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;
• multimedia/hypermedia;
• metadata (e.g., Dublin Core);
• electronic publishing; SGML and XML;
• document models and representations;
• database approaches;
• agents and distributed processing;
• 2D and 3D interfaces and visualizations;
• architectures and interoperability (e.g., OAI); metrics;
• educational (e.g., CSTC, NSDL, NDLTD) and social concerns;
• commerce; and intellectual property rights.

• Computer Science Teaching Center (www.cstc.org)
• National Science (, Mathematics, Engineering, Technology Education) Digital Library (NSF NSDL, www.nsdl.nsf.gov)
• Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (www.ndltd.org)
• Open Archives Initiative (www.openarchives.org)

Level: Introductory or intermediate

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: Dr. Edward A. Fox holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science from Cornell University, and a B.S. from M.I.T. Since 1983 he has been at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VPI&SU, also called Virginia Tech), where he serves as Professor of Computer Science. He directs the Digital Library Research Laboratory, the Internet Technology Innovation Center at Virginia Tech, and varied R&D projects. He is general chair of the First ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. He is co-editor-in-chief of ACM Journal of Educational Resources in Computing (JERIC) and serves on the editorial boards of a number of journals. He has authored or co-authored many publications in the areas of digital libraries, information storage and retrieval, hypertext/hypermedia/multimedia, computational linguistics, CD-ROM and optical disc technology, electronic publishing, and expert systems.

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.