ECDL 1997: Pisa, Italy

Invited Talk

• Mark Stefik, Giuliana Lavendel:
  Libraries and Digital Property Rights. 1-10
  
• Serge Abiteboul:
  Object Database Support for Digital Libraries. 11-23
  

Supporting User Interaction

• Rob Procter, Andy McKinlay, Ana Goldenberg, Elisabeth Davenport, Peter Burnhill, Sheila Cannell:
  Enhancing Community and Collaboration in the Virtual Library. 25-40
  
• Laura A. Slaughter, Ben Shneiderman, Gary Marchionini:
  Comprehension and Object Recognition Capabilities for Presentations of Simultaneous Video Key Frame Surrogates. 41-54
  

Metadata

• James C. French, Allison L. Powell, Eric Schulman, John L. Pfaltz:
  Automating the Construction of Authority Files in Digital Libraries: A Case Study. 55-71
  
• Klaus Tochtermann, Wolf-Fritz Riekert, Gerlinde Wiest, Jürgen Seggelke, Birgit Mohaupt-Jahr:
  Using Semantic, Geographical, and Temporal Relationships to Enhance Search and Retrieval in Digital Catalogs. 73-86
  
• Renato Iannella:
  Metadata Repositories using PICS. 87-98
  

Information Retrieval I

• Alan F. Smeaton, Francis Crimmins:
  Relevance Feedback and Query Expansion for Searching the Web: A Model for Searching a Digital Library. 99-112
  
• Jay M. Ponte, W. Bruce Croft:
  Text Segmentation by Topic. 113-125
  
• David Hawking:
  Scalable Text Retrieval for Large Digital Libraries. 127-145
  

Architectures

• Arturo Crespo, Hector Garcia-Molina:
  Awareness Services for Digital Libraries. 147-171
  
• Christos Nikolaou, Manolis Marazakis, Dimitris Papadakis, Yiorgos Yeorgiannakis, Jakka Sairamesh:
  Towards a Common Infrastructure for Large-scale Distributed Applications. 173-193
  
• Giovanni Semeraro, Floriana Esposito, Donato Malerba, Nicola Fanizzi, Stefano Ferilli:
  Machine Learning + On-line Libraries = IDL. 195-214
  

Multilingual Information Retrieval

• Myriam Dartois, Akira Maeda, Takehisa Fujita, Tetsuo Sakaguchi, Shigeo Sugimoto, Koichi Tabata:
  Building a Multi-lingual Electronic Text Collection of Folk Tales as a Set of Encapsulated Document Objects: An Approach for Casual Users to Browse Multi-lingual Documents on the Fly. 215-231
  
• Reginald Ferber:
  Automated Indexing with Thesaurus Descriptors: A Co-occurence Based Approach to Multilingual Retrieval. 233-252
  
• Paraic Sheridan, Martin Braschler, Peter Schäuble:
  Cross-Language Information Retrieval in a Multilingual Legal Domain. 253-268
  

Structured Documents

• Andrea Bozzi, Sylvie Calabretto:
  The Digital Library and Computational Philology: The BAMBI Project. 269-285
  
• Thomas A. Phelps, Robert Wilensky:
  Multivalent Annotations. 287-303
  
• Vassilis Christophides, Martin Doerr, Irini Fundulaki:
  A Semantic Network Approach to Semi-Structured Documents Repositories. 305-324
  

Information Retrieval II

• Carlo Meghini, Fabrizio Sebastiani, Umberto Straccia:
  Modelling the Retrieval of Structured Documents Containing Texts and Images. 325-344
  
• Stephen M. Harding, W. Bruce Croft, C. Weir:
  Probabilistic Retrieval of OCR Degraded Text Using N-Grams. 345-359
  

Case Studies

• Trudi C. Noordermeer:
  Deposit for Dutch Electronic Publications: Research and Practice in The Netherlands. 361-373
  
• Michael Breu, Ricarda Weber:
  Charging for a Digital Library - The Business Model and the Cost Models of the MeDoc Digital Library. 375-385
  
• Sylvie Mony:
  Bibliothèque Nationale de France's Audiovisual System: Digital Audio, Video, and Photo Consultation in a Library. 387-403
  
• Jochen Bern, Carsten Damm, Christoph Meinel:
  The Electronic Colloquium on Computational Complexity (ECCC): A Digital Library in Use. 405-421