Group 4 Grand Themes NSF Post Digital Library Futures Cape Cod, June 16, 2003

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Group 4 Grand ThemesNSF Post Digital Library
FuturesCape Cod, June 16, 2003

• Bruce Schatz (leader), Amy Friedlander (Scribe)
• Michael Lesk, Y T Chien, Gio Wiederhold
• Howard Wactlar, Ron Overmann, Kevin Kiernan
• Eric Miller, Herbert Van de Sompel

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High Concepts Past

• The Elevator Talk summary
• 1991 Online Information sufficient to support
  BS in Science in any field
• 1995 Semantic Interoperability across
  Distributed Collections
• 2003 across users and collections
• Must Scale and Capture Semantics

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High Concepts I

• Using Context for Information Retrieval
• Specific to the User and the Task
• Summarizing Results for Decision Making
• Filtered Report for Specific Action
• Expanding What can be Searched
• Images as easy and Data as easy as Text

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High Concepts II

• Recording Everyday Life
• History for Customization and Healthcare
• Sustaining the Information Economy
• Standard Tools and Business Models

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Success Metrics

• Improve Productivity
• Do twice as much work
• Get useful results twice as fast
• Improve Accessibility
• Learn to use twice as fast
• Use results twice as often
• Improve Utility
• System as good as Expert X for Subject Y

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Disruptive Factors

• Unscalable Technologies
• Ubiquitous Connectivity
• Community Collections
• User Contributed Metadata
• Machine Translation
• Constraining Sociologies
• Privacy and Security
• Creamskim Commercial Systems
• Democratization and Cultural Boundaries