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This tutorial broadly explains, covers, and illustrates key aspects of the DL field. It uses the 5S framework (societies, scenarios, spaces, structures, streams – see paper in April 2004 ACM TOIS) to provide an intuitive but formally sound basis for understanding. It provides an overview to the field as used in the Fall 2003 Digital Libraries course taught by the instructor.

After completing this tutorial, attendees will be prepared to benefit from the presentations at JCDL, including other tutorials. They will be able to explain “digital library”, to distinguish it from related fields, to describe key DL concepts using the 5S framework, and to appreciate the history and key results of the field. They will be aware of many well known projects / systems.

This tutorial will start with an overview of definitions, foundations, scenarios and perspectives. It will cover a variety of issues, including:

• search, retrieval and resource discovery;
• multimedia/hypermedia;
• metadata (e.g., Dublin Core);
• electronic publishing; SGML and XML;
• document models and representations;
• database approaches;
• 2D and 3D interfaces and visualizations;
• architectures and interoperability (e.g., OAI); metrics;
• educational (e.g., CITIDEL, NSDL, NDLTD) and social concerns.

Case studies of projects, initiatives, and systems will illustrate key concepts, including:

• Computing and Information Technology Interactive Digital Educational Library (www.citidel.org)
• National Science Digital Library (www.nsdl.org)
• Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (www.ndltd.org)
• Open Archives Initiative (www.openarchives.org, www.dlib.vt.edu/projects/OAI/)
• Systems and approaches to building digital libraries (e.g., Open Digital Libraries)

All attending JCDL for the first time, as well as those interested in a refresher or different perspective on the field of digital libraries. Level of experience required: introductory. Those at intermediate or advanced levels could benefit as well, since the 5S framework has broad applicability for planners, designers, implementers, and evaluators.

Dept. of Computer Science
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA;
Tel: +1-540-231-5113 [direct], 6931 [dept.]; 230-6266 [mobile];
Fax: +1-540-231-6075 [CS]
Email: fox@vt.edu
URL: http://fox.cs.vt.edu/

Dr. Edward A. Fox holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science from Cornell University, and a B.S. from M.I.T. Since 1983 he has been at Virginia Tech, where he serves as Professor of Computer Science. He is Chairman of the IEEE-CS Technical Committee on Digital Libraries. He directs the Digital Library Research Laboratory, Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations, and Computing and Information Technology Interactive Digital Educational Library (CITIDEL). Fox is editor for the Morgan Kaufmann Publishers book series on Multimedia Information and Systems. He is co-editor-in-chief for ACM Journal of Educational Resources in Computing and was General Chair for JCDL'2001. He served as Program Chair for ACM DL'99, ACM DL'96, and ACM SIGIR'95. He was lead guest editor for Communications of the ACM special issues July 1989, April 1991, April 1995, April 1998, and May 2001. He has been (co)PI on over 85 research and development projects. In addition to his courses at Virginia Tech, Dr. Fox has taught over 55 tutorials in more than 20 countries. He has given more than 45 keynote/banquet/international invited/distinguished speaker presentations, over 90 refereed conference/workshop papers, and over 400 additional presentations.

This introductory tutorial is intended for anyone concerned with subject access to digital libraries. It provides a bridge by presenting methods of subject access as treated in an information studies program for those coming to digital libraries from other fields. It will elucidate through examples the conceptual and vocabulary problems users face when searching digital libraries. It will then show how a well-structured thesaurus / ontology can be used as the knowledge base for an interface that can assist users with search topic clarification (for example through browsing well-structured hierarchies and guided facet analysis) and with finding good search terms (through query term mapping and query term expansion — synonyms and hierarchic inclusion). It will touch on cross-database and cross-language searching as natural extensions of these functions. The workshop will cover the thesaurus structure needed to support these functions: Concept-term relationships for vocabulary control and synonym expansion, conceptual structure (semantic analysis, facets, and hierarchy) for topic clarification and hierarchic query term expansion). It will introduce a few sample thesauri and some thesaurus-supported digital libraries and Web sites to illustrate these principles.

Participants should appreciate the complexity of subject access and understand the problems that a thesaurus/ontology can help solve.

Participants should understand the principles of thesaurus/ontology structure.

Participants should be able to apply thesaurus/ontology structure to solving subject access problems.

