Title :
Building a digital library research program at Columbia University
Author_Institution :
Center for Res. on Inf. Access, Columbia Univ., New York, NY, USA
Abstract :
This paper provides both an overview of the Digital Library Research Program at Columbia University, along with some detail on three selected projects. First, a review of the interdisciplinary approach to Digital Library Research from the point of view of the Center for Research on Information Access will be presented. Second, technical aspects will be presented on the PERSIVAL medical digital library project, on the Digital Government Research Center, and on the multilingual multidocument summarization project. Finally, a range of projects will be briefly discussed in order to demonstrate the concrete results of taking this interdisciplinary approach
Keywords :
digital libraries; research initiatives; Columbia University; PERSIVAL; digital library; medical digital library project; multilingual multidocument summarization; research program; Biomedical imaging; Computer science; Concrete; Databases; Focusing; Image retrieval; Information retrieval; Machine assisted indexing; Paper technology; Software libraries;
Conference_Titel :
Digital Libraries: Research and Practice, 2000 Kyoto, International Conference on.
Conference_Location :
Kyoto
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1022-1
DOI :
10.1109/DLRP.2000.942151