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Project Number: |
RE 4004 (RE) |
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Project Title: |
DESIRE II - Development of a European Service for Information on Research and Education II |
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Deliverable Type: |
(PU/LI/RP) |
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Deliverable Number: |
D5.1 |
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Contractual Date of Delivery: |
Month 15 – September 1999 |
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Actual Date of Delivery: |
May 2000 |
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Title of Deliverable: |
Training and Dissemination Activities: Web Indexing Workshop |
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Workpackage(s) contributing to the Deliverable: |
WP5 |
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Nature of the Deliverable: |
RE |
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Author: |
Martin Belcher |
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Contact Details: |
Institute for Learning and Research Technology |
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Other Authors: |
NA |
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URL |
http://www.desire.org/html/research/deliverables/D5.1/ |
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Abstract |
This document reports on the "Web Indexing workshop 2000" held at the Delft University of Technology Library, Delft, The Netherlands. An electronic copy of all materials is available from http://www.desire.org/html/research/deliverables/D5.1/indexing/ and a full set of workshop materials, peer review analysis by participants and questionnaire form is available from the DESIRE Project Manager on demand. |
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Keywords |
Search and Indexing Techniques Relevant searching, adaptive searching SE Evaluation techniques Cross-language searching (internationalisation and multilingual issues in indexing and searching) Large Scale Directory and Indexing Service Deployment Standardisation (current and necessary) Metadata and XML/RDF Pre-index Summarisation and filtering of data Automatic and Learning Classification New SE developments, NREN Search and Indexing Service examples Resource developer recommendations for better matching Automatic Indexing and Search technologies |
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Distribution List: |
Commission |
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Issue: |
V1.0 |
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Reference: |
http://www.desire.org/html/research/deliverables/D5.1/indexing/ |
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Total Number of Pages: |
Web document, prints to approximately 5 A4 sides. |
Table of Contents
Table for contents taken from http://www.desire.org/html/research/deliverables/D5.1/indexing/
Workshop topics
Target workshop audience
Executive Summary
The workshop targeted both dissemination of information about DESIRE II Indexing, Searching and Subject Gateways technologies and development of a community consensus on key issues of large scale National Indexing, Searching Innovation in the context of TERENA's REIS Initiative <http://www.terena.nl/projects/reis/>.
Presentation sessions included:
DESIRE 2 Indexing and SBIG technologies - Phil Cross, Bristol, ILRT
NREN Search Service Implementation strategy - Peter Valkenburg, SURFnet
Automating the Construction of Domain-Specific Internet Portals with Machine Learning - Sean Slattery, Cora Search Engine
Automatic Classification, applied to Subject gateways and robot-generated subject indexes - Traugot Koch, NetLab, Lund University
Dublin Core Qualifiers: Managing the Complexity Continuum for Resource Discovery - Stuart Weibl, OCLC, Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
Metadata harvesting - Sigfrid Lundberg, Lub NetLab
The Building national and large-scale Internet Information Gateways workshop provides materials to support development and exploitation of technologies resulted from DESIRE II developments in Internet resource discovery, quality criteria and information gateways. All these materials were developed and tested in real training for information specialists and national librarians throughout Europe. The training program and workshop materials created a bridge between the latest developments within DESIRE II and information specialists and end-users in the research, academic and library community within Europe.
Workshop Program and Materials
Workshop Program and materials are available at:
http://www.desire.org/html/research/deliverables/D5.1/indexing/
Main topics covered by the workshop program were:
Key speakers were:
Rachel Heery, UKOLN, UK
Traugott Koch, NetLab, Lund University Library Sweden
Sean Slattery, Cora Search Engine
Phil Cross, Bristol, ILRT
Peter Valkenburg, SURFnet
Stuart Weibl, OCLC, Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
Sigfrid Lundberg, Lub NetLab
Roland Hedberg, Norway Directory (NDD)
Peter Gietz, Univ. Tuebingen, Germany
Michael Lew, Leiden University
Marc Kuester, Tuebingen University
Yuri Demchenko, TERENA
Total number of workshop participants was 21 people from 10 European countries including several representatives from Central European countries. Additionally there were a number of US representatives.
A full list of participants is available online at:
http://www.desire.org/html/research/deliverables/D5.1/indexing/d2webindex2000-participantstat.html
Peer review was conducted in the form of feedback and evaluation forms distributed during the workshop. 20 of the 33 participants completed and returned these forms. Generally the feedback was very positive with most respondents giving a very positive rating of the workshop overall. A full set of feedback and evaluation data is available in the separate peer review report.