Der Fachbereich Informatik und die Österreichische Computer Gesellschaft laden zu folgendem Vortrag ein: ======================================================================== Professor Dieter W. Fellner Technical University of Braunschweig Datum: Montag, 15. März 2004 Uhrzeit: 17.00 Uhr pünktlich Ort: Hörsaal EI 9 (Hlawka-Hs), TU Wien, Gußhausstr. 27-29, Erdgeschoss ======================================================================== TITEL: Digital Libraries: What Type Of Documents Should We Be Dealing With? ======================================================================== ABSTRACT: As if large collections of purely textual documents would not still pose a rich set of research challenges (i.e., robust and reliable algorithms for structuring, content extraction and information filtering) for generations of researchers this presentation advocates a change in the interpretation of the term ’document’: Rather than seeing a document in a classical context of being a ’paper’ predominantly compiled of text with a few figures interspersed we recommend to adopt a more general view which considers a ’document’ as an entity consisting of any media type appropriate to store or exchange information in a given context. Only this shift in the document paradigm will open new application fields to Digital Library (DL) technology for the mutual benefit of DL’s and application domains: DL’s offering an unprecedented level of functionality and (new) application domains (e.g., digital mock-up in engineering) benefiting from a more powerful DL technology. According to a study by Lyman et al [3] the world produces between 1 and 2 exabytes (i.e., 1018 bytes or a billion gigabytes) of unique information per year. From that vast amount of data printed documents of all kinds only comprise 0.003%. The major share being taken by images, animations, sound, 3D models and other numeric data. Of course, a large an increasing proportion of the produced material is created, stored and exchanged in digital form -­ currently ranging at about 90% of the total. Yet, little of this information is accessible through Digital Library collections. This presentation gives a motivation for a ’generalized view’ on the term document and raises several issues stimulating research work in the field of Computer Graphics to make Digital Libraries of the future more accessible. ======================================================================== Kurzbiographie zu Professor Dieter W. Fellner ======================================================================== Dieter Fellner is a professor of computer science at the Technical University of Braunschweig and founding director of the Computer Graphics Institute at this university. Previously he has held academic positions at the University of Bonn, Germany, the Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, the University of Denver, Colorado, and the University of Technology in Graz, Austria. Professor Fellner's main research and project areas over the years were formal languages, telematic services, user interface design, software engineering, computer graphics, and, most recently, digital libraries. As principal investigator he is leading a strategic initiative on Digital Libraries since Fall 1997 funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) over a period of six years - currently funding 21 research groups. He has written a widely used book on Computer Graphics (1988, 2nd ed. in 1992) and recently co-authored a book with A. Endres on Digital Libraries (2000). He has regularly served on editorial boards of leading journals in computer graphics and in digital libraries as well as on program committees of international conferences and workshops in these areas. In 1997 and again 2003 he was program co-chair of the EUROGRAPHICS conference. He also serves as advisor to the German Scientific Council, the German Science Foundation (DFG), the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (bmb+f), and the European Commission (DG INFSO). Weitere Informationen über den Vortragenden finden Sie auf http://graphics.tu-bs.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Kontaktperson an der TU Wien: Prof. Dr. Werner Purgathofer, Tel. 58801-18648, email wp@cg.tuwien.ac.at Die Finanzierung dieser Veranstaltung erfolgt durch die OCG, das Institut für Computergraphik und Algorithmen und die TU Wien ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Der Fachbereich Informatik erhält Sponsorgelder u.a. von - Siemens AG Österreich - Austrian Research Centers Seibersdorf - Sun Microsystems - Caramba Labs Software AG