GMD German National Research Center for Information Technology Darmstadt University of Technology Perspectives and Priorities for Digital Libraries Research

GMD

German National

Research Center for

Information Technology

Darmstadt

University of

Technology

Perspectives and Priorities for Digital Libraries Research

Erich J. Neuhold

GMD-IPSI - Integrated Publication and Information Systems Institute

Darmstadt University of Technology

Erich J. Neuhold - [email protected] ©2000 GMD-IPSI

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Digital Libraries

All kinds of data stores that• handle multimedia information (content)• describe the information (metadata)• place the human in the center

– know and support the human player• are available at any time and at any place• are connectable to other user centered

applications


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Digital Libraries

This leads to a combination of• Libraries• Museums• Archives• Corporate and private Information Stores

that are actively supported by


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Informing Organisms

supporting cultural heritage

• technology components

• information based

• simple and complex

• growing in functionality

• interoperating

• mobile

• intelligent


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The Issues:

A lot exists and goes on in• research (components)• advanced demonstrators (just working)• advanced prototypes/pre-products (non

scaling)• products

but more of it is needed in the Internet domain (i.e. global village). We have

• isolated solutions• simple solutions• technology driven solutions


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Information and Knowledge

Databases (object relational, objects oriented, document

oriented, multimedia, active, real-time)

Information Representation and Description

Schemes (structured, semi-structured, unstructured,

Meta-Data, QoS parameters)

Information Content Analysis (text (linguistics), voice

(speech), sound, image, video, sensor data, sequenced

data)

Information Retrieval, Filtering, Enrichment user driven, supporting team- and groupwork, integrative,

intelligent, imperative, and declarative


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Roles to Support (I)

User supporting issues: author, theme, content, presentation, reader / usage

Authoring Tools• multimedia, activity-oriented, supporting

group- and teamwork• acquisition / authoring new and legacy material

Information and Knowledge Handling Tools• indexing, extraction, structuring• classification, abstraction• separation / integration• distributing, storing


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Roles to Support (II)

Filtering & IR Tools• searching, exploration• navigation, inspection• evaluation

Enrichment & Adaptation Tools• user oriented• usage oriented• situation oriented• device oriented


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Roles to Support (III)

Presentation Tools• at different granularity levels

– documents, pages, modules – content and meta data semantics– manipulation and navigation

• for different application contexts (travel, settlement)

• for different activities, tasks, and workflows (creating, filtering, using, learning)


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Roles to Support (IV)

Usage Tools• documents and document manipulation• guidance to the answer• evaluation of solution • personalized memory• personalized information pipelining• communication, distribution, and mobility


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Clearly Multidisciplinary

• Computer Science

• Embedded Systems Engineering

• Linguistics (multi-language, analysis-generation)

• Communication Science

• Library / Museum / Archive sciences

• Information Science

• Psychology (cognitive, social)


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Needed for DL (I)

Basic research is needed (PITAC report)• separate topics (focused projects)• integrated topics (large projects)

Demonstrators / pilots are needed• integrated but focused (what will be

shown!)• proof of concept


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Needs for DL (II)

Sustainable proto-products are needed• open system approach, but still focused• have to scale somewhat

Products are needed• integrated but application driven /

exploitable• have to scale• have to be robust /reliable / serviceable

etc.• ready for start-up financing


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Example: TREVI

Personalized • information filtering• linking

• delivery for the News Domain


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Example: TREVI


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Example: TV-ONLINE

• personalized profiles• personalized rankings• collaborative filtering • recommendations• automatic generation of individual

schedules.


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Example: TV-ONLINE


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Example: cyber:gallery

• exhibiting and selling art on the Internet• applying virtual reality paradigms• supporting searching and navigation• supporting personalized

galleries/museums and guided tours


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Example: cyber:gallery


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Example: Videocube

• visualization of scenes and camera movement in videostreams

• access to structure and content• direct manipulation of meta data and data

(technical and semantic levels)


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Example: Videocube


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Example: Lyberworld

• information visualization at the user interface

• supporting analysis clustering, partitioning• supporting user information profiles


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Example: Lyberworld


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Conclusion

• come up with focused but integrated solutions

• advanced research and development of technologies using informing organisms

• pre-products and products will naturally follow those results

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GMD German National Research Center for Information Technology Darmstadt University of Technology Perspectives and Priorities for Digital Libraries Research