Outline:

Thesaurus functions
Introduction. Challenges for digital libraries
Why thesauri: a first look with examples
What is a thesaurus? A first look with examples
Thesaurus functions
Thesaurus structure
Concept-term relationships
Conceptual structure: Semantic analysis and facets. Hierarchy
Implementing thesaurus functions
Evaluation of thesauri
Resources

Examples of classifications and thesauri
Alcohol and Other Drug Thesaurus (AOD Thesaurus)
Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) and
Unified Medical Language System (UMLS)
Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT). (Getty Foundation)
Dewey Decimal Classification. (US Library of Congress & OCLC/Forest Pr)
WordNet (Princeton University, George Miller)
CYC Ontology

Duration: Half-day (morning)

Dagobert Soergel
College of Information Studies
Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742
Office:(301) 405-2037
Fax (301) 314-9145
Mobile 703-585-2840
Email dsoergel@umd.edu
URL: www.clis.umd.edu/faculty/soergel/

Dagobert Soergel holds an MS equivalent in mathematics and physics (1964) and a PhD in political science (1970), both from the University of Freiburg, Germany. He is Professor of Information Studies, University of Maryland, where he teaches courses in information retrieval, thesaurus development, expert systems, and information technology, and an information systems consultant. He has been a visiting professor at the universities of Western Ontario, Chicago, and Konstanz, Germany. Among other books, he has authored Organizing Information (1985), which received the American Society of Information Science Best Book Award, Indexing Languages and Thesauri. Construction and Maintenance (1974) and numerous papers. He has designed several thesauri, most recently the Alcohol and Other Drug Thesaurus http://etoh.niaaa.nih.gov/AODVol1/Aodthome.htm (for which he chairs the advisory committee) and the Harvard-Stanford Business Thesaurus (under development). He is developing TermMaster, a thesaurus management software package. In 1997 he received the American Society of Information Science Award of Merit.

Abstract:

This tutorial is intended for people who have a basic familiarity with the function and structure of thesauri and ontologies. It will introduce criteria for the design and evaluation of thesauri and ontologies and then deal with methods and tools for their development: Locating sources; collecting concepts, terms. and relationships to reuse existing knowledge; developing and refining thesaurus/ontology structure; software and database structure for the development and maintenance of thesauri and ontologies; standards such as RDF and TopicMaps; collaborative development of thesauri and ontologies; developing crosswalks / mappings between thesauri/ontologies. In summing up, the tutorial will address the question of the amount of resources needed to develop and maintain a thesaurus or ontology.

Objectives:

Participants should have a good grasp of what is involved in developing a thesaurus or ontology so they can judge or supervise thesaurus/ontology development projects and so they have a basis for the further development of skills to actually do thesaurus/ontology development.

Participants should be able to design and evaluate thesauri and ontologies, applying proper criteria and methods.

Participants should be able to locate pertinent existing thesauri and ontologies.

Participants should be able to extract pertinent information (terms, concepts, relationships) from existing thesauri and ontologies.

Participants should be able to develop a systematic structure for the domain of the thesaurus/ontology.

Participants should be familiar with methods and tools for developing thesauri and ontologies as the basis for acquiring the skills of using these tools

Outline:

Introduction and overview
The process of thesaurus construction
The overall process of thesaurus construction
Sources of concepts, terms, relationships, definitions
Methods of data collection
Merging data from many sources

Developing the conceptual structure
Facet analysis 1: Education (starting with classes from DDC)
More facet examples: Yahoo Education, job titles (10 min)
Developing the conceptual structure, continued
Hands-on facet exercise (in pairs)
Principles for meaningful arrangement
Rules for selection of concepts as descriptors. Rules for selection of terms
The structure and processing of thesaurus data
Interoperability of thesauri/ontologies. Crosswalks
The structure of a thesaurus/ontology database
The many forms of Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS) and their standards
Thesaurus software and its evaluation

Duration: Half-day (afternoon)

Proposer Information:

Dagobert Soergel
College of Information Studies
Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742
Office:(301) 405-2037
Fax (301) 314-9145
Mobile 703-585-2840
Email dsoergel@umd.edu
URL: www.clis.umd.edu/faculty/soergel/

Biography:

Dagobert Soergel holds an MS equivalent in mathematics and physics (1964) and a PhD in political science (1970), both from the University of Freiburg, Germany. He is Professor of Information Studies, University of Maryland, where he teaches courses in information retrieval, thesaurus development, expert systems, and information technology, and an information systems consultant. He has been a visiting professor at the universities of Western Ontario, Chicago, and Konstanz, Germany. Among other books, he has authored Organizing Information (1985), which received the American Society of Information Science Best Book Award, Indexing Languages and Thesauri. Construction and Maintenance (1974) and numerous papers. He has designed several thesauri, most recently the Alcohol and Other Drug Thesaurus http://etoh.niaaa.nih.gov/AODVol1/Aodthome.htm (for which he chairs the advisory committee) and the Harvard-Stanford Business Thesaurus (under development). He is developing TermMaster, a thesaurus management software package. In 1997 he received the American Society of Information Science Award of Merit.

