ISDL'95: International Symposium on Digital Libraries 1995

Symposium Chair: Koichi Tabata
Planning Chair: Takeo Yamamoto
Program Chair: Shigeo Sugimoto

6:00pm Reception

August 23

9:30am Opening

Kazuo Onodera, President, University of Library and Information Science
Koichi Tabata, Symposium Chair
Shigeo Sugimoto, Program Chair

10:00am Invited Talks 1: Toward Digital Libraries
Chair: Hisao Yamada (NACSIS)

Image Query and Retrieval: a Case Study

Edie M. Rasmussen
University of Pittsburgh, USA

Technical Challenges for the Informedia Digital Video Library

Howard Wactlar
Carnegie Mellon University, USA

The WWW Prototype of the Alexandria Digital Library

Terence Smith
University of California at Santa Barbara, USA

Integrating Georeferenced Information into Digital Libraries

Linda Hill
University of Maryland at College Park, USA

1:30pm Keynote Address
Chair: Takeo Yamamoto (ULIS)

Digital Library in the 21st Century

Makoto Nagao
Director of Kyoto University Library, Kyoto University, Japan

contents
1. Future of Information Technology
2. Legal Issues and Future Information Society
3. Steps towards Future Digital Library

3:00pm Joint Session with 1995 SISNAP Project Workshop (SISNAP: Science Information Systems and Networks in Asia and the Pacific)
Chair: Tamiko Matsumura (ULIS)

Report on SISNAP Project

Delia E. Torrijos
UNESCO PGI Regional Adviser, Bangkok, Thailand

Design of a Digital University Library: Mandala Library

Masakazu Imai, Chinatsu Horii, Hisakazu Hada, Naokazu Yokoya, Kunihiro Chihara
Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

HARP: an Integrated Digital Library

Ee-Peng Lim, Francis B. S. Lee, Soo-Yin Cheng*
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore;
*Information Technology Institute, Singapore

The Magna Graecia Digital Library

Elenora Bilotta, Mariano Fiorito, Dario Iovane, Pietro Pantano
University of Calabria, Italy

4:30pm Contributed Papers 2: Organizing Electronic Materials for Digital Libraries
Chair: Masakazu Imai (AIST-Nara)

An Experiment of Electronic Information Delivery for Semiconductor Device Data

Hiromichi Hashizume
National Center for Science Information Systems (NACSIS), Japan

Integrating the Digital with the Non-digital: a Librarians Perspective

Graham Black
Central Queensland University, Australia

Page Image and SGML: Alternatives for the Digital Library

Terry R. Noreault, Mark A. Crook
OCLC, USA

August 24

8:30am Contributed Papers 3: Visualization and User Interfaces
Chair: Hidehiro Ishizuka (ULIS)

Information Outlining - Filling the Gap between Visualization and Navigation in Digital Libraries

Masayuki Morohashi, Koichi Takeda, Hiroshi Nomiyama, Hiroshi Maruyama
IBM Research, Japan

W3-PENSÉE: WWW Machine Translation System that Supports the Comfortable Internet Surfing

Hideki Yamamoto, Toshiki Murata, Junji Nagata
Oki Electric Industry, Japan

User Interfaces for Information Strolling on a Digital Library

Mikiya Tani, Toshiyuki Kamiya, Shuji Ichiyama
NEC, Japan

Interactive Timelines as Information System Interfaces

Robert B. Allen
Bellcore, USA

10:20am Invited Talks 2: Toward Digital Libraries 2
Chair: Kimio Hosono (Keio University)

NACSIS Electronic Library System: Its Design and Implementation

Jun Adachi
National Center for Science Information Systems (NACSIS), Japan

Electronic Library Research at De Montfort University

Roy J. Adams
De Montfort University, UK

Intelligent Campus: Integration of Digital Library and Campus Information Systems

Sung Joo Park
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea

1:20pm Invited Talks 3: Technologies for Digital Libraries
Chair: Hiromichi Hashizume (NACSIS)

Development of Multimedia and Distributed Information Sharing System: FIND2

Yasuyo Kikuta
Fujitsu, Japan

High Speed Network for Digital Libraries

Hiroshi Matsumoto
Association of Broadband-ISDN Business Chance & Culture Creation (BBCC), Japan

Telecommunications Issues for Digital Libraries

Sujata Banerjee
University of Pittsburgh, USA

3:20pm Contributed Papers 4: DB and Data Technologies
Chair: Koichi Takeda (IBM)

An Information Retrieval System on Internet for Languages without Obvious Word Delimiters

Kigen Hasebe, Ken'ichi Nakamoto*, Takeo Yamamoto
University of Library and Information Science, Japan;
*NTT, Japan

Ontology-based Approach to Information Gathering and Text Categorization

Michiaki Iwazume, Hideaki Takeda, Toyoaki Nishida
Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

A Design and Implementation of Information Retrieval System on Information Highways

Kyung Taek Chong and Se Young Park
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Korea

4:30pm Contributed Papers 5: System Technologies for Digital Libraries
Chair: Yuzuru Hiraga (ULIS)

The Role of Virtual Libraries in the Future of Computer Engineering

Bill Serra
Hewlett Packard Laboratories, USA

A Design for a Scalable, High Performance Digital Library

R. Grossman, X. Qin, W. Xu, B. Coyne*, H. Hulen*, T. Tyler*
Oak Park Research Inc., USA;
*IBM Government System, USA

A Digital Video Library for Classroom Use

Wayne Wolf, Bede Liu, Andrew Wolfe, Margaret Martonosi, Yiqing Liang*
Princeton University, USA;
*Advance, Inc., USA

August 25

8:30am Contributed Papers 6: Information Provider and User Issues
Chair: Atsutake Nozoe (Aichi Shukutoku University)

Enhancing Access to Research Materials on East Asia: An Interim Report on the East Asian Libraries Cooperative World Wide Web

Maureen H. Donovan
The Ohio State University Libraries, USA

Digital Libraries as Human Augmentation Systems

Elenora Bilotta, Pietro Pantano
University of Calabria, Italy

The Global Change Data and Information System - Assisted Search for Knowledge (GC-ASK) Project

Roberta Y. Rand
National Agricultural Library, USA

Approaches to Digital Libraries - A Distributer's Viewpoint

Ken I. Teramura, Kunizo Hirai
Maruzen Co. Ltd., Japan

10:20am Invited Talks 4: Toward Digital Libraries 3
Chair: Jun Adachi (NACSIS)

The Construction Plan of the Kansaikan of the National Diet Library and Digital Library

Shozo Nakano
National Diet Library, Japan

The Disitizing Program of the French National Library

Daniel Renoult
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, France

A Learning Library without Walls

Beng-Ting Tan
Information Technology Institute, Singapore

1:20pm Invited Talks 5: Toward Digital Libraries 4
Hsiu-Hsen Yao (Yuan-Ze Institute of Technology)

Digital Libraries in Taiwan

Shian-Shyong Tseng
National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan

Documents in the Digital Library

Richard Furuta
Texas A&M University, USA

Image and Sound Digital Libraries Need More Than Storage and Networked Access

Philippe Aigrain
IRIT, France

3:20pm Contributed Papers 7: Hypermedia/Multimedia Technologies
Chair: Isao Kojima (Electrotechnical Laboratory)

Telematic Access to Sound Archives

Gunnar Moan
Western Norway Research Institute, Norway

A Semantic Movie Indexing Scheme

Rynson Lau, Hong V. Leong, Antonio Si
Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

Human Media Technology - Human-centred Approach to Information Infrastructure -

Toshikazu Kato, Shigeoki Hirai
Electrotechnical Laboratory, Japan