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Digital Libraries: Promises and Related Challenges. Yannis Ioannidis University of Athens, Hellas (Greece) yannis@di.uoa.gr. DELOS Project Family Tree. BRICKS IP. DELOS NoE. DELOS NoE. DILIGENT IP. FP5. FP6. Project Interactions. DCC. NESC. NSDL. Digitization Cluster. BRICKS.
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Digital Libraries: Promises and Related Challenges Yannis Ioannidis University of Athens, Hellas (Greece) yannis@di.uoa.gr
DELOS Project Family Tree BRICKS IP DELOS NoE DELOS NoE DILIGENT IP FP5 FP6
Project Interactions DCC NESC NSDL Digitization Cluster BRICKS CALIMERA EVA DILI GENT CORE GRID DELOS EPOCH SEE- GRID EGEE PRESTO SPACE MINERVA SEKT
DL Definition • What: information and services • comprehensive • rich forms and kinds • read-and-expand-only • Why: learning and research • When: value at depth of time
Information Space for DLs High Databases/IR Structure of Behavior Digital Libraries Web High Low Structure of Data
Conceptual Framework Usage Management Contents Digital Library System
Current Methodology Content-centric Targeted for static storage Environment-specific Isolated and repeated efforts Isolated systems
Current Myths Digital Libraries are for things in Libraries only Digital Libraries are for Cultural Heritage only
Grand 10-Year Vision #1 Digital librariesshould enable any citizen to access all human knowledge anytime and anywhere, in a friendly, multi-modal,efficient, and effective way, by overcoming barriers of distance, language, and culture and by using multiple Internet-connected devices
Grand 10-Year Vision #2 The potential exists for digital libraries to become theuniversalknowledgerepositoriesandcommunication conduitsforthefuture,acommonvehiclebywhicheveryonewillaccess,discuss, evaluate, and enhanceinformationofallforms
Visualisation (generic) User Interface (generic) Access (generic) Preservation (generic) Digital Library Management Systems Visualisation (specialised) Personalisation Customisation User Interface (specialised) Management Access (specialised) Spoken-Word Audio Mgmt Preservation (specialised)
Future Digital Libraries Content-centric Targeted for static storage Environment-specific/Isolated and repeated efforts Isolated systems Myths about restricted applications Person-centric Targeted for active communication/collaboration Generic DLMS technology to build on Global distributed interacting systems “All” applications
DL Vision and UNESCO WSIS Information for All Human Capacity Building Personal Information Culture Education Cultural Diversity Universal Access to Public Domain Info Freedom of Expression Partnership and Cooperation Digitization and Preservation
'Society' Operational Context Users Providers `Science’
'Society' Interfaces Interfaces DL Information Space (One instantiation per 'society‘) Operational Context Users Providers
Stakeholders • Past-Present: users and providers are mutually exclusive sets • Future: `user’ and `provider’ are roles • Same actor may play both roles at different times • DLs at the center of scientific activity (collaboration & communication tool) • Increases set of actors and set of applications
Applications • DLs as parts of larger organizations and application contexts: • Health • Inclusion • Science • Government • Culture • Learning ... • Libraries, Museums, Archives, Hospitals, …
Person-Centric Research • Personalized, customized, context-dependent, task-specific, knowledge-based, goal-oriented user/information interaction • Harvest info across linguistic boundaries
Person-Centric Research • Adding personal memory to global memory, originator notification • Collaboration, social context • Distributed (peer-to-peer) data creation/publication • Communication via annotations • Tools for building communities
Person-Centric Research • Accessibility, usability • Security, privacy, authorization • Balancing cognitive load between user and information environment
Vision Danger Antidotes • Dealing with the avalanche of information available • Protection of individuals’ privacy from sensors • Balance between privacy and personalization
Rebirth of the Field DIGITAL LIBRARIES DYNAMIC UNIVERSAL KNOWLEDGE ENVIRONMENTS
Rebirth of the Field DIGITAL LIBRARIES DYNAMIC UNIVERSAL COMMONS of KNOWLEDGE
Conclusions • Vision for future Digital Libraries/DUKEs/DUCKs • Person-centric rather than Content-centric • Collaboration/communication • Cultural diversity • Linguistic diversity • Universality