Announcement

Overview: This tutorial will start with an overview of definitions, foundations, scenarios, and perspectives. It will cover a variety of issues, including:

• search, retrieval and resource discovery;
• metadata;
• electronic publishing; SGML and XML;
• document models and representations;
• database approaches;
• multimedia/hypermedia;
• agents and distributed processing;
• 2D and 3D interfaces and visualizations;
• architectures and interoperability; metrics;
• educational and social concerns; commerce; and
• intellectual property rights.

Expected audience: researchers, developers, practitioners, librarians, managers, or others who do not have extensive experience in the field of digital libraries and who want a broad overview.

Tutorial presenter: Edward A. Fox (fox@vt.edu), a Professor of Computer Science at Virginia Tech, teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on digital libraries and related topics. He directs the Internet Technology Innovation Center at Virginia Tech, Digital Library Research Laboratory, Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations, and many digital library research efforts. He is an organizer of numerous conferences and has served as lead guest editor for special sections on digital libraries in Communications of the ACM in 1995, 1998, and 2001.

Key parts of tutorial

1. VT Perspective on DLs - Talk in PowerPoint
2. Topical Outline (web format)

Supplemental Information

1. Streams, Structures, Spaces, Scenarios, Societies (5S): A Formal Model for Digital Libraries. Virginia Tech Department of Computer Science Technical Report TR-01-12, by Marcos Andre Goncalves, Edward A. Fox, Layne T. Watson, and Neill A. Kipp. July, 2001, available as both: PS and PDF
2. Bibliography for 5S / Star
3. DLI Overview of DLI for BASIS - in PDF
4. ETD Genre and Examples - in PDF
5. DL'99 paper on NDLTD - in PDF
6. Selections from Online Courseware:
   The online courseware accessible through the topical outline above also is accessible for self-study as WWW pages. For convenience, it also is accessible in large part as PDF files:
   • full selections (15M, 1267 pages)
   • 1st page only of selections (9M, 348 pages)
   • outline without many selections (1M, 76 pages)

Tutorial Schedule

First, all tutorial materials will be examined, to orient attendees.

Then the large set of PowerPoint slides will be discussed.

Next, the topical outline will be considered, going through at a high level. This corresponds to the 76 pages of PDF file, which are included in the handout. The presentation will extend this to the 348 page version, as time permits.

Finally, the other supplemental information will be summarized, so attendees can continue their follow-up studies about digital libraries.