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Digital libraries: an international conference plus a very valuable workshop![]()
Over the last years, Digital Libraries have taken over a central role in our society. As the volume of digital material grows, and its use becomes more ubiquitous, the challenge of combining our digital futures and digital past becomes more important. Innovative methods, collaborative working and new forms of content challenge established digital library methods. Similarly, the need for increasingly sophisticated means for supporting the analysis of digital content by humanists and scientists, practitioners and academics, leads to new difficulties for the infrastructure and interface of information repositories. General areas of interests include, but are not limited to, the following topics, organized in four areas: Foundations: Supporting Discovery
Digital Humanities
Research Data
Applications and User Experience
Keynote speakers at the TPDL conference 2012
Official TPDL website: http://www.tpdl2012.org/index.php ![]() As a part of the Conference, on the 27th an International Workshop on Supporting Users' Exploration of Digital Libraries will be held. The aim of the workshop is to stimulate collaboration from experts and stakeholders in Digital Libraries, Cultural Heritage, Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval in order to explore methods and strategies to support exploration of Digital Libraries, beyond the white box paradigm of search and click. Objectives of the workshop Large amounts of digital cultural heritage (CH) information have become available recently, partly due to the rise of large-scale aggregators such as Europeana, the European aggregator for museums, archives, libraries, and galleries. These large collections, and similar digital libraries (DL), present an important challenge to new users: discovering what items are present in the collection. In current systems support for item discovery is mainly provided through the standard keyword-based search paradigm, which is well suited for DL professionals who are highly familiar with the collections, subject areas, and have specific search goals. However, for new users who may not have a good understanding of the contents of the collections, be unsure about appropriate keywords, and have vague search goals, this method of access is unsatisfactory. Alternative item discovery methodologies are required to introduce new users to DL collections, including exploratory search models that enable switching between collection overviews and detailed exploration within the collection. The aim of the workshop is to stimulate collaboration from experts and stakeholders in Digital Libraries, Cultural Heritage, Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval in order to explore methods and strategies to support exploration of Digital Libraries, beyond the white box paradigm of search and click. Topics of the workshop Topics of interest include the following:
The program of the workshop is available here. Organizing committee Eneko Agirre (University of the Basque Country) Kate Fernie (MDR partners) Arantxa Otegi (University of the Basque Country) Mark Stevenson (University of Sheffield) Program committee (confirmed so far) Donatella Castelli (ISTI-CNR) Valentine Charles (Europeana) Paul Clough (University of Sheffield) Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio (University of Padua) Cathal Gurrin (Dublin City University) Mark Hall (University of Sheffield) Gareth Jones (Dublin City University) Jaap Kamps (University of Amsterdam) Johan Oomen (Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision) Martin Theobald (Max Planck) Max Wilson (University of Nottingham) Contact Arantxa Otegi: arantza.otegi@ehu.es Website: http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/suedl/ |