Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts Retrieval and Services Digital Library Technologies - Edward A Fox Ricardo da Silva Torres Kartoniert (TB)

Digital libraries (DLs) have introduced new technologies as well as leveraging enhancing and integrating related technologies since the early 1990s. These efforts have been enriched through a formal approach e.g. the 5S (Societies Scenarios Spaces Structures Streams) framework which is discussed in two earlier volumes in this series. This volume should help advance work not only in DLs but also in the WWW and other information systems. Drawing upon four (Kozievitch Murthy Park Yang) completed and three (Elsherbiny Farag Srinivasan) in-process dissertations as well as the effo rts of collaborating researchers and scores of related publications presentations tutorials and reports this book should advance the DL field with regard to at least six key technologies. By integrating surveys of the state-of-the-art new research connections with formalization case studies and exercises projects this book can serve as a computing or information science textbook. It can support studies in cyber-security document management hypertext hypermedia IR knowledge management LIS multimedia and machine learning. Chapter 1 with a case study on fingerprint collections focuses on complex (composite compound) objects connecting DL and related work on buckets DCC and OAI-ORE. Chapter 2 discussing annotations as in hypertext hypermedia emphasizes parts of documents including images as well as text managing superimposed information. The SuperIDR system and prototype efforts with Flickr should motivate further development and standardization related to annotation which would benefit all DL and WWW users. Chapter 3 on ontologies explains how they help with browsing query expansion focused crawling and classification. This chapter connects DLs with the Semantic Web and uses CTRnet as an example. Chapter 4 on (hierarchical) classification leverages LIS theory as well as machine learning and is important for DLs as well as the WWW. Chapter 5 on extraction from text covers document segmentation as well as how to construct a database from heterogeneous collections of references (from ETDs) i.e. converting strings to canonical forms. Chapter 6 surveys the security approaches used in information systems and explains how those approaches can apply to digital libraries which are not fully open. Given this rich content those interested in DLs will be able to find solutions to key problems using the right technologies and methods. We hope this book will help show how formal approaches can enhance the development of suitable technologies and how they can be better integrated with DLs and other information systems.