Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries: First European Conference, ECDL '97 Pisa, Italy, September 1-3, 1997 Proceedings

ISBN-13: 9783540635543 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 430 str.

Costantino Thanos

Opis

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries held in Pisa, Italy, in September 1997.
The volume presents 23 revised full papers selected from 77 submissions. Also included are two invited contributions. The papers are organized in topical sections on supporting user interfaces, metadata, information retrieval, DL architectures, multilingual information retrieval, structured documents, and case studies.

Spis treści

Libraries and digital property rights.- Object database support for digital libraries.- Enhancing community and collaboration in the virtual library.- Comprehension and object recognition capabilities for presentations of simultaneous video key frame surrogates.- Automating the construction of authority files in digital libraries: A case study.- Using semantic, geographical, and temporal relationships to enhance search and retrieval in digital catalogs.- Metadata repositories using PICS.- Relevance feedback and query expansion for searching the web: A model for searching a digital library.- Text segmentation by topic.- Scalable text retrieval for large digital libraries.- Awareness services for digital libraries.- Towards a common infrastructure for large-scale distributed applications.- Machine learning + on-line libraries = IDL.- Building a multilingual electronic text collection of folk tales as a set of encapsulated document object: An approach for casual users to browse multilingual documents on the fly.- Automated indexing with thesaurus descriptors: A co-occurrence based approach to multilingual retrieval.- Cross-language information retrieval in a Multilingual Legal Domain.- The digital library and computational philology: The BAMBI project.- Multivalent Annotations.- A semantic network approach to semi-structured documents repositories.- Modelling the retrieval of structured documents containing texts and images.- Probabilistic retrieval of OCR degraded text using N-grams.- Deposit for Dutch Electronic Publications: Research and practice in The Netherlands.- Charging for a digital library — The business model and the cost models of the MeDoc digital library.- Bibliothéque nationale de France 's Audiovisual System, digital audio, video, and photo consultation in a library.- The electronic colloquium on computational complexity (ECCC): A digital library in use.