S. Hitchcock, L. Carr, Z. Jiao, Donna Bergmark, W. Hall, C. Lagoze, S. Harnad
{"title":"Developing services for open eprint archives: globalisation, integration and the impact of links","authors":"S. Hitchcock, L. Carr, Z. Jiao, Donna Bergmark, W. Hall, C. Lagoze, S. Harnad","doi":"10.1145/336597.336655","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/336597.336655","url":null,"abstract":"The rapid growth of scholarly information resources available in electronic form and their organisation by digital libraries is proving fertile ground for the development of sophisticated new services, of which citation linking will be one indispensable example. Many new projects, partnerships and commercial agreements have been announced to build citation linking applications. This paper describes the Open Citation (OpCit) project, which will focus on linking papers held in freely accessible eprint archives such as the Los Alamos physics archives and other distributed archives, and which will build on the work of the Open Archives initiative to make the data held in such archives available to compliant services. The paper emphasises the work of the project in the context of emerging digital library information environments, explores how a range of new linking tools might be combined and identifies ways in which different linking applications might converge. Some early results of linked pages from the OpCit project are reported.","PeriodicalId":42447,"journal":{"name":"Digital Library Perspectives","volume":"246 1 1","pages":"143-151"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2000-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86196741","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":"Learning the shape of information: a longitudinal study of Web-news reading","authors":"Misha W. Vaughan, A. Dillon","doi":"10.1145/336597.336673","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/336597.336673","url":null,"abstract":"A concept called shape is proposed to experimentally examine the development of users' mental representations of information spaces over time. Twenty five novice users are exposed to two differently designed news web sites over five sessions. The longitudinal impacts on users' comprehension, usability, and navigation are examined.","PeriodicalId":42447,"journal":{"name":"Digital Library Perspectives","volume":"1 1","pages":"236-237"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2000-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86790861","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":"Growth and server availability of the NCSTRL digital library","authors":"Allison L. Powell, J. French","doi":"10.1145/336597.336696","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/336597.336696","url":null,"abstract":"This paper reports on measurements of the NCSTRL digital library taken over a two-year period. We report the growth of the system along two dimensions: number of participating institutions and number of documents indexed by the system. We also report an aspect of reliability for this distributed digital library system.","PeriodicalId":42447,"journal":{"name":"Digital Library Perspectives","volume":"18 1","pages":"264-265"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2000-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73632060","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 digital museum of Taiwanese butterflies","authors":"Jen-Shin Hong, Herng-Yow Chen, J. Hsiang","doi":"10.1145/336597.336694","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/336597.336694","url":null,"abstract":"Taiwan is renown for its great variety of butterflies. There are about 400 species, a number of which unique to Taiwan, over its 36,500 sq km land. Last year we built a comprehensive digital collection of Taiwan's butterflies to provide a modern research environment on butterflies for academic institutions, as well as an interactive butterfly educational environment for the general public. Our digital museum emphasizes on the ease to use, and provides a number of innovative features to help the user fully utilize the information provided by the system. The digital museum is accessible through the Web at http://digimuse.nmns.edu.tw.","PeriodicalId":42447,"journal":{"name":"Digital Library Perspectives","volume":"1 1","pages":"260-261"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2000-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85917595","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":"Automatic title generation for EM","authors":"Paul E. Kennedy, Alexander Hauptmann","doi":"10.1145/336597.336670","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/336597.336670","url":null,"abstract":"Our prototype automatic title generation system inspired by statistical machine-translation approaches [1] treats the document title like a translation of the document. Titles can be generated without extracting words from the document. A large corpus of documents with human-assigned titles is required for training title \"translation\" models. On an f1 evaluation score our approach outperformed another approach based on Bayesian probability estimates [7].","PeriodicalId":42447,"journal":{"name":"Digital Library Perspectives","volume":"117 1","pages":"230-231"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2000-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73503114","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":"Evaluating the use of a geographic digital library in undergraduate classrooms: ADEPT","authors":"G. Leazer, Anne J. Gilliland-Swetland, C. Borgman","doi":"10.1145/336597.336682","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/336597.336682","url":null,"abstract":"The evaluation plan for the Alexandria Digital Earth Prototype (ADEPT) centers on two investigations: a study of classroom use of the system by faculty and students and lab-based usability studies. The classroom-based study is primarily an investigation of the digital library's impact on student learning, using multiple research methods. The five-year work plan includes investigations of the use of ADEPT in non-geography classes.","PeriodicalId":42447,"journal":{"name":"Digital Library Perspectives","volume":"4 1","pages":"248-249"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2000-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76390692","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}