Abstract:

The “Grid” is an emerging infrastructure for coordinating access across autonomous organizations to distributed, heterogeneous computation and data resources. Data grids are being built around the world as the next generation data handling systems for sharing, publishing, and preserving data residing on storage systems located in multiple administrative domains. A data grid provides logical namespaces for users, digital entities and storage resources to create persistent identifiers for controlling access, enabling discovery, and managing wide area latencies. Data Grid Technologies could be used to build and manage global digital libraries and archives across multiple administrative domains. The data flow pipelines associated with maintaining digital libraries and archives could be mapped as Data Grid Workflow services.

Objectives:

The tutorial’s objective is to introduce the emerging Grid technologies and their relevance to digital libraries and persistent archives. Novices and experts would benefit from this tutorial. The tutorial would cover introduction, use-cases in large projects, design philosophies, existing technologies, open research issues, and demonstrations. Hands on sessions for the participants to use and “feel” the existing technologies could be provided based on the availability of wireless internet connections.

Outline:

• Introduction to Data Grids (What?)
  • Data Intensive Computing Environments
  • Data grids, digital libraries, persistent archives, workflows
  • Data Grids deployed or under development (as of the tutorial date)
• Requirement for Data Grids (Why?)
  • Grids ( Digital Libraries, Persistent Archives, Dataflow Pipelines)
  • Data sharing, data publication, data preservation, and data analysis
• Some design philosophies in Data Grids (How?)
  • Transparencies
  • Storage resource transparency
  • Storage location transparency
  • Data identifier transparency
  • Data replica transparency
  • Virtual data abstraction
  • Authentication transparency
  • Virtual Organization transparency (zones)
  • Logical Architecture
  • Logical name space
  • Collection hierarchy
  • Implementation Architecture
  • Storage repository abstraction
  • Information repository abstraction
  • Access abstraction
  • Latency Management
  • Grid security, authentication and authorization
  • Consistency Management
• Use Cases (Where?)
  • SDSC Storage Resource Broker (SRB)
  • BIRN
  • California Digital Library
  • TeraGrid
  • National Virtual Observatory
• Data Grid Services
  • Grid Middleware for end to end services
  • Sagas
  • Data Management and Data Access in Grid
  • Data Grid Language
  • Context based workflow
  • SDSC Matrix Project
  • OGSA, Persistent Archives, GGF Grid File System
• Related Technologies
• Open Research Issues
• SRB Hands on and demonstration

Duration: Half-day

Content Level: Introductory to Intermediate

Target Audience:

Since the tutorial covers basics, open research issues and hands on sessions, a wide variety of people usually fall into the category of “intended audience”. Based on similar experiences before, the following people would benefit:

• Beginners, Students: Introduction to related topics including data grids, digital libraries, persistent archives and grid-based workflows would be useful for beginners
• Investigators: Researchers who already know about digital libraries and very large data handling can update themselves on new research challenges from real-life projects
• System Managers and Consultants: Information provided about existing technologies and best practices would be useful for people interested in production systems.
• Commercial companies: The case studies of the existing projects will provide them an idea of how similar problems in the commercial world could be solved and applied to handle collaborative data environments in global digital libraries and archives.

Proposers’ Information:

Arun Jagatheesan arun@sdsc.edu
Reagan Moore moore@sdsc.edu

San Diego Supercomputer Center,
University of California at San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive, MC-0505
La Jolla, CA 92093-0505

Biographies:

Dr. Reagan Moore is Co-Program Director for Data and Knowledge Systems at the San Diego Supercomputer Center. He coordinates research efforts on digital libraries, data grids, and persistent archives for projects with NSF, NASA, DOE, NARA, NHPRC, and the Library of Congress. Moore has a Ph.D. in plasma physics from the University of California, San Diego, (1978) and a B.S. in physics from the California Institute of Technology (1967). Moore has worked at the San Diego Supercomputer Center since 1986, as manager of the Cray Time Sharing System, and then as manager of all production software services. Moore currently is co-PI for SDSC participation on 13 research grants ranging from the NSF National Virtual Observatory, to the NSF Southern California Earthquake Center, to the DOE Particle Physics Data Grid, and the NARA Prototype Persistent Archive.

