Seminar Presentation - Robert B. Allen, Visiting Professorial Fellow
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Elyse Perin
Oct 30, 2012, 7:52:16 PM10/30/12
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“Full-Text Model-Oriented Digital Libraries”
By Robert B. Allen
Visiting Professorial Fellow, School of Information Management, Victoria University of Wellington
Date: 6 November, 2012
Venue : D1-05
Time: 2:00PM – 3:00PM
Abstract
Large full-text open-access digital collections are increasingly common. Examples include massive collections of scientific research reports and digitized historical newspapers. Such collections allow the development of a new generation of digital libraries in which users can explore individual concepts, trace processes, and interact with the internal structures or the works. We describe several novel coordination widgets for both interacting within individual articles and across collections of articles. Several of the coordination widgets rely on capturing some of the rich structure found in the articles. We provide examples and discuss issues for representing that structure. We also consider the establishment of library-level standards for supporting interoperability and we examine the implications of this work for data preservation.
Large full-text open-access digital collections are increasingly common. Examples include massive collections of scientific research reports and digitized historical newspapers. Such collections allow the development of a new generation of digital libraries in which users can explore individual concepts, trace processes, and interact with the internal structures or the works. We describe several novel coordination widgets for both interacting within individual articles and across collections of articles. Several of the coordination widgets rely on capturing some of the rich structure found in the articles. We provide examples and discuss issues for representing that structure. We also consider the establishment of library-level standards for supporting interoperability and we examine the implications of this work for data preservation.
Biography:
Robert (Bob) B. Allen is a Visiting Professorial Fellow at the School of Information Management at the Victoria University of Wellington. In the past several years, his research has emphasized specification
and interaction with narrative chains such as those from stories, from scientific explanations, and from narrative history. Earlier, Dr. Allen was a pioneer in the development or recommender systems and made substantial contributions to hardware implementation
of neural networks. He has a broad teaching repertoire including Computer Supported Collaborative Work, Information Retrieval, Digital Preservation, and Language Processes. In addition, Dr. Allen has also released a comprehensive informatics textbook online
which is titled “Information: A Fundamental Construct”. Bob has been Program Chair or General Chair of several major conferences. He was Editor in Chief of the ACM Transactions on Information Systems for 10 years and Chair of the Publications Board
of the ACM. He has taught in the iSchools at Drexel and the University of Maryland. Before that, he was Senior Scientist in the Information Science Research Group at Bellcore and in Research at Bell Laboratories. He received his PhD in Social and Cognitive
Experimental Psychology from UCSD.
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