Tutorial I

Hsinchun Chen, Ph.D.: McClelland Professor, University of Arizona; Director, Artificial Intelligence Lab; Director, COPLINK Center; Principal Investigator, NSF DLI1, DLI2, and NSDL Programs; Founder, Knowledge Computing Corporation

Abstract: This tutorial will review knowledge management and its related disciplines in the first part. The talk will cover definitions, methodologies, and examples from library science, management, and computer science -- three major disciplines that contribute to knowledge management. The second part will provide case studies of selected digital library projects in knowledge management from my research lab, including: web mining and visualization, news map creation, business intelligence analysis and visualization, multilingual scientific web portals, personal web agents, customer relation management visualization, and newsgroup analysis and visualization. Implications and lessons learned will be discussed during the tutorial. This tutorial is suitable for information and IT professionals of all levels. It is also highly relevant to library and information science, computer science, and management students of all levels.

 Tutorial II

Tutorial Title: “Learning/Teaching Digital Libraries: An Overview”

Prof. Edward A. Fox
Dept. of Computer Science, 660 McBryde Hall, M/C 0106
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA

Abstract: This tutorial will provide a thorough and deep overview and introduction to the digital library (DL) field, introducing and building upon a firm theoretical foundation (starting with “5S”: Streams, Structures, Spaces, Scenarios, Societies), giving careful definitions and explanations of all the key parts of a “minimal digital library”, and expanding from that basis to cover key DL issues, illustrated with a well-chosen set of case studies. Attendees will receive a first draft copy of a textbook under development by Fox and his former Ph.D. student Gonçalves, with tentative title “Foundations for Information Systems: Digital Libraries and the 5S Framework,” based in part on ideas explored in Dr. Gonçalves’ dissertation.

 Tutorial III

Tutorial Title : Evaluation of Digital Libraries

Yin-Leng Theng
School of Communication and Information
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Abstract : This tutorial introduces participants to the basic concepts of Digital Libraries (DLs) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). It presents participants with a practical approach to the evaluation of DLs using established techniques in HCI. Participants will explore creative design methods to ensure that the computer/user interface conforms to common usability criteria, or to the usability objectives that have been identified as part of the requirements analysis process. This tutorial provides participants with the ability to apply usability techniques such as usability inspection methods, and experimental evaluation techniques to DLs throughout the software lifecycle to ensure the development of useful and usable DLs. This workshop also explores the implications of “digital librarianship” and examines social, economic, policy, cultural and ethical issues surrounding DLs.

 Tutorial IV

Tutorial Title: "Developing Your Own Institutional Visual Memory for Universal Access"

Ching-chih Chen, Professor
Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College
Principal Investigator of Global Memory Net*
*A major digital library project support by two major grants from the National Science Foundation/International Digital Library Program

Abstract : Every library, archive and/or museum possesses a large quantity of visual resources – still images, videos, sound, etc. This tutorial will attempt to answer the following questions:
• Do you want to know how to create your institutional digital memory with these
invaluable resources?
• How do you start and what process will be involved?
• How to turn your analog visual resources to digital?
• How to provide annotative information on these?
• What kind of metadata should you create and how?
• What technical know-how is required to begin?
• How to share your digital memory over the Web?
• How to link your resources with other major digital memory for universal access?
This tutorial will challenge you to start creating a prototype digital memory using your own visual resources after obtaining the basic information and knowledge related to general planning, resource inventory and selection, digitization, and metadata creation and development, as well as knowledge on technology related matters, such as those related to web presentation and distribution, possible server application, etc.

 Tutorial V

Tutorial Title : New Search and Browsing Technologies for Multimedia Content

Professor Katsumi Tanaka (biosketch forthcoming)
Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University

Abstract: The tutorial will describe concepts and technologies for searching and browsing "ambient multimedia content" (media types and places). Currently, digital content are represented by different media such as text, images, video etc. Also, digital content are created, stored and used on a variety of places such as independent digital archives, World Wide Web, TV HDD/DVD recorders, personal PCs, digital appliances and mobile devices. The viewing styles of these amibient multimedia content are different. That is, WWW content are accessed and viewed in an active manner such as a conventional Web browser (reading, scrolling and clicking interface). On the other hand, TV content are accessed and viewed in a passive manner. As for the searching these "ambient multimedia content", currently, many commercial search engines cover only WWW content and personal PC contents, called "desktop search". The tutorial consists of 3 parts. The first part is concerned with the search and integrating technologies for amibient multimedia contents. The main topics of the part are query-free retrieval, complementary-information retrieval, and cross-media meta-search. These technologies are to search/integrate for ambient multimedia contents across the difference of media types and places of the target digital contents. The second part describes ways of browsing amibient multimeida content. The main topics of the second part are new browsers by meida conversion of digital content, concurrent and comparative browsers for multiple contents. For example, the proposed browsers have an ability to automatically convert Web content into TV content, and vice versa. The last part of the tutorial is concerned with mining technologies for integrating those ambient multimedia content and for computing the "trustness" of the searched results.

