UKJWDL

1. UKJWDL Reports of Group Discussions Friday Afternoon 8/11/2000

2. Fri 1:30pm Breakout Groups: Charge • What is the problem? • What specific part(s) of it can be solved in the short (1yr), medium (3yr), long term (5yr)? What are the dimensions of solution(s)? • Technology, policy, legal, digitization, mgmnt, … • What is new? Why invest in solving the problem(s) now? What difference will it make if solved? Who will benefit? How? • Who needs to be involved? Why? • What resources exist to support this application? • How will you know when have succeeded? What are the evaluation method(s)? Deliverables?

3. Fri 1:30pm Breakout Groups • Cultural Heritage • Education • Infrastructure (in separate file)

4. Cultural Heritage –The Opportunity • Korea has large collections of cultural heritage resources that are only available in Korea. They are not available to international researchers without those researchers traveling to Korea. • Ancient documents have been scanned for preservation purposes but are available only in image form. (Korea is responsible for this digitization effort.) • Even these materials that are available digitally lack conformance with international standards. • Language barriers seriously impede usage. • Precious ancient artifacts must be preserved before they are lost or destroyed.

5. The Problem, cont’d The US-Korean cultural exchange of information is lop-sided. • Non-conformance to standards • Language barrier • Low proportion of information digitized (most is in page image form) • Lack of metadata support • Complications of character sets and dialects • OCR not up to the challenge

6. The Solution • Phase 1 – It’s new & novel! • Build balanced core corpus • Text, images (art objects, places, people, rare books…), maps, dictionaries … • 3D representations of objects and spaces • Build bilingual resources • Dictionaries, lexicons • Assemble parallel & comparable corpora • Build best-of-class prototype based on current state of art • Demonstrate capability, feasibility, and functionality • Establish critical mass of people, infrastructure, and information resources • Evaluate sufficiency of current standards • E.g., TEI DTDs for Korean CH resources • Prepare for issues of long-term preservation

7. The Solution, cont’d • Phase 2 – It’s useful & desirable! • Interoperable applications • Extend prototype into educational domain • Language technologies • Metadata • Build ontologies • Refine translation tools • Develop scholarly translation resources (commentaries, hand-tooled translations, • Prepare for scale-up • Validate architecture (may need some retrofit based on new R&D) • Begin the production operaitons • User evaluation studies (needs the critical mass of resources)

8. The Solution, cont’d • Phase 3 – It’s assumed & unnoticed! • Cross-lingual transparency • CLIR • Multimedia support • Extraction, summarization • Cross-disciplinary research and analysis • Cross-cultural learning and collaboration • Transformation of manual scholarly practice • Documents designed for digital library • Geo-referenced everything (e.g., all images) • Many details • Disambiguation of proper names • Co-reference • Authority control

9. (Some) Dimensions of Problem • Policy • Make clear IP arrangements up front and make no compromises • Lock in (what you thought was) the obvious • Once in, never out (only move forward) • Technology • Content-based multimedia information retrieval

10. What’s New? Why Now? • Maturation of basic DL technologies • Globally networked world • Broadband, expanding US infrastructure • Wired & wireless infrastructure in Korea • Korean commitment to digitization of cultural heritage resources for global consumption • Enlightened self-interest in global conformance to standards and best practices • Emerging international DL interests and opportunities

11. Who Benefits? • Who doesn’t? • Revolutionizes access to high quality information of Korean culture • Essentially inaccessible anywhere in the US today • Expands accessibility of American cultural resources to Korea • Enables greatly enhanced multicultural education and collaboration opportunities

12. Who’s Involved… Why? • Universities • Government – • Other disciplines emerging as relevant • Cognitive scientists • Librarians

13. What’s needed? • Digitized resources produced through government resources (e.g., MIC) • Currently existing DL’s for comparable corpora in the west • Language technologies existing and under development • Coherent leadership (beginning now)

14. How will we know it worked? • Quantitative measures (Size & usage statistics) • Number of users • Number of objects • US vs. Korean users • Qualitative measures • International usability and usage

15. Needs analysis: strategies? Will shift, is only preliminary Creation Curricula, priority setting Authoring tools Collection not content Except separate NSF CCLI: CourseCurriculumLaboratoryImprovement Discovery Metadata creation/search Research/exploration Personalization/tailoring Delivery Rendering on varied devices Repurposing/reuse Aggregation/Integration tools Courses from resources Evaluation Educational resources Faculty/instructors Education: 5 phases

16. Novelty Reuse Innovative delivery Highly interactive Multimedia Virtual experiments Strong need ESL Opportunities CyberEducation Distance education Education: Emphases

17. ETDs, TRs: add, use Offer NSDL content in Korea, and get Korean content added Cross-country distance / cyber education offerings Experiments in ubiquitous delivery of digital library resources thru wireless Applying OAi so harvest to produce a course Add value to resources (esp. lang. ind. services) Virtual documents Walden paths (Furuta) Time/space – multiple views Video/images What can we do?

18. Tools/systems Critical mass of resources Working testbed Users of testbed Study period to assess benefits Collaborative teams: Must have:

19. Science/technology Cultural heritage materials … Subject areas: