Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries Third European Conference, ECDL'99, Paris, France, September 22-24, 1999, Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libaries, ECDL'99, held in Paris, France in September 1999. The 26 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 124 submissions. The book is divided in topical sections on image categorization and access, audio and video in digital libraries, information retrieval, user adaptation, knowledge sharing, cross language issues, case studies, and modelling, accessability and connectedness.

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 andSystem 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.