Showing papers by "Catherine C. Marshall published in 2003"

Which semantic web

Abstract: Through scenarios in the popular press and technical papers in the research literature, the promise of the Semantic Web has raised a number of different expectations. These expectations can be traced to three different perspectives on the Semantic Web. The Semantic Web is portrayed as: (1) a universal library, to be readily accessed and used by humans in a variety of information use contexts; (2) the backdrop for the work of computational agents completing sophisticated activities on behalf of their human counterparts; and (3) a method for federating particular knowledge bases and databases to perform anticipated tasks for humans and their agents. Each of these perspectives has both theoretical and pragmatic entailments, and a wealth of past experiences to guide and temper our expectations. In this paper, we examine all three perspectives from rhetorical, theoretical, and pragmatic viewpoints with an eye toward possible outcomes as Semantic Web efforts move forward.

Identifying Useful Passages in Documents Based on Annotation Patterns

Abstract: Many readers annotate passages that are important to their work. If we understand the relationship between the types of marks on a passage and the passage’s ultimate utility in a task, then we can design e-book software to facilitate access to the most important annotated parts of the documents. To investigate this hypothesis and to guide software design, we have analyzed annotations collected during an earlier study of law students reading printed case law and writing Moot Court briefs. This study has allowed us to characterize the relation-ship between the students’ annotations and the citations they use in their final written briefs. We think of annotations that relate directly to the written brief as high-value annotations; these annotations have particular, detectable characteristics. Based on this study we have designed a mark parser that analyzes freeform digital ink to identify such high-value annotations.

Proceedings of the 3rd ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries

Abstract: Welcome to JCDL 2003! This is the third in a series of IEEE-CS/ACM joint conferences on digital library research and development. The joint conference brings together the diversity and range of two well-established digital library conferences, ACM DL and IEEE ADL, to provide a major international forum focusing on digital libraries and associated technical, practical, theoretical, and social issues. A decade of progress from the field's early days is readily apparent in the impressive cross-institutional and interdisciplinary collaborations, as well as in the growing number of digital libraries that represent real collections in everyday use. Befitting the conference's beautiful venue, Rice University's Shepherd School of Music, the opening paper session is one about music and digital libraries and runs the gamut from ethnography to algorithms. Other sessions tackle the formidable problem of creating metadata and managing digital resources and services. Humanities digital libraries collections representing cultural heritage and museum artifacts stand alongside scientific and business digital libraries. As always, education and evaluation are vital parts of the conference program. This year, there were 216 submissions from 21 countries. From 91 full papers and 77 short papers, the program committee selected 23 full papers and 32 31 short papers for presentation at the conference; these papers have been revised according to the reviewers' thoughtful comments and are included in the proceedings. The full papers were each assigned to 4 reviewers and the short papers to 3. As in past years, we will be awarding the Vannevar Bush Best Paper Award, sponsored by Knowledge Systems and its president Rob Akscyn, to the paper chosen by the program committee as this year's standout from a set of 23 already outstanding papers. Nominees will be announced at the opening session of the conference and the award will be presented at the banquet.

Link navigator method and system for locating web content

Abstract: A Web browser provides the ability to separate content and hyper-links from a Web page and provides a list of the links for viewing on a mobile device display screen, enabling more effective Web page navigating using the limited mobile device display. In addition to the links from the Web page, further links are created to telephone numbers, addresses, and other communication-related information in the Web page to further enhance usability of the Web page information for mobile device users. Further, once a link is selected using the mobile device, a services portal link is provided to the mobile device display to provide selection of services to be performed on the selected link, such as faxing or printing. Further, the services are made link dependent, or user dependent so that specific services can be displayed depending on factors such as the availability of services provided specifically from a Web page owner for link dependent services, or for the location of a user relative to a printer for user dependent services.

Methods and systems for selecting objects by grouping annotations on the objects

Abstract: The technique for selecting at least a part of object on an electronic media includes, providing annotations on the object, grouping the annotation on the object, and selecting one or both of the object and the annotations based on the grouping of the annotations on the object. The techniques also provide the system that selects a part of object on a media, that includes an annotation grouping circuit that provides annotations on the object and groups the annotations on the object, and an object selection circuit that selects at least one of the object and the annotations based on the grouping of the annotation on the object.

Service portal for links from Web content

Abstract: A Web browser provides the ability to separate content and hyper-links from a Web page and provides a list of the links for viewing on a mobile device display screen, and once a link is selected using the mobile device, a services portal link is provided to the mobile device display to provide selection of services to be performed on the selected link, such as faxing or printing. Further, the services are made link dependent, or user dependent so that specific services can be displayed depending on factors such as the availability of services provided specifically from a Web page owner for link dependent services, or for the location of a user relative to a print service provider for user dependent services.

System, method and program for sharing high value

Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To share decided a high value comment while keeping contextual relation with the coordinated part of a document. SOLUTION: In a system for sharing the high value comment made to correspond to the contextual relation part of a document, a controller 41 the selects a high value comment to be displayed, a high value deciding circuit 43 decides at least one high value comment to be made to correspond to the contextual relation part of the document to be displayed. A presentation style to this high value comment is stored in a comment storage memory 49. A comment display attribute changing circuit changes the displaying attribute of the high value comment based on the stored presentation style while keeping relation with the contextual related part of the document.

Detection system, method and apparatus of anchor with annotation

Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable a user to extend tracking of a link without losing tracks of the link positions in documents, and further, to provide a system, method and apparatus, which are enhanced beyond a link collection interface of being merely explicit. SOLUTION: The present invention includes (a) a step (302) for arranging annotations in the documents; (b) a step (305) for detecting the presence of anchors in the vicinity of or within the annotations; (c) a step (309) for processing the anchor with annotations; and (d) a step for repeating the steps (a) to (c) to a plurality of documents, respectively.