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Abstract

Ziel aller professioneller Aktivitäten der in der DGI organisierten Informationsfachleute ist es, bedarfsgerecht die Verfügbarkeit von Informationen sicher zu stellen. Als Motto der 60.Jahrestagung und 30. Online-Tagung der DGI bietet diese Zielsetzung den Rahmen für ein vielseitiges Programm, das Information Professionals aus unterschiedlichen Blickwinkeln interessante Einblicke in informationswissenschaftliche Forschung, praktische Anwendungen, das Berufsfeld, die Ausbildungssituation und geplante Projekte bietet. Dabei begleiten uns die zentralen Fragen, unter welchen Bedingungen eine Information für wen heute verfügbar ist, wie sich die Verfügbarkeit auch bei sich wandelnden Technologien und Rezeptionsgewohnheiten für die Zukunft sichern lässt und die alte, doch immer wieder neue Frage nach der 'Dokumentationswürdigkeit' aufgrund von Qualität oder betrieblichen Notwendigkeiten und juristischen Regelungen. Der Band vereinigt die Textfassungen der Beiträge, die durch das Progammkomitee angenommen worden sind, dazu gehören u.a. die suche nach Bildern oder Patenten mit Suchmaschinen, Competitive Intelligence, Sicherung von Primärdaten, Langfristige Nutzbarkeit und Standardisierung, Qualitätskriterien, automatische und intellektuelle Erschließung, Ontologien oder Erfahrungen mit dem Einsatz von Wikis.

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06.00 / Information und Dokumentation: Allgemeines

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06.00 / Information und Dokumentation: Allgemeines

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Information und Dokumentation / Kongress / Frankfurt <Main, 2006> (GBV)

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Information und Dokumentation / Kongress / Frankfurt <Main, 2006> (GBV)

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Papers presented from 1999 to 2003 at the Kanazawa Institute of Technology (KIT) International Roundtable on Library and Information Science. - Inhalt: The future according to the past : future library issues in historical perspective / Stanley Chodorow -- The emergence of digital scholarship : new models for librarians, scholars, and publishers / John Unsworth -- Information technology and teaching : are they friends or foes? / Richard A. Detweiler -- Document delivery in the digital library / C. Lee Jones -- Climb every mountain : developing organizational capacity for the realization of digital libraries / Winston Tabb -- The research library as publisher : new roles in a new environment for scholarly communication / Carol A. Mandel -- Copyright in the United States and Japan : storming the barriers to access / Paula Kaufman -- Reading and interactivity in the digital library : creating an experience that transcends paper / Catherine C. Marshall -- JSTOR : offering access to an archives of scholarly journal literature / Kevin M. Guthrie -- The continuing evolution of the University of Virginia Library's digital initiatives / Karin Wittenborg -- Digitization and change in mathematics scholarship / Sarah E. Thomas -- Realities and choices for academic libraries in a networked world / Betty G. Bengtson -- Creating the digital library : the importance of faculty collaboration / James G. Neal -- Collections in the digital library / Abby Smith -- Library space in the digital age / Nicholas C. Burckel -- The place of libraries in a digital age / David M. Levy.

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Libraries / Special collections / Electronic information resources / Congresses

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Libraries / Special collections / Electronic information resources / Congresses

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Information Gateway

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Abstract

Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries exploit the power of human vision and spatial cognition to help individuals mentally organize and electronically access and manage large and complex information spaces. They draw on progress in the field of information visualization and seek to shift the users' mental load from slow reading to faster perceptual processes such as visual pattern recognition.Based on two workshops, the book presents an introductory overview as well as a closing listing of the top ten problems in the area by the volume editors. Also included are 16 thoroughly reviewed and revised full papers organized in topical sections on visual interfaces to documents, document parts, document variants, and document usage data; visual interfaces to image and video documents; visualization of knowledge domains; cartographic interfaces to digital libraries; and a general framework.

