{"id":156,"date":"2006-11-27T12:50:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-27T03:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/27\/international-conference-on-asian-digital-libraries-icadl2006-in-kyoto-day-1\/"},"modified":"2006-11-27T12:50:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-27T03:50:00","slug":"international-conference-on-asian-digital-libraries-icadl2006-in-kyoto-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/27\/international-conference-on-asian-digital-libraries-icadl2006-in-kyoto-day-1\/","title":{"rendered":"International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL2006) in Kyoto day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"#day1Keynote\">Opening Keynote by Dr. Makoto Nagao<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#day1owlery\">Owlery: A Flexible Content Management System<br \/>\nfor &#8216;Growing Metadata&#8217; of Cultural Heritage Objects and its Education<br \/>\nUse in the CEAX Project<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#day1DNAP\">&#8220;A Digital Video Archive System of DNAP<br \/>\nTaiwan&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!-- readmore --><\/p>\n<p>Some general information.<br \/>\nAbout 190 registered participants on the first day.<br \/>\n220+ abstract submissions, 46 full papers, 13 short papers, 6 asian posters<br \/>\nfrom 170 paper submissions.  <\/p>\n<p><P\/><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"day1Keynote\"><\/p>\n<h3>Opening Keynote by Dr. Makoto Nagao<\/h3>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>President NICT (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology)<br \/>\n<i>&#8220;The Age of Content and Knowledge Processing&#8221;<\/i>.  <P\/><\/p>\n<p>Worked on a digital library system from 1998-2004 here at Kyoto<br \/>\nUniversity, implemented it into the library system here.  The internet<br \/>\nis a great source of knowledge, with a lot of multimedia information<br \/>\nas well.  A search returns lots of information, so it is very hard to<br \/>\nunderstand and visualize all of what is returned.  There are three<br \/>\nlarge studies in Japan looking at this problem: <P\/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Information Grand Voyage Project (Ministry of Economy, Trade, and<br \/>\nIndustry)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Technology for navigation multimedia information\n<li> Personalization for a user\n<li> Focused on industry development, 5 billion yen first year budget\n<\/ul>\n<li> Information Explosion Project (Ministry of Education, Culture,<br \/>\nSports, Science and Techonology)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Information extraction, particularly from multi modal information<br \/>\n  that is massively expanding<\/p>\n<li> Technology for scanning information\n<li> Focus on University researchers, 600 million yen for the first<br \/>\n  year\n<\/ul>\n<li> The Information Analysis Proecjt (Ministry of Internal<br \/>\naffairs and communication.)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Filter out useful information from unreliable and\/or incorrect<br \/>\n  information<\/p>\n<li> Add information on reliability, trustworthiness, and authenticity\n<li> Based at NICT for five years, with 300 million budget for the<br \/>\n  first year\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\nInformation analysis:<\/p>\n<li> surface analysis of information reliability\n<li> reliability of web sites based on site meta-data.\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\nDeep analysis of reliability:<\/p>\n<li>cluster large amounts of information\n<li>Cluster summarization\n<li>Intention and emotion extraction from cluster information\n<li>Check and present contradictory information against dominant<br \/>\n  information, e.g., long tail information against dominant<br \/>\n  information.  <\/p>\n<li>Check consistency between the retrieved information and judge<br \/>\n    accuracy against known academic knowledge.  (knowledge base,<br \/>\n    inference mechanism.)<\/p>\n<li>Check consistency against temporal flow of information\n<\/ul>\n<p>Incorporates information from the web into a large-scale knowledge<br \/>\ndatabase, machine translation into Japanese before analysis. <\/p>\n<p><P\/> <\/p>\n<p>III. Digital Archives<\/p>\n<p><P\/><\/p>\n<p>NICT is working on the Kyoto Digital Archives.  