Building Digital Libraries with Content of Multinational Interest

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Building Digital Libraries with Content of
Multi-national Interest

• Richard Furuta
• Department of Computer Science and
• Center for the Study of Digital Libraries
• Texas AM University

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Talk Outline

• CSDL introduction
• Two projects with content of international
  interest
• Bioinformatics Working Group (BWG)
• Cervantes Project

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Center for the Study of Digital Libraries

• Mission to foster pioneering research on the
  theory and application of digital libraries and
  to create flexible and efficient new technologies
  for their use
• Location Texas AM University campus, College
  Station, TX
• Established 1995
• Hypermedia Research Laboratory established 1987
• 12 offices and two laboratories in the Computer
  Science department as well as an office at the
  Institute for Biosciences and Technology in
  Houston

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Projects in the CSDL

• Creating content
• Bioinformatics working group
• Botany TAMU Herbaria
• Flora of Texas Consortium
• Entomology Insect collection
• Dragonflies and damselflies
• Herpetologists Texas Cooperative Wildlife
  Collection
• Amphibians and reptiles of Texas
• Cervantes project 2001
• Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
• Comparative Romance Linguistics Newsletter

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Projects in the CSDL

• Digital Libraries infrastructure
• Waldens Paths paths over the World-Wide Web
• VIKI spatial hypertext
• Information visualizations
• interactive timeline-based interfaces
• Web-based 3D topographic visualizations
• Hypertext infrastructure
• Trellis

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• 1. To support protocols focusing on the
  development of digital collections and associated
  services for utilization by wide user communities
• 2. To promote DL RD in key areas for national
  development
• 3. To foster the generation of digital
  collections that promote Mexican science and
  culture nationally and internationally.
• 4. To fully utilize the Internet 2 infrastructure
  and to provide a testbed for its applications
• 5. To contribute to the development of expertise
  in DLs in Mexico
• 6. To provide a general framework for new DL
  projects through the definition of a research
  agenda and a general model for DLs

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Bioinformatics Working Group

• Biology
• Hugh Wilson, James Manhart, Monique Reed, Amanda
  Neill
• Computer Science
• Richard Furuta, John Leggett, Jin-Cheon Na
• Entomology
• John Oswald, Ed Riley, Horace Burke, Joe
  Schaffner, John Jackman, Jim Woolley, Bob
  Wharton, Matt Yoder, Cory Collins
• S. M. Tracy Herbarium (TAES)
• Stephan Hatch, Eddy Dawson, Angela Ross, Becky
  Hoskisson
• Texas Cooperative Wildlife Collection
• John D. McEachran, Lee Fitzgerald, Kathryn
  Vaughan

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Bioinformatics Working Group

• Initial efforts directed towards herbaria
• Current efforts directed towards Entomology
  collections
• Future efforts towards their linkage and addition
  of animal collections

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Bioinformatics Working Group

• Collection specimen browser
• Herbaria around Texas

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Bioinformatics Working Group

• Species checklists
• Access via scientific and common names

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Bioinformatics Working Group

• Image gallery

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Bioinformatics Working Group

• Adaptation of tools to Entomology

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Bioinformatics Working GroupFocuses

• Collection records
• capture of records Tracy herbarium, Entomology
  collection
• display of records
• Distribution mapping
• US, TX, adjacent states, Mexico
• Collection records and scholarly-derived
  distributions
• Image gallery
• Bibliographies
• Cross linking among representations

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Cervantes Project

• Modern and Classical Languages
• Eduardo Urbina, Enrique Mallén, Melvin Hinton,
  Cristina Montero
• Computer Science
• Richard Furuta, Shueh-Cheng Hu, Robert Lewis
• Additional participants
• James Harner (English), Fred Jehle (Purdue
  University)

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Cervantes Project

• Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
• Don Quijote de la Mancha
• First published in two parts, 1605 and 1615, in
  Madrid
• Credited as the first modern novel
• Translated into more languages than any book,
  except the Bible
• Life (November 1997) One of the 100 most
  important events of the millenium

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Cervantes Project

• Bibliography (CIBO)
• A comprehensive record of all significant books,
  articles, dissertations, reviews, and other
  scholarly materials related to Cervantes works
  and life
• Text collection (CDL)
• Cervantes complete works in several editions
  (old-spelling, moderninzed, English)
• Searchable
• Images (CDAI)
• Photographic images of Cervantes life and times
  for teaching and research purposes.
• Electronic Variorum Edition (EVVE)
• New effort, based on original editions of Don
  Quixote

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Cervantes Project

• Image collection includes works from the Museo
  Iconográfico del Quijote in Guanajuanto, Mexico

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Cervantes Project

• Virtual Variorum Edition of Don Quijote
• Scholarly edition for the modern age
• Editions published during Cervantes lifetime in
  textual and facsimile format
• Volume 1 Madrid 1605 (princeps) Madrid 1605,
  2nd ed. Valencia 1605 Brussels 1607 Madrid
  1608, 3rd ed. Madrid 1637 (combined edition)
  Madrid 1647 (combined edition).
• Volume 2 Madrid 1615 (princeps) Brussels 1616
  Madrid 1637 (combined edition) Madrid 1647
  (combined edition).
• Scholarly practice requires multiple copies of
  each printing to account for printing variances
  (we plan to have at least 6 copies of the two
  princeps and two of the other editions).

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Cervantes Project

• Virtual Variorum Edition of Don Quijote
  (continued)
• Persistent cross-linking among versions
• Editorial categorization of variances
• Reader-specified derivative editions
• Source for the EVVE
• Microfilmed copies obtained from multiple
  sources copies now on hand include ones from the
  Spanish national library in Madrid, the Hispanic
  Society of America, the British Library, the
  Spanish Royal Academy, Yale University, ...)
• Microfilms are typical photocopy quality better
  quality cannot be expected because of the
  rareness of the documents (e.g., only 18 copies
  are known to exist of the 1605 princeps)

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Cervantes Project

• MVED

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Cervantes Project

• Readers interface

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Cervantes Project

• EVVE research issues
• Available-quality images
• Ancient typesetting fonts and practices
• Persistent hyperlinking
• Supporting scholarly input
• Providing reader flexibility
• Other issues as well in project e.g.,
  maintaining consistency among different language
  variants in Web sites

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Cervantes ProjectFocuses

• General issues of capturing and displaying work
  and history of important author
• Multilingual issues resulting from
• Language of author and language of study
  environment
• Language expectations of people accessing
  collection

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Conclusions and Discussion

• Digital library research issues are often
  independent in scope
• Some, however, are caused by multi-lingual
  environments by differing points of view
• Compelling application areas exist that are
  multi-cultural in appeal while universal in
  scholarly importance
• Two examples here supporting scholarship in
  Biology and in the Humanities