The Role of Digital Libraries in a Time of Global Change

The year 2010 was a landmark in the history of digital libraries because for the first time this year the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) and the annual International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL) were held together at the Gold Coast in Australia. The combined conferences provided an - portunity for digital library researchers, academics and professionals from across the globe to meet in a single forum to disseminate, discuss, and share their valuable - search. For the past 12 years ICADL has remained a major forum for digital library - searchers and professionals from around the world in general, and for the Asia-Pacific region in particular. Research and development activities in digital libraries that began almost two decades ago have gone through some distinct phases: digital libraries have evolved from mere networked collections of digital objects to robust information services designed for both specific applications as well as global audiences. Con- quently, researchers have focused on various challenges ranging from technical issues such as networked infrastructure and the creation and management of complex digital objects to user-centric issues such as usability, impact and evaluation. Simulta- ously, digital preservation has emerged and remained as a major area of influence for digital library research. Research in digital libraries has also been influenced by s- eral socio-economic and legal issues such as the digital divide, intellectual property, sustainability and business models, and so on. More recently, Web 2.

Digital Libraries of Heritage Materials.- A Visual Dictionary for an Extinct Language.- A Scalable Method for Preserving Oral Literature from Small Languages.- Digital Folklore Contents on Education of Childhood Folklore and Corporate Identification System Design.- Ancient-to-Modern Information Retrieval for Digital Collections of Traditional Mongolian Script.- Annotation and Collaboration.- A Collaborative Scholarly Annotation System for Dynamic Web Documents - A Literary Case Study.- The Relation between Comments Inserted onto Digital Textbooks by Students and Grades Earned in the Course.- Visualizing and Exploring Evolving Information Networks in Wikipedia.- Mobility and Migration.- Do Games Motivate Mobile Content Sharing?.- A Multifaceted Approach to Exploring Mobile Annotations.- Model Migration Approach for Database Preservation.- Natural Language Processing.- Automated Processing of Digitized Historical Newspapers beyond the Article Level: Sections and Regular Features.- Keyphrases Extraction from Scientific Documents: Improving Machine Learning Approaches with Natural Language Processing.- Measuring Peculiarity of Text Using Relation between Words on the Web.- Imitating Human Literature Review Writing: An Approach to Multi-document Summarization.- Metadata.- A Study of Users' Requirements in the Development of Palm Leaf Manuscripts Metadata Schema.- Landscaping Taiwan's Cultural Heritages - The Implementation of the TELDAP Collection-Level Description.- GLAM Metadata Interoperability.- Metadata Creation: Application for Thai Lanna Historical and Traditional Archives.- Usability and Navigation.- A User-Centric Evaluation of the Europeana Digital Library.- Digital Map Application for Historical Photos.- Supporting Early Document Navigation with Semantic Zooming.- Knowledge Structures.- PODD: An Ontology-Driven Data Repository for Collaborative Phenomics Research.- A Configurable RDF Editor for Australian Curriculum.- Thesaurus Extension Using Web Search Engines.- Images and Retrieval.- Preservation of Cultural Heritage: From Print Book to Digital Library - A Greenstone Experience.- Improving Social Tag-Based Image Retrieval with CBIR Technique.- Identifying Persons in News Article Images Based on Textual Analysis.- Kairos: Proactive Harvesting of Research Paper Metadata from Scientific Conference Web Sites.- Scholarly Collaborations.- Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit: An Institutional Case Study Demonstrating Why Data Digital Libraries Are Not the Whole Answer to E-Research.- Open Access Publishing: An Initial Discussion of Income Sources, Scholarly Journals and Publishers.- Posters.- Ontology-Based Information Management: Exploiting User Perspective within the Motion Picture Industry.- Expertise Mapping Based on a Bibliographic Keyword Annotation Model.- Extended Poster Abstract: Open Source Solution for Massive Map Sheet Georeferencing Tasks for Digital Archiving.- Describing OAI-ORE from the 5S Framework Perspective.- Matching Evolving Hilbert Spaces and Language for Semantic Access to Digital Libraries.- Towards a Pattern-Based Approach for Scientific Writing and Publishing in Chinese.- Evaluation Algorithm about Digital Library Collections Based on Data Mining Technology.