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Our multicultural societies in a globalized context offer the opportunity to forge new frontiers in digital libraries. Focusing on the cultural diversity of the Asian region, this paper examines what should be digitized, who should be involved in the digitization efforts, and what access issues need to be considered. More specifically, documenting the experiences of the Asian diaspora and ethnic minorities will be discussed, engaging critical theories and multicultural scholarship. By problematizing the cultural production of digital libraries as an act of nostalgia, of inclusion and exclusion, and of racial, social and sexual differentiation, we can unpack the role that digital libraries play in the creation of communities in our imaginary and in the perception of space and place from those objects we select to digitize. The paper concludes with a call for decentering digital libraries and digitizing the “Other” as an act of empowerment and representation.

If the network has become the computer, search is in the process of becoming its interface. This transformation impacts the design of future digital libraries. On the content side, innovations in contextual search are driving a new precision level compared to existing search paradigms inherited from the web. On the user side, search will have an equally profound impact. Closed loop designs connecting social computing and search is transforming libraries from a static repository to a dynamic learning and collaboration space.

Together with a number of national libraries, the Internet Archive committed itself in 2003 to international collaboration to create open source tools and standardized formats for web archiving. This project was motivated by our experience as home to over 100 billion archived web resources dating back to 1996, and as a partner to memory institutions building thematic web archives. Resulting tools include the archival web crawler/harvester, the archive browsing service, and the archive full-text index and query utilities. A standard ingest/archival format for web resources called has also been developed. Software with full source code is free to download and reuse, and organizations worldwide have adopted and contributed to these tools. Working with large collections remains a challenge, and the web itself is constantly growing and changing, so we continue to seek international cooperation to expand and improve this web archive tool set.

Kristine Hanna, Director of Web Archiving Services at Internet Archive, will discuss the significance of web archiving, the challenges libraries, archives and memory institutions face in the digital age, as well as some of tools and best practices currently in use to create a successful web archiving strategy.

The Internet Archive, located at http://www.archive.org/index.php on the web, has been involved in web archiving since 1996 when the organization was founded as an internet library to provide permanent access for researchers, historians and the general public to the world’s cultural artifacts. Additionally the web group at the Archive http://wa.archive.org/ works with institutions to created focused collections through crawling services and Archive-It, a web based application.

The Internet Archive is a founding members of the IIPC (International Internet Preservation Consortium http://netpreserve.org/about/index.php, and we work closely with national libraries and archives from around the globe to develop open source tools and document best practices for web archiving.

The talk presents an interpretation of the evolution of the events and trends in the information access area. Focusing mainly on the last twenty years, particular attention is payed to the digital library system which needs to be envisaged and designed to support the end user in accessing relevant and interesting documents.

This presentation shows how the joint efforts of the national libraries of Europe over the past 20 years have paved the way for the creation of a European Digital Library; currently a collaborative platform for European museums, archives and libraries, but in future also a webservice for end-users to discover Europe’s heritage on an unprecedented scale. This presentation sets out the recipe for the first construction phase (2007-2008) and discusses the ingredients that are needed to build an operational European Digital Library from 2009 onwards.

Hospital portals are becoming increasingly popular since they play an important role to provide, acquire and exchange information. Knowledge management (KM) mechanisms will be useful to hospitals that need to manage health related information, and to exchange and share information with their patients and visitors. This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of knowledge management mechanisms used by 20 hospital portals from North America and Asia to access, create and transfer knowledge. We developed a systematic and structured approach to evaluate how well the portals captured and delivered information to patients and visitors about the hospitals’ business processes, products, services, and customers from the perspective of three KM mechanisms (i.e. knowledge access, knowledge creation and knowledge transfer). Our results show that our selected hospital portals provided varying degrees of support for these KM mechanisms.

We describe the Image Tagger system – a web-based tool for supporting collaborative image indexing by students. The tool has been used in three successive graduate-level classes on content representation. To fully satisfy the class’ requirements and provide support for student indexing activities, it was designed and developed iteratively in accordance with the feedback and suggestions from the students as well as the instructor. The tool was well received by most students. They expressed a positive opinion toward collaboration support and thought it enhanced the overall learning experience in the class’ image indexing project.

In the context of an ongoing collaboration conducted between DELOS, the European Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries, and The European Library, we discuss how both the analysis of the Web log data of The European Library service and a user study can contribute to the personalization of services for such a system.

Using Nielsen’s well-established Heuristic Evaluation normally used for gathering feedback, this paper describes a user study conducted on the National Library Board’s Digital Library (NLBDL) in Singapore to gather feedback on users’ perceptions regarding compliance/violation of design heuristics implemented, and draw recommendations for design refinement.