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Enthält die Beiträge: Katy Börner and Chaomei Chen: Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries: Motivation, Utilization, and Socio-technical Challenges - Part I. Visual interfaces to Documents, Document Parts, Document Variants, and Document Usage Data - George Buchanan, Ann Blandford, Matt Jones, and Harold Thimbleby: Spatial Hypertext as a Reader Tool in Digital Libraries; Michael Christoffel and Bethina Schmitt: Accessing Libraries as Easy as a Game; Carlos Monroy, Rajiv Kochumman, Richard Furuta, and Eduardo Urbina: Interactive Timeline Viewer (ItLv): A Tool to Visualize Variants Among Documents; Mischa Weiss-Lijn, Janet T. McDonnell, and Leslie James: An Empirical Evaluation of the Interactive Visualization of Metadata to Support Document Use; Stephen G. Eick: Visual Analysis of Website Browsing Patterns - Part II. Visual Interfaces to Image and Video Documents - Adrian Graham, Hector Garcia-Molina, Andreas Paepcke, and Terry Winograd: Extreme Temporal Photo Browsing; Michael G. Christel: Accessing News Video Libraries through Dynamic Information Extraction, Summarization, and Visualization; Anselm Spoerri: Handwritten Notes as a Visual Interface to Index, Edit and Publish Audio/Video Highlights - Part III. Visualization of Knowledge Domains - Jan W. Buzydlowski, Howard D. White, and Xia Lin: Term Co-occurrence Analysis as an Interface for Digital Libraries; Kevin W. Boyack, Brian N. Wylie, and George S. Davidson: Information Visualization, Human-Computer Interaction, and Cognitive Psychology: Domain Visualizations - Part IV. Cartographic Interfaces to Digital Libraries - André Skupin: On Geometry and Transformation in Map-Like Information Visualization; Guoray Cai: GeoVIBE: A Visual Interface for Geographic Digital Libraries: Teong Joo Ong, John J. Leggett, Hugh D. Wilson, Stephan L. Hatch, and Monique D. Reed: Interactive Information Visualization in the Digital Flora of Texas; Dan Ancona, Mike Freeston, Terry Smith, and Sara Fabrikant: Visual Explorations for the Alexandria Digital Earth Prototype - Part V. Towards a General Framework - Rao Shen, Jun Wang, and Edward A. Fox: A Lightweight Protocol between Digital Libraries and Visualization Systems; Chaomei Chen and Katy Börner: Top Ten Problems in Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries

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Elektronische Bibliothek / Information Retrieval / Visualisierung / Mensch-Maschine-Kommunikation / Graphische Benutzeroberfläche / Aufsatzsammlung

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Elektronische Bibliothek / Information Retrieval / Visualisierung / Mensch-Maschine-Kommunikation / Graphische Benutzeroberfläche / Aufsatzsammlung

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Elektronische Bibliothek / Multimedia / Information Retrieval / Kongress / Wien <2005>
World Wide Web / Elektronische Bibliothek / Information Retrieval / Kongress / Wien <2005>

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Elektronische Bibliothek / Multimedia / Information Retrieval / Kongress / Wien <2005>
World Wide Web / Elektronische Bibliothek / Information Retrieval / Kongress / Wien <2005>

