, city planning, and information technology (IT). However, the library, which has always been the main force of information management for a long time, is not an active participant in digital city projects. In reality, as we all know, digital library construction is far more ahead of digital city construction. Library digitization has already been at the forefront of information revolution. Digital libraries in Beijing and other large cities in China are mature and popular. But, why didn't the library actively participate in the building of digital city? This poster will analyze the problem arisen from the construction of Digital Beijing, explore position and function of digital library in the building of digital city, thus assess the significance of digital library on digital city.
Dr. Thomas R. Kochtanek, University of Missouri-Columbia
Project i-DLR is a Digital Library Resource information system, initiated to address the educational challenges posed to end users seeking to improve their understanding of DLs. This resource tool contains selected pointers to DL resources, introductory papers written and contributed by members of the educational community, a glossary of related terms, and suggested readings.
The resources included in i-DLR are organized with that beginner in mind, and the website provides links to various DL related sites. These sites and their sources were carefully selected based on their content in support of beginning, intermediate and advanced users interested in extending their level of knowledge with respect to digital libraries. That content is organized using an educational framework suitable for those new to the field of DLs.
The poster session will present the latest developments within the database of content, including new links and additional full text contributions on DLs.
Ellen S. Hoffman, Ed.D., Eastern Michigan University
Marcia A. Mardis, MILS, Michigan Teacher Network, Merit Network
Michigan Teacher Network, founded in 1998, is a mature educational digital library for preservice and inservice teachers, administrators, and school service personnel that receive about one million hits per month. Transaction log analysis performed on search queries over the last two academic years reveals trends in educators' information seeking behaviors and understanding of digital libraries that will inform collection, user interface, and search technology development as well as metadata approaches. Search trends will be situated in the context of the U.S. educational policy landscape as well as in research on information seeking behaviors.
Dr. Gert Schmeltz Pedersen, Technical University of Denmark, Center for Knowledge Technology
The ALVIS EU project develops an open source prototype of a distributed semantic-based, topic-specific search engine. The project performs research and development within multilingual digital libraries, semantic web technologies, knowledge extraction, ontologies, classification and indexing
Bridget Robinson, The Digital Curation Centre
The UK e-Science Data Curation Report highlighted the importance of ensuring that the deluge of data being created in e-science, e-research and Grid enabled applications should remain available and valid for future researchers. In response to the findings of the report the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) of the Higher and Further Education Funding Councils, and the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) have funded the establishment of the UK Digital Curation Centre (DCC).
The aim of the Digital Curation Centre is to support the sharing of expertise and best practice in data curation and digital preservation. The poster will focus on the work that is being done by the DCC in the four key areas of research, development, provision of advisory services, and the outreach and community support programme. It will highlight how this work is of relevance to the data curation needs of digital libraries. It will use the opportunity of the poster session to promote ongoing user requirement analysis and draw on the experience of delegates to ensure that the work of the DCC is meeting the requirements of the digital library community.
Kristine Abelsnes, Norwegian Archive, Library and Museum Authority
Karianne A. Aam, Norwegian Archive, Library and Museum Authority
The Norwegian digital library was drafted in a report published a year ago. This report describes a number of issues and presents a number of activities that should be initiated in order to create this national digital library. The vision is clear, but ambitious and challenging:
" The Norwegian Digital Library is a system that breaks down the walls between the separate libraries and makes their collective information resources available to everyone in a simple way."
The Norwegian Archive, Library and Museum Authority decided to start a programme to facilitate the process. This programme will run for 3-5 years. A project coordinator was in place from November 2003. There is a programme committee with high-level representation.
The digital library will contain all types of documents: text, photos, sound, video, hyperlinks etc. It will also provide access to non-digital objects that can be obtained as a loan or for use on site in a library or another institution. The content will be distributed and maintained by the different participants who "own" the resources and databases. Creating more digital content, specifically Norwegian content, is part of the programme, and a digitization plan is one way of starting such an activity.
Services are necessary tools to get to the content and to make use of it. The digital library will provide a set of services for searching, organising content, document ordering and supply, authorisation and access control and more.
The framework makes it possible to integrate services, metadata and content from many suppliers.
