Exhibitors
The Exhibits Area for ADL 98 will include fourteen interesting exhibits
and several useful services in addition. The following organizations or projects will be
providing exhibits:
Adobe Systems
Carnegie Mellon University
DIAL - NASA ESDISP
Getty Information Institute
IEEE Computer Society
Law Library, Library of Congress
National Library of Medicine
NASA's Physical Oceanography DAAC
NASA's Planetary Data System
NPACI
Silicon Graphics
University of California at Berkeley
University of California at Santa Barbara
University of Michigan
In addition to these exhibits many publishers will have their books, magazines, and
journals related to digital libraries, data mining, geospatial searching, and electronic
publishing on display.
ADL '98
Sites You May Wish To Browse
While you are in the Exhibits Area of ADL '98 we invite you to browse some Web sites
related to the themes of this conference:
- Data mining
- Digital libraries
- Geospatial methodologies - searching, storing, retrieval
- Electronic Publishing
The list of sites below is not intended to be comprehensive. Members of the program
committee and the speakers and panelists at ADL '98 recommended these sites. Many of these
sites are rich in links to a wide assortment of other Web sites so have fun traversing the
Web!
These sites are organized loosely into the following categories (Click on the title to
go directly to that set of links):
- Demonstrations - Don't have much time? These sites will
involve you in exploration of digital media almost immediately
- Data mining - Links to many of the active data mining and
knowledge discovery research sites
- Digital libraries - Links to the efforts underway in the
Digital Libraries I initiative or to other digital library projects, many of which are
outside the United States. This also contains links to online publications about digital
libraries
- Preservation - Links to efforts to preserve the treasure of
knowledge we now have
- National libraries - Links to various national libraries
around the world
- Geospatial Data Handling - Links to sites involved in
scientific data handling, geospatial searching, storage, visualization, and access
- Electronic Publishing - Links to organizations doing
electronic publishing
- Organizations - Links to organizations that construct the
policies, programs, and research that is done the various areas of the conference
- Standards - Links to standards related to the themes of the
conference
Demonstrations
- American Heritage Project (from UC
Berkeley and other education institutions)
- California Heritage Digital Image
Access Project
- Center for Electronic Text & Image
- See the original of Shakespeare's works and other historical works
- Networked Computer Science Technical Reference Library
(at Cornell)
- THE BERKELEY DIGITAL LIBRARY SUNSITE -
Definitely worth exploring
- Patent Search Service (from IBM) - 2+ million
US patents (23+ years), prime descriptions plus complete images, new patents added weekly
as they are released by USPTO, best patent server according to many reviews, a real
operational site with a huge daily hit rate
- Query-By-Image-Content (QBIC) technology,
allow user to search and browse images by color/shape/pattern, award winning (Seybold
Technology, Snap Online, etc), try the stamp collection or the deYoung Museum of Art in
San Francisco for example
- Browse the works of Beetho ven
in a different way
- Tools to Facilitate Access to Digital Orthophotos
(From MIT and MassGIS)
- Mars Global Surveyor Information
- Virtual Museum Experience (at
the Getty)
- Project Muse
- NETRA: A Content-Based Image Retrieval
System
- Project Bartleby: Columbia University
- Japanese old tales in English, French
Japanese and Spanish (Multilingual Documents)
- Federal Theater Project
(from the Library of Congress)
- FedStat - Federal Statistics
- Bureau of Labor Statistics
(some interesting tools)
Data Mining
Digital Libraries
Preservation
National Libraries
Geospatial Data Handling
Electronic Publishing
Organizations
Standards