DL Project Suggestion: MIRAGE

• Number of people: 2-3
• Goal: To get MIRAGE operational at Virginia Tech, and to make it interoperate with MARIAN.
• Contact information: Professor Mann-Ho Lee, visiting at Virginia Tech, and Professor Sung Hyon Myaeng, shmyaeng@cs.cnu.ac.kr --- along with local staff Robert France (france@vt.edu) and Marcos Andre Goncalves (mgoncalv@vt.edu)
• Required background: interest in learning about MIRAGE and collaborating with our partners from Korea
• Description: According to Professor Myaeng "The MIRAGE system ... is considered the first digital library research prototype developed in Korea, which has been partly commercialized. This prototype has evolved into an architecture that extends the traditional notion of digital libraries into a 'dynamic knowledge space' where users can compose, efficiently store, and retrieve new multimedia digital objects from existing distributed resources. The major application of this digital library architecture is likely to be in education and knowledge management in corporate settings."

  This project would begin with contacting Professor Myaeng. Then it would proceed toward installing MIRAGE at Virginia Tech, with the help of Professor Mann-Ho Lee. Finally, it would involve PhD students France and Goncalves in connecting MIRAGE with MARIAN to achieve interoperability. Some references include:

  [1] S. H. Myaeng, "MIRAGE: A Prototype for a Multimedia Information Retrieval and Gathering Environment," in Proc. of International Conference on Digital Libraries and Information Services for the 21st Century, September 10-13. Seoul, 1996. [2] S. H. Myaeng, "MIRAGE: A Prototype for a Multimedia Digital Library (in Korean)," Journal Of Korea Information Science Society, 1997.

• Students involved: The following students are working on this project: