First Asia Digital Library Workshop

Theme: East meets West

Dates: 6 - 7 August 1998

Venue: Council Chamber*, 8th floor, Meng Wah Complex, The University of Hong Kong

(*unless otherwise specified, all sessions will be held here)

August 6

09:00 � 09:30	Registration
09:30 � 09:40	Opening by Prof. Felix Wu, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research), the University of Hong Kong
09:40 � 10:10	Digital Campus Initiative at the University of Hong Kong Prof. Kai-ming Cheng, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Staffing), the University of Hong Kong
10:10 � 10:30	Digital Library Initiative, Dr. Stephen Griffin, Program Director of Digital Library Initiative, National Science Foundation, U.S.A. (Read by Prof. Christine L. Borgman, Presidential Chair in Information Studies, UCLA)
10:30 � 11:00	Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations: A Framework of East-West Collaboration, Prof. Ed Fox, Virginia Tech.
11:00 � 11:30	Coffee Break
11:30 � 12:00	Social Aspects of Digital Libraries: Making Information Technology Usable and Useful, Prof. Christine L. Borgman, Presidential Chair in Information Studies, UCLA
12:00 � 12:30	IBM Digital Library Initiative in Asia Pacific Region, Dr. Casteret K. Cheung, IBM Content Management/Digital Library Project Office
12:30 � 14:00	Lunch
14:00 � 15:20	Parallel Sessions Session 1: Chinese Information Searching Session Chair: Hsinchun Chen Venue: Meng Wah 802 Intelligent Chinese Information Retrieval - Why Is It So Difficult? Kam-Fai Wong and Wenjie Li, Chinese University of Hong Kong A New Hybrid Approach for Chinese-English Query Guo-Wei Bian and Hsin-hsi Chen, National Taiwan University Chinese Indexing using Mutual Information Christopher C. Yang, Jerome Yen, Stanley K. Yung, and Alan K. L. Chung, the University of Hong Kong Session 2: Digital Library Experience Session Chair: Judith Klavans Venue: Council Chamber Digital Projects at the University of Hong Kong Libraries : An Experience Dr. Lai Bing Kan, The University of Hong Kong A Digital Library Initiative of the Hong Kong Institute of Education Library Lucia Tsui, Victor Cheng, Edith Wu, and Y. K. Cheung, Hong Kong Institute of Education The Work and Research of Peking University on Realizing Library Modernization Sun Bianhua & Zhu Qiang, Peking University An Overview of the National Taiwan University Digital Museum Project Hsiang Jieh, National Taiwan University
15:20 � 15:40	Coffee Break
15:40 � 17:00	Parallel Sessions Session 3: Internet and Digital Library Session Chair: Xing Li Venue: Council Chamber Criteria for Evaluation of Internet Resources in a Digital Library Environment Alastair G. Smith, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand A Data Warehousing System for Web Information Lim En Peng, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Distributing Digital Libraries on the Web, CD-ROMs, and Intranets: Same Information, Same Look-and-feel, Different Media Ian Witten, Sally Jo Cunningham, Bill Rogers, Rodger McNab, and Stefan Boddie, University of Waikato, New Zealand Session 4: Digital Library and Data Management Session chair: Su-shing Chen Venue: Meng Wah 802 A General Object-Oriented Framework of Digital Libraries Su-Shing Chen, University of Missouri � Columbia Data Mining Based on Temporal Information in a Digital Library Jian-Hua Yeh, Hsiu-Ping Lin, Chun-Yuan shao, Yi-Chin Tu, and Yen-Jen Oyang, National Taiwan University Digital Libraries, Metadata and Text Processing Kuang-hua Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan A Metadata Framework for Multimedia Resource Delivery Systems in Digital Library Young Jong Yang, Sang Duck Lee, Sang Don Lee, Han Suk Choi, Mokpo National University, Korea

August 7

09:30 � 10:00	An Overview of the Informedia Research and Experience with the Creation and Use of Digital Video Libraries, Prof. Howard Wactlar, Vice Provost, CMU
10:00 � 10:30	Cluster Computer and Digital Library, Prof. Kai Hwang, Chair of Computer Engineering, the University of Hong Kong
10:30 � 11:00	The Illinois Digital Library Initiative Project: Federating Repositories and Semantic Research, Prof. Hsinchun Chen, University of Arizona
11:00 � 11:20	Coffee Break
11:20 � 12:40	Parallel Sessions Session 5: Technology for Digital Library Session Chair: Jieh Hsiang Venue: Meng Wah 802 A CORBA-based Information Integration Framework for Building Large-Scale Digital Library Xiaochun Yang, Guoren Wang, Ge Yu, and Dik Lun Lee, Northeastern University, China, and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology OCR Text Verification and Retrieval Using a PAT-tree-based N-gram Indexing Technique Lee-Feng Chien and Chun-Liang Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Finding Index Terms from Text Documents Yip Chi Lap and Ben Kao, University of Hong Kong Session 6: Digital Library Applications Session Chair: Ed Fox Venue: Council Chamber Digital Library Initiatives in Singapore Julie Sabaratnam, National Computer Board, Singapore Digital Libraries: Collection Development Considerations David T. Palmer, The University of Hong Kong Transparency and Efficiency in Financial Information Transmission and Financial Digital Library Jerome Yen, Adela Lau, Alan Chung, and David Yeung, The University of Hong Kong
12:40 � 14:00	Lunch
14:00 � 15:30	Parallel Panels Panel 1: Technology and Digital Library Chairman: Howard Wactlar, CMU Venue: Council Chamber Panelists: Hsinchun Chen, U. of Arizona Su-shing Chen, U. of Missouri Jieh Hsiang, National Taiwan University Ian Witten, University of Waikato, New Zealand Panel 2: Management and Policy Issues of Digital Library Chairman Christine Borgman, UCLA Venue: Meng Wah 802 Panelists: Ed Fox, Virginia Tech Judith Klavans, Columbia U. Julie Savaratnam, NCB, Singapore Shigeo Sugimoto, ULIS, Japan
15:30 � 15:50	Coffee Break
15:50 � 17:30	Panel: Development of Universal Digital Libraries Chair: Christine Borgman, UCLA Panelists Hsinchun Chen, U. of Arizona Jieh Hsaing, National Taiwan University Ed Fox, Virginia Tech. Joseph Hui, CUHK Howard Wactlar, CMU
17:30 � 18:00	Closing Ceremony