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Part of: Synthesis digital library of engineering and computer science.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-144).

1. Content-based image retrieval / Ricardo da Silva Torres, Nadia P. Kozievitch, Uma Murthy, and Alexandre X. Falcao -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Content-based image retrieval -- 1.3 Related work -- 1.3.1 Image descriptors -- 1.3.2 CBIR systems -- 1.3.3 Indexing structures -- 1.3.4 Effectiveness measures -- 1.3.5 User interaction in CBIR systems -- 1.3.6 Applications -- 1.4 Formalization -- 1.5 Case study -- 1.6 Research challenges -- 1.7 Summary -- 1.8 Exercises and projects --

2. Education / Eric Fouh and Yinlin Chen -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Related work -- 2.3 Information seeking in an EDL -- 2.4 Information organization in an EDL -- 2.5 A quality-enhanced minimal 5S DL -- 2.6 Implementation of educational digital libraries -- 2.6.1 Federated search and harvesting of metadata -- 2.6.2 EDL with content authoring capabilities -- 2.6.3 Metadata interchange -- 2.7 Formalization -- 2.8 Case studies -- 2.8.1 AlgoViz -- 2.8.2 Ensemble -- 2.9 Summary -- 2.10 Exercises and projects --

3. Social networks in digital libraries / Monika Akbar and Clifford A. Shaffer -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Related work -- 3.3 Formalization -- 3.4 Finding communities in a digital library -- 3.5 Analysis of passive social networks -- 3.5.1 Graph partitioning -- 3.5.2 Topic modeling -- 3.6 Case study: the AlgoViz portal -- 3.6.1 Deduced social networks -- 3.6.2 Community detection on DSN -- 3.6.3 Community interests -- 3.7 Applications and future direction -- 3.8 Summary -- 3.9 Exercises and projects --

4. eScience and simulation digital libraries / Jonathan P. Leidig, Spencer Lee, and Sung Hee Park -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Related work -- 4.3 Formalization -- 4.3.1 Workflows, content, and ontologies definitions -- 4.3.2 User role and task definitions -- 4.3.3 Service definitions -- 4.4 Case studies -- 4.4.1 Computational epidemiology -- 4.4.2 Fingerprint algorithms -- 4.4.3 Large-scale network simulations -- 4.5 Summary -- 4.6 Exercises and projects --

5. Geospatial information / Lin Tzy Li and Ricardo da Silva Torres -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Basic concepts -- 5.2.1 Raster and vector data -- 5.2.2 Spatial relationships and queries -- 5.3 Related work -- 5.3.1 Geographic information retrieval -- 5.3.2 Multimodal retrieval for geographic information -- 5.3.3 Geographic information and digital libraries -- 5.4 A multimodal geotagging framework -- 5.5 Case study: image geocoding of Virginia Tech building photos -- 5.6 Formalization -- 5.7 Summary -- 5.8 Exercises and projects --

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Digital libraries (DLs) have evolved since their launch in 1991 into an important type of information system, with widespread application. This volume advances that trend further by describing new research and development in the DL field that builds upon the 5S (Societies, Scenarios, Spaces, Structures, Streams) framework, which is discussed in three other DL volumes in this series.While the 5S framework may be used to describe many types of information systems, and is likely to have even broader utility and appeal, we focus here on digital libraries.

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