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

该提案将资助美韩数字图书馆联合研讨会。 这个小型规划研讨会是第一次与亚洲国家合作。 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，其资源是分布式的，并且能够管理最初以多种语言、格式、媒体以及社会和组织背景创建的内容。 在语言和文化差异很大的国家之间，数字图书馆在世界范围内发展的障碍尤其困难。 要达到知识基础设施的“下一个层次”，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）多国内容开发，包括声音、数据、图像、多媒体和软件;（3）互操作性和可扩展性技术，以允许世界范围内的超大规模收藏;（4）元数据技术和工具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，它将探讨技术进步和研究环境，以促进与数字图书馆研究和教育应用有关的美韩合作。 第三，它将试图产生推广和使用数字图书馆技术在根本不同的文本和文化材料的普遍战略和方法。

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.