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Workspace Narrative Exploration: overcoming Interruption-Caused Context Loss in Information Seeking Tasks
(2009)
As digital libraries become more prevalent and as the amount of
accessible online information grows, users often must consult diverse
information collections in carrying out tasks. Simultaneously, the impact of
frequent ...
Optimal Support for Information Seeking Strategies by Adapting the User Interface
(2009)
To satisfy their information needs, information searchers employ a host of search actions, that fall
into different classes. Whereas most current IR systems only support one or very few of these actions
well, we aim at the ...
The Vicentini sound archive of the Arena di Verona Foundation: a preservation and restoration project
(2009)
In the sound archive field, a long-term maintenance
of the collective human memory in its original
form is not sustainable. All physical carriers are subject
to degradation and the information stored on such carriers
is ...
Towards the Disintermediation of Creative Music Search: analysing Queries To Determine Important Facets
(2009)
Creative professionals search for music to
accompany moving images in films, advertising,
television. Some larger music rights holders (record
companies and music publishers) organise their
catalogues to allow online ...
A location-tracking interface for ethnomusicological collections
(2009)
Annotation in ethnomusicological archives is often
incomplete, and searches involving artist’s or composer’s
name often do not apply. We propose a novel system for
intuitive exploration of ethnomusicological recordings
which ...
MultiMatch: multiple Access to Cultural Heritage
(2009)
Our shared cultural heritage (CH) is an essential part of our
European identity, transcending cultural and language barriers. The aim
of the MultiMatch project is to enable users to explore and interact with
online ...
A Novel Web Archiving Approach based on Visual Pages Analysis
(2009)
Due to the growing importance of the World Wide Web,
archiving the web has become a cultural necessity in preserving
knowledge. To maintain a web archive up-to-date,
crawlers harvest the web by iteratively downloading new ...
A Hybrid Distributed Architecture for Indexing
(2009)
This paper presents a hybrid scavenger grid as an underlying hardware
architecture for search services within digital libraries. The hybrid scavenger
grid consists of both dedicated servers and dynamic resources in the ...
Superimposed Image Description and Retrieval for Fish Species Identification
(2009)
Fish species identification is critical to the study of fish ecology
and management of fisheries. Traditionally, dichotomous keys are
used for fish identification. The keys consist of questions about the observed
specimen. ...