Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries : Third European Conference, ECDL'99, Paris, France, September 22-24, 1999, Proceedings

by Ecdl (Conference) 1999 Paris, France); Goos, G.; Hartmanis, J.; Leeuwen, J. Van; Abiteboul, Serge

• ISBN13: 9783540665588
• ISBN10: 3540665587
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-06-01
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc

Summary

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libaries, ECDL'99, held in Paris, France in September 1999. The 26 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 124 submissions. The book is divided in topical sections on image categorization and access, audio and video in digital libraries, information retrieval, user adaptation, knowledge sharing, cross language issues, case studies, and modelling, accessability and connectedness.

Table of Contents

Invited Talks
Challenges for the Web: Universality and Scability	1	(1)
Jean-Francois Abramatic
The UC Berkeley Digital Library Project: Re-thinking Scholarly Information Dissemination and Use	2	(1)
Robert Wilensky
Papers
Image Categorisation and Access
Image and MetadataF Distribution at Seven University Campuses: Reports from a Study of the Museum Educational Site Licensing Project	3	(16)
Howard Besser
Rosalie Lack
Text-Based Approaches for the Categorization of Images	19	(20)
Carl L. Sable
Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou
Metadata for Photographs: From Digital Library to Multimedia Application	39	(19)
Anne-Marie Vercoustre
Francois Paradis
Audio and Video in Digital Libraries
Audiovisual Cultural Heritage: From TV and Radio Archiving to Hypermedia Publishing	58	(18)
Gwendal Auffret
Bruno Bachimont
An Indexing, Browsing, Search and Retrieval System for Audiovisual Libraries	76	(16)
Jane Hunter
Jan Newmarch
Music Structure Analysis and Its Application to Theme Phrase Extraction	92	(14)
Atsuhiro Takasu
Takashi Yanase
Teruhito Kanazawa
Jun Adachi
Information Retrieval
Effectiveness of Keyword-Based Display and Selection of Retrieval Results for Interactive Searches	106	(20)
Ezio Berenci
Claudio Carpineto
Vittorio Giannini
Stefano Mizzaro
Towards More Effective Techniques for Automatic Query Expansion	126	(16)
Claudio Carpineto
Giovanni Romano
Predicting Indexer Performance in a Distributed Digital Library	142	(25)
Naomi Dushay
James C. French
Carl Lagoze
User Adaptation
Design Guidelines and User-Centred Digital Libraries	167	(17)
Yin Leng Theng
Elke Duncker
Norliza Mohd-Nasir
George Buchanan
Harold Thimbleby
User Profile Modeling and Applications to Digital Libraries	184	(14)
Giuseppe Amato
Umberto Straccia
Using and Evaluating User Directed Summaries to Improve Information Access	198	(17)
Manuel J. Mana Lopez
Manuel de Buenaga Rodriguez
Jose Mana Gomez Hidalgo
Knowledge Sharing
Pharos, a Collaborative Infrastructure for Web Knowledge Sharing	215	(19)
Vincent Bouthors
Olivier Dedieu
Integrating Ontologies and Thesauri to Build RDF Schemas	234	(20)
B. Amann
I. Fundulaki
Dynamic Use of Digital Library Material - Supporting Users with Typed Links in Open Hypermedia	254	(20)
Klaus Marius Hansen
Christian Yndigegn
Kaj Gronback
Cross Language
Disambiguation Strategies for Cross-Language Information Retrieval	274	(20)
Djoerd Hiemstra
Franciska de Jong
Crosslingual Interrogation of Multilingual Catalogs	294	(17)
C. Fluhr
D. Schmit
C. Andrieux
Ph. Ortet
F. Bisson
V. Combet
Term Similarity-Based Query Expansion for Cross-Language information retrieval	311	(12)
Mirna Adriani
C.J. van Rijsbergen
Case Studies
The SOMLib Digital Library System	323	(20)
Andreas Rauber
Dieter Merkl
Developing a European Technical Reference Digital Library	343	(20)
Antonella Andreoni
Maria Bruna Baldacci
Stefania Biagioni
Carlo Carlesi
Donatella Castelli
Pasquale Pagano
Carol Peters
Issues in the Development and Operation of a Digital Library	363	(20)
Sarantos Kapidakis
Modelling, Accessibility and Connectness
Declarative Specification of Z39.50 Wrappers Using Description Logics	383	(20)
Yannis Velegrakis
Vassilis Christophides
Panos Constantopoulos
PIA - a Generic Model and System for Interactive Product and Service Catalogs	403	(20)
Florian Matthes
Ulrike Steffens
Representing Scholarly Claims in Internet Digital Libraries: A Knowledge Modelling Approach	423	(20)
Simon Buckingham Shum
Enrico Motta
John Domingue
The Small World Web	443	(10)
Lada Adamic
Soda: Smart Objects, Dumb Archives	453	(12)
Michael L. Nelson
Appendix of French Abstracts	465	(30)
List of Demonstrations	495	(2)
Author Index	497