Newsletter Issue 3

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Feature Articles

Heterogeneity in Digital Libraries: Two Sides of the Same Coin: Georgia Koutrika provides an overview of the challenges facing digital library design caused by the diversity both of data resources and users. She describes how the Information Access and Personalization cluster's user surveys are addressing this difficulty.

Audio/Visual and Non-traditional Objects: Progress and Futures: George Ioannidis provides us with a detailed view not only of A/V-NTO's current work and progress but also of the sort of new research the cluster is anticipating in the next phase of the Joint Programme of Activities. His article looks at research items such as:

• video annotation with pictorially enriched ontologies, 
• multimedia interfaces for mobile applications, 
• description, matching and retrieval of 3D objects by content, 
• a variety of processes to handle news telecasts and also
• content- and context-aware multimedia content retrieval.

In addition there is information on the DEMOS portal for demonstrators and testbeds and material on demonstrators currently available.