Ebook: Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries: Second European Conference, ECDL’98 Heraklion, Crete, Greece September 21–23, 1998 Proceedings
- Genre: Science (General) // International Conferences and Symposiums
- Tags: Information Systems and Communication Service, Computer Communication Networks, Document Preparation and Text Processing, Business Information Systems
- Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1513
- Year: 1998
- Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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Digital Libraries are complex and advanced forms of information systems which extend and augment their physical counterparts by amplifying existing resources and services and enabling development of new kinds of human problem solving and expression. Their complexity arises from the data-rich domain of discourse as well as from extended demands for multi-disciplinary input, involving distributed systems architectures, structured digital documents, collaboration support, human-computer interaction, information filtering, etc. In addition to the broad range of technical issues, ethics and intellectual property rights add to the complication that is normally associated with the development, maintenance, and use of Digital Libraries. The Second European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL’98) builds upon the success of the first of this series of European Conferences on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, held last year in Pisa, Italy, September 1-3, 1997. This series of conferences is partially funded by the TMR Programme of the European Commission and is actively supported and promoted by the European Research Consortium on Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM). The aim is to bring together the different communities involved in the development of Digital Libraries, to review progress and to discuss strategies, research and technological development (RTD) issues, as well as specific topics related to the European context. These communities include professionals from universities, research centres, industry, government agencies, public libraries, etc.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second European Conference on Digital Libraries, ECDL'98, held in Heraklion, Crete, Greece, in September 1998. The 35 revised full papers presented were selected from a total of 107 submissions. Also included are three invited papers, 35 posters and system demonstrations, nine papers from the related DELOS Workshop, and a few panel summaries. There are topical sections on architechtures for digital libraries, image digital libraries, multilinguality, DL technology for libraries, case studies, navigation, information retrieval, querying, HCI, NLP, metadata, etc.