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ADVANCE PROGRAM
FOURTH ACM CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES (DL '99)
SPONSORED BY ACM SIGIR AND ACM SIGWEB
AUGUST 11-14, 1999

Radisson Hotel Berkeley Marina
200 Marina Boulevard
Berkeley, California 93710 USA
1-800-333-333 or 1-800-243-0625

Conference Web site: http://fox.cs.vt.edu/DL99/

General Chair: Neil C. Rowe, U.S. Naval Postgraduate School
  (rowe at cs.nps.navy.mil) 
Program Chair: Edward A. Fox, Virginia Tech
  (fox at cs.vt.edu) 
Publicity Chair: James C. French, University of Virginia
  (french at virginia.edu)
Tutorials Chair: Gene Golovchinksy, Xerox FX Palo Alto Lab
  (gene at pal.xerox.com) 
Workshops Chair: Robert B. Allen, University of Maryland
  (rba at glue.umd.edu) 
Posters/Exhibits Chair: Jonathan Furner, UCLA
   (jfurner at ucla.edu) 
Treasurer: Michael Freeston, University of California, Santa Barbara
   (freeston at alexandria.ucsb.edu)

Schedule

Wednesday, August 11, 1999: Tutorials

Registration 8-8:30

Morning Tutorials (8:30-12):

T1: "Practical Digital Libraries  Overview (Part 1)", Ian Witten 
(University of Waikato), ihw at rata.cs.waikato.ac.nz

This introductory tutorial surveys both the major issues 
surrounding digital libraries and the practical technologies 
available today to build such libraries.  We will relate the issues 
to an existing, operational, comprehensive, economical digital 
library system, the New Zealand Digital Library.  Special attention 
will be paid to user interfaces for searching, as supported by a 
full-text search engine, and for browsing, as supported by 
explicitly provided metadata, handling of keyphrases, and the 
results of text mining.

T2: "Multilingual Information Access", Judith Klavans (Columbia 
University) and Peter Schauble (Eurospider Information 
Technology AG), schauble at eurospider.ch

With emerging globalization, information access across language 
boundaries is becoming critical.  This tutorial introduces the main 
approaches to multilingual information access, and presents the 
state of the art in detail with special attention to cross-language 
information retrieval.  We will also cover areas of information 
presentation, including multilingual multidocument 
summarization, and will discuss the acquisition and usefulness of 
various multilingual resources.  The tutorial will examine these 
issues from two points of view: information retrieval and 
computational linguistics.  Prototype and commercial systems 
and evaluation methodologies will be discussed.

T3: "XML, RDF, and Metadata for the Web", Neel Sundaresan 
(IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose), 
neel at almaden.ibm.com

Metadata is important to the World Wide Web for describing and 
processing web resources. The Resource Description 
Framework (RDF) describes metadata. In this tutorial we will 
introduce RDF and its schemata based upon the latest W3C draft 
documents.  We will discuss how RDF descriptions can be 
produced, processed, and queried with a programming language 
(e.g. Java) and a markup language (e.g. XML).  We will study the 
relationship between XML and RDF, and will look at some Web 
applications and metadata structures in which RDF is used. 
Some working knowledge of XML and Java is preferred.

12-1:30: Lunch and Tutorial Registration

Afternoon Tutorials (1:30-4):

T4: "Practical Digital Libraries Overview (Part 2)", Edward Fox 
(Virginia Tech), fox at vt.edu

A continuation of Tutorial 1, this tutorial will ground attendees in 
the history, topics, concepts, projects, systems, resources, and 
references related to digital libraries. It should prepare them to 
participate in educational, research, and development efforts in 
the field. It also should provide a theoretical basis and conceptual 
framework for further investigation and study. The tutorial will 
start with an overview of definitions, foundations, scenarios and 
perspectives; the main section will cover a variety of issues, 
including search, retrieval and resource discovery, multimedia, 
metadata, SGML and XML, agents, commerce, and intellectual 
property rights, among others.

T5: "Thesauri for Knowledge-Based Assistance in Searching 
Digital Libraries", Dagobert Soergel (University of Maryland), 
ds52 at umail.umd.edu 

This tutorial will discuss principles for the design of an intelligent 
interface that guides users to better searches by exploiting  
transparently or explicitly -- the rich information available in 
ontologies and thesauri.  It will show how a well-structured 
thesaurus can help search-topic clarification and finding of good 
search terms, touching on cross-database and cross-language 
searching.  It will elucidate thesaurus structure: Concept-term 
relationships for vocabulary control and synonym expansion, 
conceptual structures for topic clarification, and hierarchic query 
expansion. Selected thesauri will be presented as examples.

T6: "Searching from Multiple Text Sources in the Internet", 
Clement Yu (University of Illinois at Chicago) and Weiyi Meng 
(State University of New York at Binghamton), 
meng at panda.cs.binghamton.edu

Many information search services or search engines have been 
installed in the Internet in recent years. As the number of search 
engines increases, automatic search brokers (metasearch 
engines) are increasingly needed to provide search coverage 
unavailable to a single search engine. This tutorial will provide an 
overview of proposed methods for building metasearch engines.  
It will review necessary background information on searching and 
indexing techniques, and will cover database selection, 
document selection and result merging.

5-7 Opening Reception

Thursday, August 12, 1999: General Sessions

8-9 Registration

9-10:10 Session 1, Chair: Neil Rowe
- Welcome
- Keynote -  David Levy, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center

10:10-10:30 Break

10:30-12:00 Session 2 - Testbeds, Chair: Henry Gladney

P1: "The Computing Research Repository: Promoting the Rapid 
Dissemination and Archiving of Computer Science Research", 
Joseph Y. Halpern and Carl Lagoze (Cornell University)

P2: "VARIATIONS: A Digital Music Library System at Indiana 
University", Jon W. Dunn and Constance A. Mayer (Indiana 
University)

P3: "A Digital Library for Authors: Recent Progress of the 
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations", 
Constantinos Phanouriou, Neill A. Kipp, Ohm Sornil, Paul 
Mather, and Edward A. Fox (Virginia Tech)

P4: "A Prototype Implementation of Archival Intermemory", Yuan 
Chen (NEC Research Institute and Georgia Institute of 
Technology), Jan Edler (NEC Research Institute), Andrew 
Goldberg (Intertrust Corporation), Allan Gottlieb (NEC Research 
Institute and New York University), Sumeet Sobti (University of 
Washington), and Peter Yianilos (NEC Research Institute)

12:00-1:30 Lunch

1:30-3 Session 3a - IR / Multimedia, Chair: Edie Rasmussen

P5: "Semantic Indexing for a Complete Subject Discipline", Yi-
Ming Chung, Qin He, Kevin Powell, and Bruce Schatz (University 
of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

P6: "Summarization and Selection of Information Sources  Using 
Automated Classification", R. Dolin, D. Agrawal, and A. El Abbadi 
(University of California, Santa Barbara)

P7: "Vocal Access to a Newspaper Archive: Design Issues and 
Preliminary Investigation", Fabio Crestani (University of 
California, Berkeley)

P8: "Multimedia Description Framework (MDF) for Content 
Description of Audio/Video Documents", Michael J. Hu and Ye 
Jian (Nanyang Technological University)

1:30-3 Session 3b - User / Social Issues, Chair: Cliff McKnight

P9: "Introducing a digital library reading appliance into a reading 
group",  Catherine C. Marshall, Morgan N. Price, Gene 
Golovchinsky, and Bill N. Schilit (FX Palo Alto Laboratory)

P10: "Multimodal Surrogates for Video Browsing", Wei Ding 
(University of Maryland, College Park), Gary Marchionini 
(University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) and Dagobert Soergel 
(University of Maryland, College Park) 

P11: "Making Digital Libraries Go: Comparing Use Across 
Genres", Ann Bishop (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

3-3:30 Break

3:30-5 Session 4, Chair: Sugimoto Shigeo
Panel 1: "Visions for a Digital Library for Science, Mathematics, 
Engineering Technology Education (SMETE)" Chair: Alice 
Agogino (University of California, Berkeley)
Panelists: William Y. Arms, Edward A. Fox, Frank Wattenberg, 
and Flora McMartin

7-10 Reception with posters and demonstrations

Friday, August 13, 1999: General Sessions

8:30-10:00 Session 5 - Links / Citations and User Interfaces, 
Chair: Nick Belkin

P12: "A System For Automatic Personalized Tracking of 
Scientific Literature on the Web", Kurt D. Bollacker, Steve 
Lawrence, and C. Lee Giles (NEC Research Institute)

P13: "Topic-Based Browsing Within a Digital Library Using 
Keyphrases", Steve Jones and Gordon Paynter (University of 
Waikato)

P14: "A Scrollbar-based Visualization for Document Navigation", 
Donald Byrd (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

P15: "Does Zooming Improve Image Browsing?", Tammara T.A. 
Combs and Benjamin B. Bederson (University of Maryland, 
College Park)

10:00-10:30 Break

10:30-12:00 Session 6 - Multimedia, Chair: Robert Allen

P16: "Learnable Visual Keywords for Image Classification", Joo-
Hwee Lim (Kent Ridge Digital Labs)

P17: "A New Ranking Principle for Multimedia Information 
Retrieval", Martin Wechsler and Peter Schauble (Eurospider 
Information Technology AG)

P18: "Musical Information Retrieval using Melodic Surface", M. 
Melucci and N. Orio (University of Padova)

P19: "Towards a Digital Library of Popular Music", David 
Bainbridge, Craig G. Nevill-Manning, Ian H. Witten, Lloyd A. 
Smith, and Rodger J. McNab (University of Waikato and Rutgers 
University)

12:00-1:30 Lunch

1:30-3:00 Session 7 - Multiple Collections/Sources, Chair: Jose 
Luis Borbinha

P20: "Using Query Mediators for Distributed Searching in 
Federated Digital Libraries", Naomi Dushay (Cornell University), 
James C. French (University of Virginia), and Carl Lagoze 
(Cornell University)

P21: "A Patent Search and Classification System", Leah S. 
Larkey (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

P22: "Digital Library Technology for Locating and Accessing 
Scientific Data", Robert E. McGrath, Joe Futrelle, Ray Plante 
(NCSA, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) and Damien 
Guillaume (Universite Louis-Pasteur)

P23: "User Preferences When Searching Individual and 
Integrated Full-text Databases", Soyeon Park  (Rutgers 
University)

3:00-3:30 Break

3:30-5:00 Session 8, Chair: Edward Fox
- Bush Award Presentation for Best Paper, by Robert  Akscyn
- Panel 2: "Digital Library Futures"; Chair: Barry Leiner (CNRI)

5:00-7:00 Final Reception

Saturday, August 14, 1999: Full-Day Workshops

W1: "Networked Knowledge Organization Systems", Linda L. Hill 
(University of California, Santa Barbara) and Gail Hodge 
(Information Intl. Assoc.), lhill at alexandria.ucsb.edu; see 
http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/~lhill/nhos/DL99workshop.html

W2: "Organizing Web Space", Robert Wilensky (University of 
California, Berkeley), Katsumi Tanaka (Kobe University), and 
Yoshinori Hara (NEC USA),hara at ccrl.sj.nec.com;see 
http://www.ccrl.neclab.com/dl99ww/ 

W3: "Multilingual Information Discovery and Access", Douglas W. 
Oard (University of Maryland) and Carol Peters (IEI-CNR, Pisa), 
joint with SIGIR'99, oard at glue.umd.edu; see 
http://www.clis.umd.edu/conferences/midas.html

W4: "D-Lib Forum Working Group on Metrics for Digital 
Libraries", Barry Leiner (CNRI), bleiner at cnri.reston.va.us; see
http://www.dlib.org/metrics 

W5: "Second Summit on International Cooperation in Digital 
Libraries", Robert Akscyn (KSI, Inc.) and Ian Witten (University of 
Waikato), rma at ks.com; see http://www.ks.com/idla/

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