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New Methods for Digitising, Searching, and Accessing Cultural Heritage Collections
Presenters:
Dr Matthew Addis, IT Innovation Centre, Southampton, UK
Fabrizio Giorgini, Giunti Interactive Labs, Sestri Levante, Italy
James Stevenson, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Dr Patrick Sinclair, University of Southampton, UK
Abstract: The first session will describe the processes, tools and techniques that are used for digitising, cataloguing, searching, and accessing multimedia representations of works of art in a range of cultural heritage institutions from across Europe. Particular attention will be made to 3D content acquisition, advanced searching methodologies, and the use of digital content in eLearning applications. Practical issues such as fit with infrastructure (people, processes, culture, systems) and ease of use (training, deployment and operation) will also be discussed.
The second session will present practical guidelines on how to use cultural heritage ontologies (specifically the CIDOC CRM) to structure, integrate and improve access to multimedia museum and gallery information. We will present both the challenges and benefits of using the CIDOC CRM and Semantic Web techniques to improve the understandability and navigation of large digital collections. We will discuss how mapping museum and gallery legacy systems to a common ontological model can facilitate interoperability and improve accessibility.
Both sessions will focus on the IST FP5 supported Sculpteur project (http://www.sculpteurweb.org) as a case study and will include the wider experiences of the partners involved. Experiences will be presented from a range of museums and galleries that include 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). Facilities will be provided for hands-on access to the technology and techniques used in Sculpteur, including 3D content.
Target Audience: This first session is targeted at museums and galleries, or any other cultural heritage content holders and service providers, who want to better understand the benefits and challenges of using new methods for digitising, searching, and accessing cultural heritage collections. The second session is more technical and will require a basic familiarity with the function and structure of thesauri and ontologies. Maximum benefit will be achieved by attending both sessions so, although it is not strictly necessary to attend the first session in order to benefit from the second, this is being scheduled as a full day tutorial.
Duration: Full day
Open Source Software in Libraries
Presenter: Eric Lease Morgan, University Libraries of Notre Dame, USA
Abstract: This tutorial will give an introduction to open source software especially as it pertains to libraries. More specifically, the student will learn the ideas behind open source software and a bit of its history.
Through the demonstrations, participants of this tutorial will learn how to uncompress and untar open source software distributions, configure an application for building, build (compile) an application, install it, configure it, and finally use it. Applications used during these activities include: Apache, CVS, Hypermail, MARC::Record, MySQL, Perl, swish-e, xsltproc, and YAZ. Both Koha and MyLibrary are discussed but not described in terms of installation.
Target audience: Designed for information professionals such as librarians.
Duration: Half day (morning)
Multilingual Information Access
Presenter: Fredric C. Gey, UC DATA, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Abstract: This half-day tutorial will cover aspects of Multilingual Information Access such as cross language search and retrieval, machine translation and statistical machine translation, multilingual search of the WWW and electronic digital library catalogs, evaluation strategies, evaluation campaigns and test collections for cross-language search effectiveness in the United States (TREC), Japan (NTCIR) and Europe (CLEF). [more information]
Target audience: The audience is intended to be professionals in information retrieval or digital library research. Examples will be from European languages, including languages with non-Roman alphabets such as Russian and Greek, Asian languages where discernment of word boundaries (no white space between words) is a significant challenge, and other languages such as those from the Indian subcontinent.
Duration: Half day (morning)
Qualitative User-Centered Design in Digital Library Evaluation
Presenters:
Lecia Barker, University of Colorado. USA;
Lynne Davis, DLESE Program Center, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Colorado, USA;
Mick Khoo, University of Colorado, USA
Abstract: Employing user-centered design focuses product development processes on users' preferences, tasks, and interface perspectives. Centralizing the user at all phases of development - from idea to use in the user's natural environment - results in easier-to-use, more satisfying, and more suitable applications. In this tutorial, presenters will show how qualitative methods are used in all stages in the user-centered design process, from defining target users to evaluating use in users' natural settings. Presenters will explain the fundamentals of the most typically used qualitative methods for eliciting and understanding users' perspectives and needs (observation, interviews, cognitive walkthroughs, and thinkalouds), emphasizing the importance of using what is learned in feedback loops at every stage of design and implementation. Presenters will accomplish these goals within the context of three case studies from the presenters' experience: 1) iterative feedback loops used in developing a user-friendly search tool and meaningful results page for the Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE); 2) solving the problem of inter-group miscommunication when populating the Digital Water Education Library (DWEL); and 3) the use of DLESE by real teachers planning lessons for teaching their students.
Target audience: Those involved with digital libraries from both academia and industry. Familiarity with basic concepts in text and multimedia information retrieval as well as some math will be useful but not necessary.