The services of the digital library can only be accessed through some sort of user interface. This is the user's window to the content of the digital library. There has to be user interface, but it can be in many forms and shapes. The important issue is easy access to information in our libraries, and this can be done from more than one access point.
Marcia Mardis, Merit Network/University of Michigan
Ellen Hoffman, Eastern Michigan University
As digital libraries become an increasingly common vehicle for the provision of important information to communities and learning environments, they pose particular opportunities and challenges for K-12 education, especially for school library media programs. Exemplary digital library projects illustrate the potential applications for teaching and learning. This poster session will demonstrate how digital libraries work in the context of technological, social, economic, and educational dimensions for K-12 education and will recommend ways in which school library media specialists can approach challenges created by technological innovation to transform and enhance their own roles.
Maria Cristina Pattuelli, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Lisa R. Norberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Natasha Smith, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
This poster presents the learning objects project of the Documenting the American South digital library. It explains the rationale behind the development of the content and the underlying architecture. By maintaining a high level of granularity and using semantic tools that support concept-based teaching, we hope to develop a collection of learning objects capable of serving teachers at any grade level, from elementary to secondary, to higher education. We describe the content of the learning objects, how they are contextualized for teachers, and our method of annotating and indexing the learning objects with ontology-based metadata.
The deployment of ontologies in digital libraries has not been fully explored or evaluated. We believe that by advancing the use of emerging knowledge systems such as web ontologies for logical organization and formal representation of learning objects within a digital library, we will help bring these valuable educational resources to a broader audience and support a wider variety of instructional settings. The project offers perspectives on virtual learning environments within a digital library, the application of semantic web technologies, and the use of standards to facilitate interoperability.
Michalis Sfakakis, Laboratory of Digital Library and Electronic Publishing.
Archive and Library Sciences Department / Ionian University, Corfu, Greece
Sarantos Kapidakis, Laboratory of Digital Library and Electronic Publishing.
Archive and Library Sciences Department / Ionian University, Corfu, Greece
The different implementations of the Z39.50 information retrieval protocol restricts the ability of a client to parallel search the sources in a consistent manner. A challenge to this issue is to transform an unsupported query to a different query, so that identical semantics are obeyed, if possible, or otherwise as similar semantics to the original query as can be obtained. In this work, we present our thoughts of what we need and how it is possible to approach a Z39.50 query rewriting, and also its effects of the end results of a parallel search.
Angela Joyce, SOSIG Internet Researcher, ILRT, University of Bristol
Dr Lesly Huxley, Research Director, ILRT, University of Bristol
Debra Hiom, SOSIG Director, ILRT, University of Bristol
This piece of research addresses the main issues for users of online information services and discusses how information professionals can provide quality digital library services for the 21st century. The project has been written up as a book, published by Chandos. Further details and materials will be available at the ECDL conference.
Dr. Heike Neuroth, Head Research & Development, Goettingen State and University
Library, Germany
Susanne Dobratz, Head Electronic Publishing Group, University Library / Computer
and Media Services, Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany
The project's objective is to create a network of expertise for the long-term preservation and long-term availability of digital documents in Germany. Sponsored by the German Ministry of Education and Research with funding of 800.000 EURO, the German Network of Expertise in long-term storage of digital resources (nestor) began in June 2003 as a cooperative effort of six partners representing different players within the field of long-term preservation. The project group comprises the national library of Germany, Die Deutsche Bibliothek (DDB) in Frankfurt (project manager), the Bavarian State Library in Munich (BSB), the Goettingen State and University Library (SUB), the Computer and Media Service of Humboldt University in Berlin (HUB), the Institute for Museum Studies (IFM) of the State Museums of Berlin (Prussian Heritage) in Berlin and the Directorate-General of the Bavarian State Archives (GDAB) in Munich.
The major aims of nestor can be summarized as follows:
In order to record the current state of long-term digital preservation efforts and current demands being made on the network of excellence, seven expert reports were commissioned at the end of 2003.
