US – Korea Joint Workshop on Digital Libraries

August 10-11, 2000

San Diego Supercomputer Center

San Diego, California

1. Executive Summary

2. Introduction

2.1. Background

2.2. Motivation

2.2.1. Mutual Rewards from US / Korea Collaboration

2.2.1.1. Opportunity for Improving Cross-Cultural Understanding

2.2.2. Strong Strategic Ties between US and Korea

2.2.3. Strong Academic Relationships

2.2.3.1. Koreans with US academic affiliations (numbers?)

2.2.4. Strong Economic Relationships

2.3. Regional Focus / Global Implications

2.4. Emerging Collaborative Activities

2.4.1. The Pacific Rim Digital Library Alliance

3. Technical Directions and Challenges for Global Digital Libraries

3.1. Scalable Content and Collections

3.1.1. Lessons from Applications in the Humanities

3.1.2. Globalizing Digital Libraries and Museums

3.1.3. Globalization of Scientific Research

3.1.4. Transforming Education

3.2. Architectural Considerations

3.2.1. Distributed Repositories

3.2.1.1. Open Archives

3.2.1.2. Virtual Documents

3.2.2. Integration and Interoperability

3.2.2.1. Information Integration Models and Techniques

3.3. Bridging the Language Barrier

3.3.1. Machine Translation and Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval

3.3.2. Multi-lingual User Interfaces

3.4. User Access

3.4.1. Content-based Multimedia Access

3.4.2. User Interface Design

3.4.3. Mobile Access

4. High Priority Technical Challenges

4.1. Ubiquitous Accessibility

4.2. Interoperability

4.2.1. Necessary but not sufficient conditions for 6.

4.3. Cross-Language Issues

4.3.1. MT

4.3.2. CLIR

4.3.3. Extraction & Summarization

4.3.4. Adaptive Interpretation (tailored presentation to user)

5. High Priority Application Areas

5.1. Leveraging Korean Investment in Cultural Heritage

5.1.1. Working Toward a Vision

5.2. Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology (SMET)

5.2.1. Working Toward a Vision

5.2.2. Bioscience

5.3. Education

5.3.1. Working Toward a Vision: ISDL (International SMET Digital Library)

6. Approach

6.1. Initial Collaboration

6.2. Program of Activity

7. Recommendations

7.1. Near Term Opportunities

7.2. Assembling Scale and Critical Mass

7.3. Funding Levels and Strategies

7.3.1. Planning Grants

7.3.2. Balance of Small / Medium / Large Projects

7.3.3. Cross-Divisional NSF Support

7.3.3.1. DUE

7.3.3.2. CISE

7.4. Cooperation with Other Agencies’ Programs

7.4.1.1. DARPA

7.4.1.2. NLM / NIH

7.4.1.3. IMLS

7.4.1.4. NEH

7.5. Leveraging Existing NSF Digital Library Projects

7.6. Evolution to Bilateral Program

8. Conclusions