Curating Collective Collections-Shared Print Collections Reaching Maturity

Reconstruction and Applications of Collective Storylines from Web Photo Collections

Widespread access to photo-taking devices and high speed Internet has combined with rampant social networking to produce an explosion in picture sharing on Web platforms. In this environment, new challenges in image acquisition, processing, and sharing have emerged, creating exciting opportunities for research in computer vision and multimedia data mining. In this dissertation, we explore one o...

An extensible information model for shared scientific data collections

An information model is defined to support sharing of composite-media scientific data. The model consists of data objects and links. Data objects are associated with descriptors which contain all the metadata related to the object. A novel aspect of the information model is that both the data and metadata associated with a data object can be in structured or semistructured form. The links in th...

Condition Considerations: An Inquiry Into Recording Conditions in Consortial Collections for the Purpose of Selecting (and Deselecting) Shared Print Copies

Following preliminary discussions about a shared print network among Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC) institutions in which he determined that artifactual condition would not be a criterion for retention, the author developed an online survey instrument for the purposes of verification. The survey was utilized in a condition survey of mutually held book copies at eight...

Hash-Routing for Collections of Shared Web Caches

Shared Web caches, also referred to as proxy Web servers, allow multiple clients to quickly access a pool of popular Web pages. An organization which provides shared caching to its Web clients will typically have a collection of shared caches rather than just one. For collections of shared caches, it is desirable to coordinate the caches so that all cached pages in the collection are shared amo...

Hash-Routing for Collections of Shared Web Caches