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1999
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Quality of OCR for Degraded Text Images
Commercial OCR packages work best with highquality scanned images. They often produce poor results when the image is degraded, either because the original itself was poor quality,...
Roger T. Hartley, Kathleen Crumpton
DL
1999
Springer
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XML-based Information Mediation for Digital Libraries
We demonstrate a prototype distributed architecture for a digital library, using technology being developed under the MIX Project at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and ...
Chaitanya K. Baru, Vincent Chu, Amarnath Gupta, Be...
DL
1999
Springer
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Towards a Digital Library of Popular Music
Digital libraries of music have the potential to capture popular imagination in ways that more scholarly libraries cannot. We are working towards a comprehensive digital library o...
David Bainbridge, Craig G. Nevill-Manning, Ian H. ...
DL
1999
Springer
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Does Zooming Improve Image Browsing?
We describe an image retrieval system we built based on a Zoomable User Interface (ZUI). We also discuss the design, results and analysis of a controlled experiment we performed o...
Tammara T. A. Combs, Benjamin B. Bederson
DL
1999
Springer
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WAY-Z39.50: Adaptive Access to Library Catalogues
This work presents WAY-Z39.50, a system whose main goal is to provide adaptive access to digital libraries catalogues through Z39.50 servers. The system adapts gradually to the us...
Camino Fernández, Paloma Díaz, Ignac...
DL
1999
Springer
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VARIATIONS: A Digital Music Library System at Indiana University
The field of music provides an interesting context for the development of digital library systems due to the variety of information formats used by music students and scholars. Th...
Jon W. Dunn, Constance A. Mayer
DL
1999
Springer
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Multimodal Surrogates for Video Browsing
Three types of video surrogates visual (keyframes), verbal (keywords/phrases), and visual and verbal were designed and studied in a qualitative investigation of user cognitive pro...
Wei Ding, Gary Marchionini, Dagobert Soergel
DL
1999
Springer
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Use of an Expanding Directory Interface for WWW Legal Resources
Bert J. Dempsey, Barbara M. Wildemuth, Gary Geisle...
ADL
1999
Springer
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Adjustable Filmstrips and Skims as Abstractions for a Digital Video Library
Michael G. Christel, Alexander G. Hauptmann, Adrie...
ADL
1999
Springer
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Extending the Role of Metadata in a Digital Library System
We describe an approach to the development of a digital library system that is founded on a number of basic principles. In particular, we discuss the critical role of metadata in ...
Alexa T. McCray, Marie E. Gallagher, Michael A. Fl...