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Inhalt: SESSION: Building and using cultural digital libraries Primarily history: historians and the search for primary source materials (Helen R. Tibbo) - Using the Gamera framework for the recognition of cultural heritage materials (Michael Droettboom, Ichiro Fujinaga, Karl MacMillan, G. Sayeed Chouhury, Tim DiLauro, Mark Patton, Teal Anderson) - Supporting access to large digital oral history archives (Samuel Gustman, Dagobert Soergel, Douglas Oard, William Byrne, Michael Picheny, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Douglas Greenberg) SESSION: Summarization and question answering Using sentence-selection heuristics to rank text segments in TXTRACTOR (Daniel McDonald, Hsinchun Chen) - Using librarian techniques in automatic text summarization for information retrieval (Min-Yen Kan, Judith L. Klavans) - QuASM: a system for question answering using semi-structured data (David Pinto, Michael Branstein, Ryan Coleman, W. Bruce Croft, Matthew King, Wei Li, Xing Wei) SESSION: Studying users Reading-in-the-small: a study of reading on small form factor devices (Catherine C. Marshall, Christine Ruotolo) - A graph-based recommender system for digital library (Zan Huang, Wingyan Chung, Thian-Huat Ong, Hsinchun Chen) - The effects of topic familiarity on information search behavior (Diane Kelly, Colleen Cool) SESSION: Classification and browsing A language modelling approach to relevance profiling for document browsing (David J. Harper, Sara Coulthard, Sun Yixing) - Compound descriptors in context: a matching function for classifications and thesauri (Douglas Tudhope, Ceri Binding, Dorothee Blocks, Daniel Cunliffe) - Structuring keyword-based queries for web databases (Rodrigo C. Vieira, Pavel Calado, Altigran S. da Silva, Alberto H. F. Laender, Berthier A. Ribeiro-Neto) - An approach to automatic classification of text for information retrieval (Hong Cui, P. Bryan Heidorn, Hong Zhang)
SESSION: A digital libraries for education Middle school children's use of the ARTEMIS digital library (June Abbas, Cathleen Norris, Elliott Soloway) - Partnership reviewing: a cooperative approach for peer review of complex educational resources (John Weatherley, Tamara Sumner, Michael Khoo, Michael Wright, Marcel Hoffmann) - A digital library for geography examination resources (Lian-Heong Chua, Dion Hoe-Lian Goh, Ee-Peng Lim, Zehua Liu, Rebecca Pei-Hui Ang) - Digital library services for authors of learning materials (Flora McMartin, Youki Terada) SESSION: Novel search environments Integration of simultaneous searching and reference linking across bibliographic resources on the web (William H. Mischo, Thomas G. Habing, Timothy W. Cole) - Exploring discussion lists: steps and directions (Paula S. Newman) - Comparison of two approaches to building a vertical search tool: a case study in the nanotechnology domain (Michael Chau, Hsinchun Chen, Jialun Qin, Yilu Zhou, Yi Qin, Wai-Ki Sung, Daniel McDonald) SESSION: Video and multimedia digital libraries A multilingual, multimodal digital video library system (Michael R. Lyu, Edward Yau, Sam Sze) - A digital library data model for music (Natalia Minibayeva, Jon W. Dunn) - Video-cuebik: adapting image search to video shots (Alexander G. Hauptmann, Norman D. Papernick) - Virtual multimedia libraries built from the web (Neil C. Rowe) - Multi-modal information retrieval from broadcast video using OCR and speech recognition (Alexander G. Hauptmann, Rong Jin, Tobun Dorbin Ng) SESSION: OAI application Extending SDARTS: extracting metadata from web databases and interfacing with the open archives initiative (Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis, Tom Barry, Luis Gravano) - Using the open archives initiative protocols with EAD (Christopher J. Prom, Thomas G. Habing) - Preservation and transition of NCSTRL using an OAI-based architecture (H. Anan, X. Liu, K. Maly, M. Nelson, M. Zubair, J. C. French, E. Fox, P. Shivakumar) - Integrating harvesting into digital library content (David A. Smith, Anne Mahoney, Gregory Crane) SESSION: Searching across language, time, and space Harvesting translingual vocabulary mappings for multilingual digital libraries (Ray R. Larson, Fredric Gey, Aitao Chen) - Detecting events with date and place information in unstructured text (David A. Smith) - Using sharable ontology to retrieve historical images (Von-Wun Soo, Chen-Yu Lee, Jaw Jium Yeh, Ching-chih Chen) - Towards an electronic variorum edition of Cervantes' Don Quixote:: visualizations that support preparation (Rajiv Kochumman, Carlos Monroy, Richard Furuta, Arpita Goenka, Eduardo Urbina, Erendira Melgoza)
SESSION: NSDL Core services in the architecture of the national science digital library (NSDL) (Carl Lagoze, William Arms, Stoney Gan, Diane Hillmann, Christopher Ingram, Dean Krafft, Richard Marisa, Jon Phipps, John Saylor, Carol Terrizzi, Walter Hoehn, David Millman, James Allan, Sergio Guzman-Lara, Tom Kalt) - Creating virtual collections in digital libraries: benefits and implementation issues (Gary Geisler, Sarah Giersch, David McArthur, Marty McClelland) - Ontology services for curriculum development in NSDL (Amarnath Gupta, Bertram Ludäscher, Reagan W. Moore) - Interactive digital library resource information system: a web portal for digital library education (Ahmad Rafee Che Kassim, Thomas R. Kochtanek) SESSION: Digital library communities and change Cross-cultural usability of the library metaphor (Elke Duncker) - Trust and epistemic communities in biodiversity data sharing (Nancy A. Van House) - Evaluation of digital community information systems (K. T. Unruh, K. E. Pettigrew, J. C. Durrance) - Adapting digital libraries to continual evolution (Bruce R. Barkstrom, Melinda Finch, Michelle Ferebee, Calvin Mackey) SESSION: Models and tools for generating digital libraries Localizing experience of digital content via structural metadata (Naomi Dushay) - Collection synthesis (Donna Bergmark) - 5SL: a language for declarative specification and generation of digital libraries (Marcos André, Gonçalves, Edward A. Fox) SESSION: Novel user interfaces A digital library of conversational expressions: helping profoundly disabled users communicate (Hayley Dunlop, Sally Jo Cunningham, Matt Jones) - Enhancing the ENVISION interface for digital libraries (Jun Wang, Abhishek Agrawal, Anil Bazaza, Supriya Angle, Edward A. Fox, Chris North) - A wearable digital library of personal conversations (Wei-hao Lin, Alexander G. Hauptmann) - Collaborative visual interfaces to digital libraries (Katy Börner, Ying Feng, Tamara McMahon) - Binding browsing and reading activities in a 3D digital library (Pierre Cubaud, Pascal Stokowski, Alexandre Topol)
SESSION: Federating and harvesting metadata DP9: an OAI gateway service for web crawlers (Xiaoming Liu, Kurt Maly, Mohammad Zubair, Michael L. Nelson) - The Greenstone plugin architecture (Ian H. Witten, David Bainbridge, Gordon Paynter, Stefan Boddie) - Building FLOW: federating libraries on the web (Anna Keller Gold, Karen S. Baker, Jean-Yves LeMeur, Kim Baldridge) - JAFER ToolKit project: interfacing Z39.50 and XML (Antony Corfield, Matthew Dovey, Richard Mawby, Colin Tatham) - Schema extraction from XML collections (Boris Chidlovskii) - Mirroring an OAI archive on the I2-DSI channel (Ashwini Pande, Malini Kothapalli, Ryan Richardson, Edward A. Fox) SESSION: Music digital libraries HMM-based musical query retrieval (Jonah Shifrin, Bryan Pardo, Colin Meek, William Birmingham) - A comparison of melodic database retrieval techniques using sung queries (Ning Hu, Roger B. Dannenberg) - Enhancing access to the levy sheet music collection: reconstructing full-text lyrics from syllables (Brian Wingenroth, Mark Patton, Tim DiLauro) - Evaluating automatic melody segmentation aimed at music information retrieval (Massimo Melucci, Nicola Orio) SESSION: Preserving, securing, and assessing digital libraries A methodology and system for preserving digital data (Raymond A. Lorie) - Modeling web data (James C. French) - An evaluation model for a digital library services tool (Jim Dorward, Derek Reinke, Mimi Recker) - Why watermark?: the copyright need for an engineering solution (Michael Seadle, J. R. Deller, Jr., Aparna Gurijala) SESSION: Image and cultural digital libraries Time as essence for photo browsing through personal digital libraries (Adrian Graham, Hector Garcia-Molina, Andreas Paepcke, Terry Winograd) - Toward a distributed terabyte text retrieval system in China-US million book digital library (Bin Liu, Wen Gao, Ling Zhang, Tie-jun Huang, Xiao-ming Zhang, Jun Cheng) - Enhanced perspectives for historical and cultural documentaries using informedia technologies (Howard D. Wactlar, Ching-chih Chen) - Interfaces for palmtop image search (Mark Derthick)