Arun swaran Jagatheesan ("Arun") is an Adjunct Assistant Researcher (OPS Faculty member) at the University of Florida, and a Visiting Scholar at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at University of California, San Diego. His research interests include Data Grid Management, Peer-to-peer Computing, and Workflow Management Systems. He is the founder and technical lead of the SDSC Matrix Project on Gridflow Management Systems. He is a co-chair of the Grid File System Working Group at the Global Grid Forum, and is involved in research and development of multiple datagrid projects at the San Diego Supercomputer Center.

Locations where a similar tutorials have been presented:

- VLDB 2003 – 29th International Conference on Very Large Databases, Berlin, Germany. http://www.vldb.informatik.hu-berlin.de/progr_tutorial.html - Tutorial4

- MSST 2004 – 12th NASA Goddard /21st IEEE Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies, April 13-16, 2004, College Park, Maryland, USA.

Abstract:

This tutorial is designed to introduce the concepts behind the Fedora digital repository system architecture and to show the architecture's capabilities via a live demo of the software. The concept of Fedora content models will be introduced with specific examples shown of how to apply Fedora content models to different types of data. Working content models will be demonstrated.

Objectives:

After completion of the Introduction to the Flexible Extensible Digital Object Repository Architecture and Its Application to Digital Libraries tutorial, participants will have a basic understanding of the concepts behind the Fedora digital repository architecture and Fedora content models, and a basic working knowledge of the fundamental features of the Fedora software and the application of Fedora content models to specific data types. The tutorial is appropriate for all levels of expertise from beginner to expert.

Outline:

Introduction
Fedora Demo: current functionality, including a discussion of content
versioning
Fedora Content Models: definition of Fedora content models (e.g. images, electronic texts, simple and complex documents, collections, and metadata), application of Fedora content models to specific data types. Content Model demonstration: the content models currently at work in Fedora repositories.
Future Development Plans
Q&A

Duration: Half day

Target Audience:

Digital repository developers, administrators, and content specialists
Level of experience required: Introductory

Proposers’ Information:

Ronda Grizzle: rgrizzle@virginia.edu, 434-924-3965

Ross Wayland: rlw@virginia.edu, 434-924-0746

Chris Wilper: cwilper@cs.cornell.edu, 607-254-8623

Biographies:

Ross Wayland is Associate Director of the Digital Library Research and Development Group at the University of Virginia Library where for the past five years he has served in a variety of capacities including technical manager, software developer, database administrator, and technical consultant. He is currently the Lead Researcher/Programmer at the University of Virginia Library on the Fedora Project (2001-2004, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation), a joint effort involving the University of Virginia Library and Cornell University to develop a general-purpose digital object repository system. He is also actively involved in the implementation of Fedora at the University of Virginia Library and has led efforts in developing Fedora Content Models for images, TEI-encoded texts, and EAD-encoded finding aids. Prior to joining the library, he has over fifteen years of experience in the computer field including the areas of applications programming, database administration, system analysis, humanities computing, and clinical data repositories.

Chris Wilper is a research programmer/analyst in the Digital Library Research group in Cornell University's Information Science Department, with particular interests in information management and architecture. He has been working on the Fedora Project (and braving Ithaca's winters) for two years. Prior to coming to Cornell, Chris worked as a Documentum consultant to Sun Microsystems, assisting with a custom publishing solution for www.sun.com. In the early days of the web, he worked as a software engineer at Hewlett-Packard, developing their first engine for publishing customer support documents and downloads to www.hp.com. Chris is excited about the open-source nature of the Fedora software and thinks the ideas in the architecture will have a long-lasting effect on how we think about information management and publishing.

Ronda Grizzle, the Technical Coordinator for the Fedora Project in the Digital Library Research and Development Group at the University of Virginia Library, joined the Fedora project two years ago. After receiving her MSIS from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Information and Library Science, she worked in a variety of library settings as a systems librarian and for a library automation vendor as a customer service manager. She brings ten years of experience in library systems, database and user interface design, customer service, and end-user training to the Fedora development project.

