DL Project Ideas

There are many possible projects suitable for CS6604 and UH3004 on Digital Libraries. Please look over the suggested projects in the list below, or propose a project of your own creation to the instructor for refinement and consideration.

Background for DL Projects

To better understand the various DL projects discussed below, you may want to study the information available from the links below.

  1. Digital Library Research Laboratory (at Virginia Tech): follow links re 5S, MARIAN, NDLTD, OAi
  2. Regarding Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs), see Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations and the Federated Search Site for ETDs

Suggested DL Projects

Note that ones with "*" before the title have at least one student involved.
  1. * VT Museum of Natural History work to build digital library of images/info
  2. * PetaPlex - multiple projects on 100 processor 2.5 Tbyte system at VT
  3. MARIAN digital library system developed at VT - complete porting to Java
  4. * ETDs - Federated Search to search multiple sites for NDLTD
  5. ETDs in Germany and US and the Open Archives initiative
  6. Physics Digital Library and the Open Archives initiative
  7. * ETDs - Selective Dissemination of Information (SDI) to route interesting works based on user profiles
  8. ETDs - ResearchIndex to build an ETD citation database and detect plagiarism
  9. ETDs - Similar Documents to detect plagiarism and find similar ETDs
  10. * ETDs - XML method for authoring works
  11. * National Science Digital Library - CS Collection Proposal
  12. National Science Digital Library - CS History Proposal
  13. Open Archives initiative annotation service
  14. ENVISION interface developed at VT for visualizing search results
  15. MIRAGE digital library system developed in Korea - install, make interoperable
  16. * Phronesis digital library system developed in Mexico - install, make interoperable
  17. * Greenstone digital library system developed in NZ - install, make interoperable
  18. * Text Retrieval Conference work to compare our systems with others
  19. Implementing Bioinformatics Tools on the PetaPlex
  20. 5S Framework for Digital Libraries
  21. * OAi on Campus
  22. * NCSA Emerge digital library system developed at UIUC - install, make interoperable
  23. * NCSTRL VT getting CS tech reports working
  24. * NCLIS 5-15 page white paper for Congress and President
  25. * DLDL Digital Library Definition Language

Project Teams

To learn about personality issues that may help you select a project group, and work more effectively with other group members, see a variant of the Myers Briggs personality test that you can take in about 5 minutes. (For background you might enjoy the newsgroup for the discussion of personality typing systems.)