It was decided to establish a permanent distributed infrastructure for long-term preservation and long-term accessibility of digital resources in Germany comparable, e.g., to the Digital Preservation Coalition in the UK . Recently, a first step was taken to ensure the organisational stability of nestor as a cooperative network into the future: An advisory board has been established with representatives from different communities, including libraries, archives, museums, publishers, the scientific community, the open access community, and research funding institutions, and from the Conference of German Federal Ministers of Culture
Stefka Kaloyanova, Information Systems Analyst, GILW, FAO, Italy
Margherita Sini, FAO
Johannes Keizer, FAO
Mingkai Dong, National Library of China, Beijing, China,100081
Zhendong Niu, National Library of China, Beijing, China,100081
This paper belongs to the topic of Digital library applications and Information architectures and interoperability.
The China Culture Grid project is emerging as a center of innovation in digital libraries. The kernel of the China Culture Grid is to provide pervasive, proactive, on-demanded, and personalized services catering for different people with different backgrounds, capabilities and expectations, under different time and venue. This paper describes the architecture and key technologies of the China Culture Grid, including Uniform Content Locator, Ontology and Personal Content Locator.
Dr. Jessie Hey, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of
Southampton, UK
Pauline Simpson, University of Southampton Libraries, University of Southampton,
UK
The Institutional Repository route to Open Access: implications for its evolution.
Open access to peer reviewed journal articles is one of the key messages of the current global movement that is changing the paradigm of scholarly communication. Creating open access journals is one such route and creating institutional repositories containing author generated electronic text is another complementary alternative. In the UK, the FAIR (Focus on Access to Institutional Resources) programme of research is based on the vision of open access. Experiments in setting up an institutional repository for academic research output at the University of Southampton have emphasized that the institutional repository agenda is broader and that academic needs may dictate a more expanded database model than the pioneering discipline based e-Prints archive known as 'arXiv'. The institution is represented by a broad range of publication types including, but not exclusively, peer reviewed journal articles and the different disciplines have evolved different recording practices. Full text deposits may provide the opportunity for added value elements - e.g. enhanced diagrams, additional data or presentations - if the database provides the capability. The repository may provide the building blocks for effective management of collaborative e-research.
Academic institutions that impose research reporting in an institutional repository require full recording of publications including those where obtaining full text is difficult or inappropriate. A practical route is, therefore, to develop an institutional repository which is 'hybrid' - containing both records and full text where achievable. In this scenario, the technical and management issues eg authentication and quality assurance of the metadata generation may become more complex. However, the full text element can grow as the practice becomes more natural within the recording process and as copyright restrictions ease. In the UK, several factors including the Research Assessment Exercise and citation impact measures based on increasing open access could also help encourage this change. The goal of providing open access to peer reviewed research items may, therefore, come about by a more circuitous but, in the end, more effective route. The 'hybrid' library will have evolved to the digital library of the ideal.
The poster contains a diagram representing this evolutionary model in pictorial form and exemplar snapshots of the evolution of the e-Prints Soton database.
Martha Kyrillidou, ARL
Yvonna Lincoln, Texas A&M University
Kaylyn Hipps, ARL
In 2001-2002, 108 ARL libraries spent almost $171 million on electronic resources. Libraries seek efficient and effective ways of delivering the highest quality of service using these electronic resources. The ability to assess the service quality of digital libraries will allow libraries to improve the retrieval of relevant information, promote learner preparation for an information-rich society, and promote scholarship and lifelong learning. The project to develop a National Science Digital Library user-based assessment protocol is an outgrowth of the LibQUAL+(TM) project. LibQUAL+(TM) is a suite of services, born out of a research and development project undertaken by ARL and Texas A&M to measure library service quality across institutions. The current LibQUAL+(TM) instrument is a web-based survey of library users' perceptions of service quality across three dimensions: Affect of Service, Information Control, and Library as Place; it identifies gaps between desired, perceived, and minimum expectations of service. The survey results can be used in making local managerial decisions as well as in identifying best practices in library service. The goals of the NSDL Digital Library Assessment project include: (a) define the dimensions of digital library service quality from the users' perspectives; (b) develop a tool for measuring user perceptions and expectations of digital library service quality across NSDL digital library contexts; (c) identify digital library best practices that permit generalizations across operations and development platforms; (d) enhance student learning by effectively managing student perceptions and expectations of digital library services; (e) establish a digital library assessment program within the larger library service quality assessment program at the Association of Research Libraries; and (f) institutionalize continuous digital library product and process evaluation efforts directed towards positive and timely management outcomes.
