|
Old Dominion University Digital Library Group
|
The
Old Dominion University Digital Library Research Group has engaged in various
aspects of these new developments in DL research. We are building and
demonstrating novel digital library services. Different federal and state
organizations fund our projects: NSF, NASA, ONR, US Navy, CIT, Los Alamos
National Laboratory, Air Force Research Laboratory, and Sandia National
Laboratory.
|
|
The
following is the list of projects carried out by Digital Library Research Group
at Old Dominion University.
|
|
|
|
|
|
ARC
|
|
|
Arc,
is one of the first federated searching services based on the OAI protocol. Arc
harvests metadata from several OAI compliant archives, normalizes them, and
stores them in a search service based on a relational database (MYSQL or
Oracle). At present, we have over one million metadata records from over 80
data providers from various domains.Arc is now available for download at
http://oaiarc.sourceforge.net/. It is released under the NCSA Open
Source License.
ARC Developers' Site
Provided
as a Public Service : ODU Digital Library Research Group
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
KEPLER
|
|
In
the Kepler project, we propose a framework that gives publication control to
individual publishers, support speedy dissemination, and addresses
interoperability. We extend the OAI framework to support what we call
"personal data providers" or "archivelets". We have created
a self-contained, self-installing software that allows the user to create and
maintain a small, OAI-compliant archive - archivelet - easily.
Funded
by
National Science Foundation
Provided as a Public Service : ODU
Digital Library Research Group
|
|
|
|
|
|
NASA Raytheon
|
|
The Raytheon Consolidated Information Technology Services (ConITS) contract has
a requirement to create an integrated digital library environment that will
support the automated harvesting of internal and external publicly available
aerospace information. The digital library infrastructure shall be built using
several modules that are interoperable with each other. The interoperability
shall be achieved through the use of XML and the Open Archives Initiative
Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH).
Funded
by
Consolidated IT Services
Provided as a Public Service : ODU
Digital Library Research Group
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
An OAI-Compliant Federated Physics Digital Library - ARCHON
|
|
This
project is building an Open Archives Initiative compliant federated digital
library with an emphasis on physics for the National Science, Mathematics,
Engineering, and Technology Education Digital Library (NSDL;
http://www.nsdl.org/ ).
Funded
by
National Science Foundation
Provided as a Public Service : ODU
Digital Library Research Group
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Secure
Distributed Digital Libraries
|
|
The
object of this proposal is to deploy and evaluate the economic sustainability
model for federated digital libraries like Archon using Shibboleth as the
underlying access control management framework. A federated digital library
such as Archon contains holdings from different contributors and supports
higher level services such as discovery, cross referencing, and classification.
Because of its varied contributors, Archon requires differential granularity of
access both in terms of objects and the services.
Funded
by
IBM Autonomic Computing
Provided as a Public Service : ODU
Digital Library Research Group
|
|
|
|
|
|
An
OAI based NCSTRL
|
|
Jointly
with Virginia Tech and the University of Virginia , we are re-implementing the
Networked Computer Science Technical Reference Library (NCSTRL) to an OAI-based
framework. This moves NCSTRL from its previous Dienst-based distributed
searching paradigm to one of the metadata harvesting.
Provided
as a Public Service : ODU Digital Library Research Group
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
DP9
|
|
DP9
is an open source gateway service that allows general search engines, (e.g.
Google, Inktomi) to index OAI-compliant archives. DP9 does this by providing
consistent URLs for repository records, and converting them to OAI queries
against the appropriate repository when the URL is requested. This allows
search engines to index the "deep Web" contained within OAI compliant
repositories.
Provided
as a Public Service : ODU Digital Library Research Group
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
INTEROP
|
|
There
are many approaches to achieve Digital Library (DL) interoperability. This
project focuses on scaleable interoperation among non-cooperating digital
libraries. In our paradigm, we define a Lightweight Federated Digital Library
(LFDL) system, where a participating DL defines its external behavior through
an XML specification and then registers itself with the LFDL. DL registration,
removal, and modification are dynamic, and transparent to end-users.
Provided
as a Public Service : ODU Digital Library Research Group
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
DEAN
|
 |
The
Dean project develops methods to derive document networks from temporal
patterns in the retrieval behavior of large groups of users. The generated
networks can be applied to document linking and information recommendation
service, as well as the scientometric study of document impact and document
relations.
Provided
as a Public Service : ODU Digital Library Research Group
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
FreeLib
- Peer To Peer Digital Library
|
 |
In
the Peer-to-Peer Digital library project, we apply pure peer-to-peer techniques
in the context of digital library to achieve self-sustainability, scalability,
and to evolve communities of common interest. The evolution of communities is a
key feature in the system and is based on analyzing the access patterns among
nodes. The system has rich metadata-based search and publishing servic es. Every
node in the system indexes a small collection, however, with the large scale of
a peer-to-peer system, tremendous collection sizes are possible.
