Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries: 6th European Conference, ECDL 2002, Rome, Italy, September 16-18, 2002, Proceedings: 2458 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2458) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3540441786 ISBN 13: 9783540441786

Publisher: Springer, 2002

Synopsis

ECDL 2002 was the 6th conference in the series of European Conferences on Research and Advanced Technologies for Digital Libraries. Following previous events in Pisa (1997), Heraklion (1998), Paris (1999), Lisbon (2000), and Da- stadt (2001), this year ECDL was held in Rome. ECDL 2002 contributed, - gether with the previous conferences, to establishing ECDL as the major - ropean forum focusing on digital libraries and associated technical, practical, and social issues. ECDL 2002 continued the tradition already established by the previous conferences in meeting the needs of a large and diverse constituency, which includes researchers, practitioners, educators, policy makers, and users. The focus of ECDL 2002 was on underlying principles, methods, systems, and tools to build and make available e?ective digital libraries to end users. Architecture, metadata, collection building, web archiving, web technologies,- books, OAI applications, preservation, navigation, query languages, audio video retrieval, multimedia-mixed media, user studies and evaluation, humanities, and digital libraries were some of the key issues addressed. An international Program Committee was set up composed of 61 members, with representatives from 25 countries. A total of 145 paper submissions, 15 poster submissions, and 18 proposals for demos were received. Each paper was evaluated by 3 referees and 42 full papers and 6 short papers of high quality were selected for presentation.

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, ECDL 2002, held in Rome, Italy, in September 2002. The revised 42 full and 6 short papers presented together with 6 posters and demo descriptions were carefully reviewed and selected from 145 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on web archiving, e-book, collection building, web technologies, OAI approaches, case studies, navigation and query language, audio/video retrieval, architecture, information retrieval, evaluation, multimedia and mixed media, preservation and classification, user studies, humanities, and demos and posters.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540441786
• ISBN 13: 9783540441786
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 688
• Editor: Thanos Costantino