INLS 235

Day 4

1/29/2003

 

Reminder, no class next week!

 

Pass around the artesia Teams ‘enterprise digital asset management for world-wide organizations’ description

 

1. One minute papers

Points

Collection development issues, similarities (and differences) in physical and digital CDPs

User centered or culture/organization centered CDP

User-centered portals

 

Questions

Who is responsible for archiving materials and usages in DLs? (e.g., DL bookmarks on client vs server?)

How many humans are needed in DLs?

Where should value be added in DLs?

Will digital publishing (by libraries or NGOs) solve our scholarly publishing problems?

How does unlimited storage impact access and use?

Why not simply adopt physical library CDPs?

 

2. Multimedia

Special issues/requirements

Convergence (analog and digital cultures, careers, tools, design traditions, etc.)

Hardware (server and client side): special cards, processors, cables

Software (DBMS models, e.g., blobs vs MMDBMS; indexing, browsers, e.g., plug ins)

Data management: formats (analog and digital), metadata

Access and use (how to query? (e.g., hum a few bars), QBE interfaces, interactive interfaces, tools to integrate (e.g., PP, Word)

Human behavior models (perceptual, cognitive, and affective processing and impacts)

 

Example video DLs

Informedia project  http://www.informedia.cs.cmu.edu/

Fischlar project  http://www.cdvp.dcu.ie/index.html

Open video project  (www.open-video.org)

 

Overview of Open Video (Powerpoint slides)

 

Backend tools and services

Processing workstations, dedicated server, distributed storage (I2-DSI)

Bandwidth

Open Source software: Linux/PHP/MySQL/Apache

Tape players (VHS, Beta SP); digitization boards (Broadway) and software for AVI/MOV to MPEG-1 and MPEG-2, now QuickTime too

Merit (keyframe extraction, UMCP), modified for Linux

VAST

Speech to text (Sphinx version X, CMU)

Transaction log scripts (for monitoring and recommenders)

ISEE

Peer to peer exchange

Indexer workstation (Meng to demo)

Managing a server (security, repairs, upgrades)

 

Tools and services for our users studies

Database driven web pages for user interaction

Usability workstation (multiple camera, mixer, VCR)

Eye tracking system

Speech synthesis (Macintosh)

 

6. Readings for next week

 

1. Bruza, P., McArthuer, R., & Dennis, S. (2000). Interactive Internet search : Keyword, directory, and query reformulation mechanisms compared.  Proceedings of ACM SIGIR 2000, p, 280-287. (ACM DL)

2. Marchionini, G., Plaisant, C., & Komlodi, A. (1998).  Interfaces and tools for the Library of Congress National Digital Library Program.  Information Processing & Management, 34(5), 535-555.

http://www.ils.unc.edu/~march/ipm_lc.pdf

 

Optional: Prager, J., Brown, E., & Coden, A. (2000). Question-answering by predictive annotation.  Proceedings of ACM SIGIR 2000.  p. 184-191. (ACM DL)

Optional: Croft, B., Cook, R. and Wilder, D., "Providing Government Information on the Internet: Experiences with THOMAS," in Proceedings of the Digital Libraries Conference DL'95, Austin, TX. June 10-12, 1995, pp. 19-24.

 

7. One-minute paper

      What was the main point you learned in class today?

What is the main, unanswered question you leave class with today?