Research And Advanced Technology For Digital Libraries: First European Conference, Ecdl '97 Pisa, Italy, September 1-3, 1997 Proceedings (lecture Notes In Computer Science)

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. Libraries And Digital Property Rights / Mark Stefik And Giuliana Lavendel -- Object Database Support For Digital Libraries / Serge Abiteboul -- Enhancing Community And Collaboration In The Virtual Library / Rob Procter [and Others] -- Comprehension And Object Recognition Capabilities For Presentations Of Simultaneous Video Key Frame Surrogates / Laura Slaughter, Ben Shneiderman And Gary Marchionini -- Automating The Construction Of Authority Files In Digital Libraries : A Case Study / James C. French [and Others] -- Using Semantic, Geographical, And Temporal Relationships To Enhance Search And Retrieval In Digital Catalogs / Klaus Tochtermann [and Others] -- Metadata Repositories Using Pics / Renato Iannella -- Relevance Feedback And Query Expansion For Searching The Web : A Model For Searching A Digital Library / Alan F. Smeaton And Francis Crimmins -- Text Segmentation By Topic / Jay M. Ponte And W. Bruce Croft --^ Scalable Text Retrieval For Large Digital Libraries / David Hawking -- Awareness Services For Digital Libraries / Arturo Crespo And Hector Garcia-molina -- Towards A Common Infrastructure For Large-scale Distributed Applications / Christos Nikolaou [and Others] --machine Learning + On-line Libraries = Idl / Giovanni Semeraro [and Others] -- Building A Multilingual Electronic Text Collection Of Folk Tales As A Set Of Encapsulated Document Objects : An Approach For Causal Users To Browse Multilingual Documents On The Fly / Myriam Dartois [and Others] -- Automated Indexing With Thesaurus Descriptors : A Co-occurrence Based Approach To Multilingual Retrieval / Reginald Ferber -- Cross-language Information Retrieval In A Multilingual Legal Domain / Páraic Sheridan, Martin Braschler And Peter Schäuble -- The Digital Library And Computational Philology : The Bambi Project / Andrea Bozzi And Sylvie Calabretto -- Multivalent Annotations / Thomas A. Phelps And Robert Wilensky --^ A Semantic Network Approach To Semi-structured Documents Repsositories / Vassilis Christophides, Matin Dörr And Irene Fundulaki -- Modelling The Retrieval Of Structured Documents Containing Texts And Images / Carlo Meghini, Fabrizio Sebastiani And Umberto Straccia -- Probabilistic Retrieval Of Ocr Degraded Text Using N-grams / S.m. Harding, W.b. Croft And C. Weir -- Deposit For Dutch Electronic Publications : Research And Practice In The Netherlands / Trudi C. Noordermeer -- Charging For A Digital Library : The Business Model And The Cost Models Of The Medoc Digital Library / Michael Breu And Ricarda Weber -- Bibliothéque Nationale De France's Audiovisual System : Digital Audio, Video, And Photo Consultation In A Library / Sylvie Mony -- The Electronic Colloquium On Computational Complexity (eccc) : A Digital Library In Use / J. Bern, C. Damm And Ch. Meinel. Carol Peters, Costantino Thanos (eds.). Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Libraries and digital property rights....Pages 1-10 Object database support for digital libraries....Pages 11-23 Enhancing community and collaboration in the virtual library....Pages 25-40 Comprehension and object recognition capabilities for presentations of simultaneous video key frame surrogates....Pages 41-54 Automating the construction of authority files in digital libraries: A case study....Pages 55-71 Using semantic, geographical, and temporal relationships to enhance search and retrieval in digital catalogs....Pages 73-86 Metadata repositories using PICS....Pages 87-98 Relevance feedback and query expansion for searching the web: A model for searching a digital library....Pages 99-112 Text segmentation by topic....Pages 113-125 Scalable text retrieval for large digital libraries....Pages 127-145 Awareness services for digital libraries....Pages 147-171 Towards a common infrastructure for large-scale distributed applications....Pages 173-193 Machine learning + on-line libraries = IDL....Pages 195-214 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....Pages 215-231 Automated indexing with thesaurus descriptors: A co-occurrence based approach to multilingual retrieval....Pages 233-252 Cross-language information retrieval in a Multilingual Legal Domain....Pages 253-268 The digital library and computational philology: The BAMBI project....Pages 269-285 Multivalent Annotations....Pages 287-303 A semantic network approach to semi-structured documents repositories....Pages 305-324 Modelling the retrieval of structured documents containing texts and images....Pages 325-344 Probabilistic retrieval of OCR degraded text using N-grams....Pages 345-359 Deposit for Dutch Electronic Publications: Research and practice in The Netherlands....Pages 361-373 Charging for a digital library — The business model and the cost models of the MeDoc digital library....Pages 375-385 Bibliothéque nationale de France 's Audiovisual System, digital audio, video, and photo consultation in a library....Pages 387-403 The electronic colloquium on computational complexity (ECCC): A digital library in use....Pages 405-421 At least since Vannevar Bush's proposal for a Memex system in 1948 or J.C.R. Licklider's Library of the Future written in 1965, people have dreamed of augmenting libraries as we know them with computers, to create digital libraries.