As part of the Illinois Digital Library Initiative (DLI) project we developed “scalable semantics” technologies. These statistical techniques enabled us to index large collect...
Yi-Ming Chung, Qin He, Kevin Powell, Bruce R. Scha...
Video surrogates are meant to help people quickly make sense of the content of a video before downloading or seeking more detailed information. In this paper we present the result...
This paper evaluates to which extent Google retrieved correct answers as responses to queries inferred from factual and topical requests in a digital Ask-a-Librarian service. 100 f...
Obsolescence in storage media and the hardware and software for access and use can render old electronic files inaccessible and unusable. Therefore, the long-term preservation of ...
Today people typically read and annotate printed documents even if they are obtained from electronic sources like digital libraries. If there is a reason for them to share these p...