Breakout Groups

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Breakout Groups
Group 1 Reagan Moore Hyeon Kim Ching-Chih
Chen Jonghoon Chun Sam Oh Ulf Hermjakob Karl
Lo Su-Shing Chen Sung Been Moon
Group 2 Ron Larsen Sung-Hyuk Kim Gregory
Crane Doo-Kwon Baik Michael Gertz Stephen
Helmreich Bruce Miller Bob Allen Soon Joo
Hyun Yongchae Kim
Group 3 Ed Fox Sung Hyon Myaeng Lee Zia Kang-Tak
Oh Sang-Ho Lee Lois Delcambre Young-Suk Lee Hae
Chang Rim Sang-Goo Lee
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List, Explain, and Prioritize

• List -gt Prioritize
• Actually, brainstorm to be inclusive -gt full list
• Maybe just need to categorize based on Urgency?
  Window of opportunity? Short vs. long term?
• Applications / Application Domains
• Technologies
• Research areas
• Technical (challenge) problems
• Benefits
• From US-Korean collaboration
• Justify impact on science, on (each) society
• Funding
• strategies, tactics, scale/costs
• matching, leveraging (including investment in
  related activities)

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Charge for Fri 130pm Groups

• What is the problem?
• What specific part(s) of it can be solved in the
  short (1yr), medium (3yr), long term (5yr)? What
  are the dimensions of solution(s)?
• Technology, policy, legal, digitization, mgmnt,
• What is new? Why invest in solving the problem(s)
  now? What difference will it make if solved? Who
  will benefit? How?
• Who needs to be involved? Why?
• What resources exist to support this application?
• How will you know when have succeeded? What are
  the evaluation method(s)? Deliverables?

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Cultural Heritage The Opportunity

• Korea has large collections of cultural heritage
  resources that are only available in Korea. They
  are not available to international researchers
  without those researchers traveling to Korea.
• Ancient documents have been scanned for
  preservation purposes but are available only in
  image form. (Korea is responsible for this
  digitization effort.)
• Even these materials that are available digitally
  lack conformance with international standards.
• Language barriers seriously impede usage.
• Precious ancient artifacts must be preserved
  before they are lost or destroyed.

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The Problem, contd

• The US-Korean cultural exchange of information is
  lop-sided.
• Non-conformance to standards
• Language barrier
• Low proportion of information digitized (most is
  in page image form)
• Lack of metadata support
• Complications of character sets and dialects
• OCR not up to the challenge

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The Solution

• Phase 1 Its new novel!
• Build balanced core corpus
• Text, images (art objects, places, people, rare
  books), maps, dictionaries
• 3D representations of objects and spaces
• Build bilingual resources
• Dictionaries, lexicons
• Assemble parallel comparable corpora
• Build best-of-class prototype based on current
  state of art
• Demonstrate capability, feasibility, and
  functionality
• Establish critical mass of people,
  infrastructure, and information resources
• Evaluate sufficiency of current standards
• E.g., TEI DTDs for Korean CH resources
• Prepare for issues of long-term preservation

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The Solution, contd

• Phase 2 Its useful desirable!
• Interoperable applications
• Extend prototype into educational domain
• Language technologies
• Metadata
• Build ontologies
• Refine translation tools
• Develop scholarly translation resources
  (commentaries, hand-tooled translations,
• Prepare for scale-up
• Validate architecture (may need some retrofit
  based on new RD)
• Begin the production operaitons
• User evaluation studies (needs the critical mass
  of resources)

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The Solution, contd

• Phase 3 Its assumed unnoticed!
• Cross-lingual transparency
• CLIR
• Multimedia support
• Extraction, summarization
• Cross-disciplinary research and analysis
• Cross-cultural learning and collaboration
• Transformation of manual scholarly practice
• Documents designed for digital library
• Geo-referenced everything (e.g., all images)
• Many details
• Disambiguation of proper names
• Co-reference
• Authority control

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(Some) Dimensions of Problem

• Policy
• Make clear IP arrangements up front and make no
  compromises
• Lock in (what you thought was) the obvious
• Once in, never out (only move forward)
• Technology
• Content-based multimedia information retrieval

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Whats New? Why Now?

• Maturation of basic DL technologies
• Globally networked world
• Broadband, expanding US infrastructure
• Wired wireless infrastructure in Korea
• Korean commitment to digitization of cultural
  heritage resources for global consumption
• Enlightened self-interest in global conformance
  to standards and best practices
• Emerging international DL interests and
  opportunities

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Who Benefits?

• Who doesnt?
• Revolutionizes access to high quality information
  of Korean culture
• Essentially inaccessible anywhere in the US today
• Expands accessibility of American cultural
  resources to Korea
• Enables greatly enhanced multicultural education
  and collaboration opportunities

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Whos Involved Why?

• Universities
• Government
• Other disciplines emerging as relevant
• Cognitive scientists
• Librarians

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Whats needed?

• Digitized resources produced through government
  resources (e.g., MIC)
• Currently existing DLs for comparable corpora in
  the west
• Language technologies existing and under
  development
• Coherent leadership (beginning now)

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How will we know it worked?

• Quantitative measures (Size usage statistics)
• Number of users
• Number of objects
• US vs. Korean users
• Qualitative measures
• International usability and usage