 Tutorial VI

Tutorial Title: "Open Access Scholarly Databases on the Web"

Peter Jacso
Professor, Department of  Information and Computer Sciences
University of Hawaii

Abstract : The tutorial will provide an overview of the partially and fully open access scholarly databases and digital archives on the Web. These resources are essential for the less affluent college and research libraries, and for the researchers not affiliated with academic and other research libraries.  There is a large variety of partially or fully open access scholarly databases ranging from indexing/abstracting and numerical/statistical databases to digital archives and repositories of full text articles, conference papers, and research reports. These are made available for anyone free of charge by government agencies, international organizations, commercial publishers and their digital facilitators, as well as by societies, associations, and entrepreneurial groups. The tutorial will also discuss the highlights and limitations of some of the innovative open access scholarly resource discovery and evaluation tools, such as CiteSeer, CiteBase, RePEc, HubMed, and Google Scholar.

 Biographies

Hsinchun Chen
is McClelland Professor of Management Information Systems at the University of Arizona and Andersen Consulting Professor of the Year (1999). He received the B.S. degree from the National Chiao-Tung University in Taiwan, the MBA degree from SUNY Buffalo, and the Ph.D. degree in Information Systems from the New York University. He is author/editor of 10 books and more than 130 SCI journal articles covering intelligence analysis, biomedical informatics, data/text/web mining, digital library, knowledge management, and Web computing. His recent books include: “Medical Informatics: Knowledge Management and Data Mining in Biomedicine” and “Intelligence and Security Informatics for National Security: Information Sharing and Data Mining,” both published by Springer. Dr. Chen was ranked #8 in publication productivity in Information Systems (CAIS 2005) and #1 in Digital Library research (IP&M 2005) in two recent bibliometric studies. He serves
on the editorial board of ACM Transactions on Information Systems, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, and Decision Support System. Dr. Chen is a Scientific Counselor/Advisor of the National Library of Medicine (USA), Academia Sinica ( Taiwan ), and National Library of China (China ), and has served as an advisor for major NSF, DOJ, NLM, and other international research programs in digital library, digital government, medical informatics, and national security research. Dr. Chen is founding director of the UA Artificial Intelligence Lab and the Hoffman E-Commerce Lab. The Artificial Intelligence Lab, which houses 40+ researchers, has received more than $20M in research funding from NSF, NIH, NLM, DOJ, CIA, and other agencies over the past 15 years. The Hoffman E-Commerce Lab, which has been funded mostly by major IT industry partners, features one of the most advanced e-commerce hardware and software environments in the College of Management. Dr. Chen has served as the conference/program co-chair for the past eight International Conferences of Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL), the premiere digital library meeting in Asia that he helped develop, as well as the 2004 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL). Dr. Chen is also (founding) conference co-chair of the IEEE International Conferences on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI) 2003-2005. The ISI conference, which has been sponsored by NSF, CIA, DHS, and NIJ, has become the premiere meeting for national and homeland security IT research. Dr. Chen’s COPLINK system, which has been quoted as a national model for public safety information sharing and analysis, has been adopted in more than 150 law enforcement and intelligence agencies. COPLINK research has recently been expanded to border protection (BorderSafe), disease and bioagent surveillance (BioPortal), and terrorism informatics research (Dark Web), funded by NSF, CIA, and DHS. Dr. Chen has also received numerous awards in information technology and knowledge management education and research including: AT&T Foundation Award, SAP Award, the Andersen Consulting Professor of the Year Award, the University of Arizona Technology Innovation Award, and the National Chaio-Tung University Distinguished Alumnus Award.