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Introduction: Libraries and Their Interrelationships with Google - William Miller Disruptive Beneficence: The Google Print Program and the Future of Libraries - Mark Sandler The Google Library Project at Oxford - Ronald Milne The (Uncertain) Future of Libraries in a Google World: Sounding an Alarm - Rick Anderson A Gaggle of Googles: Limitations and Defects of Electronic Access as Panacea - -Mark Y. Herring Using the Google Search Appliance for Federated Searching: A Case Study - Mary Taylor Google's Print and Scholar Initiatives: The Value of and Impact on Libraries and Information Services - Robert J. Lackie Google Scholar vs. Library Scholar: Testing the Performance of Schoogle - Burton Callicott; Debbie Vaughn Google, the Invisible Web, and Librarians: Slaying the Research Goliath - Francine Egger-Sider; Jane Devine Choices in the Paradigm Shift: Where Next for Libraries? - Shelley E. Phipps; Krisellen Maloney Calling the Scholars Home: Google Scholar as a Tool for Rediscovering the Academic Library - Maurice C. York Checking Under the Hood: Evaluating Google Scholar for Reference Use - Janice Adlington; Chris Benda Running with the Devil: Accessing Library-Licensed Full Text Holdings Through Google Scholar - Rebecca Donlan; Rachel Cooke Directing Students to New Information Types: A New Role for Google in Literature Searches? - Mike Thelwall Evaluating Google Scholar as a Tool for Information Literacy Rachael Cathcart - Amanda Roberts Optimising Publications for Google Users - Alan Dawson Google and Privacy - Paul S. Piper Image: Google's Most Important Product - Ron Force Keeping Up with Google: Resources and Strategies for Staying Ahead of the Pack - Michael J. Krasulski; Steven J. Bell

