Distributed Agents for User-Friendly Access of Digital Libraries

Duration:
01. 03. 2000 - 31. 12. 2004
Involved Persons:
Prof. Jürgen Krause
Peter Mutschke, M. A.
Sponsored by:
DFG
Reference number:
DFG: Fu 205/14-2
UDE: 15311522 (ka00043b)
Participating Institutions
IZ Bonn
Institut für Informatik, Universität Koblenz-Landau

First Period (2000-2002)

Despite the fact that many Digital Libraries (DLs) are available on the Internet, users cannot effectively use them because of inadequate functionality, deficient visualisation and insufficient integration of different DLs. In the framework of this project we develop a user-oriented access system for DLs which overcomes these drawbacks. Based on experiences from the librarian area, higher functions to assist proved search strategies will be implemented. Different DLs will be tightly integrated, so that system-wide search and navigation is possible. The system will be adaptive towards different user wishes, regarding preferences concerning content and system involvement.

The first two year project phase is concluded and the outcome is a running prototyp which covers all goals.

Second Period (2002-2004)

The key concept of strategic support when using digital libraries will be a major topic in the next years, but we will extend it to all levels of the information search process and the different kinds to gather information. To organise the found material, there annotations and interpretations we will develop a personal digital library. It provides simultaneously a user- and taskoriented context, to support searching and browsing better then up till now.

As additional method for the information gathering we will integrate the path model, collaborative filtering as well as the workflow model into Daffodil. The last two methods will allow for cooperation by using digital libraries. A special role is given to the librarian in the cooperative environment.

The graphical user interface design supports different interaction level -- exspecially circumstantial work tasks will be supported by software-information agents, but with regards to the user autonomy. Likewise the iterative process during the retrieval will be optimised.

Daffodil is a projects in the strategic research initiative V3D2 (Distributed Processing and Delivery of Digital Documents) of the German Research Foundation (DFG).

