B. Azeez, A. Kerne, J. Southern, B. Summerfield, I. Aholu, Eshita Sharmin
{"title":"Sharing culture shock through a collection of experiences","authors":"B. Azeez, A. Kerne, J. Southern, B. Summerfield, I. Aholu, Eshita Sharmin","doi":"10.1109/JCDL.2004.1336206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JCDL.2004.1336206","url":null,"abstract":"Culture shock and cultural adaptation are phenomena that international students experience, while crossing boundaries. On their arrival to the U.S., displaced students from the Third World often feel isolated, afraid, inferior, and insecure. Digital collections can serve as a medium for sharing sensations and experiences. They can help overcome the sense of isolation and culture shock, by illustrating to an individual how others have similar experiences. We are building a digital collection to support this exchange of experiences. In collecting experiences, we found that first person ethnographic interviews are more effective as a method for data collection, when they are conducted with a sense of informality. Woezor, a prototype system, was developed to structure and present these collections, using the Greenstone digital libraries software.","PeriodicalId":362133,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2004 Joint ACM/IEEE Conference on Digital Libraries, 2004.","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116189946","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Demonstrating education impact: challenges in the years ahead","authors":"T. Sumner, M. Marlino","doi":"10.1109/JCDL.2004.1336134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JCDL.2004.1336134","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this panel is to stimulate thought and debate about the legacy of educational digital libraries.","PeriodicalId":362133,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2004 Joint ACM/IEEE Conference on Digital Libraries, 2004.","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129872218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Perugini, K. McDevitt, R. Richardson, Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones, R. Shen, Naren Ramakrishnan, C. Williams, E. Fox
{"title":"Enhancing usability in CITIDEL: multimodal, multilingual, and interactive visualization interfaces","authors":"S. Perugini, K. McDevitt, R. Richardson, Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones, R. Shen, Naren Ramakrishnan, C. Williams, E. Fox","doi":"10.1145/996350.996424","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/996350.996424","url":null,"abstract":"We describe four usability-enhancing interfaces to CITIDEL aimed at improving the user experience and supporting personalized information access by targeted communities. These comprise: a multimodal interaction facility with capability for out-of-turn input, interactive visualizations for exploratory analysis, a translation center exposing multilingual interfaces, as well as traditional usability enhancements. Pilot studies demonstrate the resulting improvements in quality, as measured across a number of metrics.","PeriodicalId":362133,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2004 Joint ACM/IEEE Conference on Digital Libraries, 2004.","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128266763","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Supporting personal collections across digital libraries in spatial hypertext","authors":"F. Shipman, Hao-wei Hsieh, J. Moore, Anna Zacchi","doi":"10.1145/996350.996433","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/996350.996433","url":null,"abstract":"Creating, maintaining, or using a digital library requires the manipulation of digital documents. Information workspaces provide a visual representation allowing users to collect, organize, annotate, and author information. The visual knowledge builder (VKB) helps users access, collect, annotate, and combine materials from digital libraries and other sources into a personal information workspace. VKB has been enhanced to include direct search interfaces for NSDL and Google. Users create a visualization of search results while selecting and organizing materials for their current activity. Additionally, metadata applicators have been added to VKB. This interface allows the rapid addition of metadata to documents and aids the user in the extraction of existing metadata for application to other documents. A study was performed to compare the selection and organization of documents in VKB to the commonly used tools of a Web browser and a word processor. This study shows the value of visual workspaces for such effort but points to the need for subdocument level objects, ephemeral visualizations, and support for moving from visual representations to metadata.","PeriodicalId":362133,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2004 Joint ACM/IEEE Conference on Digital Libraries, 2004.","volume":"78 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129346256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Integrating knowledge components for writer identification in a digital archive of historical music scores","authors":"I. Bruder, Temenushka Ignatova, Lars Milewski","doi":"10.1145/996350.996463","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/996350.996463","url":null,"abstract":"In our work we consider two different approaches to map documents into the feature space. On one hand, we use a semi-automatic, knowledge-based procedure to let musicology experts determine the set of feature values for a document manually. On the other hand, we plan the integration of an automatic approach for feature extraction based on image processing techniques. However, currently we deal only with the results from the manual mapping implementation. We use the features extracted from the collection of music scores, and the information in the distance matrices to cluster the scores according to their handwriting characteristics. In the best case, a cluster represents exactly one writer. For the clustering of the feature sets we use the k-nearest neighbor method. The distance between two feature sets, also referred to as \"feature