Project Plan
Cross-Domain Resource Discovery: Integrated Discovery and Use of Textual, Numeric and Spatial Data ... (PDF version)
Annual Reports
Cross-Domain Resource Discovery: Integrated Discovery and Use of Textual, Numeric and Spatial Data -- Annual Report 1 October 1999- 30 September 2000 ... (PDF version)
Cross-Domain Resource Discovery: Integrated Discovery and Use of Textual, Numeric and Spatial Data -- Annual Report 1 October 2000- 30 September 2001 ... (PDF version)
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Cross-Domain Resource Discovery: Integrated Discovery and Use of Textual, Numeric and Spatial Data -- Final Report 2002 ... (PDF version)
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JISC/NSF Reports
These are the current reports and documents for the JISC/NSF funding body.
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)
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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).
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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.
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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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