Brian Hoffman, Columbia University
David Millman, Columbia University
The Digital Anthropology Resources for Teaching (DART) project is a collaboration among faculty, technologists, and publishers at Columbia University and The London School of Economics. The project uses digital library and electronic publishing practices to explore the potential for using digital resources in the teaching of undergraduate anthropology.
This poster will deal with process architecture issues germane to digital publication processes sited in a university context. It will use the DART project as a case study with several interesting features: transatlantic collaboration between academic departments, experimental and iterative end designs, 'found' applications inherited from projects with overlapping but different requirement sets, and a staffing structure that is (non-technical) faculty-oriented. It will focus on the challenges these conditions introduce, and on how a clear XML / XSL publication model can persist through and organize the changes in scale, vision, and requirements that result from the experimental ethos of the project. The poster will diagram a publishing process that is at the highest level a two-part effort to 1) capture content and metadata in a coherent mass of XML documents and bit-streams and to 2) express this mass as new online collections or as exports to existing collections. It will show how each of these stages is accomplished through a workflow model that connects the academic activities of researching and teaching with the technical processes of accumulation (1) and end-state configuration (2). The poster will particularly focus on solutions to the DART process's high 'adaptability' requirements, which derive from the decision to allow dialectics of research, teaching, and revision persist through (and, in parallel with) processes of technical implementation.
Eva Müller, Uppsala University Library / Electronic Publishing Centre
"Access to Documents. Now and in the Future", a project, funded by The Nordic Council for Scientific Information (NORDINFO), has, as its overall mission, the development of practical solutions supporting long-term access to electronically published documents.
One of the goals of the project is the development and practical implementation of an infrastructure, a fundamental part of which will be a generalized archiving work flow between a trusted repository - for example, at a university - and a national archive. In doing this, we will attempt to accommodate the variety of publishing platforms and systems currently used by universities cooperating within the project. This new work flow is based on the use of URN:NBN as persistent identifiers. Within this project a resolution service for resolving URN:NBN will be further developed. This enhanced application, originally developed by The Electronic Publishing Centre at Uppsala University within the DiVA and SVEP projects, will be available as an open source.
In our poster we will give an overview of the infrastructure and the components of which it will be comprised.
Considering the lack of practical implementations of solutions supporting long-term preservation and access within the library community, we believe the results of the project will be useful for the broad Digital Library community.
The project "Access to Documents. Now and in the Future" is a cooperation between Uppsala University Library, the national libraries of Denmark, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, and a number of university libraries in these countries.
Kathrin Schroeder, Die Deutsche Bibliothek (German National Library)
Long-term referencing of online publications e.g. research papers embedded in a distributed heterogeneous information environment causes several challenges. In order to target the challenges, two main aspects must be taken into account:
These two aspects imply that long-term referencing is not only an issue of a technical implementation of PIs, but also a matter of a political and organizational infrastructure.
These starting points are determining the PI related activities at the German National Library (Die Deutsche Bibliothek) in the framework of the project EPICUR - "Enhancement of Persistent Identifier Services - Comprehensive Method for unequivocal Resource Identification".
This poster focused the presentation of the results concerning the co-operative URN-Management at Die Deutsche Bibliothek.
Michael Freeston, University of California, Santa Barbara
This is one of four international projects, supported in the US by the NSF International Collaborative Research Program in Digital Libraries, and in the UK by the Joint Information Systems Committee of the UK Higher Education Funding Councils. The two primary objectives of the project are to develop:
Specifically, the project aims to show how:
The project plans to deliver shared UK/US electronic resources associated with four courses across four topic areas, namely: Human Geography (based on the Census); Geographical Information Science (applied to retailing); Geomorphology (based on river catchments); and Earth Observation (for land cover and land use inference). The project will capitalise on a variety of rich digital resources which have been created by both official agencies and universities and which can be used to enhance student learning, knowledge and skills in each of these topic areas. These electronic resources will be made available through interoperable digital library technology and integrated directly into course units in undergraduate programmes supported by Virtual Learning Environments within each institution. The institutions will use this experience in years one to three of the project to develop on-line learning linked to digital libraries across other appropriate course units in their curricula in years two to five.
