Direct multidisplay for web document repositories

As the popularity of the Internet grows, the information on the Internet is increasing as well. Search engines are important tools to help people retrieve information of interest from the huge amount of documents. However, currently used search engines return long lists of URLS. Users have to click each URL to download the actual document and check its content and click the back button to access other URLs if the answer is not found in the current URL. This process is both labor intensive and time consuming. Multibrowser, a program that addresses this problem, is presented in this thesis. Multibrowser combines the advantages of multidisplay and direct display to present a more efficient user computer interface. First, the system downloads the actual documents according to the list of URLs returned by a standard search engine and saves the documents on the local disk. Second, the system converts the documents into n-gram vectors and clusters them into three groups according to the n-gram vectors. Then each document is assigned a color according to its position in relation to the cluster centroids. Also, each paragraph is linked with other paragraphs which have similar contents. Last, the documents are presented to the users using Multidisplay, where each document has a corresponding color bar. Users can look through the content of several documents at the same time and see the similarity among them by the colors bars; users can then retrieve the most similar paragraphs to a certain paragraph by clicking its find similar link. In addition, the investigation of hash tables for our text processing shows that the hash table size has to be chosen very carefully to avoid undesirably large collision probability. Some good values are suggested based on our experiments

Free Culture and the Digital Library Symposium Proceedings 2005: Proceedings of a Symposium held on October 14, 2005 at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.

Outlines the themes and contributions of the Free Culture and the Digital Library Symposium.The article provides a summary of the conflict of interests between those who seek to preserve ashared commons of information for society and those who seek to commodify information. Iintroduce a theoretical framework called Transmediation to help explain the changes in mediathat society is currently experiencing

Free Culture and the Digital Library Symposium Proceedings 2005

This book of proceedings includes seventeen papers from a symposium held at Emory University. The symposium papers discuss subjects relating to free culture in digital libraries

A Holmes and Doyle Bibliography, Volume 9: All Formats—Combined Alphabetical Listing

This bibliography is a work in progress. It attempts to update Ronald B. De Waal’s comprehensive bibliography, The Universal Sherlock Holmes, but does not claim to be exhaustive in content. New works are continually discovered and added to this bibliography. Readers and researchers are invited to suggest additional content. This volume contains all listings in all formats, arranged alphabetically by author or main entry. In other words, it combines the listings from Volume 1 (Monograph and Serial Titles), Volume 3 (Periodical Articles), and Volume 7 (Audio/Visual Materials) into a comprehensive bibliography. (There may be additional materials included in this list, e.g. duplicate items and items not yet fully edited.) As in the other volumes, coverage of this material begins around 1994, the final year covered by De Waal's bibliography, but may not yet be totally up-to-date (given the ongoing nature of this bibliography). It is hoped that other titles will be added at a later date. At present, this bibliography includes 12,594 items