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Kathleen McKeown[1], David Millman[2], Brian Donnelly[3], James Hoover[3], Robert McClintock[4], Willem Scholten[6], Dimitris Anastassiou[5], Shih-Fu Chang[5], Alan Crosswell[2], Mukesh Dalal[1], Steven Feiner[1], Paul Kantor[7], Judith Klavans[1], Craig Stanfill[8], and Mischa Schwartz[5]
[1] Department of Computer Science, [2]Academic Information Systems, [3]Columbia Law School, [4]Institute for Learning Technologies, [5]Department of Electrical Engineering
Columbia University
[6]Future InfoSystems, Inc., [7]Tantalus, Inc., [8]Thinking Machines Corporation
Authors addresses:
Kathleen McKeown, 450 Computer Science , Columbia University, N.Y., NY , kathy@cs.columbia.edu
David Millman, 603 Watson Labs, 612 West 115 St., N.Y., NY, dsm@columbia.edu
The digital library represents a paradigm shift in how we conceptualize libraries. In removing geographic and temporal boundaries, current technology now offers an unprecedented opportunity to bring vast research collections to every constituency in our society, from the patron of the local public library, to the fifth-grade student, to the university scholar. In this paper, we provide an overview of our research towards developing a system, the JANUS Digital Library, which can provide seamless access to massive amounts of information, regardless of physical location, meeting the needs of this wide variety of potential users. Unique features of our work include fully integrated search and representation of multiple media, including text, images and video; the ability to provide automatically generated natural language summaries and graphical abstractions of retrieved documents; and full participatory design, involving early evaluation of the system by users. Our effort will bring together a wide range of information consumers, a research team including engineers, computer scientists, legal scholars and social scientists, and a group of information providers representing legal, commercial and social interests.
Keywords: user interfaces, search and retrieval, multimedia, summarization, representation, intellectual property rights, participatory design
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