L. Larkey, Paul Ogilvie, M. Price, Brenden Tamilio
{"title":"Acrophile: an automated acronym extractor and server","authors":"L. Larkey, Paul Ogilvie, M. Price, Brenden Tamilio","doi":"10.1145/336597.336664","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/336597.336664","url":null,"abstract":"We implemented a web server for acronym and abbreviation lookup, containing a collection of acronyms and their expansions gathered from a large number of web pages by a heuristic extraction process. Several different extraction algorithms were evaluated and compared. The corpus resulting from the best algorithm is comparable to a high-quality hand-crafted site, but has the potential to be much more inclusive as data from more web pages are processed.","PeriodicalId":42447,"journal":{"name":"Digital Library Perspectives","volume":"2 1","pages":"205-214"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2000-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76305658","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":"The open video project: research-oriented digital video repository","authors":"Gary Geisler, G. Marchionini","doi":"10.1145/336597.336693","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/336597.336693","url":null,"abstract":"A future with widespread access to large digital libraries of video is nearing reality. Anticipating this future, a great deal of research is focused on methods of browsing and retrieving digital video, developing algorithms for creating surrogates for video content, and creating interfaces that display result sets from multimedia queries. Research in these areas requires that each investigator acquire and digitize video for their studies since the multimedia information retrieval community does not yet have a standard collection of video to be used for research purposes. The primary goal of the Open Video Project is to create and maintain a shared digital video repository and test collection to meet these research needs.","PeriodicalId":42447,"journal":{"name":"Digital Library Perspectives","volume":"40 1","pages":"258-259"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2000-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89207378","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 mediation infrastructure for digital library services","authors":"S. Melnik, H. Garcia-Molina, A. Paepcke","doi":"10.1145/336597.336651","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/336597.336651","url":null,"abstract":"Digital library mediators allow interoperation between diverse information services. In this paper we describe a flexible and dynamic mediator infrastructure that allows mediators to be composed from a set of modules (``blades''). Each module implements a particular mediation function, such as protocol translation, query translation, or result merging. All the information used by the mediator, including the mediator logic itself, is represented by an RDF graph.We illustrate our approach using a mediation scenario involving a Dienst and a Z39.50 server, and we discuss the potential advantages and weaknesses of our framework.","PeriodicalId":42447,"journal":{"name":"Digital Library Perspectives","volume":"39 1","pages":"123-132"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2000-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79855128","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":"“It's infrastructure all the way down” (keynote address)","authors":"S. L. Star","doi":"10.1145/336597.336698","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/336597.336698","url":null,"abstract":"What is infrastructure and how shall we know it? As libraries move partly to desktops, one of the challenges facing the digital library community becomes designing for distributed use across many kinds of local circumstance. These circumstances vary widely in terms of people, resources, support, and technical configurations. Designing for this variety means reconceptualizing “user meets screen” as “user meets infrastructure.” This requires scaling up traditional design and evaluation methods, as well as a richer knowledge of the organizational and historical contexts of use. This talk addresses some of the methodological challenges involved in such work.\u0000Susan Leigh Star (Leigh) is Professor of Communication at the University of California, San Diego. She received her Ph.D in sociology of science and medicine from UC San Francisco. Before coming to UCSD in 1999, she was Professor of Information Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She has also taught at UC Irvine and Keele University, in England, and several universities in Scandinavia as guest professor. Much of her research has been on the social implications and design of large-scale technology, especially information technology. Among her publications are \"The Cultures of Computing\" (ed) (Blackwell, 1995), \"Regions of the Mind: Brain Research and the Quest for Scientific Certainty\" (Stanford 1989), and (with Geoffrey Bowker), \"Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences\" (MIT, 1999). She is volume editor for Science and Technology for the Women's Studies International Encyclopedia (edited by Cheris Kramarae and Dale Spender), forthcoming from Routledge in 2000. Her current research concerns ethical and methodological dilemmas in on-line research with human subjects.","PeriodicalId":42447,"journal":{"name":"Digital Library Perspectives","volume":"20 1","pages":"271"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2000-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78577972","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}