Proceedings of the Third European Conference on Research and Advanced
Technology for Digital Libraries
Held in Paris, France, 1999
The Proceedings have been published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1696 Springer 1999, ISBN 3-540-66558-7,
and can be accessed from here.
Preface, by Serge Abiteboul, Program chair
After Pisa in 1997 and Heraklion in 1998, ECDL took place in Paris at
the prestigious location of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. It
was co-organized by BNF and INRIA (Institut National de Recherche en
Informatique et en Automatique). It was the third of a series,
partially funded by the European Commission's TMR Programme and ERCIM
(the European Research Consortium for Informatics and
Mathematics). Its main objective was to bring together researchers
from multiple disciplines to present their work on enabling
technologies for digital libraries. The conference also provided an
opportunity for scientists to develop a research community in Europe
focusing on digital library development.
The program committee, chaired by Serge Abiteboul, selected 26 papers
from 124 submissions, in the following topics: image categorization
and access, audio and video in digital libraries, information
retrieval, user adaptation, knowledge sharing, cross language, case
studies, and modeling, accessibility and connectness. Works inspired
by the Web were particularly present in this third ECDL. Some
selected papers from the conference will be published in a special
issue the International Journal on Digital Libraries.
Besides the technical presentations, the conference featured
demonstrations, two tutorials, three panels and bird-of-a-feather
sessions. Two great invited presentations by Jean-François Abramatic,
Chairman of W3C, and Robert Wilensky, Professor at U.C. Berkeley, were
particularly inspiring.
The conference attracted 260 participants including researchers and DL
librarians. The program committee chose to reduce the number of
parallel tracks to at most two. This was achieved by being purposely
quite selective. The fact that the attendance was quite high till the
last session showed the success of that policy.
Invited presentations
- Jean-François Abramatic, Chairman
of the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium), abstract
- Robert
Wilensky, U. C. Berkeley, Re-inventing Scholarly Information Dissemination and Use
List of accepted papers
- Image and metadata distribution at seven university campuses: Reports
from a Study of the Museum Educational Site Licensing Project, Howard
Besser and Rosalie Lack
- Audiovisual cultural heritage From TV and radio archiving to hypermedia
publishing, Gwendal Auffret and Bruno Bachimont
- Effectiveness of keyword-based display and selection of retrieval results
for interactive searches, Ezio Berenci, Claudio Carpineto, Vittorio
Giannini and Stefano Mizzaro
- User profile modeling and applications to digital libraries, Giuseppe
Amato and Umberto Straccia
- Disambiguation strategies for cross-language information retrieval, Djoerd Hiemstra and Franciska de Jong
- Metadata for photographs: from digital library to multimedia application, Anne-Marie Vercoustre and François Paradis
- Crosslingual interrogation of multilingual catalogs, C. Fluhr, D.
Schmit, C. Andrieux, Ph. Ortet, F. Bisson and V. Combet
- Integrating ontologies and thesauri to build RDF schemas --- B. Amann
and I. Fundulaki
- Towards more effective techniques for automatic query expansion ---
Claudio Carpineto and Giovanni Romano
- The SOMLib digital library system --- Andreas Rauber and Dieter Merkl
- Using and evaluating user directed summaries to improve information
access --- Manuel J. Maña López and Manuel de Buenaga Rodríguez
- Modelling and visualizing perspectives in Internet digital libraries
--- Simon Buckingham Shum, Enrico Motta and John Domingue
- Declarative specification of Z39.50 wrappers using description logics, Yannis Velegrakis, Vassilis Christophides and Panos Constantopoulos
- Dynamic use of digital library material - supporting users with typed
links in open hypermedia --- Klaus Marius Hansen, Christian Yndigegn and
Kaj Gronbaek
- Soda: smart objects, dumb archives --- Michael L. Nelson
- Pharos, a collaborative infrastructure for Web knowledge sharing ---
Vincent Bouthors and Olivier Dedieu
- Developing a European technical reference digital library --- Antonella
Andreoni, Maria Bruna Baldacci, Stefania Biagioni, Carlo Carlesi, Donatella
Castelli, Pasquale Pagano and Carol Peters
- Predicting indexer performance in a distributed digital library ---
Naomi Dushay, James C. French and Carl Lagoze
- PIA - a generic model and system for interactive product and service
catalogs --- Florian Matthes and Ulrike Steffens
- Term similarity-based query expansion for cross-language information
retrieval --- Mirna Adriani and C. J. van Rijsbergen
- The Small World Web --- Lada Adamic
- An indexing, browsing, search and retrieval system for audiovisual
libraries --- Jane Hunter and Jan Newmarch
- Text-based approaches for the categorization of images --- Carl L.
Sable and Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou
- Music structure analysis and its application to theme phrase extraction
--- Atsuhiro Takasu, Takashi Yanase, Teruhito Kanazawa and Jun Adachi
- Design guidelines and user-centred digital libraries --- Yin Leng Theng,
Elke Duncker, Norliza Mohd-Nasir, George Buchanan and Harold Thimbleby
- Issues in the development and operation of a Digital Library --- Sarantos
Kapidakis