CNI: Coalition for Networked Information

Image Retrieval Benchmark Database: A Report on a CLIR/CNI Exploration

Jennifer Trant
Executive Director
Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO)

The rapid increase in the quantity of visual materials in digital libraries–supported by significant advances in digital imaging technologies–has not been accompanied by a corresponding advance in image retrieval technologies and techniques. Digital Librarians are currently without tools for evaluating either content-based or metadata-based image retrieval systems. They have difficulty assessing existing systems of image access, evaluating proposed changes, or comparing metadata-based to content-based image retrieval. Benchmarking has been proposed as a possible solution to this problem of comparison. CLIR and CNI have supported the exploration of these issues.

This session will report on the activities of the CLIR/CNI project to date. We’ll review the components of a possible Image Retrieval Benchmarking Service and explore the strategies that might serve to develop the service and a community of researchers whose work would ultimately improve digital library service.

Implementing FRBR on Large Databases

Thomas Hickey
Chief Scientist
OCLC Research

Diane Vizine-Goetz
Consulting Research Scientist
OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.

OCLC is investigating how best to implement IFLA’s Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR). We have now clustered at the ‘work’ level the entire 48 million record WorldCat database and a number of subsets, including the records representing works of fiction. “Fiction Finder” is a prototype system to explore ways of searching and browsing bibliographic records representing fiction. FRBR is an integral part of the system, helping to organize lists into more comprehensible displays than typical retrieval systems. Our experience has led us to some suggestions as to how FRBR should be evaluated and implemented in large databases.

Implications of Improved Security for Networked Information

Dan Updegrove
Security Task Force Co-Chair and Vice President for Information Technology
University of Texas at Austin

Steve Worona
Director of Policy and Networking Programs
EDUCAUSE

The security of computers and networks is critical to ensure the availability and integrity of networked information. What are the implications of improved security for networked information? How will efforts to improve security influence the values of higher education and libraries? How should the values of higher education and libraries influence efforts to improve security? What principles should guide strategies to improve IT security on campus and in libraries? The EDUCAUSE/Internet2 Computer and Network Security Task Force will report on its examination of these important issues and will describe its efforts to coordinate improvements in IT security for the higher education community.

Web Links:
EDUCAUSE/Internet2 Computer and Network Security Task Force

Handout:
Principles to Guide Efforts to Improve Computer and Network Security for Higher Education
(MS Word document)

Institutional Repositories Part One: Project Overviews and Organizational Issues

Joseph Branin
Director of Libraries
Ohio State University

MacKenzie Smith
Associate Director for Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Thornton Staples
Director of Research and Development, Alderman Library
University of Virginia

Eric Van de Velde
Director of Library and Information Technology
California Institute of Technology

Institutional repository initiatives attempt to capture, structure, make accessible, and preserve a variety of digital products of institutional intellectual productivity, such as e-prints, datasets that underlie published research results, electronic theses and dissertations, large image collections, and courseware. Undertaking an institutional repository project requires developing a vision, defining the scope of the project, choosing technologies, and promoting the initiative to potential contributors. At this point in time, institutional repository projects are “works in progress.” Four institutions with leading edge implementations of institutional repositories will describe their prjoejcts and some key orgnaizational issues in this session. A subsequent session will cover functionality and technical issues.

Web Links:
DSpace at MIT
Caltech Collection of Open Digital Archives (CODA)
Fedora Project, University of Virginia Library

Institutional Repositories Part Two: Functional Requirements and Technical Issues

Joseph Branin
Director of Libraries
Ohio State University

MacKenzie Smith
Associate Director for Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Thornton Staples
Director of Research and Development, Alderman Library
University of Virginia

Eric Van de Velde
Director of Library and Information Technology
California Institute of Technology

Institutions face many issues when they plan and implement institutional repositories, collections of the digital products of intellectual productivity. Leaders of four pioneering projects gave an overview of their initiatives in the previous briefing. In this session, they will focus on the fucntionality they are seeking in the software they are implementing. They will also describe the technical environment in which they are working and the challenges presented by the types of digital content that they must incorporate into the repository and preserve for the long term.

Web Links:
DSpace at MIT
Caltech Collection of Open Digital Archives (CODA)
The Fedora Project, University of Virginia Library

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