Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries

Invited Talks.- Challenges for the Web: Universality and Scalability.- The UC Berkeley Digital Library Project: Re-thinking Scholarly Information Dissemination and Use.- Papers.- Image and Metadata Distribution at Seven University Campuses: Reports from a Study of the Museum Educational Site Licensing Project.- Text-Based Approaches for the Categorization of Images.- Metadata for Photographs: From Digital Library to Multimedia Application.- Audiovisual Cultural Heritage: From TV and Radio Archiving to Hypermedia Publishing.- An Indexing, Browsing, Search and Retrieval System for Audiovisual Libraries.- Music Structure Analysis and Its Application to Theme Phrase Extraction.- Effectiveness of Keyword-Based Display and Selection of Retrieval Results for Interactive Searches.- Towards More Effective Techniques for Automatic Query Expansion.- Predicting Indexer Performance in a Distributed Digital Library.- Design Guidelines and User-Centred Digital Libraries.- User Profile Modeling and Applications to Digital Libraries.- Using and Evaluating User Directed Summaries to Improve Information Access.- Pharos, a Collaborative Infrastructure for Web Knowledge Sharing.- Integrating Ontologies and Thesauri to Build RDF Schemas.- Dynamic Use of Digital Library Material - Supporting Users with Typed Links in Open Hypermedia.- Disambiguation Strategies for Cross-Language Information Retrieval.- Crosslingual Interrogation of Multilingual Catalogs.- Term Similarity-Based Query Expansion for Cross-Language Information Retrieval.- The SOMLib Digital Library System.- Developing a European Technical Reference Digital Library.- Issues in the Development and Operation of a Digital Library.- Declarative Specification of Z39.50 Wrappers Using Description Logics.- PIA - A Generic Model and System for Interactive Product and Service Catalogs.- Representing Scholarly Claims in Internet Digital Libraries: A Knowledge Modelling Approach.- The Small World Web.- SODA: Smart Objects, Dumb Archives.

Serge Abiteboul is a researcher at INRIA Saclay and ENS Cachan and co-founder of the start-up Xyleme.