Practical Application of Digital Libraries

RRTC Advanced Technology Seminar by
Edward A. Fox
Department of Computer Science
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA
fox@vt.edu - http://fox.cs.vt.edu
October 11, 2000

Preliminaries

1	VT Perspective - Talk in PowerPoint
2	5S Overview with Metrics
3	5S Overview with Star Methodology
4	Bibliography for 5S / Star
5	Overview Chapter - Talk (PowerPoint, PDF from PowerPoint, WWW pages from PowerPoint); Paper (PostScript, PDF)
6	DLI Overview for BASIS - in PDF
7	ETD Genre and Examples - in PDF
8	DL'99 paper on NDLTD - in PDF
9	Selections from Online Courseware - Intro in PDF (2.4M, 196 pages), Advanced (7.5M, 408 pages) in PDF , Combination as of June 1988 (14M, 639 pages) in PDF , WWW pages

Topical Outline

Part 1. Foundations

Early visions, definitions, resources/references, projects

Part 2. Search, Retrieval, Resource Discovery

Information storage and retrieval, Boolean vs. natural language
Indexing: Phrases, Thesauri, Concepts
Federated search and harvesting, OAi, Crawlers/spiders/metasearch
Integrating links and ratings

Part 3. Multimedia, Representations

Text/audio/image/video/graphics/animation
Capture, Digitization, Compression
Standards, Interchange: JPEG, MPEG
Content-based retrieval, Playback, QoS

Part 4. Architectures

Modular/componentized, Protocols
Buses, Mediators, Wrappers

Part 5. Interfaces

Workflow, Environments, Taxonomy of interface components, Visualization
Design, Usability testing

Part 6. Metadata

Ontologies, RDF
MARC, Dublin Core, IMS
Mappings, Crosswalks

Part 7. Electronic Publishing, SGML, XML

Authoring, Presenting, Rendering
Dual-publishing, Styles
Structure, Semi-structured information, Tagging/markup, Structure queries

Part 8. Database Issues

Extending database technology
Structured and unstructured information
Multimedia databases, Link databases
Performance/replication/storage

Part 9. Agents

Distributed issues
Protocols, Negotiation

Part 10. Commerce, Economics, Publishers

Preservation and archives
Terms and conditions, Open collections, Self-archiving
Economic models

Part 11. Intellectual Property Rights, Security

Legal issues
Copyright, Rights management

Part 12. Social Issues

Cooperation and collaboration, Ratings, Annotation
Educational applications, Digital divide
Museums, Cultural heritage, International concerns
Organizational acceptance/issues, Personalization