Footnote

Ebenfalls direkt aus der Praxis erhält der Leser Informationen zum Google-PrintProgramm. Robert Milne beschreibt die Zusammenarbeit von Google und der Universität Oxford. In diesem Aufsatz wird - was dem Autor natürlich nicht anzulasten ist - ein Problem des vorliegenden Werks deutlich: Viele Informationen sind doch von sehr beschränkter Haltbarkeit. Der Redaktionsschluss war im Frühsommer 2005, sodass sich in vielen Bereichen bereits neue Entwicklungen ergeben haben. Dies ist beim Print-Programm der Fall, vor allem wird es aber bei dem Hauptthema des Bandes, nämlich Google Scholar, deutlich. Dieser Dienst wurde im November 2004 gestartet und stieß auf unterschiedlichste Reaktionen, die (anhand von Beispielen amerikanischer Bibliotheken) im Beitrag von Maurice C. York beschrieben werden. Einige Bibliotheken nahmen den Dienst begeistert auf und verlinkten diesen mit Lob versehen auf ihren Websites. Andere reagierten gegenteilig und warnten vor dessen schlechter Qualität. Auch weil vorauszusehen war, dass Google Scholar bei den Nutzern gut ankommen würde, darf das folgende Statement von einer Bibliothekswebsite geradezu als ignorant gelten: Google Scholar »is wonderful for those who do not have access to the library's databases« (S.119). Wie nun die Scholar-Nutzer auf die Bibliotheksangebote gelenkt werden können, beschreibt der ironisch »Running with the Devil« betitelte Aufsatz von Rebecca Donlan und Rachel Cooke. Die Autorinnen beschreiben den Einsatz von Link-Resolvern und gehen auf die in Google Scholar bestehenden Probleme durch unklare Bezeichnungen in den Trefferlisten ein. Einige Beispiele zeigen, dass Google Scholar auch in Kombination mit der Verlinkung auf die Bibliotheksbestände keine befriedigende Recherchesituation herstellt, sondern vielmehr weitere Anstrengungen nötig sind, um »das Beste beider Welten« zusammenzuführen. Zwei weitere Aufsätze beschäftigen sich mit der Frage, wie gut Google Scholar eigentlich ist. Einmal geht es darum, wie gut Scholar den »ACRL Information Literacy Standards« genügt. Der zweite Beitrag vergleicht Google Scholar anhand von fünf Suchaufgaben einerseits mit einem lokalen Bibliothekskatalog, andererseits mit EBSCOs Academic Search Premier und jeweils einer fachspezifischen Datenbank. Die Ergebnisse zeigen keine durchgehende Überlegenheit einer Suchlösung, vielmehr wird deutlich, dass es auf die Auswahl des richtigen Suchwerkzeugs für die bestehende Suchanfrage ankommt bzw. dass erst eine Kombination dieser Werkzeuge zu optimalen Ergebnissen führt. Man könnte also auch hier wieder sagen: Google und Bibliotheken, nicht Google oder Bibliotheken.
Weitere Rez. in JASIST 59(2008) H.9, S.1531-1533 (J. Satyanesan): "Libraries and Google is an interesting and enlightening compilation of 18 articles on Google and its impact on libraries. The topic is very current, debatable, and thought provoking. Google has profoundly empowered individuals and transformed access to information and librarians are very much concerned about its popularity and visibility. In this book, the leading authorities discuss the usefulness of Google, its influence and potential menace to libraries, and its implications for libraries and the scholarly communication. They offer practical suggestions to cope with the changing situation. The articles are written from different perspective and express all shades of opinion, both hopeful and fearful. One can discern varied moods-apprehension, resignation, encouragement, and motivation-on the part of the librarians. This is an important book providing a wealth of information for the 21st century librarian. There is a section called "Indexing, Abstracting & Website/Internet Coverage," which lists major indexing and abstracting services and other tools for bibliographic access. The format of the articles is uniform with an introduction, key words, and with the exception of two articles the rest have summaries and conclusions. References and notes of varying lengths are included in each article. This book has been copublished simultaneously as Internet Reference Quarterly, 10(3/4), 2005. Although there are single articles written on Google and libraries, this is the first book-length treatment of the topic.