GMD German National Research Center for Information Technology Darmstadt University of Technology Perspectives and Priorities for Digital Libraries Research Erich J. Neuhold GMD-IPSI - Integrated Publication and Information Systems Institute Darmstadt University of Technology

Erich J. Neuhold - ©2000 GMD- IPSI Digital Libraries All kinds of data stores that handle multimedia information (content) describe the information (metadata) place the human in the center –know and support the human player are available at any time and at any place are connectable to other user centered applications

Erich J. Neuhold - ©2000 GMD- IPSI Digital Libraries This leads to a combination of Libraries Museums Archives Corporate and private Information Stores that are actively supported by

Erich J. Neuhold - ©2000 GMD- IPSI Informing Organisms supporting cultural heritage technology components information based simple and complex growing in functionality interoperating mobile intelligent

Erich J. Neuhold - ©2000 GMD- IPSI The Issues: A lot exists and goes on in research (components) advanced demonstrators (just working) advanced prototypes/pre-products (non scaling) products but more of it is needed in the Internet domain (i.e. global village). We have isolated solutions simple solutions technology driven solutions

Erich J. Neuhold - ©2000 GMD- IPSI Information and Knowledge Databases (object relational, objects oriented, document oriented, multimedia, active, real-time) Information Representation and Description Schemes (structured, semi-structured, unstructured, Meta-Data, QoS parameters) Information Content Analysis (text (linguistics), voice (speech), sound, image, video, sensor data, sequenced data) Information Retrieval, Filtering, Enrichment user driven, supporting team- and groupwork, integrative, intelligent, imperative, and declarative

Erich J. Neuhold - ©2000 GMD- IPSI Roles to Support (I) User supporting issues: author, theme, content, presentation, reader / usage Authoring Tools multimedia, activity-oriented, supporting group- and teamwork acquisition / authoring new and legacy material Information and Knowledge Handling Tools indexing, extraction, structuring classification, abstraction separation / integration distributing, storing

Erich J. Neuhold - ©2000 GMD- IPSI Roles to Support (II) Filtering & IR Tools searching, exploration navigation, inspection evaluation Enrichment & Adaptation Tools user oriented usage oriented situation oriented device oriented

Erich J. Neuhold - ©2000 GMD- IPSI Roles to Support (III) Presentation Tools at different granularity levels –documents, pages, modules –content and meta data semantics –manipulation and navigation for different application contexts (travel, settlement) for different activities, tasks, and workflows (creating, filtering, using, learning)

Erich J. Neuhold - ©2000 GMD- IPSI Roles to Support (IV) Usage Tools documents and document manipulation guidance to the answer evaluation of solution personalized memory personalized information pipelining communication, distribution, and mobility

Erich J. Neuhold - ©2000 GMD- IPSI Clearly Multidisciplinary Computer Science Embedded Systems Engineering Linguistics (multi-language, analysis-generation) Communication Science Library / Museum / Archive sciences Information Science Psychology (cognitive, social)

Erich J. Neuhold - ©2000 GMD- IPSI Needed for DL (I) Basic research is needed (PITAC report) separate topics (focused projects) integrated topics (large projects) Demonstrators / pilots are needed integrated but focused (what will be shown!) proof of concept

Erich J. Neuhold - ©2000 GMD- IPSI Needs for DL (II) Sustainable proto-products are needed open system approach, but still focused have to scale somewhat Products are needed integrated but application driven / exploitable have to scale have to be robust /reliable / serviceable etc. ready for start-up financing

Erich J. Neuhold - ©2000 GMD- IPSI Example: TREVI Personalized information filtering linking delivery for the News Domain

Erich J. Neuhold - ©2000 GMD- IPSI Example: TREVI

Erich J. Neuhold - ©2000 GMD- IPSI Example: TV-ONLINE personalized profiles personalized rankings collaborative filtering recommendations automatic generation of individual schedules.

Erich J. Neuhold - ©2000 GMD- IPSI Example: TV-ONLINE

Erich J. Neuhold - ©2000 GMD- IPSI Example: cyber:gallery exhibiting and selling art on the Internet applying virtual reality paradigms supporting searching and navigation supporting personalized galleries/museums and guided tours

Erich J. Neuhold - ©2000 GMD- IPSI Example: cyber:gallery

Erich J. Neuhold - ©2000 GMD- IPSI Example: Videocube visualization of scenes and camera movement in videostreams access to structure and content direct manipulation of meta data and data (technical and semantic levels)

Erich J. Neuhold - ©2000 GMD- IPSI Example: Videocube

Erich J. Neuhold - ©2000 GMD- IPSI Example: Lyberworld information visualization at the user interface supporting analysis clustering, partitioning supporting user information profiles

Erich J. Neuhold - ©2000 GMD- IPSI Example: Lyberworld

Erich J. Neuhold - ©2000 GMD- IPSI Conclusion come up with focused but integrated solutions advanced research and development of technologies using informing organisms pre-products and products will naturally follow those results