Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XI

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2. Invited Talks

   1. Challenges for the Web: Universality and Scalability

      • Jean-François Abramatic

      Pages 1-1

   2. The UC Berkeley Digital Library Project: Re-thinking Scholarly Information Dissemination and Use

      • Robert Wilensky

      Pages 2-2

3. Papers

   1. Image Categorisation and Access

      1. Image and Metadata Distribution at Seven University Campuses: Reports from a Study of the Museum Educational Site Licensing Project

         • Howard Besser, Rosalie Lack

         Pages 3-18

      2. Text-Based Approaches for the Categorization of Images

         • Carl L. Sable, Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou

         Pages 19-38

      3. Metadata for Photographs: From Digital Library to Multimedia Application

         • Anne-Marie Vercoustre, François Paradis

         Pages 39-57

   2. Audio and Video in Digital Libraries

      1. Audiovisual Cultural Heritage: From TV and Radio Archiving to Hypermedia Publishing

         • Gwendal Auffret, Bruno Bachimont

         Pages 58-75

      2. An Indexing, Browsing, Search and Retrieval System for Audiovisual Libraries

         • Jane Hunter, Jan Newmarch

         Pages 76-91

      3. Music Structure Analysis and Its Application to Theme Phrase Extraction

         • Atsuhiro Takasu, Takashi Yanase, Teruhito Kanazawa, Jun Adachi

         Pages 92-105

   3. Information Retrieval

      1. Effectiveness of Keyword-Based Display and Selection of Retrieval Results for Interactive Searches

         • Ezio Berenci, Claudio Carpineto, Vittorio Giannini, Stefano Mizzaro

         Pages 106-125

      2. Towards More Effective Techniques for Automatic Query Expansion

         • Claudio Carpineto, Giovanni Romano

         Pages 126-141

      3. Predicting Indexer Performance in a Distributed Digital Library

         • Naomi Dushay, James C. French, Carl Lagoze

         Pages 142-166

   4. User Adaptation

      1. Design Guidelines and User-Centred Digital Libraries

         • Yin Leng Theng, Elke Duncker, Norliza Mohd-Nasir, George Buchanan, Harold Thimbleby

         Pages 167-183

      2. User Profile Modeling and Applications to Digital Libraries

         • Giuseppe Amato, Umberto Straccia

         Pages 184-197

      3. Using and Evaluating User Directed Summaries to Improve Information Access

         • Manuel J. Maña López, Manuel de Buenaga Rodríguez, José María Gómez Hidalgo

         Pages 198-214

   5. Knowledge Sharing

      1. Pharos, a Collaborative Infrastructure for Web Knowledge Sharing

         • Vincent Bouthors, Olivier Dedieu

         Pages 215-233

      2. Integrating Ontologies and Thesauri to Build RDF Schemas

         • Bernd Amann, Irini Fundulaki

         Pages 234-253

      3. Dynamic Use of Digital Library Material — Supporting Users with Typed Links in Open Hypermedia

         • Klaus Marius Hansen, Christian Yndigegn, Kaj Grønbæk

         Pages 254-273

   6. Cross Language

      1. Disambiguation Strategies for Cross-Language Information Retrieval

         • Djoerd Hiemstra, Franciska de Jong

         Pages 274-293

      2. Crosslingual Interrogation of Multilingual Catalogs

         • C. Fluhr, D. Schmit, C. Andrieux, Ph. Ortet, F. Bisson, V. Combet

         Pages 294-310

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.

• Digital Libraries
• Information Retrieval
• Internet
• Library Science
• Multimedia Information Systems
• Open Document Architecture
• User Interfaces

• Domaine de Voluceau, INRIA, Le Chesnay Cedex, France

  Serge Abiteboul, Anne-Marie Vercoustre

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