    • Felix Engel; Claus-Peter Klas; Matthias Hemmje (2009): Relevance Feedback based on Context Information. In: Proc. of the Information Retrieval 2009 Workshop at LWA 2009, Darmstadt, Germany
    • Claus-Peter Klas (2009): Context Aware Interactive Information Retrieval. Invited talk at the University off Glasgow, Information Retrieval Group of Keith van Rijsbergen, UK
    • Claus-Peter Klas; Martin Mois; Matthias Hemmje (2009): Architecture to connect tool-based web interfaces to service-oriented architectures. In: WEBIST 2009, Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies. , Lissabon, Portugal.
    • Claus-Peter Klas, Martin Mois, Matthias Hemmje (2009): Communication with the Future. Talk at DSP 2009 workshop on Santorini, Greece
    • Claus-Peter Klas, Paul Landwich, Matthias Hemmje (2009): Context Aware Interactive Information Retrieval. Talk at the Dagstuhl seminar on Interactive Information Retrieval
    • Claus-Peter Klas; Matthias Hemmje (2009): Catching the User - User Context through Live Logging in DAFFODIL. In: SIGIR 2009 Workshop: Understanding the User, Boston, USA
    • Paul Landwich; Tobias Vogel; Claus-Peter Klas; Matthias Hemmje (2009): Model to Support Patent Retrieval in the Context of Innovation-Processes by Means of Dialogue and Information Visualisation. Electronic Journal of Knowledge Management 7
    • Paul Landwich; Tobias Vogel; Claus-Peter Klas; Matthias Hemmje (2009): Supporting Patent Retrieval in the Context of Innovation-Processes by Means of Information Dialogue. World Patent Information 31
    • Paul Landwich; Claus-Peter Klas; Matthias Hemmje (2009): Catching the User - Logging the Information Retrieval Dialogue. In: SIGIR 2009 Workshop: Understanding the User, Boston, USA
    • Claus-Peter Klas; Holger Brocks; Lars Mueller; Matthias Hemmje (2008): Embedding Legacy Environments into A Grid-Based Preservation Infrastructure. In: Proc. of iPRES 2008. , London.
    • Claus-Peter Klas, Paul Landwich, Matthias Hemmje (2008): Context Aware Interactive Information Retrieval. Talk at the Adaptive Information Retrieval Workshop in London
    • Claus-Peter Klas, Holger Brocks, Lars Mueller, Matthias Hemmje (2008): Embedding Legacy Environments into a Grid-Based Preservation Infrastructure. Talk at the iPRES conference in London
    • Paul Landwich (2008): Model for Digital Library User Interfaces supporting Visual Information Dialog Services. Bulletin of the IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries 5
    • Paul Landwich; Tobias Vogel; Claus-Peter Klas; Matthias Hemmje (2008): Supporting Patent Retrieval in the Context of Innovation-Processes by Means of Information Visualisation. In: Proc. of ECKM 2008
    • Oliver Trevisol; Jutta Dübert; Thorsten Eisenmenger; Claus-Peter Klas; Annete Kustos; Reinhold Kühnle; Christian Pietsch; Martin Roos; Christoph Spiekerand Gerlind Storch; Barbara Witt (2008): Informationskompetenz für Psychologinnen und Psychologen.
    • Preben Hansen; Claus-Peter Klas (2007): Knowledge Sharing in Information Seeking and Retrieval Situations. In: Social Information Retrieval for Technology-Enhanced Learning (SIRTEL 2007)
    • Claus-Peter Klas (2007): Strategische Unterstützung bei der Informationssuche in Digitalen Bibliotheken. PhD thesis
    • Claus-Peter Klas (2007): Digital Libraries: HOW TO Place the Users in the Center!. Talk at the L3S Hannover
    • Claus-Peter Klas; Sascha Kriewel; Norbert Fuhr (2007): An Experimental Framework for Interactive Information Retrieval and Digital Libraries Evaluation. In: DELOS Conference on Digital Libraries. , Tirrenia, Pisa (Italy).
    • Claus-Peter Klas; Giannis Tsakonas; Hanne Albrechtsen; Preben Hansen (2007): A Qualitative Evaluation of The European Library. In: Second DELOS Conference on Digital Libraries. , Tirrenia, Pisa (Italy).
    • Sascha Kriewel; Norbert Fuhr (2007): Adaptive Search Suggestions for Digital Libraries.
    • Paul Landwich, Tobias Vogel, Claus-Peter Klas, Matthias Hemmje (2007): Supporting Patent Retrieval in the Context of Innovation-Processes by Means of Information Visualisation. In: IRF Symposium 2007
