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Presentations now available from "Workshop on the Evaluation of Digital Libraries", 4-5 October 2004
Workshop on Audio-Visual Content and Information Visualization in Digital Libraries, May 2005
Presentations from "Semantic Approaches in Digital Libraries" workshop freely available
On-line Questionnaire for Collecting User Requirements

Presentations now available from "Workshop on the Evaluation of Digital Libraries", 4-5 October 2004

Presentations from the DELOS Workshop on the Evaluation of Digital Libraries are now freely available. The "Workshop on the Evaluation of Digital Libraries", took place over 4-5 October 2004 in the Department of Information Engineering,University of Padova, Italy. Given the lack of appropriate evaluation methodologies in the area of digital library evaluation the workshop took as its aim a survey on the state of the art in DL evaluation, and sought to identify major issues for further research in this area.

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Workshop on Audio-Visual Content and Information Visualization in Digital Libraries, May 2005

Workshop on Audio-Visual Content and Information Visualization in Digital Libraries, May 2005
The Delos research cluster 4 "User-Interface and visualization" announces the "Seventh International Workshop of the EU Network of Excellence DELOS on Audio-Visual Content and Information Visualization in Digital Libraries" (AVIVDiLib'05), 4-6 May 2005, in Cortona, Italy. A Call for Papers is available at the workshop web site. The workshop aims at providing a forum to present the latest research results, new technology development and new applications in the areas of multimedia content and information visualization in digital libraries.

This workshop, promoted by the DELOS Network of Excellence (http://www.delos.info/), jointly organized by Audio/Visual and Non-traditional Objects (WP3) and User Interfaces and Visualization (WP4), aims to provide a forum to present the latest research results, new developments in technology and new applications in the areas of multimedia content and information visualization in digital libraries.

The following non-restrictive list is given to illustrate items of particular interest for this conference:

Interface Design
Visual Filtering
Visual Mining
Metadata extraction
Efficient data base structures
Content-based retrieval and browsing
Personalization support
Audio, sound digital libraries
Image, Video, 3D data digital libraries
Multimedia digital libraries
Large Data and High Dimensional Visualization
Visualization in Non-traditional Devices
Universal Accessibility

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Presentations from "Semantic Approaches in Digital Libraries" workshop freely available

Presentations from "Semantic Approaches in Digital Libraries" workshop freely available
All presentations from the Delos Regional Awareness Event "Between Knowledge Organization and Semantic Web: Semantic Approaches in Digital Libraries", 23 June 2004 in Lund, Sweden, are now online.
They include:

Boris Lauser: From thesauri to rich ontology: The AGROVOC case
Boris Lauser: FAO Ontology Portal Prototypes: Fishery
Boris Lauser: Building a rich ontology from AGROVOC
Anders Ardö and Koraljka Golub: Automatic Subject Classification and Topic Specific Search Engines - Research at KnowLib
Douglas Tudhope: Semantic Terminology Services: experiences from the FACET Project
Alistair Miles: SKOS: Simple Knowledge Organisation with the Semantic Web
Frida Sandgren: Markup of Educational Content
Knut Hegna: Exploiting the classification scheme and a controlled vocabulary in a library catalogue

On-line Questionnaire for Collecting User Requirements

One of the main objectives of Cluster 4 (User Interfaces and Visualization) is to collect and analyze user requirements in order to relate them to the different research perspectives and technical implementation options on a digital library. To this end, two integrated questionnaires (for end-users and stakeholders) have been set up for on-line collection and processing of data. Digital library end-users and stakeholders are warmly invited to complete them.

The questionnaires can be found in the relevant area of the cluster website.

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