Carnegie Mellon University
School of Computer Science
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
informedia@cs.cmu.edu
2004 Digital Libraries Colloquium
Series
In cooperation with the University of Pittsburgh
School of Information Sciences
Visit their web site at: 2003
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Abstract: This colloquium will consider the origins, current state and possible futures for digital libraries research and infrastructure. The presentation will highlight pivotal technology advances and implementation processes. Disciplinary contexts, social and economic developments and influential community discourse will be noted along with key government funding programs. The strengths and shortcomings of today's changing global information environment for digital libraries research and applications will be discussed and future directions and opportunities posed. Speaker Bio: Stephen M. Griffin is a Program Director in the Division of Information, and Intelligent Systems at the National Science Foundation (NSF). He is currently Program Director for Special Projects and for the Interagency Digital Libraries Initiative and the International Digital Libraries Collaborative Research program. Prior to his current assignment, Dr. Griffin served in several research divisions, including the Divisions of Chemistry and Advanced Scientific Computing, the Office of the Assistant Director, Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering, and staff offices of the Director of the NSF. He has been active in working groups of the Federal High Performance Computing and Communications Program. His educational background includes degrees in Chemical Engineering and Information Systems Technology. He has additional graduate education in organizational behavior and development and the philosophy of science. His research interests are in topics related to interdisciplinary communication. |
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Preserving Digital Information for Reuse Margaret Hedstrom, Associate Professor School of Information, University of Michigan February 19, 2004 3:00-4:00 pm - Wean Hall 4623 Reception following |
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Digital
archiving and long-term preservation is a rich area for digital library
and information science research. Typically, long-term preservation
entails techniques to overcome dependencies on obsolete hardware and
software and methods to present digital information meaningfully to
future users who may not possess the same knowledgebase as the original
creators or users. No single approach to digital preservation will
suffice given the wide variety of both data types and contexts of
reuse. At the same time, some generic solutions are needed in order
to build a scalable and affordable infrastructure to support long-term
preservation of digital information. Research challenges include developing
new repository models for software, formats, and technical documentation;
redesign and formal modeling of curatorial processes to enable automation;
metadata standards that are rigorous enough to support reuse; and
economic models for sustaining digital archives over many generations.
Bio: Margaret Hedstrom is an Associate Professor at the School of Information, University of Michigan where she teaches in the areas of archives, electronic records management, and digital preservation. She is project director for the CAMiLEON Project, an international research project to investigate the feasibility of emulation as a digital preservation strategy. She is a member of the National Research Council study committee that is evaluating the digital archiving strategies of the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, the National Digital Strategy Advisory Board to the Library of Congress, and the Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation, U.S. Department of State. She holds a M.A. (Library Science) and PhD (History) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Before joining the faculty at the University of Michigan in 1995, she was Chief of State Records Advisory Services and Director of the Center for Electronic Records at the New York State Archives and Records Administration. She is a Fellow of the Society of American Archivists. |
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Abstract:
This
talk explores (and argues for) the emergence of a new cultural informatics.
This informatics applies scalable methods to generate, exchange
and preserve knowledge about an open-ended set of cultures and languages,
past, present and emergent. It can contribute not only traditional
humanistic pursuits but issues of trade and security as well. At the same time, he has a long-standing interest in the relationship between the humanities and rapidly developing digital technology. He began this side of his work as a graduate student at Harvard when the Classics Department purchased its first TLG authors on magnetic tape in the summer of 1982. He developed a Unix-based full text retrieval system for the TLG that was widely used in North America and Europe in the middle 1980s. He also helped establish a typesetting consortium to facilitate scholarly publishing. Since 1985 he has been engaged in planning and development of the Perseus Project, which he directs as the Editor-in-Chief. Besides supervising the Perseus Project as a whole, he has been primarily responsible for the development of the morphological analysis system which provides many of the links within the Perseus database. He is currently directing a $2,700,000 grant from the Digital Library Initiative to study general problems of digital libraries in the humanities. Current work is refining the classical collections in Perseus and establishing testbeds in other humanistic areas, ranging from ancient Egypt to nineteenth century US history. Much of his personal scholarship since 1998 has gone into expanding the Greco-Roman materials in Perseus, designing collections on such topics as London, the history of Mechanics, and the American Civil War. Each of these collections provides new insights into the implications of such new electronic tools on learning. He is particularly interested in the extent to which broadcast media such as the World Wide Web not only enhance the work of professional researchers and students in formal degree programs but create new audiences outside academia for cultural materials. His current research focuses on "computational humanities" and how this new field can help to democratize information without compromising intellectual rigor. |
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The Open Video Digital Library: Design and Evaluation Challenges |
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Abstract: Digital libraries depend on user interfaces as surrogates for reference librarians and the physical cues in library architectures. Dynamic, multi-faceted user interfaces are thus crucial to the success of high-volume digital libraries. Our approach to building and testing interfaces using a framework of 'agile views' will be illustrated using the Open Video Project. The Open Video Project (www.open-video.org) aims to create and open source digital library of digital video for researchers, students, and the public, serve as a testbed for building interactive user interfaces and an environment for building a theory of human information interaction. The digital library has been is used by educators and researchers around the world, is an Open Archives Initiative provider, and collaborates with several institutions including CMU, NASA, and the Internet Archive. In addition to the issues of operating a digital library, we focus on designing usable visual surrogates and conducting user studies for these designs. These studies have led to an evaluation framework and a set of measures for assessing how people make sense of video. This talk will provide an overview of the design framework, challenges of sustaining a digital video library, and our evaluation framework. ^goto top |
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