    • Claus-Peter Klas; Norbert Fuhr; Sascha Kriewel; Hanne Albrechtsen; Giannis Tsakonas; Sarantos Kapidakis; Christos Papatheodorou; Preben Hansen; Laszlo Kovacs; Andras Micsik; Elin Jacob (2006): An experimental framework for comparative digital library evaluation: the logging scheme. In: JCDL '06: Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries. ACM Press, New York, NY, USA.
    • Claus-Peter Klas and Hanne Albrechtsen; Norbert Fuhr; Preben Hansen; Sarantos Kapidakis; László Kovács and Sascha Kriewel; András Micsik and Christos Papatheodorou; Giannis Tsakonas; Elin Jacob (2006): A Logging Scheme for Comparative Digital Library Evaluation.. In ECDL:06
    • Claus-Peter Klas; Sascha Kriewel (2006): An Experimental Framework for Comparative Digital Library Evaluation. Talk at the ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries, Chapel Hill, USA
    • Saadia Malik; Claus-Peter Klas; Norbert Fuhr; Birger Larsen; Anastasios Tombros (2006): Designing a User Interface for Interactive Retrieval of Structured Documents --- Lessons Learned from the INEX Interactive Track. In: Proc. European Conference on Digital Libraries
    • Gudrun Fischer (2005): DAFFODIL: Nutzerorientiertes Zugangssystem für heterogene Digitalen Bibliotheken. Eingeladener Vortrag auf der GI Informatik 2005 in Bonn
    • Norbert Fuhr (2005): DAFFODIL - Effective Support for Using Digital Libraries. Talk at the University of Hannover
    • Claus-Peter Klas (2005): DAFFODIL: Nutzerorientiertes Zugangssystem für heterogene Digitalen Bibliotheken. Eingeladener Vortrag auf der DGI Tagung 2005 in Frankfurt
    • Claus-Peter Klas; Norbert Fuhr; Sascha Kriewel; André Schaefer (2005): DAFFODIL - Nutzerorientiertes Zugangssystem für heterogene Digitale Bibliotheken. In: DGI '05
    • Claus-Peter Klas; Sascha Kriewel; André Schaefer; Gudrun Fischer (2005): Das Daffodil System - Strategische Literaturrecherche in Digitale Bibliotheken. In: 4.ter HIER Workshop, UVK
    • Sascha Kriewel; Claus-Peter Klas; Sven Frankmölle; Norbert Fuhr (2005): A Framework for Supporting Common Search Strategies in DAFFODIL. In ECDL:05
    • André Schaefer (2005): Integrierte Suche in heterogenen digitalen Bibliotheken mit Daffodil. Talk at the HIER 2005
    • André Schaefer; Matthias Jordan; Claus-Peter Klas; Norbert Fuhr (2005): Active Support For Query Formulation in Virtual Digital Libraries: A case study with DAFFODIL. In ECDL:05
    • Norbert Fuhr (2004): DAFFODIL - Effective Support for Using Digital Libraries. Talk at the University of Saarbrücken
    • Claus-Peter Klas (2004): Daffodil: Digitale Bibliotheken im Wandel. Talk at the FIZ Karlsruhe
    • Claus-Peter Klas (2004): DAFFODIL: Strategic Support Evaluated. Talk at the European Conference on Digital Libraries in Bath, U.K.
    • Claus-Peter Klas (2004): DAFFODIL: Zugangssystem zu digitalen Informatik-Bibliotheken. Talk at Special Group (Germany) Information Retrieval Meeting in Darmstadt
    • Claus-Peter Klas (2004): DAFFODIL: Search and Browse in distributed Digital Libraries. Talk at the V3D2 DFG closing workshop in Berlin
    • Claus-Peter Klas; Sascha Kriewel; André Schaefer (2004): Daffodil - Nutzerorientiertes Zugangssystem für heterogene digitale Bibliotheken. dvs Band
    • Claus-Peter Klas; Norbert Fuhr; André Schaefer (2004): Evaluating Strategic Support for Information Access in the DAFFODIL System. In ECDL:04
    • Sascha Kriewel (2004): DAFFODIL: Nutzerorientiertes Zugangssystem für heterogene Digitale Bibliotheken. Kurzvortrag bei der IuK Frühjahrstagung
    • Sascha Kriewel; Claus-Peter Klas; André Schaefer; Norbert Fuhr (2004): Daffodil - Strategic Support for User-Oriented Access to Heterogeneous Digital Libraries. D-Lib Magazine 10(6)
    • André Schaefer (2004): Integrierte Suche in heterogenen digitalen Bibliotheken eines Fachgebietes mit Daffodil. Talk at the InetBib 2004
