DLI All-Projects Meeting
June 12-13, 2000, Stratford-upon-Avon

Draft programme for projects' parallel sessions

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Track 1 Track 2 Track 3
Parallel sessions 1 
Internet room
Monday 12 June 11.00-12.30
Sound/speaker eqpt required
System Issues
Project: The IMesh Toolkit
Edward Almasy, Martin Hamilton 
ealmasy@cs.wisc.edu, martin@net.lut.ac.uk 
Title: An Architecture and Toolkit for Distributed Subject Gateways
Key topics: Progress and Planned Schedule; Lessons for Subject Gateway Developers; IMesh Toolkit Architectural Layers
Project: High-Performance Digital Library Classification Systems
Hsinchun Chen
hchen@bpa.arizona.edu
Title: HelpfulMED: Creating a Knowledge Portal for Medicine
Key topics: This talk will descibe our recent work in combining linguistic and algorithmic processing techniques with the Unified Medical Language Systems (UMLS) of NLM. The results will be demonstrated with a medical knowledge portal prototype syetem called HelpfulMED.
Project: Stanford Digital Library Project
Junghoo Cho cho@CS.Stanford.EDU
Title: Crawling the Web Effectively: Where To Go, When
Key topics: crawling, information freshness
Textual materials
Project: The Digital Atheneum
Brent Seales and Jim Griffioen
seales@dcs.uky.edu  griff@dcs.uky.edu
Title: The Digital Atheneum: New techniques for restoring, searching, and editing humanities collections
Key topics : Design/implementation of generic toolkit that enables humanities scholars to edit digital editions; new techniques for 3D scanning of manuscripts
Project: A Distributed Information Filtering System for Digital Libraries
Mathew J. Palakal mpalakal@cs.iupui.edu
Title: SIFTER: A Content-based Information Filtering System
Key topics: Information filtering, text document filtering
Project: PERSIVAL
Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou
vh@cs.columbia.edu
Title: Text Analysis for Summarization and Search in PERSIVAL
Key topics: Term identification, text categorization, information extraction, personalized summarization
Audio, speech, music
Project: National Gallery of the Spoken Word
John Hansen and Michael Seadle 
jhlh@cslu.colorado.edu, seadle@pilot.msu.edu
Title: Beyond Speech Recognition: Audio Stream Search and Metadata
Project: OMRAS (Online Music Recognition And Searching)
Don Byrd
dbyrd@cs.umass.edu
Title: Problems of Information Retrieval in Polyphonic Music
Key topics: music information retrieval, representations of music, relative importance of note parameters, music perception, salience, voicing, polyphony
Project: Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music: Digital Workflow Management
Sayeed Choudhury
sayeed@jhu.edu
Title: Moving toward a workflow management system
Key topics: optical music recognition, automated name authority control, workflow
management
Parallel sessions 1 (cont.) Monday 12 June 13.30-15.00
System Issues
Project: OMRAS (Online Music Recognition And Searching)
Matthew Dovey
matthew.dovey@las.ox.ac.uk
Title: Integrating musical searches into a library system: First steps
Project: UDLF
Kurt Maly maly@cs.odu.edu
Title: UDLF: Buckets, Scalability, Interoperability, plus Process
Key topics: Process and tools for supporting students, teachers, administrators to preserve and evolve course material; stored as intelligent digital objects; scalable and interoperable implementations of collections
Project: Tracking Footprints in a Medical Information Space
Lois Delcambre
lmd@cse.ogi.edu
Title: Bundles in the Wild: Bundles in Captivity
Key topics: This talk will report on our observational work documenting how healthcare
professionals create, use, and reuse what we call "structured bundles" (Bundles in the Wild).  A bundle is a selected set of information, often organized with headings, groupings, etc.  This talk will also report on our work on building technology to create, use, and reuse structured bundles (Bundles in Captivity).  The talk will include a demo of our SLIMPad application as well as results in our research into building generic technology for superimposed information.
Textual materials
Project: Research on a Digital Library for Graphics and 
Visualization Education
G. Scott Owen
sowen@gsu.edu
Title: Use of Database and XML Technology for Retrieval 
and Repurposing of DL Contents
Key topics: Database Search and Retrieval XML, XSL, Multiple Views of Content
Project: An Operational Social Science Digital Data Library
Micah Altman
Micah_Altman@harvard.edu
Title: Open Source "Code" for Storage and Citation of Research Data
Key topics:
- deep citation
- naming
- preservation
- interplay between research articles and data
Project: Cross-domain Resource Discovery: Integrated Discovery
and use of Textual, Numeric, and Spatial Data
Paul Watry, Ray R. Larson
P.B.Watry@liverpool.ac.uk, ray@sherlock.berkeley.edu
Title: Coordinating Search Across Text Collections
Key topics: Development and coordination of distributed
text collections, issues of distributed collections including discovering which collections to search, and what order to search
Building resources and interfaces
Project: Digital Libraries for Children
Allison Druin and Ben Bederson
allisond@umiacs.umd.edu
bederson@cs.umd.edu
Title: Digital Libraries for Children
Key topics: New interface technologies for visualizing queries for young children.
A study which reports on young children's searching strategies.
The impact children have had on the development of new DL technologies
Project: Digital Library research at the University of Washington
Corin Anderson
corin@cs.washington.edu
Title: Empowering users to access information in the Digital Library
Key topics: personalization, information extraction, adaptive user interfaces
Project: Alexandria Digital Earth Prototype (ADEPT)
Greg Janee
Architectural Directions for Distributed Geo-Libraries
Project: Folk Literature of the Sephardic Jews
Bruce Rosenstock
bbrosenstock@ucdavis.edu
Title: Reflections on Digital Annotation: A Survey and a
Proposal
Key topics: history of annotation systems, desiderata of annotations systems, ontology-based annotation
Project: Columbia Earthscape
David Millman
Parallel sessions 2
Internet room
Tuesday 13 June 09.00-10.30
Systems
Project: Informedia-II: Auto-Summarization and Visualization over Multiple Video Documents and Libraries
Alexander Hauptmann
hauptmann@cs.cmu.edu
Title: Visualization and Summarization Strategies for Video Collections
Key topics: Digital video library, information visualization, topic collage, video digest
Project: Perseus, Digital library for humanities 
Gregory Crane
gcrane@tufts.edu
Title: London Redivivus: City level information in a Ditigal Library
Key topics: Integration of textual and GIS data.
Project: PERSIVAL
Kathleen McKeown
kathy@cs.columbia.edu
Title: Recent Progress on PERSIVAL, a system for PErsonalized Retrieval and Summarization of Image, Video and Language resources
Key topics: An overview of progress towards the development of PERSIVAL, including the user interface, determining relevant patient
information, video search and segmentation, text search and summarization, categorization of the contents of distributed sites of information

