ACM Digital Libraries '96 Tutorial - IR and HT

Copyright 1996 Edward A. Fox and Robert M. Akscyn

See pages from http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~fox/DL96/

These WWW pages are part of the materials used by Ed Fox for the tutorial at DL'96, Bethesda, MD, March 20, 1996. On the WWW they are located at http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~fox/DL96/

Additional materials developed using KMS will be presented by Rob Akscyn, co-instructor.

Outline

1. Hypertext Issues
   Data Models; User Interfaces; Script Languages; Applications
2. Information Retrieval Issues
   Representations, Automatic Indexing
   Models: Boolean, String, Vector Space, Probabilistic
3. Systems as Illustrations
   Presentations with: KMS, Hyper-G, WWW, Envision
   Illustrations of: MARIAN, TOPIC, and those in DL projects

Selected References

Online

• Digital Library Source Book, 1993, ed. E. Fox
• Information Retrieval, 2nd ed., C.J. Van Rijsbergen, hypertext version
• Proc. Digital Libraries '94
• Proc. Digital Libraries '95
• Report of the May 1995 HPCC/IITA Workshop

Offline

• CACM, April 1995 - Special Issue on DLs
• IEEE Computer of Nov. 1993, 3 page overview by Fox on p. 79
• JASIS: Perspectives section in Sept. 1993 issue of J. of the American Society for Inf. Science

IR Issues, Systems as Illustrations