    • M. Theobald; C.-P. Klas (2004): BINGO! and Daffodil: Personalized Exploration of Digital Libraries and Web Sources. In RIAO:04
    • Norbert Fuhr (2003): DAFFODIL: A User-Oriented Approach for Accessing Federated Digital Libraries. Talk at Queen Mary University of London
    • Norbert Fuhr (2003): DAFFODIL: Strategic Support for Accessing Federated Digital Libraries. Talk at ETH Zurich
    • Norbert Fuhr (2003): DAFFODIL: Strategic Support for Accessing Federated Digital Libraries. Talk at the COLLATE Workshop, FhG, Darmstadt
    • Claus-Peter Klas; Norbert Fuhr (2003): Grundlegende Konzepte & die Wrapperr. Vortrag bei Offis Oldenburg
    • Norbert Fuhr (2002): Daffodil: The Underlying Concepts. Talk at Tufts University
    • Norbert Fuhr; Claus-Peter Klas; André Schaefer; Peter Mutschke (2002): Daffodil: An Integrated Desktop for Supporting High-Level Search Activities in Federated Digital Libraries. In: Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. 6th European Conference, ECDL 2002. Springer, Heidelberg et al..
    • Markus Baldschus; Daniel Becker; Christian Feist; Sven Frankmölle; Matthias Jordan and Christian Kruse; Igor Kufershteyn; Ingo Roderfeld; Christoph Szoltysik; Alexej Titarenko; Alexander Weber; Arthur Zalewski (2002): PADDLE: Personal Adaptive Digital Library Environment. Bericht , Universität Dortmund, Dortmund
    • Norbert Fuhr; Norbert Gövert; Claus-Peter Klas (2001): Recommendation in a Collaborative Digital Library Environment. Technischer Bericht, University of Dortmund, Germany
    • N. Fuhr; C.-P. Klas (2001): RDF and Agent-Based Architectures for Semantic Interoperability in Digital Libraries. In DELOS-Interoperability:01
    • Peter Mutschke (2001): Enhancing Information Retrieval in Federated Bibliographic Data Sources Using Author Network Based Stratagems. In: Reserach and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries: 5th European Conference, ECDL 2001, Darmstadt, Germany, September 4-9, 2001; Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 2163. Springer, Heidelberg et al..
    • N. Fuhr; N. Gövert; C.-P. Klas (2000): An Agent-Based Architecture for Supporting High-Level Search Activities in Federated Digital Libraries. In: Proceedings 3rd International Conference of Asian Digital Library. KAIST, Taejon, Korea.
    • Norbert Gövert; Norbert Fuhr; Claus-Peter Klas (2000): Daffodil: Distributed Agents for User-Friendly Access of Digital Libraries. In ECDL:00
    • Ammar Ammar; Karin Bergstermann; Marc Bojarzin; Rainer Dampmann; Heiko Eckendorf; Carsten Ernemann; Markus Rupp; Reda Sanhaji; Björn Somberg; Vladimir Tsvetkov; Dirk Vleugels (2000): Proactive Agents in Networked Digital Libraries. Abschlussbericht der Projektgruppe 341. Bericht , Universität Dortmund, Dortmund
    • PG341 (2000): der PG341 (PIANO). Vortrag an der Universität Dortmund
    • Norbert Gövert; Norbert Fuhr (1999): Ein Agentensystem für digitale Bibliotheken im WWW. In: Proceedings ADI'99 (Agenten -- Datenbanken -- Information Retrieval)
    • Claus-Peter Klas; Norbert Gövert; Norbert Fuhr (1999): Distributed agents for user-friendly access of Digital Libraries. In: Searching for information: artificial intelligence and information retrieval approachesNumber 17. IEE Informatics, Savoy Place, London WC2R 0BL, UK.
    • Thilo Böhm, Claus-Peter Klas, Matthias Hemmje (2014): Information Seeking in Professional Work-Settings: A Study of Equipment Utilization.
    • Thilo Böhm, Claus-Peter Klas, Matthias Hemmje (2014): ezDL: Collaborative Information Seeking and Retrieval in a Heterogeneous Environment.
    • Daniel Backhausen, Claus-Peter Klas, Matthias Hemmje (2011): Adaptive Benutzerunterstützung in interaktiven Informationssuchprozessen.
    • Claus-Peter Klas (2011): Expert Evaluation Methods. In: Dobreva, M. , Feliciati, P., O'Dwyer, A. (Hrsg.): User Studies for Digital Library Development
    • Claus-Peter Klas (2010): How to secure Digital Preservation resources, solutions, services, infrastructures in the Information Society?. Talk at the ICT Day 2010 in Brussels