Abstract:

This tutorial is a practical, hands-on, laboratory-style workshop in which attendees build their own digital library collections using the Greenstone digital library software, a comprehensive, open-source system for constructing, presenting, and maintaining information collections.

It is a highly compressed version of a 3-day UNESCO-sponsored workshop to promote the development and sharing of digital library collections using Greenstone. The intensive 1-day format is feasible because the UNESCO workshop is aimed at librarians in developing countries who have limited experience of advanced technology. UNESCO’s aim is to train trainers, and their participants are expected to promote digital library collection development by conducting similar programs in their countries. Attendees of this tutorial will be given access to a full set of teaching material for the 3-day version of the course that they are encouraged to adapt for local courses back home.

Background:

The course is entirely based around Greenstone’s “librarian” interface. This facility allows users to gather together sets of documents, import or assign metadata, build them into a Greenstone collection, and serve it from their web site. It supports six basic activities: opening an existing collection or defining a new one; copying documents into it, with metadata attached (if any); enriching the documents by adding further metadata to individual documents or groups; designing the collection by determining its appearance and the access facilities it will support; building it using Greenstone; and previewing the newly created collection from the Greenstone home page.

The interface explicitly supports four levels of user: Library Assistants, who can add documents and metadata to collections, and create new ones whose structure mirrors that of existing collections; Librarians, who can, in addition, design new collections, but cannot use specialist IT features (e.g. regular expressions); Library Systems Specialists, who can use all design features, but cannot perform troubleshooting tasks (e.g. interpreting debugging output from Perl scripts); and Experts, who can perform all functions.

Collections built with Greenstone automatically include effective full-text searching and metadata-based browsing facilities that are attractive and easy to use. They are easily maintainable and can be rebuilt entirely automatically. Searching is full-text, and different indexes can be constructed (including metadata indexes). Browsing utilizes hierarchical structures that are created automatically from metadata associated with the source documents. Collections can include text, pictures, audio, and video. The interface to collections can be extensively customized. Documents can be in any language: the interface has been translated into about thirty languages.

Although primarily designed for Web access, collections can be made available, in precisely the same form, on CD-ROM or DVD. The system is extensible: software "plug-ins" accommodate different document and metadata types.

The Greenstone software runs under Unix, Windows and Mac (OS/X), and is issued as source code under the GNU public license. Attendees will learn enough to install the software, set up a digital library system, build their own collections, and customize them. Those with programming skills should be able to extend and tailor the system extensively. Moreover, all attendees will be qualified to give courses on Greenstone when they return home, and will be equipped with extensive course material which is freely redistributable.

Outline:

Welcome, introduce participants and instructors
Greenstone: Overview of features, capabilities, applications
Platforms, installation, configuration; accessing example collections
Lab Exercise 1: Installing Greenstone, browsing collections
Librarian interface: Building collections
Lab Exercise 2: Building collections with the Librarian interface
Librarian interface: Adding and using metadata

--------------------- Lunch -------------------------

Lab Exercise 3: Adding and using metadata
Librarian interface: Advanced features
Lab Exercise 4: Configuring collections
Customizing collections, creating CD-ROMs
Lab Exercise 5: Customizing your collection; creating a CD-ROM
How building works; bibliography collections
Multilingual support; interface languages
Concluding discussion

Duration: Full day

Target Audience:

Intermediate

The tutorial is designed for those who want to build their own digital library but do not want to write their own software. It is intended for students, researchers, and practitioners, in any area of IR, who are interested in the details of building digital libraries. In addition, it is specifically designed to make it possible for attendees to run courses on Greenstone themselves.

The Greenstone Librarian Interface is designed for end users. No programming ability is required. Attendees should be familiar with HTML and the Web, and be aware of representation standards such as Unicode and Dublin Core.

Proposer Information:

Ian H. Witten
Department of Computer Science
University of Waikato
Hamilton, New Zealand
Phone (+64 7) 838-4246
Fax (+64 7) 838-4155
Email ihw@cs.waikato.ac.nz.

Biography:

Ian H. Witten is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Waikato in New Zealand, and directs the New Zealand Digital Library project (where the Greenstone software originates). He has published widely in the areas of digital libraries, data compression, information retrieval, and machine learning. He is co-author of "Managing Gigabytes: Compressing and indexing documents and images" (1999), "Data mining: Practical machine learning tools and techniques with Java implementations" (2000), and "How to build a digital library" (2003), as well as many journal articles and conference papers. He is a Fellow of the ACM and of the Royal Society of New Zealand, and a member of professional computing, information retrieval, and engineering associations in the UK, USA, Canada, and New Zealand. He will receive the 2004 IFIP Namur Award, a biennial honor accorded for outstanding contribution with international impact to the awareness of social implications of information and communication technology.

