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Subject: Georeferencing & Geospatial Digital Libraries: Tutorials at the
2003Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (fwd)
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 20:07:52 -0500 (CDT)
From: Lisa Colleen Sweeney <[log in to unmask]>
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Georeferencing & Geospatial Digital Libraries: Tutorials at the 2003
Joint
Conference on Digital Libraries
The 2003 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries will feature two
tutorials
of interest to the GIS community: "Introduction to Georeferencing in
Digital Libraries" and "How to Build a Geospatial Digital Library." The
tutorials will take place Tuesday, May 27 at Rice University in Houston,
Texas. The deadline for advanced registration is Friday, May 2.
More information is available at
http://www.rice.edu/jcdl03/tutorials.html, and one may register by
visiting http://www.rice.edu/jcdl03/registration.html.
* Introduction to Georeferencing in Digital Libraries
Presenters: Linda Hill & Michael Freeston, University of California,
Santa
Barbara
This tutorial covers the broad scope of georeferencing, including an
overview of types of georeferenced objects and their characteristics;
fundamental concepts of geospatial referencing; georeferencing
structures
of metadata standards (MARC, FGDC, Dublin Core, and more); gazetteers
and
their role in translating between textual and geospatial location
referencing; supporting database architectures; and geospatial matching
in
information retrieval. In the process, the major information management
standards for geospatial description, retrieval, interoperability, and
information exchange will be identified. The tutorial is based on the
experience of the presenters with the Alexandria Digital Library (ADL)
Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara, but is not
intended to be about the ADL itself but rather about the broader
principles and practices of georeferencing in digital libraries.
* How to Build a Geospatial Digital Library
Presenters: Gregory Jane, Rudolf Nottrott, James Frew, & Catherine Masi,
University of California, Santa Barbara
This tutorial will be of interest to individuals or institutions with
geospatial digital content which they would like to publish for
structured
search and retrieval over the Web. The tutorial is based on software
developed by the Alexandria Digital Library Project (ADL), which
facilitates the creation and management of distributed digital library
collections. ADL collections can operate stand-alone for use by
individual
users, or optionally and seamlessly switch into a distributed mode for
web-based information sharing and publication. Geospatial collections
are
typically heterogeneous in content and can span items as diverse as
maps,
historical photographs, field data, remotely sensed images or
archeological data. The ADL software allows structured search and
retrieval on such heterogeneous data collections, combining the
simplicity
of Dublin Core with the specificity of a full Boolean query language.
The
aim of the tutorial is to familiarize participants with the overall
technology and with the specific procedures and software involved in
setting up a stand-alone or distributed ADL node. As a case study, we
will
focus on a collection of USGS Digital Raster Graphics (DRG) maps.
However,
the technology we present is much more general: it can be applied to
collections of any georeferenced library objects and, further, to
collections of any objects to which a structured discovery technique can
be applied. Based on Open Source components and open protocol standards
(including Java,Tomcat, XML, JDBC, SQL), the ADL software is freely
available and can be installed on all common software and hardware
platforms.
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