    • Claus-Peter Klas (2009): Context Aware Interactive Information Retrieval. Invited talk at the University of Glasgow, Information Retrieval Group of Keith van Rijsbergen, UK
    • Claus-Peter Klas, Martin Mois, Matthias Hemmje (2009): Communication with the Future. Talk at DSP 2009 workshop on Santorini, Greece
    • Claus-Peter Klas, Paul Landwich, Matthias Hemmje (2009): Context Aware Interactive Information Retrieval. Talk at the Dagstuhl seminar on Interactive Information Retrieval
    • Claus-Peter Klas, Paul Landwich, Matthias Hemmje (2008): Context Aware Interactive Information Retrieval. Talk at the Adaptive Information Retrieval Workshop in London
    • Claus-Peter Klas, Holger Brocks, Lars Mueller, Matthias Hemmje (2008): Embedding Legacy Environments into a Grid-Based Preservation Infrastructure. Talk at the iPRES conference in London
    • Claus-Peter Klas (2007): Digital Libraries: HOW TO Place the Users in the Center!. Talk at the L3S Hannover
    • Paul Landwich, Tobias Vogel, Claus-Peter Klas, Matthias Hemmje (2007): Supporting Patent Retrieval in the Context of Innovation-Processes by Means of Information Visualisation. In: IRF Symposium 2007
    • Claus-Peter Klas; Sascha Kriewel (2006): An Experimental Framework for Comparative Digital Library Evaluation. Talk at the ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries, Chapel Hill, USA
    • Gudrun Fischer (2005): DAFFODIL: Nutzerorientiertes Zugangssystem für heterogene Digitalen Bibliotheken. Eingeladener Vortrag auf der GI Informatik 2005 in Bonn
    • Norbert Fuhr (2005): DAFFODIL - Effective Support for Using Digital Libraries. Talk at the University of Hannover
    • Claus-Peter Klas (2005): DAFFODIL: Nutzerorientiertes Zugangssystem für heterogene Digitalen Bibliotheken. Eingeladener Vortrag auf der DGI Tagung 2005 in Frankfurt
    • André Schaefer (2005): Integrierte Suche in heterogenen digitalen Bibliotheken mit Daffodil. Talk at the HIER 2005
    • Norbert Fuhr (2004): DAFFODIL - Effective Support for Using Digital Libraries. Talk at the University of Saarbrücken
    • Claus-Peter Klas (2004): Daffodil: Digitale Bibliotheken im Wandel. Talk at the FIZ Karlsruhe
    • Claus-Peter Klas (2004): DAFFODIL: Strategic Support Evaluated. Talk at the European Conference on Digital Libraries in Bath, U.K.
    • Claus-Peter Klas (2004): DAFFODIL: Zugangssystem zu digitalen Informatik-Bibliotheken. Talk at Special Group (Germany) Information Retrieval Meeting in Darmstadt
    • Claus-Peter Klas (2004): DAFFODIL: Search and Browse in distributed Digital Libraries. Talk at the V3D2 DFG closing workshop in Berlin
    • Sascha Kriewel (2004): DAFFODIL: Nutzerorientiertes Zugangssystem für heterogene Digitale Bibliotheken. Kurzvortrag bei der IuK Frühjahrstagung
    • André Schaefer (2004): Integrierte Suche in heterogenen digitalen Bibliotheken eines Fachgebietes mit Daffodil. Talk at the InetBib 2004
    • Norbert Fuhr (2003): DAFFODIL: A User-Oriented Approach for Accessing Federated Digital Libraries. Talk at Queen Mary University of London
    • Norbert Fuhr (2003): DAFFODIL: Strategic Support for Accessing Federated Digital Libraries. Talk at ETH Zurich
    • Norbert Fuhr (2003): DAFFODIL: Strategic Support for Accessing Federated Digital Libraries. Talk at the COLLATE Workshop, FhG, Darmstadt
    • Claus-Peter Klas; Norbert Fuhr (2003): DAFFODIL: Grundlegende Konzepte & die Wrapperr. Vortrag bei Offis Oldenburg
    • Norbert Fuhr (2002): Daffodil: The Underlying Concepts. Talk at Tufts University
    • PG341 (2000): Abschlussbericht der PG341 (PIANO). Vortrag an der Universität Dortmund
    • Claus-Peter Klas (2010): How to secure Digital Preservation resources, solutions, services, infrastructures in the Information Society?. Talk at the ICT Day 2010 in Brussels