Depending on interest and attendance, another member of the New Zealand Digital Library project will participate in the tutorial as a lab instructor.

Abstract:

To conduct a comprehensive evaluation of a digital library requires a "triangulation" approach whereby multiple models, procedures, and tools are applied. Conducting valid evaluations of digital libraries in a timely and efficient manner is the focus of this tutorial. Why is evaluation of digital libraries so important? Each year sees the introduction of more and more digital libraries promoted as valuable resources for education and other needs. Yet systematic evaluation of the implementation and efficacy of these digital library systems is often lacking.

This tutorial is specifically designed to establish evaluation as a key strategy throughout the design, development, and implementation of digital libraries at all levels of education. A decision-oriented model to the evaluation of digital libraries will be the focus of the tutorial. Within this model, methods used include: service evaluation, usability evaluation, information retrieval, biometrics evaluation, transaction log analysis survey methods, interviews and focus groups, observations, and experimental methods. Participants will be provided with a range of resources including an online evaluation toolkit.

Objectives:

After attending this tutorial, the participants will be able to perform the following tasks:

• Describe different paradigms for digital library evaluation.
• Distinguish between:
  • assessment and evaluation;
  • internal and external evaluation;
  • intrinsic and extrinsic evaluation; and
  • formative and summative evaluation.
• Implement six facets of evaluation for digital:
  • review;
  • needs assessment;
  • formative evaluation;
  • effectiveness evaluation;
  • impact evaluation; and
  • maintenance evaluation.
• Prepare an evaluation plan for various decision-making needs, including clarification of key questions and methods.
• Recognize the advantages and limitations of evaluation in the context of digital libraries.

Outline:

Participants in this tutorial will learn how to implement models and procedures for evaluating digital libraries at all levels of education. The tutorial includes presentations with actual case studies that are focused on a variety of digital library evaluation strategies. Tutorial participants will learn to develop, implement, and report specific plans, strategies, and tools for a decision-oriented approach to the evaluation of digital libraries. Key evaluation strategies emphasized in the tutorial include:

• service evaluation,
• usability evaluation,
• information retrieval,
• biometrics evaluation,
• transaction log analysis
• survey methods
• interviews and focus groups
• observations, and
• experimental methods.

Duration: All-day with a break for lunch

Target Audience:

Anyone involved in the development, implementation, or use of digital libraries. (Introductory, intermediate, advanced levels could all benefit.)

Proposers’ Information:

Thomas C. Reeves, Ph.D.
Professor
Dept. of Instructional Technology
College of Education
The University of Georgia
604 Aderhold Hall
Athens, GA 30602-7144 USA
TEL: 706/542-3849
FAX: 706/542-4032
E-MAIL: treeves@coe.uga.edu
WEB: http://it.coe.uga.edu/~treeves
Evaluation Resources: http://www.evaluateitnow.com

Susan M. Buhr, Ph.D
Director, Outreach Program
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0216
Phone: (303)492-5657
Fax: (303)492-1149
URL: http://cires.colorado.edu/~k12

Lecia J. Barker, Ph.D.
Director
ATLAS Evaluation & Research
University of Colorado
Stadium 262E; 320 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-0320
Lecia.Barker@colorado.edu
Phone: 303-735-5578
Fax: 303-735-5621
URL: http://www.colorado.edu/ATLAS/evaluation/about/lecia.html

Biographies:

Dr. Thomas C. Reeves is a professor of instructional technology at The University of Georgia where he teaches program evaluation, multimedia design, and research courses. Since receiving his Ph.D. at Syracuse University in 1979, he has developed and evaluated numerous interactive multimedia programs for both education and training. In addition to numerous presentations and workshops in the USA, he has been an invited speaker in other countries including Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, England, Finland, Malaysia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Peru, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, and Taiwan. He is a past president of the Association for the Development of Computer-based Instructional Systems (ADCIS) and a former Fulbright Lecturer. In 1995, he was selected as one of the “Top 100” people in multimedia by Multimedia Producer magazine, and from 1997 - 2000, he was the editor of the Journal of Interactive Learning Research. In 2003, he was the first person to receive the AACE Fellowship Award from the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education. He is a member of the Visiting Committee for the National Science Digital Library (http://nsdl.org/) and a Co-PI on the Evaluation Core Services Team for the Digital Library for Earth System Education (http://www.dlese.org/).

