Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries: 6th European Conference, Ecdl 2002, Rome, Italy, September 2002 : Proceedings

by Agosti, M.; Thanos, Costantino

• ISBN13: 9783540441786
• ISBN10: 3540441786
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-09-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, ECDL 2002, held in Rome, Italy, in September 2002. The revised 42 full and 6 short papers presented together with 6 posters and demo descriptions were carefully reviewed and selected from 145 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on web archiving, e-book, collection building, web technologies, OAI approaches, case studies, navigation and query language, audio/video retrieval, architecture, information retrieval, evaluation, multimedia and mixed media, preservation and classification, user studies, humanities, and demos and posters.

Table of Contents

Web Archiving
A First Experience in Archiving the French Web	p. 1
Austrian Online Archive Processing: Analyzing Archives of the World Wide Web	p. 16
e-Book
Conversion of eBook Documents Based on Mapping Relations	p. 32
Guidelines for Designing Electronic Books	p. 47
Collection Building
Personalized Classification for Keyword-Based Category Profiles	p. 61
Statistical Analysis of Bibliographic Strings for Constructing an Integrated Document Space	p. 75
Focused Crawls, Tunneling, and Digital Libraries	p. 91
Web Technologies
Goal-Oriented Requirements Specification for Digital Libraries	p. 107
OntoLog: Temporal Annotation Using Ad Hoc Ontologies and Application Profiles	p. 118
An XML Log Standard and Tool for Digital Library Logging Analysis	p. 129
OAI Applications
Notes from the Interoperability Front: A Progress Report on the Open Archives Initiative	p. 144
Dynamic Generation of Intelligent Multimedia Presentations through Semantic Inferencing	p. 158
Technical Report Interchange through Synchronized OAI Caches
Case Studies
Functional Requirements for Online Tools to Support Community-Led Collections Building	p. 190
A Study on the Evaluation Model for University Libraries in Digital Environments	p. 204
Renardus: Following the Fox from Project to Service	p. 218
From Digital Archive to Digital Library - A Middleware for Earth-Observation Data Management	p. 230
Navigation/Query Language
Navigating in Bibliographic Catalogues	p. 238
Foundations of a Multidimensional Query Language for Digital Libraries	p. 251
Audio/Video Retrieval
The TREC2001 Video Track: Information Retrieval on Digital VideoInformation	p. 266
Automated Alignment and Annotation of Audio-Visual Presentations	p. 276
Architecture I
OpenDLib: A Digital Library Service System	p. 292
Prototyping Digital Library Technologies in	p. 309
Employing Smart Browsers to Support Flexible Information Presentation in Petri Net-Based Digital Libraries	p. 324
IR
On the Use of Explanations as Mediating Device for Relevance Feedback	p. 338
Qualitative Evaluation of Thesaurus-Based Retrieval	p. 346
Meta-data Extraction and Query Translation. Treatment of Semantic Heterogeneity	p. 362
Architecture II
MetaDL: A Digital Library of Metadata for Sensitive or Complex Research Data	p. 374
Importing Documents and Metadata into Digital Libraries: Requirements Analysis and an Extensible Architecture	p. 390
The Mellon Fedora Project (Digital Library Architecture Meets XML and Web Services)	p. 406
Evaluation
Hybrid Partition Inverted Files: Experimental Validation	p. 422
Digital Library Evaluation by Analysis of User Retrieval Patterns	p. 432
Interactive Search Results	p. 448
Multimedia/Mixed Media
An Investigation of Mixed-Media Information Retrieval	p. 463
Alignment of Performances with Scores Aimed at Content-Based Music Access and Retrieval	p. 479
Alternative Surrogates for Video Objects in a Digital Library: Users' Perspectives on Their Relative Usability	p. 493
Word Alignment in Digital Talking Books Using WFSTs	p. 508
Preservation/Classification/User Studies
Migration on Request, a Practical Technique for Preservation	p. 516
Information Alert in Distributed Digital Libraries: The Models, Languages, and Architecture of DIAS	p. 527
DSpace: An Institutional Repository from the MIT Libraries and Hewlett Packard Laboratories	p. 543
User Behavior Tendencies on Data Collections in a Digital Library	p. 550
Student Comprehension of Classification Applications in a Science Education Digital Library	p. 560
Architecture III
Designing Protocols in Support of Digital Library Componentization	p. 568
Exploring Small Screen Digital Library Access with the Greenstone Digital Library	p. 583
Daffodil: An Integrated Desktop for Supporting High-Level Search Activities in Federated Digital Libraries	p. 597
Humanities
Using Human Language Technology for Automatic Annotation and Indexing of Digital Library Content	p. 613
Cultural Heritage Digital Libraries: Needs and Components	p. 626
Visualization of Variants in Textual Collations to Analyze the Evolution of Literary Works in the Cervantes Project	p. 638
Demos and Posters
Alinari Online: Access Quality through a Cultural Photographic Heritage Site	p. 654
An Access Control System for Digital Libraries and the Web: The MaX Prototype Demonstration	p. 656
Human Language Technology for Automatic Annotation and Indexing of Digital Library Content	p. 658
The IntraText Digital Library: XML-Driven Online Library Based on High Accessibility, Lexical Hypertextualization and Scholarly Accuracy in Philological / Textual Notations	p. 659
The Meta Project - Automated Digitisation of Books and Journals	p. 660
COVAX: A Contemporary Culture Virtual Archive in XML	p. 661
Author Index	p. 663
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