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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">in the 4th edition
of the</font></div>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><b>Tutorial on
Semantic Digital Libraries</b></font></div>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">in conjunction with</font></div>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Joint Conference on
Digital Libraries</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">June 16-20, 2008 -
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania</font></div>
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moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.jcdl2008.org/">http://www.jcdl2008.org/</a></font></div>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><b>About the Tutorial</b></font></div>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">The aim of this
tutorial is to educate attendees on the applications of Semantic Web
and Social Networking (Web 2.0) technologies in digital library
systems. These technologies include metadata management, semantic
search and browsing, personalized and community-aware services, and
semantically empowered federations of digital libraries.</font></div>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">The participants of
the tutorial will learn about the main design goals and features of
semantic digital libraries. They will get to know semantic web and
social networking technologies, which can improve current information
management and retrieval, as well as, search and browsing solutions in
digital libraries. The participants will learn about 6 different
approaches to building semantic digital libraries; they will also get
some first practical experience with installing, configuring, and using
these libraries. </font></div>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">After the tutorial
and the hands-on session, the participants will be able to select, and
use, the most appropriate solution for their needs, whether this will
be a complete semantic digital library, or a single component, which
can be applied to the existing infrastructure.</font></div>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">The materials from
previous editions of this tutorial are accessible at <a
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href="http://wiki.corrib.org/index.php/SemDL/Tutorial">http://wiki.corrib.org/index.php/SemDL/Tutorial</a></font></div>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><b>What We Will
Present During This Tutorial</b></font></div>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">The semantic digital
libraries can be used in enterprise scale systems such as knowledge
management systems, medical records systems, legal research systems and
others will be discussed at some depth. After this tutorial, the
audience will be able to start using existing semantic digital
libraries and apply Semantic Web technologies to digital library
systems.</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"> </font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">We will start by
defining problems in the domain of semantic digital libraries and
present solutions that provide building blocks for semantic digital
libraries, such as WordNet, DMoz, SKOS, CIDOC-CRM, and OAI-ORE. We will
then present the architecture of existing semantic digital libraries,
elaborate on resource management, search and browsing features,
identity management and communication interfaces. We will discuss in
detail the problems and solutions for bibliographic metadata management
and interoperability, followed by a presentation of semantic search and
browsing solutions, and other personalized and community-aware services.</font></div>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">We will present and
discuss results of an evaluation of social and semantic information
discovery technologies for digital libraries [<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://library.deri.ie/resource/ARfuVUi8">http://library.deri.ie/resource/ARfuVUi8</a>].
We will compare results achieved using a semantic digital library with
a classic, open source library. We will show how semantic digital
libraries enhance user experience in information discovery. We will
analyze various user satisfaction measures gathered during the
evaluation. Finally we will discuss if semantic digital library users
are able to retain better the knowledge they have gained while using
the system.</font></div>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">We will discuss the
future of federations of digital libraries in the context of the
Semantic Web and Web 2.0 Internet. Finally we will present six
initiatives that adhere to the idea of a semantic digital library:</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">* SIMILE [<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://simile.mit.edu/">http://simile.mit.edu/</a>]
which leverages and extends DSpace [<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.dspace.org/">http://www.dspace.org/</a>] by enhancing
its support for arbitrary schemata and metadata.</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">* Corrib.org [<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.corrib.deri.ie/">http://www.corrib.deri.ie/</a>],
which delivers semantic-aware digital library components like JeromeDL,
MarcOnt, FOAFRealm, S3B, and HyperCuP.</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">* BRICKS [<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.brickscommunity.org/">http://www.brickscommunity.org/</a>]
, the largest cultural heritage project in the EU 6th framework
program, which applies semantic web technology for managing metadata in
a European wide digital library network.</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">* FEDORA [<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.fedora.info/">http://www.fedora.info/</a>],
a flexible service-oriented architecture for managing and delivering
digital content</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">* Greenstone [<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.greenstone.org/">http://www.greenstone.org/</a>],
a suite of software, which use advance technologies for building and
distributing digital library collections.</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">* DELOS [<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.delos.info/">http://www.delos.info/</a>],
an European Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries that contributed
a number of research solutions applicable to the domain do semantic
digital libraries.</font></div>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">The tutorial will be
followed by a hands-on session where participants will be able to try
out existing prototypes of semantic digital libraries (JeromeDL,
BRICKS, and FEDORA). We will wrap up the whole tutorial by encouraging
everyone to take part in the discussion on the future of semantic
digital libraries.</font></div>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><b>Tutorial Schedule</b></font></div>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">This full day
tutorial will consist of two parts:</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">* During the morning
session the attendees will learn how Semantic Web and Web 2.0
technologies can be applied to digital library systems; they will also
get introduced to existing prototypes of semantic digital libraries.</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">* During the
afternoon session, which will be the hands-on session, the attendees
will learn how to install and use existing prototypes of semantic
digital libraries.</font></div>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">We recommend
registration for Part I for people who want to get familiar with
digital library, Semantic Web and Web 2.0 technologies in general, and
to learn how they can be combined together. Part II will allow
participants to get familiar with specific applications of semantic
digital libraries and gain hands-on experience.</font></div>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Morning session </font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">* [ 1h 15 min ]
Introduction to Semantic Digital Libraries</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">* [ 15 min ]
Coffee break</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">* [ 1h 45 min ]
Existing Semantic Digital Libraries solutions</font></div>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Afternoon session
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">* [ 1h 15 min ]
Parallel hands-on session (Part I)</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">* [ 15 min ]
Coffee break</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">* [ 1h 15 min ]
Parallel hands-on session (Part I)</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">* [ 30 min ]
Conclusions: Future of Semantic Digital Libraries</font></div>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><b>Presenters</b></font></div>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">**<b>Sebastian
Ryszard Kruk</b>** is a lead researcher (Semantic Infrastructure Lab at
e-Learning Cluster in DERI Galway) and project manager (Corrib.org)
affiliated with DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway. His main
areas of interest covers Semantic Web technologies, digital libraries,
information retrieval, security and distributed computing.</font></div>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">**<b>Stefan Decker</b>**
is a professor at the National University of Ireland, Galway, director
of the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (leading a research
institute employing over 100 people) and Cluster Leader of the Semantic
Web Cluster within the institute. </font></div>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">**<b>Dean Krafft</b>**
is the Director of Information Technology for Computing and
Information Science at Cornell University, and he is the Principal
Investigator on the NSF-Funded National Science Digital Library Project
at Cornell.</font></div>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">**<b>Predrag Knežević</b>**
received his Ph.D. at Fraunhofer IPSI Institute in Darmstadt, Germany
in 2007. Since 2001, as a member of OASIS and i-Info divisions, he
was/is a lead software architect in a few EU and national projects like
TeachwareOnDemand, MGN, and BRICKS.</font></div>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">**<b>Mariusz Cygan</b>**
is a research assistant affiliated with Digital Enterprise Research
Institute since 2005. He is currently a developer and a lead software
architect of the JeromeDL project. His main area of interest concerns
introduction of semantic technologies into production environments. </font></div>
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