[Asis-l] (New Book) Theoretical Foundations for Digital Libraries, by Edward A. Fox, Marcos André Goncalves, and Rao Shen

[David Schlangen]

I am pleased to announce the publication of a new book pertinent to research
in Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services:

Theoretical Foundations for Digital Libraries: The 5S (Societies, Scenarios,
Spaces, Structures, Streams) Approach

Edward A. Fox, Virginia Tech
Marcos André Gonçalves, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Rao Shen, Yahoo!
http://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/abs/10.2200/S00434ED1V01Y201207ICR022  

Abstract:

In 1991, a group of researchers chose the term digital libraries to describe
an emerging field of research, development, and practice. Since then,
Virginia Tech has had funded research in this area, largely through its
Digital Library Research Laboratory. This book is the first in a four book
series that reports our key findings and current research investigations.
Underlying this book series are six completed dissertations (Gonçalves,
Kozievitch, Leidig, Murthy, Shen, Torres), eight dissertations underway, and
many masters theses. These reflect our experience with a long string of
prototype or production systems developed in the lab, such as CITIDEL,
CODER, CTRnet, Ensemble, ETANA, ETD-db, MARIAN, and Open Digital Libraries.
There are hundreds of related publications, presentations, tutorials, and
reports. We have built upon that work so this book, and the others in the
series, will address digital library related needs in many computer science,
information science, and library science (e.g., LIS) courses, as well as the
requirements of researchers, developers, and practitioners.

Much of the early work in the digital library field struck a balance between
addressing real-world needs, integrating methods from related areas, and
advancing an ever-expanding research agenda. Our work has fit in with these
trends, but simultaneously has been driven by a desire to provide a firm
conceptual and formal basis for the field. Our aim has been to move from
engineering to science. We claim that our 5S (Societies, Scenarios, Spaces,
Structures, Streams) framework, discussed in publications dating back to at
least 1998, provides a suitable basis. This book introduces 5S, and the key
theoretical and formal aspects of the 5S framework.

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. Our view of digital libraries is broad, so
further generalization should be straightforward. We have connected with
related fields, including hypertext/hypermedia, information storage and
retrieval, knowledge management, machine learning, multimedia, personal
information management, and Web 2.0. Applications have included managing not
only publications, but also archaeological information, educational
resources, fish images, scientific datasets, and scientific
experiments/simulations.

Table of Contents: Introduction / Exploration / Mathematical Preliminaries /
Minimal Digital Library / Archaeological Digital Libraries / 5S Results:
Lemmas, Proofs, and 5SSuite / Glossary / Bibliography / Authors' Biographies
/ Index 

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faculty of institutions that that have licensed the Synthesis Digital
Library of Engineering and Computer Science
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course text is encouraged and the text may be downloaded without restriction
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found through the following links. If you have any further questions, feel
free to contact me. 

 

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Information for librarians, including pricing and license
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A review of Synthesis in ISTL
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Thank you and best regards,
David Schlangen

 

 

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