Infrastructure Issues
Project: CAMiLEON
Margaret Hedstrom
hedstrom@umich.edu
Title: Emulation as a digital preservation strategy
Key topics: digital preservation
Project: Prism
Sandra Payette payette@cs.cornell.edu
Title: Policy-Enforcing, Policy-Carrying Digital Objects
Key topics: Policy Enforcement; Security; Preservation
Project: Data Provenance
Sanjeev Khanna and Wang-Chiew Tan
sanjeev@cis.upenn.edu, wctan@saul.cis.upenn.edu
Title: The Why and Where of Provenance
Key topics: Provenance, Annotation, XML
Project: Harmony
Carl Lagoze
lagoze@cs.cornell.edu
Title: An Event-Aware Model for Metadata Interoperability
Key topics: Metadata; Interoperability
Image (2-3D)
Project: A Digital Library of Vertebrate Morphology
Jessica Anderson Maisano
maisano@mail.utexas.edu
Title: The Digital Library of Vertebrate Morphology: Progress and Challenges
Key topics: image processing; data delivery; copyrights
Project: Trusted Image Dissemination
Gio Wiederhold gio@cs.stnaford.edu
Title: Protecting the Privacy of Medical Images
Key topics: Recognizing and omitting identifying data from medical diagnostic images prior to distribution
Project: DARWIN: Digital Analysis and Recognition of Whale Images on a Network
Kelly R. Debure
deburekr@eckerd.edu
Title: Representation and Retrieval Issues in DARWIN (Digital Analysis and Recognition of Whale Images on a Network)
Key topics: System goals, outline representation schemes, query mechanisms, performance
Project: Research on a Digital Library for Graphics and 
Visualization Education
G. Scott Owen
sowen@gsu.edu
Title: Using a 3D Virtual World to Establish a Community 
and Sense of Place in a DL
Key topics: Worlds, Intelligent agents, VRML, Java3D, X3D
Parallel sessions 2 (cont.) Tuesday 13 June 11.00-12.30
Systems
Project: Cross-domain Resource Discovery: Integrated Discovery
and use of Textual, Numeric, and Spatial Data
Paul Watry, Ray R. Larson
P.B.Watry@liverpool.ac.uk, ray@sherlock.berkeley.edu
Title: Technologies for Cross-Domain Resource Discovery and Search
Key topics: Using features of existing protocols (i.e., Z39.50) to build resource discovery databases. Design of global and topical metaservers for determining optimal search sequences. Architecture for distributed information retrieval.
Project: The Open Citation Project
Steve Hitchcock
sh94r@ecs.soton.ac.uk
Title: Extending Reference Linking for Open Archives
Key topics: reference linking, Open Archives, eprint archives, an API for reference linking
Project: A Distributed Information Filtering System for Digital Libraries
Rajeev Raje rraje@cs.iupui.edu
Title: DSIFTER: A Collaborative Information Filtering System
Key topics: Information filtering, distributed agent systems, interoperability
Infrastructure Issues
Project: Stanford Digital Library Project
Brian Cooper
cooperb@db.Stanford.EDU
Title: Reliability for Digital Archiving: Having It Be There Tomorrow
Key topics: archiving digital libraries
Project: Prism
William Y. Arms and Oya Rieger 
wya@cs.cornell.edu, oyr1@cornell.edu
Title: Preservation Research in Prism
Key topics: Digital Preservation
Project: Software data library for experiments
Dudley Girard
Project: Using national engineering education delivery system
Alice Agogino
Image (2-3D)
Project: Informedia-II: Auto-Summarization and Visualization over Multiple Video Documents and Libraries
Jianbo Shi jshi@cs.cmu.edu
Title: A framework for scalable trainable image-based query in video
Key topics: Digital video library, image query, body motion, trainable recognition
Project: Reinventing Scholarly Dissemination and Use
D.A. Forsyth
daf@cs.berkeley.edu
Title: Finding and Clustering Pictures of Things
Key topics: Image retrieval using blobworld and words, and image
clustering using blobworld and words
Project: Virtual Skeletons
Jessica Anderson Maisano
Project: SILVER: simplifying interactive layout .... 
Brad Myers

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