Ching-Chih Chen
is Professor of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College, Boston, and is a consultant and speaker to over 40 countries. She is the author/editor of more than 35 books and over 200 journal articles in areas of new information technologies, such as global digital libraries, multimedia technology, digital imaging, interactive videodisc technology, global information infrastructure, information management, and information resources, etc. She produced the award winning interactive videodisc and multimedia CD entitled The First Emperor of China, supported by the US National Endowment for Humanities (NEH). Currently she is leading two major NSF/International Digital Library Projects (IDLP): (1) Global Memory Net, a gateway to the world cultural, historical, and heritage multimedia resources, with collaborators from different part of the world, and (2) International Collaboration to Advance User-oriented Technologies for Managing and Distributing Images in Digital Libraries. She is also co-PI, with Prof. Raj Reddy, of the China-US Million Book Digital Library Project. A Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, she was appointed by President Clinton in February 1997 to serve as a member of the U.S. President's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC). PITAC was established by a new Presidential Executive Order. Under both Presidents Clinton and Bush during 1997 to December 2002, she co-chaired the PITAC Subcommittee on International Issues, and was a member of the PITAC Subcommittees on Next Generation Internet (NGI) and IT*2 Initiative Review; and Panels on Digital Divide, Digital Library, Learning of the Future, and Individual Security. She also chaired the PITAC's activity on Digital Divide for Smaller Institutions. During 1987 to 2001, Dr. Chen was Chief Organizer of a series of 12 International Conferences on New Information Technology (NIT) in many continents of the world. The outcome of NIT '99 (Taipei) and NIT'2001 (Beijing) are the two-volume books related to the development of Global Digital Libraries – IT and Global Digital Library Development (1999) and Global Digital Library Development in the New Millennium: Fertile Ground for Distributed Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration (2001). She is a recipient of many major awards, and was also elected in 1985 as Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She served as an Honorary Professor of Tsinghua University in Beijing from August 1999 to 2002 and University of Hainan, China since 2004. Active in the digital library area she was the co-Chair of the 4th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) of 2004 held in Tucson, Arizona in June 2004. She was on the Advisory Board of DELOS (the European Digital Network for Excellence), serving as the US Co-Chair of the NSF/DELOS Working Group in Digital Imagery for Significant Cultural, Historical and Heritage Materials, and served as the co-editor for the Journal of Digital Library’s Special Issue on Multimedia Contents in Digital Libraries. A sought-after international speaker, in this year alone, she delivered keynote speeches and made presentations at many international conferences including those in Delhi and Bangalore, India; Dubrovnik Croatia; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Beijing, Shanghai and Hangzhou, China, etc. She is on the advisory board of the major China Digital Library Project of the National Library of China, and in October 2005, she was appointed as a consultant to OCLC for its Global Digital Initiative.

Edward Fox
holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science from Cornell University, and a B.S. from M.I.T. Since 1983 he has been at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VPI&SU or Virginia Tech), where he serves as Professor of Computer Science. He directs the Internet Technology Innovation Center at Virginia Tech, Digital Library Research Laboratory, Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations, and Computing and Information Technology Interactive Digital Educational Library (CITIDEL). He has been (co)PI on over 80 research and development projects. In addition to his courses at Virginia Tech, Dr. Fox has taught over 50 tutorials in more than 18 countries. He has given more than 35 keynote/banquet/international invited /
distinguished speaker presentations, over 75 refereed conference/workshop papers, and over 250 additional presentations. For the Association for Computing Machinery he is co-editor-in-chief for ACM Journal of Educational Resources in Computing, member of the editorial board for ACM Transactions on Information Systems, and was General Chair for the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries '2001. Earlier, he served 1988-91 as a member of the Publications Board and as editor-in-chief of ACM Press Database Products (responsible for the broad area of electronic publishing including online, CD-ROM, hypertext, interactive multimedia, and developing an electronic library). He also served from 1987-95 as vice chair and then chair of the Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval, from 1992-94 as founder and chairman of the Steering Committee for the ACM Multimedia series of conferences, and from 1995-1998 as founder and chairman of the Steering Committee for the ACM Digital Libraries series of conferences. He served as Program Chair for ACM DL'99, ACM DL'96, and ACM SIGIR'95. He was lead guest editor for Communications of the ACM special issues July 1989, April 1991, April 1995, April 1998, and May 2001. In the 1980s he was project director for the Virginia Disc series of CD-ROMs as well as for VPI&SU work on interactive digital video. He is editor for the Morgan Kaufmann Publishers book series on Multimedia Information and Systems. He also serves on the editorial boards of Electronic Publishing (Origination, Dissemination and Design), IEEE Multimedia, Information Processing and Management, Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, Journal of Universal Computer Science, and Multimedia Tools and Applications. He serves at Chairman of the IEEE-CS Technical Committee on Digital Libraries. He has co-authored/edited 8 books, 65 journal/magazine articles, 28 book chapters, and many reports. These are in the areas of digital libraries, information storage and retrieval, hypertext/hypermedia/multimedia, computational linguistics, CD-ROM and optical disc technology, electronic publishing, and expert systems.