Duration: Half day (morning)
Thesauri and Ontologies in Digital Libraries 1: Structure and Use in Knowledge-based Assistance to Users (continued in Tutorial I)
Presenter: Dagobert Soergel, College of Information Studies, University of Maryland, USA
Abstract: This tutorial will elucidate through examples the conceptual and vocabulary problems users face when searching digital libraries. It will then show how a well-structured thesaurus / ontology can be used as the knowledge base for an interface that can assist users with search topic clarification (for example through browsing well-structured hierarchies and guided facet analysis) and with finding good search terms (through query term mapping and query term expansion - synonyms and hierarchic inclusion). It will touch on cross-database and cross-language searching as natural extensions of these functions. The workshop will cover the thesaurus structure needed to support these functions: Concept-term relationships for vocabulary control and synonym expansion, conceptual structure (semantic analysis, facets, and hierarchy) for topic clarification and hierarchic query term expansion). It will introduce a few sample thesauri and some thesaurus-supported digital libraries and Web sites to illustrate these principles.
Tutorial objectives are that:
Target audience: This introductory tutorial is intended for anyone concerned with subject access to digital libraries. It provides a bridge by presenting methods of subject access as treated in an information studies program for those coming to digital libraries from other fields.
Duration: Half day (morning)
Getting started with XML
Presenter: Eric Lease Morgan, University Libraries of Notre Dame, USA
Abstract: This workshop introduces participants to the extensible markup language (XML) through numerous examples, demonstrations, and structured exercises. Through this process participants will be able to evaluate the uses of XML for making data and information more accessible to people as well as computers. Examples include adding value to electronic texts, creating archival finding aids, and implementing standards compliant Web pages.
By the end of the tutorial students will have acquired a thorough introduction to XML and be able to: 1) list the six rules governing the syntax of XML documents, 2) create their very own XML markup language, 3) write XML documents using a plain text editor and validate them using a Web browser, 4) apply page layout and typographical techniques to XML documents using cascading style sheets, 5) create simple XML documents using a number of standard XML vocabularies (such as XHTML, TEI, CIMI XML Schema for SPECTRUM, or EAD), and finally, 6) articulate why XML is important for libraries.
Target audience: Designed for information professionals such as librarians.
Duration: Half day (afternoon)
Encoding Dublin Core Metadata in XHTML, XML and RDF
Presenter: Andy Powell, UKOLN, University of Bath
Abstract: This half-day tutorial will present a generic model for simple and qualified Dublin Core metadata records and will investigate how that model can be encoded in XHTML meta tags, XML and RDF. A number of case studies, based on the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) and RSS, will show how XML and DC are being used in practice.
Target audience: No detailed prior knowledge of XML will be assumed but attendees should expect to see a significant number of angle brackets (< >) during the tutorial!
Duration: Half day (afternoon)
Introduction to DL
Presenter: Edward A Fox, Computer Science, Virginia Tech
Abstract: This tutorial broadly explains, covers, and illustrates key aspects of the DL field. It uses the 5S framework (societies, scenarios, spaces, structures, streams - see paper in April 2004 ACM TOIS) to provide an intuitive but formally sound basis for understanding. It provides an overview to the field as used in the Fall 2003 Digital Libraries course taught by the instructor. After completing this tutorial, attendees will be prepared to benefit from the presentations at ECDL, including other tutorials. They will be able to explain "digital library", to distinguish it from related fields, to describe key DL concepts using the 5S framework, and to appreciate the history and key results of the field. They will be aware of many well-known projects / systems.
Target audience: All attending ECDL for the first time, as well as those interested in a refresher or different perspective on the field of digital libraries. Level of experience required: introductory. Those at intermediate or advanced levels could benefit as well, since the 5S framework has broad applicability for planners, designers, implementers, and evaluators.
Duration: Half day (afternoon)
Thesauri and Ontologies in Digital Libraries 2: Design, Evalutation
and Development
(Continuation of Tutorial E)
Presenter: Dagobert Soergel, College of Information Studies, University of Maryland, USA
Abstract: This tutorial will introduce criteria for the design and evaluation of thesauri and ontologies and then deal with methods and tools for their development: locating sources; collecting concepts, terms and relationships to reuse existing knowledge; developing and refining thesaurus/ontology structure; software and database structure for the development and maintenance of thesauri and ontologies; standards such as RDF and TopicMaps; collaborative development of thesauri and ontologies; developing crosswalks / mappings between thesauri/ontologies. In summing up, the tutorial will address the question of the amount of resources needed to develop and maintain a thesaurus or ontology.
The objectives of the tutorial are:
Target audience: This tutorial is intended for people who have a basic familiarity with the function and structure of thesauri and ontologies.
Duration: Half day (afternoon)
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