Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries: First European Conference, Ecdl '97 Pisa, Italy, September 1-3, 1997 Proceedings (Paperback, 1997)

Libraries and digital property rights.- Object database support for digital libraries.- Enhancing community and collaboration in the virtual library.- Comprehension and object recognition capabilities for presentations of simultaneous video key frame surrogates.- Automating the construction of authority files in digital libraries: A case study.- Using semantic, geographical, and temporal relationships to enhance search and retrieval in digital catalogs.- Metadata repositories using PICS.- Relevance feedback and query expansion for searching the web: A model for searching a digital library.- Text segmentation by topic.- Scalable text retrieval for large digital libraries.- Awareness services for digital libraries.- Towards a common infrastructure for large-scale distributed applications.- Machine learning + on-line libraries = IDL.- Building a multilingual electronic text collection of folk tales as a set of encapsulated document object: An approach for casual users to browse multilingual documents on the fly.- Automated indexing with thesaurus descriptors: A co-occurrence based approach to multilingual retrieval.- Cross-language information retrieval in a Multilingual Legal Domain.- The digital library and computational philology: The BAMBI project.- Multivalent Annotations.- A semantic network approach to semi-structured documents repositories.- Modelling the retrieval of structured documents containing texts and images.- Probabilistic retrieval of OCR degraded text using N-grams.- Deposit for Dutch Electronic Publications: Research and practice in The Netherlands.- Charging for a digital library - The business model and the cost models of the MeDoc digital library.- Bibliotheque nationale de France 's Audiovisual System, digital audio, video, and photo consultation in a library.- The electronic colloquium on computational complexity (ECCC): A digital library in use.