Lin Yeng Theng
completed her PhD in 1997 on addressing the “lost in hyperspace” problem in hypertext. She then joined Middlesex University (London) as a Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer from 1998 to 2001. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor at the School of Communication and Information, and Deputy Director at the Centre for Human Factors and Ergonomics, Nanyang Technological University (NTU, Singapore). She teaches in the Information Studies Masters Programme: Human-Computer Interaction and Digital Libraries & Information Portals. Dr. Theng is the co-editor of a book on “Design and Usability of Digital Libraries: Case Studies in the Asia Pacific” (2005), and she has published more than 60 papers in peer-reviewed journals/books and international conferences. She was awarded two research grants from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC, UK) during her four years of teaching at Middlesex University : (1) Design and Evaluation of User-Centred Digital Libraries; and (2) Usability Evaluation Techniques for the Design of Interactive Digital Libraries. In 2003, she was awarded a NTU grant to work on a suite of qualitative and quantitative techniques to help designers build usable and useful digital libraries on the Web and the mobile environments. She is also leading a couple of research projects that investigate user and usability issues in diverse areas which include: User Interface Design; Ethics; Security; Privacy and Trust; Healthcare Informatics, Hypertext & Web; Information Technology & Education and Information Literacy. Examples of these projects are : (a) Information Needs and Web-Based Information Systems for Senior Citizens; (b) Digital Libraries Bridging the Culture and Social Gap; (c) A Virtual Digital Library for Children Investigating Cultural Preferences; (d) Design and Development of a Reusability of Learning Objects System; (e) Knowledge Portal for Nurses/Admin Portal on Disaster Response and Mobilisation; and (f) Perceived Value of Digital Information in a Public Library Collection. She is also a co-investigator/collaborator on several funded research projects on geospatial digital libraries, and mobile devices. She is currently co-editing two books : (I) challenges in user interface design exploring emergent issues in ethics, trust, privacy and security; and (II) measuring mobile usability in ubiquitous and wearable computing devices.

Peter Jacso
is a professor at the Library and Information Science Program of the Department of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Hawaii. He is a native of Hungary where he managed the computer services for education and research, then the library and information services at the International Computer Education and Information Center in Budapest. He started his career in the U.S. as a visiting associate professor at Columbia University in 1989. He has developed several graduate courses on various subjects, including  Digital Librarianship, Online Searching, Content Evaluation of Digital Resources, Database Design, and The Information Industry. For his course development work he received the Pratt-Severn Faculty Innovation Award in Library and Information Studies from the Association of Library and Information Science Educators. For his teaching he received the Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award of the American Society for Information Science & Technology and the Institute for Scientific Information.  His research area includes such topics as database design, database quality, information retrieval software, content and software evaluation of scholarly digital archives and digital reference sources, citation analysis and the impact factor of scholarly journals. He has published several books, and conference papers, and written close to 500 articles and reviews about these topics in research journals such as Current Science, Cortex, Library Software Review, Library & Information Science Research, and in his regular columns and editorials in Online, Database, Online Information Review, Computers in Libraries, and Information Today,  as well as in his Web-born review column hosted by the Gale Group. The latest survey of publishing activity by faculty members of accredited LIS programs identified him as the second most productive faculty member among 700 peers in the U.S. and Canada. This survey is based on data collected from 8,000 journals monitored and analyzed by the Citation Indexes of the Institute for Scientific Information. For his writings he received the Louis Shores-Oryx Press Award for excellence in the reviewing of databases from the American Library Association Reference & User Services Association, the Excellence in Writing Award of UMI, and the Electronic Library Best Paper of the Year Award of Learned Information Ltd. and GEAC. He has been on the editorial advisory board of British, American, Spanish and Hungarian scholarly journals, as well as on the educational advisory board of large information services corporations. He has been project consultant for Unesco, UNIDO, and the UN Transnational Program, and consulted several U.S. information organizations  (H.W. Wilson, OCLC, Dialog Information Services, Ovid Corporation, etc.). Jacso has been very active on the conference circuit as a speaker, organizer, chair and workshop presenter. He has been the keynote speaker at the 7th Australasian Online Conference,  the 3rd South African Online Conference, and the InfoPro 2005 conference of the Japan Society for Information Science and Technology. He has offered many workshops and tutorials about his research topics at the International Online Meeting, the Internet Librarian conference, Online World, the National Online Meeting, the ALA Midwinter Conference, the conferences of the Hawaii Library Association and the Hawaii Association of School Librarians, at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Scholarly Publishing, the annual meeting of the Japan Information Science and Technology Association, and at the 9th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries. For further information see (http://www2.hawaii.edu/~jacso/).