The consortium consists of the Universities of Southampton, Leeds, Pennsylvania State, and the University of California at Santa Barbara. The Geography departments of all the partners are involved, together with the digital library expertise of the Computer Science departments at UCSB and the University of Southampton and the Virtual Learning Environment expertise at the University of Leeds and Pennsylvania State. These partners are related by a network of existing contacts via the Worldwide University Network (WUN) and research connections within Geography and Digital Libraries.
A distributed version of the Alexandria geo-referenced digital library, developed at UCSB within the DLI1 and DLI2 programs of the NSF, will be used as the foundation of the technical infrastructure to support the project. A major aim of the project will be to show that several different pedagogic approaches, and a wide variety of data collections and teaching resources, can be supported and shared within this common infrastructure.
Michael Freeston, University of California, Santa Barbara
The Alexandria Digital Library, together with its follow-on - the Alexandria Digital Earth Prototype Project - is one of the flagship projects of the NSF/NASA/....Digital Library Initiative. Uniquely among these projects, ADL is a *georeferenced* library i.e. a library in which the principal mode of access to information is by specifying the location of the information on the surface of the Earth. The most immediate application of this technology is in support of a library of maps, aerial photographs and remote sensing images, and ADL is now run as an operational service by UCSB's Map and Image Library, one of the largest such libraries in the US.
But the longer term objective is to provide georeferenced search as an alternative way of accessing conventional libraries i.e. libraries of textual information. With the aid of a natural language parser and the ADL gazetteer, the locations (lat, long) of places named in a text can be identified. This functionality offers a quantum leap in information retrieval performance in the many cases in which locational information is involved. For example, it becomes possible to discover documents about California, even if the name "California" does not appear explicitly in the text. It also offers a foundation technology for the concept of the Digital Earth, able to answer questions such as: "What information do you have about this place?"
The primary focus of the ADEPT project, however, is on the development of digital learning environments (DLEs) for undergraduate education. There are two particularly innovative strands to this research: first, the use of digital library technology to provide curated learning and teaching resources for the DLEs; and second, a pedagogic approach based on an explicit concept model of the chosen field of study. ADEPT has naturally chosen Geography as the experimental field of study, but the approach is quite general and could be applied to any other field. A first course using this approach was given at UCSB in Fall 2003.
Dr Matthew Addis, IT Innovation Centre, 2 Venture Road, Chilworth, Southampton,
SO16 7NP, UK
Dr Paul Lewis, School of Electronics and Computer Science, Highfield, Southampton,
SO17 IBJ, UK
We propose to demonstrate a proof of concept software system developed in a European Commission supported Research and Development project in the cultural heritage domain (SCULPTEUR). In addition to traditional key word searching, our system allows large multimedia digital libraries to be searched using multimedia content analysis techniques and for the information in the digital library to be presented and navigated using graphical browsing of domain ontologies. The Sculpteur project is a European collaboration and includes a range of museums and galleries, including the Victoria and Albert Museum and National Gallery in London, the Uffizi in Italy, and the Musee de Cherbourg and the Centre de Recherche et de Restauration des Musees de France (C2RMF). Application areas include collection management, public access, conservation and restoration, and commercial services. The novel aspects of our approach include multi-modal searching, the use of ontologies for interoperability and multimedia cross-collection searching, and also the use of graphical techniques to help users not familiar with a collection's content to understand, navigate and build sophisticated queries.
Uwe Klosa, Electronic Publishing Centre, Uppsala University Library, Sweden
Stefan Andersson, Electronic Publishing Centre, Uppsala University Library,
Sweden
Hans Lind, The State and University Library, Aarhus, Denmark
This demonstration will give insight into the use and experiences with XML within the DiVA project. The project has developed a publishing system which is completely based on XML. To meet the requirements and challenges of long-term preservation and to support electronic publishing of documents on the World Wide Web a local document format was developed - DiVA Document Format (DDF). DDF is a general XML document format especially developed for, but not limited to, academic publications. The format is developed and maintained by the Electronic Publishing Centre at Uppsala University Library.
