Project Suggestion: Automatic Generation of Digital Libraries

• Number of people:
2
• Goal: to define a general-purpose language to specify digital libraries based on the 5S formal theory and to build DL generators for different DL systems
• Contact information: the instructor (Prof. Edward A. Fox) and Marcos André Gonçalves (mgoncalv@vt.edu)
• Required background: information retrieval (IR), digital libraries, programming languages, databases, mathematical theory, XML and RDF Schemas, MARIAN
• Description: This project will complete the definition of  5SL, a general-purpose language to specify digital libraries;  implement DL generators for different DL systems; and produce Case environments for DLs.  The project can lead to some independent studies or Master Theses. Particular efforts would include:

1. To complete the 5SL language specification and produce concrete examples of its use;
2. To develop DL generators for different DL systems (e.g., MARIAN, Greenstone);
    2.1 To complete the MARIAN  Coolection Loading module which produces  structural and linking information and allows dynamic updating of collections from harvested information;
3. To build a Case Environment in the spirit of the Paolo Paolini's AutoWeb or Stefano Ceri's WebML which could allow DL graphical modeling by the generation of 5SL specifications from graphical notations.
 
• Students involved: The following students are working on this project: