ECDL'99 ADVANCE PROGRAM

[Christopidis Vassilis]

		ADVANCE PROGRAM
		Third European Conference on 
		Research and Advanced Technology for
		DIGITAL LIBRARIES (ECDL'99)

		Paris, France, September 22-24, 1999

Co-organized by BNF (Bibliotheque Nationale de France) and INRIA
(Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique).

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Wednesday 22 September 

Opening

Daniel Renoult, Directeur general adjoint, 
Bibliotheque Nationale de France 
Serge Abiteboul, ECDL99 Program Chair, 
Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique 

Invited presentations

Challenges for the Web : Universality and Scalability, Jean-Francois 
Abramatic, Chairman of the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium)  

Session I: Images

     Image and metadata distribution at seven university campuses: 
     Reports from a Study of the Museum Educational Site Licensing Project
     --- Howard Besser and Rosalie Lack 
     Text-based approaches for the categorization of images 
     --- Carl L. Sable and Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou 
     Metadata for photographs: from digital library to multimedia application 
     -- Anne-Marie Vercoustre and François Paradis 

Session II: Audio and video in Digital Libraries

     Audiovisual cultural heritage From TV and radio archiving to 
     hypermedia publishing 
     --- Gwendal Auffret and Bruno Bachimont 
     An indexing, browsing, search and retrieval system for 
     audiovisual libraries 
     --- Jane Hunter and Jan Newmarch 
     Music structure analysis and its application to theme phrase extraction 
     --- Atsuhiro Takasu, Takashi Yanase, Teruhito Kanazawa and Jun
     Adachi 

Session III: Information retrieval

     Effectiveness of keyword-based display and selection of retrieval
     results for interactive searches 
     --- Ezio Berenci, Claudio Carpineto, Vittorio Giannini and Stefano Mizzaro
     Towards more effective techniques for automatic query expansion 
     --- Claudio Carpineto and Giovanni Romano 
     Predicting indexer performance in a distributed digital library 
     --- Naomi Dushay, James C. French and Carl Lagoze 

Thursday 23 September 

Session IV: User adaptation

     Design guidelines and user-centred digital libraries 
     --- Yin Leng Theng, Elke Duncker, Norliza Mohd-Nasir, 
     George Buchanan and Harold Thimbleby 
     User profile modeling and applications to digital libraries 
     --- Giuseppe Amato and Umberto Straccia 
     Using and evaluating user directed summaries to improve information access
     --- Manuel J. Maña López and Manuel de Buenaga Rodríguez 

Session V: Knowledge sharing

     Pharos, a collaborative infrastructure for Web knowledge sharing 
     --- Vincent Bouthors and Olivier Dedieu 
     Integrating ontologies and thesauri to build RDF schemas 
     --- B. Amann and I. Fundulaki 
     Dynamic use of digital library material - supporting users with
     typed links in open hypermedia 
     --- Klaus Marius Hansen, Christian
     Yndigegn and Kaj Gronbaek 

Session VI: Cross language

     Disambiguation strategies for cross-language information retrieval 
     --- Djoerd Hiemstra and Franciska de Jong 
     Crosslingual interrogation of multilingual catalogs 
     --- C. Fluhr, D. Schmit, C. Andrieux, Ph. Ortet, F. Bisson and V. Combet 
     Term similarity-based query expansion for cross-language 
     information retrieval 
     --- Mirna Adriani and C. J. van Rijsbergen 

Session VII: Case Studies

     The SOMLib digital library system 
     --- Andreas Rauber and Dieter Merkl 
     Developing a European technical reference digital library 
     --- Antonella Andreoni, Maria Bruna Baldacci, Stefania Biagioni, 
     Carlo Carlesi, Donatella Castelli, Pasquale Pagano and Carol Peters 
     Issues in the development and operation of a Digital Library 
     --- Sarantos Kapidakis 

Friday 24 September 

Invited Presentation: Robert Wilensky

Session VIII: DL for DL

     Declarative specification of Z39.50 wrappers using description logics 
     --- Yannis Velegrakis, Vassilis Christophides and Panos Constantopoulos 

Session IX: Information objects: modeling, accessibility and connectedness

     PIA - a generic model and system for interactive product 
     and service catalogs 
     --- Florian Matthes and Ulrike Steffens 
     Representing scholarly claims in Internet digital libraries: 
     a knowledge modelling approach 
     --- Simon Buckingham Shum, Enrico Motta and John Domingue 
     The Small World Web 
     --- Lada Adamic 
     Soda: smart objects, dumb archives 
     --- Michael L. Nelson 

Panel Session: National and International Digital Library Initiatives 

Coordinators: Costantino Thanos, Carol Peters, IEI-CNR, Pisa, Italy 

List of Speakers/Panelists:
Yuri Hohlov - Institute of the Information Society - Russia
Michael Lesk - Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, NSF, USA
Hans-Georg Stork - DGXIII European Commission - Key Action 3
Shigeo Sugimoto - University of Library Information Science - Japan
Oleg Syuntyurenko - Vice-Chairman of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research
Costantino Thanos - The DELOS activities 

Demos

     13 demos were selected 

Tutorials

     Tutorial 1: Geospatially Referenced Digital Libraries: 
     Michael Freeston, Linda Hill 
     Tutorial 2: Multilangual Information Access: 
     Judith Klavans, Peter Schäube 

Panels

     Cataloguing vs. Metadata, lead by Florence Robert 
     (librarian at Abes, Montpellier) and Stefan Gradmann 
     (librarian at Pica, Leiden, the Netherlands) 
     title to be announced lead by Keith Jeffery 

Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions

     C-Web, proposed by Alain Michard, Inria, France.