Dr. Buhr directs the Education Outreach program of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), a large environmental research institute at the University of Colorado. The CIRES Outreach program, works primarily with science teachers, school districts, and with the integration of environmental science research and education. After receiving her Ph.D. in atmospheric chemistry in 1995 she began her professional work in education outreach and became interested in building evaluation capacity in the geoscience education field. She is PI on the Evaluation Core Service project of the Digital Library for Earth Systems Education (DLESE), and is principal investigator of the DLESE Evaluation Toolkit and Community project, focused on building evaluation capacity within the DLESE community. This work is motivated by a desire to bridge the communities of geoscientists, educators and evaluators to develop data-driven practices in geoscience education.

Dr. Barker is the director of the Evaluation and Research group of the Alliance for Technology, Learning, and Society (ATLAS) at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is co-PI of the DLESE Evaluation Toolkit and Community project. She has evaluated several science technology learning projects, including the development of a web site for teaching weather concepts to middle school students in collaboration with UCAR and Science Discovery; comparing learning outcomes between a traditional, large-lecture astronomy course with a technology-enhanced, collaboration-based teaching method; and evaluating the integration of information technology into pre-service teacher preparation curriculum. Dr. Barker also conducts research on gender and minority issues related to technology curricula, technology skills, and expectations of students in higher education, and uses of instructional technology by university faculty. She is PI on the Evaluation Core Service project of the Digital Library for Earth Systems Education (DLESE).

Relevant Publications:

Reeves, T. C., & Hedberg, J. G. (2003). Interactive learning systems evaluation. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Educational Technology Publications.

Reeves, T. C., Apedoe, X, & Woo, Y. (in press). Evaluating digital libraries: A user-friendly guide. Boulder, CO: University Corporation for Atmospheric Research.

Abstract and Objectives:

This one-day tutorial will provide an introduction and overview of
qualitative user studies. The emphasis will be on techniques for understanding the interactions and context of user activity, particularly as they relate to the design of systems and technologies. The intent is to give participants some familiarity and practice with methods and an overall
qualitative study process.

The session will include presentations of information, case studies as examples, and exercises for participant interaction. Case studies come from past work of the instructor and literature. The exercises will be based on the ACM Digital Library as an existing library in use.

Outline:

• Determining a study methodology and plan.
  • Focal question(s)
  • Lab studies (e.g. designed experiences, artifact walk-throughs)
  • Fieldwork (e.g. interviews, day-in-the-life, observations)
• Collecting data.
  • Participants
  • Scripts
  • Interviews and observations
  • Debriefs
• Analysis
  • Collections
  • Representations
  • Implications

Duration: Full day

Target Audience:

Proposers’ Information:

Sara Bly

Sara Bly Consulting
24511 NW Moreland Road
North Plains, OR 97133
503-647-1946

Email: sara@bly.net

Biography:

Sara Bly has been an active researcher and practitioner in qualitative user studies for more than 20 years, working as an independent consultant since 1994. She was an early member of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center Media Space where her research focused on the design and use of technology to support collaborative work. She has worked closely with designers, social scientists and engineers to develop ways of using ethnographic methods to inform design and evaluation.

The Second Symposium on Intelligence and Security Informatics

Organizers:

Hsinchun Chen (University of Arizona)
Reagan Moore (San Diego Super Computer Center, UCSD)
Daniel Zeng (University of Arizona)
John John Leavitt (Tucson Police Department)

Duration: 1 1/2 day (June 10-11)

Workshop Web Page:

http//www.ecom.arizona.edu/ISI/

Themes/objectives:

The past two years have seen significant interest and progress made in national security research in the areas of information technologies, organizational studies, and security-related public policy. Similar to medical and biological research that faces significant information overload and yet also tremendous opportunities for new innovation, law enforcement, criminal analysis, and intelligence communities are facing the same challenge. We believe, similar to “medical informatics” and “bioinformatics,” there is a pressing need to develop the science of “intelligence and security informatics”—the study of the use and development of advanced information technologies, systems, algorithms for national security related applications, through an integrated technological, organizational, and policy based approach.

