Practical Digital Libraries Overview

ECDL'2001 Tutorial by
Edward A. Fox
Department of Computer Science
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA
fox@vt.edu - http://fox.cs.vt.edu
September 4, 2001 (morning) - Darmstadt, GE
http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~dlib/tut/ECDL01.htm

Preliminaries

1	VT Perspective - Talk in PowerPoint
2	Bibliography for 5S / Star
3	DLI Overview for BASIS - in PDF
4	ETD Genre and Examples - in PDF
5	DL'99 paper on NDLTD - in PDF
6	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

Section 1. Foundations
- Early visions, definitions, resources/references, projects
Section 2. Search, Retrieval, Resource Discovery
- Information storage and retrieval, Boolean vs. natural language, search engine tutorial
- Indexing: Phrases, Thesauri (on web), Concepts
- Federated search and harvesting, OAI, Crawlers/spiders
- Integrating links and ratings, fusion
Section 3. Multimedia, Representations
- Text/audio/image/video/graphics/animation
- Capture, Digitization, Compression
- Standards, Interchange: JPEG, MPEG
- Content-based retrieval, Playback (e.g., Real), QoS, SMIL
Section 4. Architectures
- Modular/componentized, Protocols
- InfoBus (Stanford, Java), Mediators, Wrappers (TSIMMIS)
Section 5. Interfaces
- Workflow, Environments, Taxonomy of interface components, Visualization
- Design, Usability testing
Section 6. Metadata
- Ontologies, RDF
- MARC, Dublin Core, IMS
- Mappings, Crosswalks
Section 7. Electronic Publishing, SGML, XML
- Authoring, Presenting, Rendering, Document Object Model (DOM)
- Dual-publishing, Styles (XSL), eBooks (e.g., eBooks.com, eBooks Central, netLibrary)
- Structure, Semi-structured information, Tagging/markup, Structure queries
Section 8. Database Issues
- Extending database technology
- Structured and unstructured information
- Multimedia databases, Link databases
- Performance/replication/storage, e.g., Internet2 Distributed Storage Infrastructure (I2-DSI)
Section 9. Agents
- Distributed issues
- Protocols, Negotiation
- Webbots (automatic indexing)
Section 10. Commerce, Economics, Publishers
- Preservation and archives: DLF page, PADI (AU) page, Besser on moving images
- Terms and conditions, Open collections, Self-archiving
- Economic models, Micropayments
Section 11. Intellectual Property Rights, Security
- Legal issues, e.g., Gladney on digital preservation archiving and copyright
- Copyright, Rights management
Section 12. Social Issues
- Cooperation and collaboration, Ratings, Annotation (PICS)
- Educational applications (NSDL), Digital divide
- Museums (AMICO), Cultural heritage, International concerns
- Organizational acceptance/issues, Personalization