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2007-12-03: DELOS Association established

The DELOS Association for Digital Libraries has been established in order to keep the "DELOS spirit" alive by promoting research activities in the field of digital libraries.
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2007-06-08: Second Workshop on Foundations of Digital Libraries

The 2nd International Workshop on Foundations of Digital Libraries will be held in Budapest (Hungary) on 20 Septemeber 2007, in conjunction with the 11th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technologies for Digital Libraries (ECDL 2007).
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December 5-7, 2007 - Pisa, Italy

Second DELOS Conference on Digital Libraries
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DELOS Conference II - Program

Time	Tuesday, December 4th	Wednesday, December 5th	Thursday, December 6th	Friday, December 7th
Morning I		DELOS Conference Plenary session	DELOS Conference Plenary session	DELOS Conference Demos and Prototypes
-		*Coffee Break*
Morning II		DELOS Conference Parallel sessions	DELOS Conference Parallel sessions	DELOS Conference Demos and Prototypes
-		*Lunch*
Afternoon I		DELOS Conference Plenary and parallel sessions	DELOS Conference Parallel sessions	DELOS Advisory Board Meeting (closed)
-	*Coffee Break*
Afternoon II	MULTIMATCH Special Session Multilingual/ Multimedia Access	DELOS Conference Parallel sessions	DELOS Conference Plenary session	DELOS Advisory Board Meeting (closed)

Program of the DELOS Conference - Sessions

Time	Wednesday, December 5th		Time	Thursday, December 6th
9.00 - 10.30	Plenary Session I		9.00 - 9.45	Plenary Session III
10.30 - 11.00	Coffee Break		9.45 - 10.45	Session 7 Interoperability	Session 8 DL Architecture
11.00 - 13.00	Session 1 Information Access	Session 2 Image Retrieval	10.45 - 11.15	Coffee Break
13.00 - 14.30	*Lunch*		11.15 - 12.45	Session 9 User interfaces	Session 10 Video
14.30 - 15.15	Plenary Session II		12.45 - 14.30	Lunch
15.15 - 16.15	Session 3 3D Objects	Session 4 Preservation	14.30 - 16.00	Session 11 Personalization	Session 12 Reference Model
16.15 - 16.45	Coffee Break		16.00 - 16.30	Coffee Break
16.45 - 18.15	Session 5 Miscellaneous	Session 6 Evaluation	16.30 - 17.30	Plenary Session IV

Time	Friday, December 7th
9.00 - 10.30	DELOS DLMS Session Part I
10.30 - 11.00	*Coffee Break*
11.00 - 12.00	DELOS DLMS Session Part II
12.00 - 12.40	DELOS DLMS Session Part III
12.40 - 13.00	DELOS DLMS Session Part IV

Special Events

Tuesday, December 4th - 19.00: Welcome Cocktail
Thursday, December 6th - 20.00: Conference Dinner

PLENARY SESSION I (Chairperson: C. Thanos)

Welcome
(C. Thanos)
Technical computing at Microsoft Research
(F. Gagliardi)
The DELOS Reference Model
(D. Castelli)
[Presentation]

PLENARY SESSION II (Chairperson: Y. Ioannidis)

Ontology-based information access
(M. Lenzerini)

PLENARY SESSION III (Chairperson: H.-J. Schek)

Interoperable Information Space – moving towards the European Digital Library
(S. Gradmann)
[Presentation]

PLENARY SESSION IV (Chairperson: V. Casarosa)

DELOS spin-offs
(by invitation)

Session 1: INFORMATION ACCESS (Chairperson: A. Dix)

Sharing co-reference knowledge for data integration
(C. Meghini, M. Doerr and N. Spyratos)
[Paper]
Content and structure summarisation of XML documents for effective information access
(Z. Szlavik, A. Tombros and M. Lalmas)
[Paper - Presentation]
zSAPN: a system for semantic based substitution of unsupported access points
(M. Sfakakis and S. Kapidakis)
[Paper - Presentation]
Visual rank analysis for search engine benchmarking and efficient navigation
(T. Catarci, D. Keim, G. Santucci, T. Schreck, G. Iervella, S. Iannarelli and F. Veltri)
[Paper]