This demonstration will give you an idea about how the format is produced in a production environment and how it is used to support long-term preservation and electronic publishing. We will also demonstrate the conversion of full-text documents created in word processors (MS Word, Open Office) or LaTeX to the DiVA Document Format. Through further transformation processes a number of other formats, both metadata and file formats, are easily produced. Furthermore various services based on the DDF will be demonstrated.
Andrew Bevan, User Support Team
Overview of leading EDINA services (Digimap, Education Media OnLine and Education Image Gallery) and projects such as SUNCAT and JORUM.
Ray R. Larson, University of California, Berkeley
Patricia Frontiera, University of California, Berkeley
A large portion of the information in digital libraries today is, either implicitly or explicitly, geographically-based. In this demonstration we will show how explicit geospatial metadata and inferred geographic information from texts can be exploited to provide effective and accurate ranked Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR) of geospatial information and relevant text documents. We will describe and demonstrate the use of probabilistic retrieval algorithms based on logistic regression with weighting coefficients estimated from a set of training data.
We will present a system that combines conventional probabilistic algorithms for text retrieval with algorithms for estimating probability of relevance for geographic spaces. We will also demonstrate our algorithm for GIR ranking that estimates probability of relevance based on a weighted set of parameters where the weights were derived using logistic regression from samples of a test collection.
The demonstration will show:
The demonstration will show real-time live searches and geographic displays to illustrate the algorithms and methods described.
Natascha Schumann, Darmstadt University of Technology, Department of Sociology
Wolfgang Meier, Darmstadt University of Technology, Department of Sociology
SozioNet forms part of a forthcoming social science information portal, which is currently being developed by the German infoconnex initiative. SozioNet provides access to scientific resources freely available on the World Wide Web. Social scientists, researchers, students and others are offered fast and easy access to resources located at institutional servers spread across the web.
The objectives of SozioNet are not only the integration of freely available scientific resources via the internet but also the creation of a network of social scientific institutions and the improvement of search facilities by annotating resources with metadata.
Jayne Everard, Artifact
Artifact is the guide to quality Internet resources in the arts and creative industries and forms part of the Resource Discovery Network in the UK. Artifact is basically an online library, or Internet Resource Catalogue (IRC), providing searchable access to a collection of high quality online resources and web sites. Each site has been chosen by subject specialists for its relevance to further and higher education teaching, learning and research in the arts and creative industries. The session will demonstrate the search and browse facilities of Artifact, the Limelight feature and the Artist index and provide an insight into the wide range of resources available through Artifact and the benefits of using it as a filter to the World Wide Web.
Geneva Henry, Rice University
Brent Hendricks, Rice University
The Connexions project at Rice University is a collaborative, community-driven approach to authoring, teaching, and learning that conveys the dynamic continuum of knowledge. In Connexions, knowledge modules can be reused, modified, and placed in different contexts to meet the overall objectives of an instructor. Available to anyone, anywhere, at no charge, Connexions provides an environment for creating and managing knowledge at levels at which authors can demonstrate their true expertise. By collaborating both within and across disciplines, communities of authors work together to pool their expertise so that courses, created by stringing together knowledge chunks, are authored by many, with each author receiving attribution for his or her contributions. Information can be modified under an open license to tailor the material for the audiences of learners. This approach invites contributions by authors, whether they are senior or novice, recognizing that each may have valuable insights that will advance overall knowledge and learning. In this environment, the peer review communities collaborate directly with each other, modifying contributions as they go and keeping the knowledge current. Authoring becomes a much simpler task. Rather than write an entire book or article, individuals can write on a single topic in which they are expert. Reuse of knowledge is encouraged and new ideas can readily evolve without waiting for the long pre-publication peer review process to take place. While initially focused on creating customizable courses, the Connexions concept works just as well for the publication of research articles. As new findings are published, the relevant concepts can be picked up by multiple disciplines that may be affected and can be quickly integrated into the curriculum or used in further research activities to promote new discoveries at an increasing pace.
