Digital Libraries, Fall 1997 --- Exploration

NetBill

Home Page
Demo
Overview article on payment systems from IEEE Spectrum
Set of PowerPoint slides discussing Internet Commerce, Payment Systems and NetBill
Questions: How would this work with ETDs? What are the advantages and disadvantages relative to other approaches?

CyberStacks (WWW, Classification, Catalogs, Reviews/Clearinghouses)

Home Page
Net Projects
Alphabetical topics vs. LC ranges
Call for contributions
Question: Which efforts are far along? What demonstrations can you find that are the most informative / explanatory? How well does the Library of Congress classification system fit for WWW resources?
Related work: OCLC's Scorpion Project; DDC

DLI: Berkeley

Home Page
IEEE Computer article
Tours
Collections
Source Code
Document-specific image decoders
GISviewer (needs latest browser)
Photos and demos
California Aerial Photos
United States Department of Agriculture PLANTS Photo Gallery
Questions:
- MVD
  - How well does MVD 0.9 work for you? Could you get the links on that page to work (use 2 windows of browser, one for the instructions, and one for testing)? What do you like most about it?
  - Did you use it on video or a PC or Mac with Netscape 4?
  - Did you work out Lens overlaying, such as OCR and then Magnify?
  - For the TableSort example, could you under Anno view the note?
  - Could you get the special behaviors to work: Biblio, where you Select a type of format, use the mouse to select an entry, use Edit and Copy to get a version in that format, and then paste elsewhere?
  - Could you get Doublespace in the View menu to work?
- Cheshire
  - Can you find interesting environmental documents using Cheshire II?
- TileBars
  - What happens with TileBar search of "document" and "retrieval"?
  - What happens with TileBar search of "fault" and "dam"?
  - When is TileBar searching useful on a single document?
- Collections
  - What is the name of the DBMS used?
  - What is a database "schema"? How does it relate to "metadata"?
  - How many documents and how many images are in their collection?
  - How good is the OCRing? What research is underway to improve OCRing beyond that of ScanWorX and how well does it work? What is the main idea behind it?
  - How can you find the dams for a county?
  - How does the database table information for Almond dam relate to the page about it? To the OCR output about that page?
  - What is a VLURL? How do you construct it? Can you build one and show results for getting pictures of California wildflowers that have the string "rose" in their common names?
  - Display a distribution map for your favorite flower in California.
  - Can you tell the direction of flight from the aerial photos?
  - How do layers help with managing GIS information with the GIS viewer? Can you zoom in and out and pan around?

Xerox Interfaces for Information Access

Home Page
Scientific American article
Cat-a-Cone figures
Scatter/Gather examples
Questions:
- Compare
  - What are the various interfaces built? How do they compare? What is the best use of each?
- Scatter/gather
  - Explain clustering, relate it to scatter/gather.
  - What are special problems with large category systems and how can they be solved?