ECDL 1997: Pisa, Italy
Carol Peters, Costantino Thanos (Eds.): Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. First European Conference, ECDL '97, Pisa, Italy, 1-3 September, Proceedings. Springer 1997 Lecture Notes in Computer Science ISBN 3-540-63554-8
Invited Talk

Serge Abiteboul: Object Database Support for Digital Libraries. 11-23
Supporting User Interaction
Rob Procter, Andy McKinlay, Ana Goldenberg, Elisabeth Davenport, Peter Burnhill, Sheila Cannell: Enhancing Community and Collaboration in the Virtual Library. 25-40
Laura A. Slaughter, Ben Shneiderman, Gary Marchionini: Comprehension and Object Recognition Capabilities for Presentations of Simultaneous Video Key Frame Surrogates. 41-54
Metadata
James C. French, Allison L. Powell, Eric Schulman, John L. Pfaltz: Automating the Construction of Authority Files in Digital Libraries: A Case Study. 55-71
Klaus Tochtermann, Wolf-Fritz Riekert, Gerlinde Wiest, Jürgen Seggelke, Birgit Mohaupt-Jahr: Using Semantic, Geographical, and Temporal Relationships to Enhance Search and Retrieval in Digital Catalogs. 73-86
Renato Iannella: Metadata Repositories using PICS. 87-98
Information Retrieval I
Alan F. Smeaton, Francis Crimmins: Relevance Feedback and Query Expansion for Searching the Web: A Model for Searching a Digital Library. 99-112
David Hawking: Scalable Text Retrieval for Large Digital Libraries. 127-145
Architectures

Christos Nikolaou, Manolis Marazakis, Dimitris Papadakis, Yiorgos Yeorgiannakis, Jakka Sairamesh: Towards a Common Infrastructure for Large-scale Distributed Applications. 173-193
Giovanni Semeraro, Floriana Esposito, Donato Malerba, Nicola Fanizzi, Stefano Ferilli: Machine Learning + On-line Libraries = IDL. 195-214
Multilingual Information Retrieval
Myriam Dartois, Akira Maeda, Takehisa Fujita, Tetsuo Sakaguchi, Shigeo Sugimoto, Koichi Tabata: Building a Multi-lingual Electronic Text Collection of Folk Tales as a Set of Encapsulated Document Objects: An Approach for Casual Users to Browse Multi-lingual Documents on the Fly. 215-231
Reginald Ferber: Automated Indexing with Thesaurus Descriptors: A Co-occurence Based Approach to Multilingual Retrieval. 233-252
Paraic Sheridan, Martin Braschler, Peter Schäuble: Cross-Language Information Retrieval in a Multilingual Legal Domain. 253-268
Structured Documents
Andrea Bozzi, Sylvie Calabretto: The Digital Library and Computational Philology: The BAMBI Project. 269-285
Vassilis Christophides, Martin Doerr, Irini Fundulaki: A Semantic Network Approach to Semi-Structured Documents Repositories. 305-324
Information Retrieval II
Carlo Meghini, Fabrizio Sebastiani, Umberto Straccia: Modelling the Retrieval of Structured Documents Containing Texts and Images. 325-344
Stephen M. Harding, W. Bruce Croft, C. Weir: Probabilistic Retrieval of OCR Degraded Text Using N-Grams. 345-359
Case Studies
Trudi C. Noordermeer: Deposit for Dutch Electronic Publications: Research and Practice in The Netherlands. 361-373
Michael Breu, Ricarda Weber: Charging for a Digital Library - The Business Model and the Cost Models of the MeDoc Digital Library. 375-385
Sylvie Mony: Bibliothèque Nationale de France's Audiovisual System: Digital Audio, Video, and Photo Consultation in a Library. 387-403
Jochen Bern, Carsten Damm, Christoph Meinel: The Electronic Colloquium on Computational Complexity (ECCC): A Digital Library in Use. 405-421