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Session 2: IMAGE RETRIEVAL (Chairperson: A. Del Bimbo)

Scaling up the image content-based retrieval
(D. Novak, M. Batko, V. Dohnal and P. Zezula)
[Paper - Presentation]
Image content classification by using visual terms
(G. Amato, P. Savino and V. Magionami)
[Paper]
Semiautomatic benchmarking of feature vectors for multimedia retrieval
(T. Schreck, J. Schneidewind, D. Keim, M. Ward and A. Tatu)
[Paper]
Towards query by sketch
(M. Springmann, A. Ispas, H. Schuldt, M. Norrie and B. Signer)
[Paper]

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Session 3: 3D OBJECTS (Chairperson: N. Spyratos)

Geometry flavored topological skeletons: applications to shape handling, segmentation and retrieval
(J. Tierny, J.-Ph. Vandeborre and M. Daoudi)
[Paper - Presentation]
Using 3D face models to improve face recognition
(S. Berretti, A. Del Bimbo, P. Pala and F.J. Silva Mata)
[Paper - Presentation]

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Session 4: PRESERVATION (Chairperson: S. Ross)

On the need for benchmark corpora in digital preservation
(R. Neumayer, H. Kulovits, A. Rauber, M. Thaller, E. Nicchiarelli, M. Day, H. Hofman and S. Ross)
[Paper]
Variation of word frequencies across genre classification tasks
(Y. Kim and S. Ross)
[Paper]
Metadata extraction and digital preservation: an overview
(M. Dobreva, Y. Kim and S. Ross)
[Paper]
Preserving digital libraries is a risky business: using DRAMBORA (Digital Repository Audit Method Based on Risk Assessment) toolkit within DELOS Digital Preservation Cluster
(P. Innocenti, A. McHugh, S. Ross and R. Ruusaleep)
[Paper]

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Session 5: MISCELLANEOUS (Chairperson: S. Kapidakis)

Still promoting e-books in academic libraries: involving librarians
(Ph. Barr and M. Landoni)
[Paper - Presentation]
Towards social semantic suggestive tagging in a digital repository of bookmarks
(F. Calefato, D. Gendarmi, F. Lanubile and G. Semeraro)
[Paper - Presentation]
Integrating user evaluation into software development environments
(Y. Dubinsky, T. Catarci, S.R. Humayoun, and S. Kimani)
[Paper - Presentation]

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Session 6: EVALUATION (Chairperson: T. Sellis)

Exploring users’ online search behaviour: a preliminary study in a library collection
(A. Mastora, S. Kapidakis and M. Monopoli)
[Paper - Presentation]
A qualitative evaluation of The European Library
(C.-P. Klas, G. Tsakonas, H. Albrechtsen and P. Hansen)
[Paper - Presentation]
From CLEF to TrebleCLEF: promoting technology transfer for multilingual information retrieval
(M. Braschler, G. Di Nunzio, N. Ferro, J. Gonzalo, C. Peters and M. Sanderson)
[Paper]

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Session 7: INTEROPERABILITY (Chairperson: L. Lyon)

Semantic interoperability support between cultural and multimedia environments
(A. Ntousias, N. Gioldasis, Ch. Tsinaraki and S. Christodoulakis)
[Paper]
Support for interoperability between OWL based and XML schema based applications
(Ch. Tsinaraki and S. Christodoulakis)
[Paper - Presentation]

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Session 8: DL ARCHITECTURES (Chairperson: P. Zezula)

