US-Korea Joint Workshop on Digital Libraries: Removing Barriers to International Collaboration on Research and Education through Digital Libraries

该提案旨在资助美韩数字图书馆联合研讨会。这是第一个与亚洲国家合作的小型规划研讨会。互联网和相关信息基础设施的全球化现在提供了创建国际数字图书馆的希望，这些图书馆的资源是分布式的，并且能够管理最初以多种语言、格式、媒体以及社会和组织环境创建的内容。在语言和文化差异很大的国家之间，实现全球数字图书馆发展的障碍尤其困难。要实现这一“下一个层次”的知识基础设施，需要在以下研究领域进行合作：(1)多语言信息系统、跨语言检索系统、语言翻译和语言教学软件；(2)跨国内容开发，包括声音、数据、图像、多媒体、软件等；(3)互操作性和可扩展性技术，以实现超大规模的世界性集合；(4)元数据技术和工具本次研讨会有三个主要目标。首先，它将努力确定减少美国和韩国研究人员之间增加合作努力的障碍的方法。其次，它将探索促进与数字图书馆研究和教育应用相关的美韩合作所需的技术进步和研究环境。第三，它将尝试为在完全不同的文本和文化材料中扩展和使用数字图书馆技术提供可推广的策略和方法。

This proposal is to fund a US-Korea Joint Workshop on Digital Libraries. This small planning workshop is the first with an Asian country. The globalization of the internet and associated information infrastructure now offers the promise of creating international digital libraries whose resources are distributed and are capable of managing content originally created in multiple languages, formats, media, and social and organizational contexts. The barriers to achieving progress in worldwide development of digital libraries are particularly difficult between nations with very different languages and cultures. To achieve this "next level" of knowledge infrastructure requires collaborative efforts in research areas including: (1) multi-lingual information systems, cross-language retrieval systems, language translation, and language teaching software; (2) multi-national content development including sound, data, image, ultimedia, and software; (3) interoperability and scalability technology to permit extremely large world-wide collections; (4) metadata techniques and toolsThe workshop has three primary goals. First, it will work to identify ways to reduce the barriers to increased collaborative efforts between US and Korean researchers. Second it will explore technical advances and research environments needed to facilitate US-Korea collaboration related to digital libraries research and educational applications. Third, it will attempt to produce generalizable strategies and approaches for extending and employing digital libraries technologies across radically different textual and cultural materials.