Funded
by
National Science Foundation
Provided as a Public Service : ODU
Digital Library Research Group
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Extracting
Metadata and Structure
|
|
The long term vision of the Extract Project is
to automate the process of indexing and extracting searchable metadata from digital documents, acquired in PDF and other common formats, intended for inclusion in large Digital Libraries by government and coprporate publishers. This project will build a system that can
extract from a set of pdf files the basic structure of
the documents and the textual metadata, and
will investigate the problems of extracting the the microstructure
(such as figures, tables, references and equations )of
the document.
Funded
by
Defense Technical Information Center, U.S. Government Printing Office, NASA
Provided as a Public Service : ODU
Digital Library Research Group
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Kepler Technical Report Library
|
|
The Kepler Technical Report Library (KTRL) is a digital library (called a Kepler Group Server) of research papers published by CS ODU faculty members. These papers are published by CS faculty members by using the tool named Kepler archivelet. They are harvested by the KTRL that provides search and retrieval services.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Enhancing Infrastructure of OAI :
Digital Library GRID
/
MOD_OAI
|
|
|
In
this work, we are enhancing the two key infrastructure components of the OAI
framework by building: a Digital
Library Grid to support a high performance OAI federated search
service, and an Apache module, mod_oai, to
enable OAI for the general Web community.
Funded
by
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Provided as a Public Service : ODU
Digital Library Research Group
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ONGOING
PHD WORK
|
-
Amrou,
Ashraf, Peer-to-Peer and Distributed Digital Library Systems. In this
dissertation, we study the utilization of peer-to-peer (no centralized indexes
and databases) and distributed search techniques,topologies, and architectures
to enhance scalability, availability,fault-tolerance, and performance of
digital library systems and services.
-
Jiafeng
Tang, Building
an Interoperable Digital Library out of a
Physical Collection. In this
dissertation, we study the issues involved in
building an OAI-compliant repository from a
existing corpus. It mainly focuses on automatic
metadata extraction from scanned documents,
document structure extraction, reference
extraction and cross-linking, complex objects
such as equations extraction and representation.
-
Kailash
Bhoopalam completed his Bachelor's of
Engineering from Madras University in Computer
Science and Engineering in 1998 and Master's in
Computer Science from Old Dominion University in
2001. He is Currently pursuing his PhD at Old
Dominion University in Access Control
Specificatons and Security Protocols for Digital
Library Grids under the advisement of Prof. Maly,
Prof. Mukkamala and Prof. Zubair.
-
Pratik
Kothari, Bachelor of Engineering in Computer
Science from Sardar Patel University, holds the
Dominion Scholar Award for the year 2004. His
specific areas of interest are Wireless
Communications and Security. He is looking into
the prospects of merging these promising domains
with the exciting field of Digital Libraries.
-
Xuemei
Li
-
Joan
A Smith
|
|
COMPLETED
PhD WORK
|
-
Anan, Hesham, Digital Library Services for 3D Models. This dissertation focuses on incorporating 3D models into digital libraries. The objectives of this research is to develop a prototype of a digital library that provides develop a digital library storage and discovery services for 3D models. We introduce a novel compression technique that allows the progressive retrieval of 3D models. We use the compressed representation to develop a similarity measure used in the recognition and shape-based retrieval of the 3D measure for the recognition models. We provide browsing and navigation services based on these same similarity measures to to enhance the response time when dealing with large collections.
-
Shi, Rong, Lightweight Federation of Interoperable Digital Libraries. This dissertation focuses on scaleable interoperation among non-cooperating digital libraries. We study the challenges and issues faced in federating heterogeneous digital libraries. The objective of this research is to demonstrate the feasibility of interoperability among non-cooperating DLs by presenting a lightweight, data driven approach, or Data Centered Interoperability (DCI). We build a Lightweight Federated Digital Library (LFDL) system to provide federated search service for existing digital libraries with no prior coordination.
-
Kholief,
Mohamed,
Event-based retrieval from digital libraries containing data streams,
2003. Using events to retrieve and playback streams containing these events,
along with selected related streams, starting from the time of an event
instance. Issues include publishing data streams, event generation and
presentation, relationship determination among streams, heterogeneity, and
extensibility.
-
Liu,
Xiaoming, Federating Heterogenous Digital Libraries by Metadata Harvesting,
Dec 2002. This dissertation
studies the challenges and issues faced in federating heterogeneous digital
libraries by metadata harvesting, especially the service building, repository
synchronization, and scalable architecture. The demonstration system includes
Arc and DP9.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Old Dominion University Digital Library Group.
dlib@list.odu.edu
|
|
|
Rapid
Visual OAI Tool, a tool that can be used to graphically construct
a OAI-PMH repository from a collection of files is released as Open Source. It
is now available for download at