Exploiting replication in peer-to-peer search over distributed digital libraries
(Ch. Zimmer, S. Bedathur, Ch. Tryfonopoulos and G. Weikum)
[Paper - Presentation]
DelosDLMS: infrastructure and services for future digital library systems
(C. Binding, G. Brettlecker, T. Catarci, S. Christodoulakis, T. Crecelius, N. Gioldasis, H.-Ch. Jetter, M. Kacimi, D. Milano, P. Ranaldi, H. Reiterer, G. Santucci, H.-J. Schek, H. Schuldt, D. Tudhope and G. Weikum)
[Paper]

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Session 9: USER INTERFACES (Chairperson: T. Catarci)

Design of the user interface of a scientific digital library system for large-scale evaluation campaigns
(M. Dussin and N. Ferro)
[Paper]
From information to interaction: in pursuit of task-centred information management
(A. Dix, A. Katifori, A. Poggi, T. Catarci, Y. Ioannidis, G. Lepouras and M. Mora)
[Paper]
Evaluating the OntoNL framework: a natural language interface generator for knowledge repositories
(A. Karanastasi and S. Christodoulakis)
[Paper - Presentation]

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Session 10: VIDEO (Chairperson: S. Christodoulakis)

Compressed domain features extraction for shot characterization
(C. Grana, R. Vezzani, D. Borghesani and R. Cucchiara)
[Paper]
SPIM: a DL system for personalized semantic SPatial Image Management
(S. Christodoulakis, M. Foukarakis and L. Ragia)
[Paper]
Semantic annotation of complex video events through temporal rule inference
(M. Bertini, A. Del Bimbo and G. Serra)
[Paper - Presentation]

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Session 11: PERSONALIZATION (Chairperson: N. Fuhr) Enhanced personalized information access in digital libraries
(T. Catarci, Y. Ioannidis, D. Keim, S. Kimani, T. Sellis, N. Spyratos, Y. Stavrakas, A. Tatu, G. Weikum and Ch. Zimmer)
[Paper - Presentation]
Preference profile integration in digital library federations, or how to fuse scores with orders
(P. Georgiadis, V. Christophides, G. Koutrika, Y. Ioannidis, C. Meghini and N. Spyratos)
[Paper - Presentation]
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Session 12: REFERENCE MODEL (Chairperson: D. Castelli)
Modelling DL quality: a comparison between approaches: the DELOS Reference Model and the 5S Model
(M. Agosti, N. Ferro, E.A. Fox and M.A. Goncalves)
[Paper]
Open discussion
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DELOS DLMS Session
The overall goal of the DelosDLMS is the implementation of a prototype of a next-generation digital library management system. This system combines text and audio-visual searching, offers personalized browsing using new information visualization and relevance feedback tools, provides novel interfaces, allows retrieved information to be annotated and processed, integrates and processes sensor data streams, and finally, from a systems engineering point of view, is easily configured and adapted while being reliable and scalable.
DelosDLMS is realized by combining various specialized DL functionalities provided by partners of the DELOS network of excellence. The system is based on the OSIRIS/ISIS platform, a middleware environment developed by ETH Zürich and now being extended at the University of Basel.

This session introduces and demonstrates the architecture of DelosDLMS and the different DL components and services from DELOS partners that have been integrated. In addition specific functionality is presented that is being integrated or will be integrated in the future.

AGENDA

Part I
Background and Introduction to DelosDLMS
(H.-J. Schek and H. Schuldt)
Content-based Image Similarity Search in DLs with demos
(D. Milano)
DelosDLMS Architecture and DL processes with demo
(H. Schuldt and G. Brettlecker)
Content-based Similarity Search in DLs: Audio, Video, 3D demos
(P. Ranaldi)
Part II
Information Visualization Tools (Fastmap, SOM) demos
(P. Ranaldi)
Non-standard input devices for DLs (interactive paper, speech) demos
(G. Brettlecker)
Part III
Personalization Service
(D. Milano)
Aural Interface for Visual Impaired Users
(G. Sillaume , Virtual Resource Centre for Knowledge about Europe-CVCE)
Part IV
Wrap-up, final discussion
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