They aim to digitize<br \/>\ncultural and historical assets, promote new local industry (while<br \/>\nhelping to save traditional crafts and performing arts), and property<br \/>\nrights research.  They have the &#8220;Nijo Castle Digital Archives<br \/>\nProject&#8221;, with 327 Kano Tan&#8217;yu paintings digitized.  <\/p>\n<p><P\/><\/p>\n<p>Has some details on their digital library preservation effort.  They<br \/>\nalso have done studies on perceptual color recognition, and developed<br \/>\na system that uses 8 color components to record color.  <\/p>\n<p><P\/><\/p>\n<p>Needs work on image retrieval technology (image search with color) and<br \/>\nmotion search segmentation, extraction, and extracting interesting<br \/>\nimages for video.  <\/p>\n<p><P\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today&#8217;s machine translation is nearly of usable quality to translate<br \/>\nnewspaper articles, introductory articles of various kinds, commentary<br \/>\npapers, science and engineering papers, etc.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><P\/><\/p>\n<p>They have the Kyoto Project of World Cultural Exchange, and a few<br \/>\nslides on how that works.  <\/p>\n<h3>Session 2a: Advanced Digital Archives<\/h3>\n<p><i>&#8220;Annotating the Web Archives &#8211; An Exploration of Web Archives<br \/>\nCataloging and Semantic Web&#8221;<\/i>, Paul H.J. Wu, Adrian K.H. Heok,<br \/>\nIchsan P. Tamsir (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.)<\/p>\n<p><P\/><\/p>\n<p>Launched a web archive in October of this year.  They have also<br \/>\ndeveloped an annotation tool to help give a context to the archive<br \/>\ncategorization.  This talk mostly focuses on cataloging and<br \/>\nannotation.  So for an example, the MOM (Singaporean Ministry of<br \/>\nManpower) was involved in an accident in 2004, and the website of the<br \/>\ntime had lots of information linking to the inquiry and speeches about<br \/>\nit, and so on.  Two years later, there are still minister&#8217;s speeches<br \/>\nand press releases, but they do not have the inquiry status report or<br \/>\nthe FAQ about the incident, but there is new information about the law<br \/>\nthat resulted from that accident.  <P\/><\/p>\n<p>So the idea is that web pages are focused on the present, while web<br \/>\narchives capture what was in the past.  (Of course, this depends on<br \/>\nthe type of website as well.  Blog-driven or content-management sites<br \/>\nalmost all have archives that are accessible as well.)  <P\/><\/p>\n<p>The key features of their annotation tool is &#8220;context-aware<br \/>\nannotation&#8221; and &#8220;ontology-aware annotation&#8221; to relate semantic content<br \/>\nto the web content, and to look at agreement and differences in the<br \/>\ntext.  Their annotation tool lets you highlight text on a website and<br \/>\nlink it into an ontology (created by someone) &#8211; their &#8220;context-aware&#8221;<br \/>\nmeans that you incorporate the evidence from the text when linking<br \/>\nthings into the ontology. <\/p>\n<p><P\/><\/p>\n<p>They also allow you to annotate relational metadata between instances<br \/>\nin the ontology.  E.g., a particular instance of a speech is a<br \/>\nspecific speech of all general speeches.  <\/p>\n<p><P\/><\/p>\n<p>After all of this tagging, it isn&#8217;t clear to me what can be done<br \/>\nautomatically with the tools.  When the content changes (which this<br \/>\nmethod will let you detect) you need to still modify or adapt the<br \/>\nontology.  <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a name=\"day1owlery\"><\/p>\n<h3>\n&#8220;Owlery: A Flexible Content Management System for &#8216;Growing<br \/>\nMetadata&#8217; of Cultural Heritage Objects and its Education Use in the<br \/>\nCEAX Project&#8221;, <i>Kenro Aihara, Taizo Yamada, Noriko Kando (NII,<br \/>\nGraduate University for Advanced Systems), Satoko<br \/>\nFujisawa (Graduate University for Advanced Systems), Yusuke Uehara,<br \/>\nTakayuki Baba, Shigemi Nagata (Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. Japan), Takashi Tojo,<br \/>\nTetsuhiko Awaji (Fujitsu Ltd. Japan), Jun Adachi (NII).<\/i><br \/>\n<\/h3>\n<p><\/a>  <\/p>\n<p><P\/><\/p>\n<p>Metadata is difficult for cultural heritage objects because<br \/>\ndescriptions can vary greatly depending on the viewpoint.  