Oesterreichisches Forschungsinstitut fuer Artificial Intelligence (OeFAI)
Schottengasse 3, A-1010 Wien
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Prof.Dr.Ian H. WITTEN
University of Waikato
Hamilton
New Zealand
BROWSING AROUND A DIGITAL LIBRARY
What will it be like to work in the digital library of the future? We
begin by browsing around an experimental digital library of the pres-
ent, glancing at some collections and seeing how they are organized.
Then we look to the future. Although present digital libraries are
quite like conventional libraries, we argue that future ones will
feel qualitatively different. Readers - and writers - will work in
the library using a kind of context-directed browsing. This will
be supported by structures derived from automatic analysis of the
contents of the library - not just the catalog, or abstracts, but
the full text of the books and journals - using new techniques of
data mining.
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Ian H. Witten is professor of computer science at the University of
Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand. He directs the New Zealand Digital
Library research project, and is a fellow of the ACM and of the Royal
Society of New Zealand. His research interests include information
retrieval, machine learning, text compression, and programming by
demonstration. He has published widely in these areas, his most
recent books being "Managing gigabytes" and "Data mining" (both
Morgan Kaufmann, 1999). He received an MA in mathematics from
Cambridge Unversity, England; an MSc in computer science from
the University of Calgary, Canada; and a PhD in electrical
engineering from Essex University, England.
Zeit: Donnerstag, 1.Juli 1999, 18:30 Uhr pktl.
Ort: OeFAI, Schottengasse 3, 1010 Wien 1.
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