The first Symposium on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI-2003) was held in June 2003 in Tucson, Arizona. (Information regarding ISI-2003 can be found at http://www.ecom.arizona.edu/ISI/2003/) Jointly hosted by the University of Arizona and the Tucson Police Department, this successful symposium provided a stimulating intellectual forum of discussions among previously disparate communities: academic researchers (in information technologies, computer science, public policy, and social studies), local, state, and federal law enforcement and intelligence experts, and information technology industry consultants and practitioners. The two-day symposium program included 5 keynote speakers, 14 invited speakers, 34 regular papers, and 30 posters, and attracted more than 140 attendees. The symposium proceedings were published in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science as volume 2665.

Paper Submission: Participants are welcome. Paper submission is now closed.

Organizers:

Edward A. Fox (Virginia Tech)
Ching-chih Chen (Simmons University)

Duration: Full day (afternoon of 6/10 and morning of 6/11)

Workshop Web Page:

http://fox.cs.vt.edu/global

Themes/objectives/logistics:

The primary aim of the workshop is to advance global reach and impact of digital libraries by facilitating international collaboration. Attendees will work in groups, organized around themes such as Indo-US collaboration, or the establishment of an international association to promote education aided by digital libraries. Each group will leave with a detailed action plan.

The workshop will begin with opening remarks by the organizers, and be followed by ¼ day of poster session, so attendees can become familiar with the work and interests of all present. The rest of the afternoon of 6/10 will have attendees divided into groups based on proposals that argue for topical or regional collaboration (e.g., Shalini Urs and Martin Halbert will lead a group to continue prior exploration of opportunities for Indo-US DL collaboration). Group leaders will meet during the evening of 6/10 to set the agenda for the next day. The morning of 6/11 will begin with 90 minutes of additional group discussion. Then groups will present a summary of their action plan in a plenary session, and general discussion will conclude the meeting.

Those interested in co-leading a group should submit by April 19 a proposal indicating: title for group, theme for discussion, two names (and contact information) of co-organizers, list of others planning to attend, and pointers to prior reports or meetings (if any) that relate (and which this event will allow to continue).
Individuals interested in attending should submit by May 3 a proposal indicating name, contact information, ranked list of themes for discussion they would like to consider, and a 1 page description of their poster – suitable for inclusion in the workshop electronic proceedings.

Paper submission contact: Ed Fox (fox@vt.edu)

Organizers:

Robby Robson (NSDL Reusable Learning Project)
Brandon Muramatsu (NSDL Reusable Learning Project)

Workshop Web Page:

http://www.reusablelearning.org/nsdl/

Duration: Half day (June 11 Morning)

Themes/objectives:

Digital libraries and collections of digital resources now catalog and provide access to a wide variety of digital learning objects, including web sites, courseware, simulations, and other interactive educational software. Many of these collections are part of the National Science Digital Library (NSDL), intended to be used by educators and learners.
The long-term sustainability of these collections, and of the NSDL as a whole, requires paying attention not just to collecting and cataloging learning objects but also to ensuring they can be used and to supporting their use. This is the goal of the NSDL Reusability Project (www.reusablelearning.org/nsdl/). This project has developed reusable design guidelines and materials to help collections identify and address policy and technology issues relevant to reusability, specifically to making learning objects easier to reuse, or to modify for reuse, in multiple contexts and in multiple learning environments.

This JCDL workshop will:

• Present and discuss reusable design guidelines for digital library developers.
• Discuss how collections can incorporate the guidelines into their collection development policies.

Paper submission contact: nsdl@reusablelearning.org

Katherine Hanson (Education Development Center, Inc.)
Sarita Nair (Education Development Center, Inc.)
Sharon Reidy (Education Development Center, Inc.)
Bethany Carlson (Education Development Center, Inc.)

http//www2.edc.org/GDI/JCDL2004.htm

The aim of this workshop is to use selected papers by participants as well as the organizers’ own recent K-12 digital library research as a springboard for examining successes, challenges, and realities of designing digital resources for targeted audiences. Attendees will have the opportunity to discuss the examples given, reflect on how this information could influence their own work, and suggest future research questions.
Participation is open to those who have experience designing or developing digital resources. Participants are invited to submit position papers describing their experiences developing digital resources for their particular audiences and offering topics to seed discussion. Papers should specify features of their resources which may appeal to diverse audiences and justification of the resources’ design. Papers submitted by May 5, 2004 will be peer reviewed; selected authors will be asked to present their papers. Please submit papers and suggested topics as an attachment to bcarlson@edc.org. Electronic submissions in PDF format only. There will be a limit of 25 participants to ensure that focused discussion is possible.