Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries

1. Front Matter

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2. Libraries and digital property rights

   • Mark Stefik, Giuliana Lavendel

   Pages 1-10

3. Object database support for digital libraries

   • Serge Abiteboul

   Pages 11-23

4. Enhancing community and collaboration in the virtual library

   • Rob Procter, Andy McKinlay, Ana Goldenberg, Elisabeth Davenport, Peter Burnhill, Sheila Cannell

   Pages 25-40

5. Comprehension and object recognition capabilities for presentations of simultaneous video key frame surrogates

   • Laura Slaughters, Ben Shneiderman, Gary Marchionini

   Pages 41-54

6. Automating the construction of authority files in digital libraries: A case study

   • James C. French, Allison L. Powell, Eric Schulman, John L. Pfaltz

   Pages 55-71

7. Using semantic, geographical, and temporal relationships to enhance search and retrieval in digital catalogs

   • Klaus Tochtermann, Wolf-Fritz Riekert, Gerlinde Wiest, Jürgen Seggelke, Birgit Klohaupt-Jahr

   Pages 73-86

8. Metadata repositories using PICS

   • Renato Iannella

   Pages 87-98

9. Relevance feedback and query expansion for searching the web: A model for searching a digital library

   • Alan F. Smeaton, Francis Crimmins

   Pages 99-112

10. Text segmentation by topic

    • Jay M. Ponte, W. Bruce Croft

    Pages 113-125

11. Scalable text retrieval for large digital libraries

    • David Hawking

    Pages 127-145

12. Awareness services for digital libraries

    • Arturo Crespo, Hector Garcia-Molina

    Pages 147-171

13. Towards a common infrastructure for large-scale distributed applications

    • Christos Nikolaoul, Manolis Marazakis, Dimitris Papadakis, Yiorgos Yeorgiannakis, Jakka Sairamesh

    Pages 173-193

14. Machine learning + on-line libraries = IDL

    • Giovanni Semeraro, Floriana Esposito, Donato Malerba, Nicola Fanizzi, Stefano Ferilli

    Pages 195-214

15. Building a multilingual electronic text collection of folk tales as a set of encapsulated document object: An approach for casual users to browse multilingual documents on the fly

    • Myriam Dartois, Akira Maeda, Takehisa Fujita, Tetsuo Sakaguchi, Shigeo Sugimoto, Koichi Tabata

    Pages 215-231

16. Automated indexing with thesaurus descriptors: A co-occurrence based approach to multilingual retrieval

    • Reginald Ferber

    Pages 233-252

17. Cross-language information retrieval in a Multilingual Legal Domain

    • Páraic Sheridan, Martin Braschlert, Peter Schäuble

    Pages 253-268

18. The digital library and computational philology: The BAMBI project

    • Andrea Bozzi, Sylvie Calabretto

    Pages 269-285

19. Multivalent Annotations

    • Thomas A. Phelps, Robert Wilensky

    Pages 287-303

20. A semantic network approach to semi-structured documents repositories

    • Vassilis Christophides, Martin Dörr, Irene Fundulaki

    Pages 305-324

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries held in Pisa, Italy, in September 1997.
The volume presents 23 revised full papers selected from 77 submissions. Also included are two invited contributions. The papers are organized in topical sections on supporting user interfaces, metadata, information retrieval, DL architectures, multilingual information retrieval, structured documents, and case studies.

• Annotation
• Automat
• Scala
• complexity
• database
• machine learning
• modeling
• object

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