Names and<br \/>\ntitles can also change since they are recently given things relative<br \/>\nto the age of these objects.  There are also often multiple versions<br \/>\nof the same object.  They also want to be able to provide readable and<br \/>\nunderstandable descriptions for different user groups (experts,<br \/>\nchildren, etc.)  It is essentially difficult to create an ontology in<br \/>\nthis field, since it is difficult to achieve a general consensus.<br \/>\nThis means that the RDF approach is not suitable.  <\/p>\n<p><P\/>  In their approach the metadata is separate from the factual<br \/>\ndata, and descriptions are written over the data and kept separately.<br \/>\nThey have multiple descriptions, some which might target different<br \/>\naudiences.  Authorized users are allowed to add their own descriptions<br \/>\n(or blog or wiki.)  Their framework also gives semantic links between<br \/>\nworks that share the same factual data, helping users to browse<br \/>\nconcepts.  <\/p>\n<p><P\/> Implemented as Web Services on Apache Axis2 Java PostgreSQL.<br \/>\nThere are three clients, the Owlery Web Browser, (Java) Owlery client,<br \/>\nCEAX client.  When tested in a class, students did read the simplified<br \/>\ncharacters, and the teachers were surprised that the students tried to<br \/>\nactively read when often they give up when they encounter unknown<br \/>\nkanji.  <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><i>&#8220;A Digital Library for Preservation of Folklore Crafts, Skills, and<br \/>\nRituals and its role in Folklore Education&#8221;<\/i>, Yung-Fu Chen, Po-Chou<br \/>\nChan, Kuo-Hsien Huang, Hsuan-Hung Lin.<\/p>\n<p><P\/><\/p>\n<p>First, an introduction to folklore.  They have created a<br \/>\nclassification for folklore types, broadly at Craft, Skill, Ritual,<br \/>\nArtifact, etc.  They have some relationships between them, i.e., &#8220;How<br \/>\nto make the Taoist Bell?&#8221;, &#8220;What is the Toaist Bell?&#8221;, &#8220;How to use the<br \/>\nToaist Bell?&#8221;.  In their preliminary study, they built a system for<br \/>\ndemonstrating crafts, skills, and rituals, and use it for education.  <\/p>\n<p><P\/><\/p>\n<p>They have a metadata method for recording using title, description,<br \/>\nassociated digital media, and other related information.  They also<br \/>\nhave a &#8220;relation&#8221; metadata that is compatible with Dublin Core.  The<br \/>\nmain relation that they use is &#8220;has part&#8221; and &#8220;is part of&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p><P\/><\/p>\n<p>Their<br \/>\ndata consists of text and video created by folklore specialists.  They<br \/>\nhave a web interface in Chinese and English for navigating through the<br \/>\ndata.  <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a name=\"day1DNAP\"><\/p>\n<h3>\n&#8220;A Digital Video Archive System of DNAP Taiwan&#8221;, <i>Hsiang-An<br \/>\nWang, Guey-Ching Chen, Chih-Yi Chiu, Jan-Ming Ho (Academica Sinica,<br \/>\nTaiwan)<\/i><\/h3>\n<p><\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>An introduction to their video archiving system.  They transcode for<br \/>\ndifferent displays (archive is high bitrate MPEG2, others are RM or<br \/>\nWMV.)  They tried Dublin Core for metadata, but found it to be<br \/>\ninsufficient, and instead used ECHO with some minor modifications.<br \/>\nThey have a website for managing the video metadata.  They have some<br \/>\nsubtitle recognition from video data, and do speech recognition as<br \/>\nwell (Mandarin Chinese.)  They also do shot detection, and use that to<br \/>\ncreate a summary video with key frames from each shot.  They have the<br \/>\nability to add watermark and subtitles to videos to identify<br \/>\nownership.  Adding the watermarks was very time consuming and a<br \/>\nnon-reversible process, so they use FLV video now which supports<br \/>\nlayering.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opening Keynote by Dr. Makoto Nagao Owlery: A Flexible Content Management System for &#8216;Growing Metadata&#8217; of Cultural Heritage Objects and its Education Use in the CEAX Project &#8220;A Digital Video Archive System of DNAP Taiwan&#8221; Some general information. 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