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BooksOnline '08: Proceedings of the 2008 ACM workshop on Research advances in large digital book repositories
ACM2008 Proceeding
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  • Association for Computing Machinery
  • New York
  • NY
  • United States
Conference:
CIKM08: Conference on Information and Knowledge Management Napa Valley California USA 30 October 2008
ISBN:
978-1-60558-249-8
Published:
30 October 2008
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Abstract

It is our pleasure to welcome you to the BooksOnline'08 Workshop on Research Advances in Large Digital Book Repositories. The objective of the workshop is to provide an opportunity for participants to exchange their views and share their experiences with research, applications, and services that involve digital book collections. Through discussions and brainstorming we expect to identify exciting new opportunities for innovation as well as issues that require immediate attention and should be part of our research agenda over the following five years.

We are delighted that the workshop involves experts from academia, libraries, publishing industry, and online services, who will provide their perspective on the state-of-the-art, outstanding problems, and opportunities for innovation. In the proceedings we include selected position papers that span topics from unique characteristics of on-line book collections and new usage scenarios to requirements for innovative approaches to content representation and discovery. They point to the importance of social aspects of online collections and a need to assess quality of services through large scale experimentation.

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SESSION: Enriched digitized books
research-article
The integrated eBook: the convergence of ebook, companion web site, and elearning

In recent years, universities have adopted eLearning solutions as part of their learning resources to provide students with digital and multimedia content. The effect of this strategy is that the educational materials in electronic format are replacing ...

research-article
A unified field theory of publishing in the networked era
research-article
E-Books are not books

Currently, in the early days of their development, e-books are essentially following the evolutionary path of physical books, a path that started thousands of years ago. Yet physical books are containers for a wide variety of information types, and are ...

research-article
Multimedia enriched digital books

This paper proposes new extensions of the digital book concept together with the required approaches to support their automatic generation. Most best-sellers have often inspired other related products, sometimes in different media. Some of these can be ...

research-article
Traditional resources help interpret texts

Simple word matching between the user query and document is common, as are mis-matches of meaning that occur as a consequence, and errors in recall. These defects in the "bag of words" model are well known, and raising the semantic level of ...

SESSION: Usage scenarios and user experience
research-article
Reading in the office

Reading online poses a number of technological challenges. Advances in technology such as touch screens, light-weight high-power computers, and bi-stable displays have periodically renewed interest in online reading over the last twenty years, only to ...

research-article
Social navigation and annotation for electronic books

Modern efforts on digitizing electronic books focus on preserving authentic "spatial" representation of the original sources. The new format requires new tools to help users to access, process, and make sense of digital information. This paper presents ...

research-article
Codex Redux: books and new knowledge environments

In this paper, we present the work of the INKE (Implementing New Knowledge Environments) research group, a large international, interdisciplinary research team studying reading and texts, both digital and printed. The INKE team is comprised of ...

research-article
The active reading task: e-books and their readers

This paper describes the Active Reading task, a recent addition to the INEX Book Search track1. This task aims at exploring how people interact with e-books in different scenarios of use. Besides, it has been designed to take into account a corpus of ...

research-article
How should users access the content of digital books?

I report briefly on some of my own work in each of these areas and elucidate some of the questions that this research has raised. Then I propose as a research agenda the development of a digital library environment containing a suite of inter-related ...

SESSION: Content representation and discoverability
research-article
Collection-level analysis tools for books online

Efforts to develop ebook-based functionality have focused thusfar on the individual artifact--the hardware and software reader--and on promoting user engagement with the page by supporting annotation, clipping, and navigation. In this position paper, I ...

research-article
A web service for long tail book publishing

More than 32M unique book titles are available in US libraries, but Amazon, the biggest retailer, had only 1.2M unique titles available for sale in 2004. Currently there is an effort underway by public libraries, universities, the Open Content Alliance, ...

research-article
Sharing knowledge across language barriers: a universal approach for online books.

Our focus is on a real case of a massive collection of online books (e-books), the case of EOLSS (Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems). It is a massive collection of documentation, under constant change, aiming at different categories of readers coming ...

research-article
Book search: indexing the valuable parts

With massive book digitization efforts underway, there is a need for developing effective book retrieval strategies. This paper explores the relative contribution of different parts of digitized and OCR'ed books towards effective retrieval. The examined ...

research-article
Automatic metadata generation for scanned scientific volumes

Large scale digitization projects have been conducted at the Internet Archive digital library to preserve cultural artifacts and to provide permanent access. The increasing amount of digitized resources requires advanced tools and methods that will ...

research-article
Feasibility of a primarily digital research library

This position paper explores the issues related to the feasibility of having a primarily digital research library support the teaching and research needs of a university. The Asian University for Women (AUW), a new university in Chittagong, Bangladesh, ...

Contributors
  • Amazon.com, Inc.
  • University of Nottingham
  • Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

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