Digital Libraries

Survey

The survey paper examines a particular aspect of digital libraries or their applications. For the survey, you will have to read at least four papers of high quality and write a paper that not only summarizes the papers' contributions but also clearly differentiates each papers' strengths and weaknesses. Note: you may quote from your sources but you must cite what you quote. Failure to do so constitutes plagiarism, as outlined on the Grading page.

Here the topics for the survey paper and some suggested readings for the survey. Please note that as some of the topics below are very broad, you may have to choose only a subset of the suggested readings to build your survey paper around. Many of the readings that I have suggested come from recent conferences, so it will require you to read background work. Remember that the four paper requirement is a minimum; you may have to read many more than four (e.g., 20) to get a coherent overview of the topic. Don't try to fit all of the information you do learn into the survey -- present the parts that tell a coherent story and argument.

• Automated Collection Building
• Bioinformation and Genomic Data in DLs
• Correction and Analysis of User Queries or Documents
• Digital Library Social Policy
• Digital Library Pricing and Publishing Models
• Examples of Domain-Specific DLs
• Intelligent Agents in DLs
• Interoperability between DLs
• Metadata Extraction and Indexing
• Metadata Harvesting and Metasearching
• Mobile platform DL usability
• Multilingual Text Segmentation
• Music in DLs
• New Media for DL: Blogging, IM, Wiki
• Social networks in DL and knowledge dissemination
• Patterns of use in the DL / Web
• Phrasal Searching Techniques
• Question answering systems
• Recommender Systems
• Social Network Analysis
• Speech in DLs
• Spatial and Geographic data in DLs
• Standards used in the DL Metadata and Markup
• Temporal data in DLs
• Text classification for DLs
• Tools to build a DL
• Data scability in DL / Parallel architectures
• User interfaces in DLs
• Video in DLs

Requirements: Your survey paper should be no longer than 3000 words and should be edited into an English Wikipedia page. Please do work on formatting your text appropriately to match the Wikipedia style guidelines. The more concise you are at summarizing the points, the more likely that you'll receive a higher grade for the class. Note that since subjective critique is part of the survey paper's goal, you'll also need to turn in a separate section critiquing the sources that you cited and organized in your Wikipedia entry as an offline text document in IVLE, since this type of information does not rightly fit within an objective source.

You'll also need to present the work done as a short presentation during either Week 6 and Week 7, which will be separately assessed for your presentation skills.

Once you've chosen an area for your survey paper, I will help suggest two to three references that you can start with. Your responsibility is then to decide whether to accept my suggested papers and to supplement/replace the papers to round out your survey.

You can view the past grading criteria for this milestone. While this is no guarantee of how this semester's survey papers will be graded, they will be graded on similar criteria.