Project Plan

Annual Reports

Cross-Domain Resource Discovery: Integrated Discovery and Use of Textual, Numeric and Spatial Data -- Annual Report 1 October 2000- 30 September 2001 ... (PDF version) ... (MSWord version)

Cross-Domain Resource Discovery: Integrated Discovery and Use of Textual, Numeric and Spatial Data -- Final Report 2002 ... (PDF version) ... (MSWord version)

These are the current reports and documents for the JISC/NSF funding body.

Project Plan	MS Word Version
Annual Report	MS Word Version
Project Update (March 2001)	MS Word Project Update (March 2001)
Minutes of Advisory Board Meeting (March 2001)	MS Word Minutes of Advisory Board Meeting (March 2001)
Annual Report 2000-2001	MS Word Version
Final Report, 2002	PDF Version

Papers

• Cheshire II: Design and Evaluation of a Next-Generation Online Catalog (1996)
• Cheshire II: Designing a Next-Generation Online Catalog (pdf)The published version of the above paper from the Journal of the American Society for Information Science. 47(7):555-567, 1996
• Information Access for a Digital Library: Paper from ASIS '99 (Washington, Oct. 1999)
• Berkeley's TREC 8 Interactive Track Entry: Cheshire II and ZPRISE (1999-2000)
  (Larson, R.R. (2000) "Berkeley's TREC 8 Interactive Track Entry: Cheshire II and Zprise". In E.M. Voorhees and D.K. Harman (eds) Information Technology: The Eighth Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-8). (NIST Special Publication 500-246). pp. 613-622. Gaithersburg, MD: National Institute for Standards and Technology.)
• Distributed Resource Discovery: Using Z39.50 to Build Cross-Domain Information Servers. (pdf version): From the proceedings of the Joint IEEE/ACM Conference on Digital Libraries (Roanoke, VA, June 2001).
• zetoc: a Dublin Core Based Current Awareness Service by Ann Apps and Ross MacIntyre Paper presented by Ann Apps at: DC2001 - International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications 2001, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan, 24-26 October 2001. (pp 227-234)
• Working with the British Library - the zetoc experience Ross MacIntyre and Ann Apps Published in: Brophy, P., Fisher, S., Clarke, Z. (eds): Libraries Without Walls 4 - the delivery of library services to distant users. Facet Publishing, London (2002) 261-272. ISBN 1-85604-436-X Proceedings of The Fourth Conference Libraries Without Walls 4 (The Delivery of Library Services to Distant Users: Distributed Resources - Distributed Learning), Hotel Delfina, Molyvos, Lesvos, Greece, 14-18 September 2001.
• Harvesting Translingual Vocabulary Mappings for Multilingual Digital Libraries (pdf version): From the proceedings of the Joint IEEE/ACM Conference on Digital Libraries, 2002 (Portland Oregon, July 14-19, 2002).
• Prototyping Digital Library Technologies in zetoc by Ann Apps and Ross MacIntyre (MIMAS) presented at ECDL '02, 6th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, September 16-18, 2002 - Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, Italy
• A Logistic Regression Approach to Distributed IR (pdf version): from the SIGIR 2002 proceedings (Tampere, Finland, August 12-14, 2002). The poster as presented (powerpoint).
• Exposing Cross-Domain Resources for Researchers and Learners by Ann Apps, Ross MacIntyre and Leigh Morris, presented at DC-2002: Metadata for e-Communities: Supporting Diversity and Convergence, Florence, October, 13-17, 2002.
• Open wide: using open standards in academic web services by Ross MacIntyre, Ann Apps and Leigh Morris. Paper presented by Ross MacIntyre at: The Sixth International ICCC/IFIP Conference on Electronic Publishing (elpub2002 - Tecnnology Interactions), Grandhotel Pupp, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, 6-8 November 2002.
• Building ResourceFinder by Pete Cliff, RDN Systems Developer. About the architecture of the RDN using OAI and Cheshire.
• Cheshire II at INEX: Using A Hybrid Logistic Regression and Boolean Model for XML Retrieval.(PDF) Proceedings of the INEX workshop at Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany Dec 7 - 12, 2002. (INEX is the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML retrieval)