vectors\", is derived using a normalized, weighted Hamming distance function. The Hamming distance returned better results than the Euclidean and other higher order distance functions, which were tested.","PeriodicalId":362133,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2004 Joint ACM/IEEE Conference on Digital Libraries, 2004.","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126906851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A tree-based method for fast melodic retrieval","authors":"Charles Parker","doi":"10.1145/996350.996409","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/996350.996409","url":null,"abstract":"The evolution of aurally queryable melodic databases (so-called query-by-humming systems) has reached a point where retrieval accuracy is relatively high, even at large database sizes. With this accuracy has come a decrease in retrieval speed as methods have become more sophisticated and computationally expensive. In this paper, we turn our attention to heuristically culling songs from our database that are unlikely given a sung query, in hopes that we can increase speed by reducing the number of matching computations necessary to reach the proper target song.","PeriodicalId":362133,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2004 Joint ACM/IEEE Conference on Digital Libraries, 2004.","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131587833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Digital restoration using volumetric scanning","authors":"W. Seales, Yun-Hsuan Lin","doi":"10.1145/996350.996380","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/996350.996380","url":null,"abstract":"We present a new, nondestructive method for revealing inaccessible text buried within damaged books and scrolls. The method is based on volumetric scanning followed by data modeling and physically-based simulation. We show by experiment that it is possible to recover readable text from objects without physically opening or damaging them. In handling damaged collections, conservators often face a choice between two frustrating alternatives: indefinite preservation without analysis, or irreversible physical harm for the sake of potential discovery. We believe that this work creates a new opportunity that embraces both the need to preserve and the possibility for complete analysis.","PeriodicalId":362133,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2004 Joint ACM/IEEE Conference on Digital Libraries, 2004.","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132980005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Usability of digital libraries: an evaluation model","authors":"Judy H. Jeng","doi":"10.1145/996350.996473","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/996350.996473","url":null,"abstract":"This research proposes methods and instruments for assessing usability of academic digital libraries. Criteria in this study are effectiveness, efficiency, satisfaction, and learnability. It is found that there exist interlocking relationships among effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction.","PeriodicalId":362133,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2004 Joint ACM/IEEE Conference on Digital Libraries, 2004.","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133277885","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"BND: the architecture of a National Digital Library","authors":"J. Borbinha, Nuno Freire, J. Neves","doi":"10.1145/996350.996356","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/996350.996356","url":null,"abstract":"We describes the architecture and components of the infrastructure in construction for the National Digital Library in Portugal. The requirements emerged from the definition of the services to support, with a special focus on scalability, and from the decision to give a special attention to community building standards, open solutions, and reusable and cost effective components. The generic bibliographic metadata format in this project is UNIMARC, and the structural metadata is METS. The URN identifiers are processed and resolved as simple but very effective PURL identifiers. The storage for immediate access is provided by the LUSTRE file system, and by ARCO, a locally developed GRID architecture, for long term preservation. All these components run on Linux servers, as also the middleware for access based in the FEDORA framework.","PeriodicalId":362133,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2004 Joint ACM/IEEE Conference on Digital Libraries, 2004.","volume":"140 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115734413","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A semi-automated digital preservation system based on semantic Web services","authors":"J. Hunter, Sharmin Choudhury","doi":"10.1145/996350.996415","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/996350.996415","url":null,"abstract":"We describe a Web-services-based system, which we have developed to enable organizations to semiautomatically preserve their digital collections by dynamically discovering and invoking the most appropriate preservation service, as it is required. By periodically comparing preservation metadata for digital objects in a collection with a software version registry, potential object obsolescence can be detected and a notification message sent to the relevant agent. By making preservation software modules available as Web services and describing them semantically using a machine-processable ontology (OWL-S), the most appropriate preservation service(s) for each object can then be automatically discovered, composed and invoked by software agents (with optional human input at critical decision-making steps). We believe that this approach represents a significant advance towards providing a viable, cost-effective solution to the long term preservation of large-scale collections of digital objects.","PeriodicalId":362133,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2004 Joint ACM/IEEE Conference on Digital Libraries, 2004.","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124217705","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}