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    • Entwicklung eines Suchinterface für Langzeitarchive basierend auf EzDL
      Reservierte Bachelorarbeit
    • DAFFODIL: GRID Service Architektur für Digitale Bibliotheken
      Reservierte Diplomarbeit
    • Peer-to-Peer Kommunikation mit Java Enterprise Webservices
      Reservierte Diplomarbeit
    • Management von Langzeitarchivierungs Infrastrukuren mit Daffodil
      Abgeschlossene Masterarbeit
    • Annotationen in EzDL
      Abgeschlossene Diplomarbeit
    • Interaktive Anfragevisualisierung mit Hilfe von Streudiagrammen im Information-Retrieval-Umfeld
      Abgeschlossene Bachelorarbeit
    • Anfrage-Kombination in Daffodil
      Abgeschlossene Bachelorarbeit
    • Peer-to-Peer Kommunikation mit Java Message Service
      Abgeschlossene Bachelorarbeit
    • Peer-to-Peer Kommunikation mit CORBA
      Abgeschlossene Bachelorarbeit
    • Relevance Feedback in Digitalen Bibliotheken
      Abgeschlossene Diplomarbeit
    • Kollaborative Soziale Handbibliotheken
      Abgeschlossene Masterarbeit
    • DAFFODIL: Entwicklung und Evaluierung von Algorithmen zur Behandlung von Autorennamen
      Abgeschlossene Diplomarbeit
    • DAFFODIL: Strategien bei der Suche in Digitalen Bibliotheken
      Abgeschlossene Diplomarbeit
    • DAFFODIL: Modellierung und Implementierung von proaktiven Agenten für Daffodil
      Abgeschlossene Diplomarbeit
    • DAFFODIL: Übersicht und Entwicklung von möglichen Algorithmen für Recommendation
      Abgeschlossene Diplomarbeit
    • DAFFODIL: Basisarchitektur für ein Agentensystem für digitale Bibliotheken
      Abgeschlossene Diplomarbeit
    • DAFFODIL: Adaptive Agenten in Kontraktnetzen für digitale Bibliotheken
      Abgeschlossene Diplomarbeit
    • DAFFODIL: Awareness auf Objekten aus digitalen Bibliotheken
      Abgeschlossene Diplomarbeit
    • DAFFODIL: Wrapper für digitale Bibliotheken in Daffodil
      Abgeschlossene Diplomarbeit
    • DAFFODIL: Alternative Ordnungs- und Visualisierungs-Konzepte für die persönliche Handbibliothek in Digitalen Bibliotheken
      Abgeschlossene Diplomarbeit
    • Evaluation von Digitalen Bibliotheken: Ein Evaluationsframework auf Basis von Daffodil
      Abgeschlossene Diplomarbeit
    • Integration von Bibliotheksdiensten in DAFFODIL
      Abgeschlossene Diplomarbeit
    • Interaktive Anfragevisualisierung mit Hilfe der Treemap und des Streudiagrammes
      Abgeschlossene Bachelorarbeit

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