• Distributed IR for Digital Libraries (PDF) In Koch, Traugott and Solvberg, Ingeborg Torvik (eds.)Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries: 7th European Conference, ECDL 2003, Trondheim, Norway, August 2003 Lecture Notes in Computer Science LNCS 2769, Berlin : Springer, 2003
• Cheshire II at INEX 03: Component and Algorithm Fusion for XML Retrieval (PDF) Ray R. Larson. In: INEX 2003 Workshop Proceedings December 15-17, 2003. Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany (International Conference and Research Center for Computer Science)
• Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR) Ranking Methods for Digital Libraries (PDF) Ray R. Larson and Patricia Frontiera. In: JCDL 2004: Proceedings of the Fourth ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Tucson, Arizona, June 7-11, 2004. Associated Poster for Demo (PowerPoint)
• Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR): Searching Where and What. (PDF) In Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2004). p. 600. Edited by K. Jarvelin, J. Allan, P. Bruza and M. Sanderson. Sheffield, UK, July 25-30. (Abstract of the Demo presented at SIGIR 2004) Associated Poster for Demo (PowerPoint) almost identical to the background poster used for the demo at JCDL.
• Spatial Ranking Methods for Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR) in Digital Libraries (PDF). This is a preprint of a paper accepted for the 2004 European Conference on Digital Libraries in Bath, U.K. The final version of the paper is in the proceedings: Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries: 8th European Conference, ECDL 2004, Bath, UK, September 2004 Proceedings. pp. 45-57. Edited by Rachel Heery and Liz Lyon. Published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series, LNCS 3232, 2004.
  The published version of the paper won the DELOS Award for best paper at ECDL. Associated Poster for the additional Demo (PowerPoint) almost identical to the background poster used for the demo at JCDL.
• A Fusion Approach to XML Structured Document Retrieval. (PDF) Ray R. Larson. This is a preprint version of a paper to appear in the journal Information Retrieval (volume 8, pp. 601-629, 2005}}}
• Grid-Based Digital Libraries: Cheshire3 and Distributed Retrieval. (PDF) Ray R. Larson and Robert Sanderson. This is a preprint version of a short paper to appear in the proceedings of the 2005 JCDL (Joint Conference on Digital Libraries).
• Cheshire 3 FrameworkWhite Paper: Implementing Support for Digital Repositories in a Data Grid Environment. (PDF) Paul B. Watry and Ray R. Larson. This is a white paper on Cheshire3 to be included in the International IEEE-Computer Society Symposium Mass Storage Systems and Technologies, June 19-24, 2005 - Sardinia Italy. (To be presented by Dr. Reagan Moore of the San Diego Supercomputer Center).

Slide Presentations

• Cross-Domain Resource Discovery: Integrated Discovery and Use of Textual, Numeric and Spatial Data (DL2 PI Meeting, Cornell Univ., Oct. 1999)
• Information Access for a Digital Library: Slides from ASIS '99 (Washington, Oct. 1999)
• System design slides from PI meeting (Stratford-upon-Avon, July 2000)
• Text Management slides from PI meeting (Stratford-upon-Avon, July 2000)
• Presentation at JCDL '01 (June 25, 2001)
• Presentation at NASA Ames Research Center (August 22, 2001)  (powerpoint)
• Presentation at JCDL '02 (July 14-18, 2002)  (powerpoint)
• Presentation at INEX (workshop at Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany Dec 7 - 12, 2002)  (powerpoint)
• Presentation at the European Conference on Digital Libraries, August 22, 2003  (powerpoint)
• Presentation at the California Digital Library, October 3, 2003  (powerpoint)
• Presentation at INEX workshop at Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany Dec 15-17, 2003)  (powerpoint)
• Presentation at ECDL 2004, Bath, UK, September 13, 2004 (Powerpoint)

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