Jim DeRoest
Director, Streaming Media Technologies, ResearchChannel
University of Washington

The ability to receive high quality audio and video in classrooms, labs, and the home opens up new opportunities for learning and research in genres requring high resolution media such as animation arts, musicology, and life sciences. Building upon foundation work in high resolution media streaming, the University of Washingtonís Research Channel is developing a tera-scale on-demand media management and distribution service called ìDigitalWell.î This service will broaden access to multi-discipline photo, audio, and video collections enabling the development of new teaching and learning tools for mining and manipulating content.

This session will include an overview of DigitalWell, discussion of deployment for broadcast and campus environments, and NSF NSDL directory metadata development for the Library of Congress/AMIA Moving Image Collections grant.

Web Link:
http://www.digitalwell.org

PowerPoint Presentation:
Digital Asset Management Systems & Application

Michael Buckland
Co-Director, Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative
University of California, Berkeley

The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI) is an effort to transform scholarship and education, mainly in the humanities and social sciences, through enhanced attention to time and place. A center on the University of California, Berkeley campus supports an informal worldwide collaboration of libraries, museums, scholars, and educators. The shared goals are:

• to theorize the role of time and place in culture and history;
• to encourage (and develop, if need be) improved infrastructure, notably: clearinghouses of Web-accessible resources; improved gazetteer standards; map visualization software to combine data downloaded as needed from diverse sources, and to show change through time;
• to encourage and develop conferences and training workshops.

  Examples of recent and current projects will illustrate these activities.
  

  
  Web Link:
  http://ecai.org/

  Handout:
  The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (MS Word)

Raymond Yee
Technology Architect, Interactive University Project
University of California, Berkeley

Lack of interoperability among software systems and repositories from different domains is a major barrier to the exchange of digital content. The UC Berkeley Interactive University Project (IU) has been exploring how semantic interoperability in the following four domains can be enhanced through the use of XSLT-based crosswalks between key XML specifications: 1) digital libraries and repositories (METS); 2) educational technologies (SCORM, IMS specifications); 3) Web syndication and portal technologies (RSS); and 4) desktop applications and structured content authoring tools. (e.g., Microsoft Office 11). The outcome of this work includes crosswalks among METS, SCORM/IMS-CP, and RSS and an exploratory architecture and software prototypes for the deployment of crosswalks. The IU will relate the crosswalks to other approaches to semantic interoperability.

Web Link:
http://iu.berkeley.edu/iu

Handout:
Enhanding Interoperability between Digital Libraries and Educational Technology via XML Crosswalks

Judith Klavans
Deputy Vice Presdient
Columbia University

Stephen Paul Davis
Director of Library Systems
Columbia University

Angela Giral
Columbia University

The newly-initiated Computational Linguistics for Metadata Building (CLiMB) project at Columbia University aims to explore the use of natural language processing to automatically assist in the idenfication and extraction of meaningful descriptive metadata from texts associated with image collections. The collections we are using are architectural drawings from the Greene & Greene brothers, a set of lithographs of Chinese Gods on paper, and images from the Digital South Asia Library collection (dsal). This is a newly initiated project, and is experimental in nature.

We will present the techniques we are exploring, our goals, and progress.

Web Links:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cria/climb/

Andrew Stricker
Associate Provost
Vanderbilt University

Donald A. Cox
Assistant to the Associate Provost
Vanderbilt University

The presentation will highlight the first year of activities associated with a transinstitutional initiative involving faculty from Vanderbilt University, Northwestern University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Columbia University, Pennsylvania State University, Rice University, the University of Texas, Austin, Texas A&M University, and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The Faculty Innovations Profile Project (FIPP) initiative consists of design studio events, research teams, and a community-of-practice Web site. Initiative members have engaged in the design and development of a community oriented Web site supporting the use of knowledge networking tools involving informatics-based algorithms for indexing innovations supporting meaningful connections between learning and research. The tools are being designed to support multi-definitional coding of innovations, with associated resources, in affinity relationship structures for retrieval and use by networked communities of faculty. Initiative members, from across the institutions meet monthly via IP videoconferencing and conduct on-site design studio events to expand, share, and assess promising innovations among faculty.

Web Links:
http://www.fipp.net
(still under development)