Shoshannah Holdom, Humbul Humanities Hub
Martin Wynne, Oxford Text Archive
The Humbul Humanities Hub discovers, evaluates, catalogues and gives access to online resources considered useful for humanities teaching and research. Humbul is a free service, available to all, which forms part of the Resource Discovery Network (RDN), http://www.rdn.ac.uk/, comprising eight different subject hubs, and is hosted by Oxford University.
Giving delegates hands-on experience of the Humbul online catalogue, we will demonstrate the range of resources and subject areas available through Humbul, the benefits of using Humbul as a filter to the World Wide Web, Humbul's search and browse facilities, and personalisation service, 'My Humbul'. This service offers an email alert, informing users when new records are added to Humbul which match saved search criteria, and 'My Humbul Include', which allows users to select records from Humbul and dynamically include then within web pages. Also based at Oxford University is the Arts and Humanities Data Service for Literature, Languages and Linguistics, hosted by the Oxford Text Archive. The OTA collects, documents, preserves, and promotes the use of digital resources to support research and teaching within literature, languages and linguistics. Advice and support is also offered to digital data creators and users. The full range of free services offered by the OTA will be presented to delegates.
Dumas Cédric, Ecole des Mines de Nantes
Bouchet Stéphane, Ecole des Mines de Nantes
Céline Bourasseau, Ecole des Mines de Nantes
We present our digital libray platform, CASTOR (CApitalization & STORage). Our work takes place in a user centered design approach to build an open-archive platform, planned to create institutional repositories, managed by librarians in their respective institutions. With this system, the authors are able to store, convert, fully index, manage, perpetuate, valorize and distribute their digital documents. It has been designed for at least three categories of users :
Paul Smith, ILRT, University of Bristol
Emma Place, ILRT, University of Bristol
The ILRT at Bristol University has developed a Web tutorial content management system that has successfully underpinned the RDN Virtual Training Suite, a national UK service teaching Internet information skills (eLiteracy) in universities and colleges.
The service:
The system:
This poster and demonstration will give an overview of the service and system, look at the potential developments and levels of uptake and use.
Alejandro Bia, Miguel de Cervantes DL
Donatella Castelli, ISTI-CNR
Maria Simi, ISTI-CNR
Pasquale Pagano, ISTI-CNR
The demo will illustrate the power of DoMDL and the flexibility of the OpenDLib services that support it by showing two OpenDLib DLs, eLibrary (http://elibrary.isti.cnr.it/) and ARTE (http://odl-server1.isti.cnr.it/), which operate on very different collections of heterogeneous documents and metadata.
In particular, these DLs provide access to eLibrary, viz:
Fredric C Gey, University of California, Berkeley
Kimberly Carl, University of California, Berkeley
Describes and demonstrates a system for querying and displaying documents in multiple languages in time and space. Demonstrated with Hindi documents from the BBC World News in Hindi (2000-2001) and Russian documents from the CLEF Izvestia collection for 1995.
Giuseppe Amato, ISTI-CNR
Fausto Rabitti, ISTI-CNR
Pasquale Savino, ISTI-CNR
We will make a demo of the MILOS Multimedia Content Management System: a general purpose software component tailored to support design and effective implementation of digital library applications.
MILOS supports the storage and content based retrieval of any multimedia documents whose descriptions are provided by using arbitrary metadata models represented in XML.
MILOS is flexible in the management of documents containing different types of data and content descriptions; it is efficient and scalable in the storage and content based retrieval of these documents.
The demo will show some digital libraries built with the MILOS system: text and image news agencies management, scientific papers digital library, audio/video digital library
Sara Hassen, JISC
Rachel Bruce, JISC
Balviar Notay, JISC
The Joint Information Systems committee (JISC) supports UK post 16 higher education and research by providing leadership in the use of Information and Communications Technology in support of learning, teaching, research and administration. JISC is funded by all of the UK post 16 and higher education funding councils.
The JISC makes significant investments in work directed towards innovation in ¡V and improvement of ¡V products, processes, and services. Much of the work that JISC undertakes is underpinned by, or furthers digital library development. In particular, its work in developing a national infrastructure to support the integration of information across eLearning and eResearch.
There are a wide variety of strategic development projects underway clustered together in thematic programmes some of which will be demonstrated.
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