INLS 310

Day 6

2/16/99

1. Updates:

AFP. www.afporch.org

Federal Statistics Workshop report

2. Multimedia

Multimedia objects (Wactlar et al. Reading)

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

What do we need to make music and speech available?

What do we create to add value? (Analysis tools? Query/browse tools? Additional content? [linked or original])

3. Indexing, storage, maintenance

Toward a digital librarian's toolkit

Michael Levi's BLS wish list for backend tools

Guiding principles: don't release early, be correct, don't release late, release equitably

1. Hardware: automatic failure detection and switch-over (need cheap, easy to configure soln's)

2. Database: data replication across machines & backups, data loading schedules, query optimization (many concurrent users running complex queries)

3. Configuration management: testing tools; version control (system AND apps) including fixes/patches; cross-platform!; installation tools (all or nothing--finish all machines or back out), unistall tools

4. Secruity: intrusion prevention; intrusion detection 7 analysis; safer defaults (how did they get in and what did they change? Right now, 3-7 logs must be examined manually)

5. Site analysis tools: log analysis; session tracking; site map creationl search analysis (e.g., parse queries)

Komlodi, Marchionini, & Plaisant wish list

  1. Objects/items

    2. CD tools: filtering, validating accuracy, authority, authentication

    Loading, exporting

    Digitization: scanning, OCR, keyframe extraction, imaging

    Object naming and addressing

    Redundancy checking

    Storage/refreshing/migrating

    File format helps (e.g., Unicode)

    File helps: format (e.g., gif vs tiff), version number, item format (gif can be image of text or picture), item level (bib record, note, picture, etc.)

  2. Working with objects and collections

    3. Directory structure tools (e.g., IBM DL separates object server from metadata server); WebToc

    Browsers for special types (image browser, page image browser)

    Tools for special types (key frame extraction, speech to text, text to speech)

    Document conversion: GIF converters, SGML to HTML, etc.

    Indexing (text, multimedia)

    Link metadata with primary data (multiple layer dbms)

  3. Metadata

    4. Standards (e.g., Dublin core)

    Conversion (e.g., EAD to MARC, postscript to PDF, RTF)

    Self-describing objects

  4. Users

    5. Needs assessment tools and procedures

    User profile builders/manager

    Logging tools, client side? Standard formats? Analysis tools

    Reference services

    FAQ

    FAQ with updates

    Listserv scanners for local, community service

    Help/suggestions

    Tours/paths/guides

    Public scheduler

    Query parsers and forwarding schedules

    Referral tools

    User communication (online discussion, collab filtering, suggestions, shared ps)

    5. Management (backend)

    editors (HTML, SGML, XML, etc.)

    templates for style guides

    style checkers

    automatic platform simulators (browsers, settings, etc.)

    item gathering and labeling tools

    site mapping with alternative views: relationships such as function, in and out links, user behavior

    version control (backups, new versions, auto what's new, old versions, archives, broken links, etc.)

    link checker (broken, updated)

    bug reporter (email, auto content analysis?)

    move web sites across servers

    log analysis (summary + sequential)

    renaming pages, moving pages (auto update all related)

    site reorg tools

    alerts for errors

    garbage collection storage routines

    encryption/de

    watermarking tools

    authority control tools (names, dates)

  5. Search & Browsing

Htdig http://www.htdig.org/

IRISWeb http://ils.unc.edu/iris/