Digital Libraries:Background and Overview NAWeb 2003

Jeremy RoweArizona State University

Partnership forResearchInSpatial

Modeling

Library - A collection of literary, musical, artistic, or reference material(eg books, manuscripts, recordings, or films)that are kept for use but not sale

Initial Focus: Library Digitization-Cataloging-Connectivity-Search-Access to Digital Resources

Initial Developments-Online Public Access Catalogs

(OPAC)-Electronic Text-Digitized Photographs-Multi-Media – Audio and Video

Automating Traditional Libraries-Computerized Catalogs-Inter-Library Connectivity-Z 39.50 Standard

Initial Project Targets-Shared library catalogs-Text-Low resolution digital graphics, images, and photographs

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amhome.html

http://www.cdlib.org/

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/projects/digital/apis/search/

http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/special_collections.html

http://www.getty.edu/art/collections/objects/o71385.html

http://www.getty.edu/art/collections/objects/o71385.html

http://www.themefinder.org/

http://webdev.archive.org/

Types of Projects -Text

OCRBorn Digital

-Graphic representationsManuscriptsMusic

-ImagesGraphics (Images, maps, etc.)Photographs

-Motion MediaVideo/streamsAnimations (Flash, QT VR, etc.)

-Interactive Simulations

Collateral Factors-Development of the Web-Data Sharing (i.e.Gopher, FTP, et al)

-Visual Browsers (http, Mosaic, Netscape, et al)

-On-line Access-Compression-Computing Power-Collaborative Research-E-Commerce

Types of Digital Library Projects-Access to Traditional Library Collections-Interpretive Exhibits/Educational Uses-Shared Scientific Data-Modeling, Visualization and Analysis-Automated Cataloging

-Interface Design/Human Interaction

http://www.genome.gov/

http://scop.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/scop/parse/dir.cla.scop.txt_1.59

Visualization

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Structure/CN3D/cn3d.shtml

http://www.rodentia.com/wmc/

http://www.digimorph.org/

http://www.eskeletons.org

http://www.eskeletons.org

Bone Surfaces and Forensics Digital collections to analyze

shape, structure, morphology, improve measurement accuracy, permit objective comparison of objects, and to identify unique individuals.

PRISM

http://3dk.asu.edu

http://ciir.cs.umass.edu/research/wordspotting/

Standards Initiatives-Cataloging/Description-Metadata/XML-Data Definitions/Formats-Data Interchange-Search-Interface/Display

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/patlas?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.03.0003&redraw.x=1&redraw.y=1

http://belmont.antarcti.ca/

http://pubmed.antarcti.ca/start

http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/conceptual.html

http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/conceptual.html

http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/topology.html

http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/muds_vw.html

http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/topology.html

http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/kobus/famsf/model_2/text_and_blobs/bbox.html

LVis - Digital Library Visualizer

http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/info_spaces.html

Interested Parties-Libraries – IMLS-Science/Engineering - NSF, NIH-Defense - DOD, Homeland Security-Arts – NEA, Foundations-Humanities – NEH, Foundations-Education – FIPSE, LAAP-Digital Government - NSF-Business and E-Commerce

Project Examples-Auto-Classification-Auto-Summarization of Video and Digital Video Libraries-Digital Recognition of Music, Cuneiform and Hieroglyphics, Manuscripts, and Complex Graphic Letterforms-Distributed Search (Z39.50, SQL, XML)-Distributed Research Collections-Information Agents/AI Search Support

Project Examples (ctd)-Digital Music – Scores, Audio-Digital Document “Restoration” /Image Processing-Manuscript OCR/Word Segmentation -Modeling and Visualization-Image Recognition-Spoken Language Processing-Archiving/Provenance-Data Quality-Identity Management/Access Control-Science, Math, Engineering and Technology Education

Current IssuesSocial, Institutional, And Policy Issues Pedagogical Issues Intellectual Property User Communities Metadata And Content Web Cataloging Digital Archives And Museums Digital Preservation Digital Library Infrastructure Digital Library Architecture Knowledge Management Content Management Human-Computer Interaction Information Retrieval Information Mining Ontology-Based Services Semi-Structured Data Management Semantic Web Web Information Gathering Text Categorization Large Scale Data Management Electronic Publishing Information Filtering/Extraction Hypertext And Multimedia Authentication/Authorization Security And Privacy Image Understanding Intelligent Analysis

Conferences -ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries-European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries-International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries-Russian Scientific Conference on Digital Libraries-European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries

Initiatives-NSF Partnerships:

NSF-JISC (US-UK) NSF-DFG (US-Germany)NSF-EU (US-European Union)

Digital LibrariesInitial Focus

-Building interconnections between library catalogs

Interim -Building digital/virtual collections

Current Focus-On-line access to data and analytic tools for research, education, and digital government

-Improved user interfaces and tools to generate content, analyze, and interact with complex data

-Improved access to permit knowledge transfer of across-cultures and minimize barriers of training, technology, disability, and economics

Contact Information: Jeremy Rowe

PRISM Executive CommitteeDirector, Research, Strategic Planning and Policy

Information TechnologyArizona State University

Tempe, Arizona 85287-0101480-965-8622

jeremy.rowe@asu.edu