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Digital Libraries:Background and Overview NAWeb 2003
Jeremy Rowe
Arizona State University
Partnership forResearchInSpatial
Modeling
Library - A collection of literary, musical, artistic, or reference material(eg books, manuscripts, recordings, or films)that are kept for use but not sale
Initial Developments-Online Public Access Catalogs
(OPAC)-Electronic Text-Digitized Photographs-Multi-Media – Audio and Video
Initial Project Targets-Shared library catalogs-Text-Low resolution digital graphics, images, and photographs
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/projects/digital/apis/search/
http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/special_collections.html
http://www.getty.edu/art/collections/objects/o71385.html
http://www.getty.edu/art/collections/objects/o71385.html
Types of Projects -Text
OCRBorn Digital
-Graphic representationsManuscriptsMusic
-ImagesGraphics (Images, maps, etc.)Photographs
-Motion MediaVideo/streamsAnimations (Flash, QT VR, etc.)
-Interactive Simulations
Collateral Factors-Development of the Web-Data Sharing (i.e.Gopher, FTP, et al)
-Visual Browsers (http, Mosaic, Netscape, et al)
-On-line Access-Compression-Computing Power-Collaborative Research-E-Commerce
Types of Digital Library Projects-Access to Traditional Library Collections-Interpretive Exhibits/Educational Uses-Shared Scientific Data-Modeling, Visualization and Analysis-Automated Cataloging
-Interface Design/Human Interaction
http://scop.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/scop/parse/dir.cla.scop.txt_1.59
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Structure/CN3D/cn3d.shtml
Bone Surfaces and Forensics Digital collections to analyze
shape, structure, morphology, improve measurement accuracy, permit objective comparison of objects, and to identify unique individuals.
PRISM
http://3dk.asu.edu
Standards Initiatives-Cataloging/Description-Metadata/XML-Data Definitions/Formats-Data Interchange-Search-Interface/Display
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/patlas?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.03.0003&redraw.x=1&redraw.y=1
http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/conceptual.html
http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/conceptual.html
http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/kobus/famsf/model_2/text_and_blobs/bbox.html
http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/info_spaces.html
Interested Parties-Libraries – IMLS-Science/Engineering - NSF, NIH-Defense - DOD, Homeland Security-Arts – NEA, Foundations-Humanities – NEH, Foundations-Education – FIPSE, LAAP-Digital Government - NSF-Business and E-Commerce
Project Examples-Auto-Classification-Auto-Summarization of Video and Digital Video Libraries-Digital Recognition of Music, Cuneiform and Hieroglyphics, Manuscripts, and Complex Graphic Letterforms-Distributed Search (Z39.50, SQL, XML)-Distributed Research Collections-Information Agents/AI Search Support
Project Examples (ctd)
-Digital Music – Scores, Audio-Digital Document “Restoration” /Image Processing-Manuscript OCR/Word Segmentation -Modeling and Visualization-Image Recognition-Spoken Language Processing-Archiving/Provenance-Data Quality-Identity Management/Access Control-Science, Math, Engineering and Technology Education
Current Issues
Social, Institutional, And Policy Issues Pedagogical Issues Intellectual Property User Communities Metadata And Content Web Cataloging Digital Archives And Museums Digital Preservation Digital Library Infrastructure Digital Library Architecture Knowledge Management Content Management Human-Computer Interaction Information Retrieval Information Mining Ontology-Based Services Semi-Structured Data Management Semantic Web Web Information Gathering Text Categorization Large Scale Data Management Electronic Publishing Information Filtering/Extraction Hypertext And Multimedia
Authentication/Authorization Security And Privacy Image Understanding Intelligent Analysis
Conferences -ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries-European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries-International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries-Russian Scientific Conference on Digital Libraries-European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
Initiatives-NSF Partnerships:
NSF-JISC (US-UK) NSF-DFG (US-Germany)NSF-EU (US-European Union)
Digital Libraries
Initial Focus -Building interconnections between library catalogs
Interim -Building digital/virtual collections
Current Focus-On-line access to data and analytic tools for research, education, and digital government
-Improved user interfaces and tools to generate content, analyze, and interact with complex data
-Improved access to permit knowledge transfer of across-cultures and minimize barriers of training, technology, disability, and economics
Contact Information: Jeremy Rowe
PRISM Executive CommitteeDirector, Research, Strategic Planning and Policy
Information TechnologyArizona State University
Tempe, Arizona 85287-0101480-965-8622