ALEXANDRIA DIGITAL LIBRARY

ANNUAL REPORT

ALEXANDRIA DIGITAL LIBRARY

ANNUAL PROGRESS REPORT

• PROJECT SUMMARY
• SIGNIFICANT EVENT
• OVERVIEW OF PROGRESS IN LIBRARY DEVELOPMENT
• CURRENT STATUS OF TESTBED DEVELOPMENT
  • Implementation Team
  • Architecture of the Testbed System
    • Components of Testbed Resulting from R&D Team Research
    • Distributed Object Design Activities and Next Testbed System
  • User Interface Component
  • The Catalog Component
    • Alexandria Gazetteer
    • Loading and Maintenance of Metadata
  • Collections
    • Collection Loading Strategy
    • Loading of Datasets
    • Scientific Datasets and Metadata
  • Computing Support for the Testbed: Hardware and Communications
    • Current Computing Equipment
    • Current Networking Support
    • Current ``Other'' Hardware and Software Support
    • Equipment and Facilities Needs
  • Development of an Operational Library
  • Abstracts of Published Papers
• RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND PROGRESS
  • LIBRARY TEAM
    • USER REQUIREMENTS SUBTEAM
    • METADATA AND CATALOG INTEROPERABILITY SUBTEAM
    • ALEXANDRIA ATLAS SUBTEAM
  • INTERFACE DESIGN AND EVALUATION TEAM
    • UCSB Component of the Interface Evaluation Team
    • Colorado Component of the Interface Evaluation Team
    • Interface Design Subteam
    • Abstracts of Published Papers
  • INFORMATION SYSTEMS TEAM)
    • Pharos and Resource Discovery
    • Multidimensional indexing
    • Content Based Retrieval
    • Data Placement
    • Tertiary Storage
    • Extensible Data Store
    • Database Performance Tuning
    • Abstracts of Published Papers
  • IMAGE PROCESSING TEAM
    • Multiresolution Browsing: Balanced Rounding (BR)--Transform
    • Faulty Storage and/or Transmission of Corrupted Wavelet Coefficients
    • Texture based retrieval
    • Abstracts of Published Articles
  • PERFORMANCE AND PARALLEL PROCESSING TEAM
    • Fast subregion retrieval and image compression using wavelet transforms
    • A scalable WWW server on multicomputers
    • SWEB++: Distributed scheduling and adaptive client-server computing for improving response times of WWW applications
    • Abstracts of Published Articles
• COMPARISON OF ACTUAL AND PREVIOUSLY PLANNED R&D ACTIVITIES
  • TESTBED TEAM
  • LIBRARY TEAM
  • INTERFACE DESIGN AND EVALUATION TEAM
  • INFORMATION SYSTEMS TEAM
  • IMAGE PROCESSING TEAM
  • PERFORMANCE AND PARALLEL PROCESSING TEAM
• MANAGEMENT REPORT
  • UCSB Personnel
    • Professional Staff
    • Faculty Investigators
    • Graduate Students Associated with the Project
    • Visitors to the Project
  • Colorado Personnel
    • Faculty Investigators
    • Graduate Students Associated with the Project
  • Organizational Structure
    • Research and Development Team Structure
    • Project Retreats
  • Alexandria Advisory Board
    • The Composition of the Advisory Board
    • Report of the Second Board Meeting
    • Report of the Third Board Meeting
  • Alexandria Design Review Panel and Meetings
    • The First Alexandria Design Review
    • The Second Alexandria Design Review
• EXTERNAL RELATIONS AND INTERACTIONS
  • Interactions with Old and New Partners
    • American Geological Institute (AGI) and The University of Tulsa
    • California Environmental Resources Evaluation System (CERES)
    • Central Imagery Office (CIO)
    • Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
    • CIESIN
    • Davidson Library, UCSB
    • Defense Mapping Agency
    • Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
    • ERDAS
    • Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI)
    • Hughes
    • Informix/Illustra
    • Library of Congress
    • Microsoft
    • NASA
  • National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA)
    • Oracle
    • O2
    • San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC)
    • Sierra Nevada Ecosystem Project (SNEP)
    • SPOT Image
    • The Analytic Science Corporation (TASC)
    • United States Geological Survey (USGS)
    • United States Navy, Stennis
    • United States Navy, San Diego (NRaD)
    • Earth Data Analysis Center (EDA), University of New Mexico
    • Utah State University/Mojave Database Cooperative
    • Xerox
  • Interoperability Agreements and Activities
    • Stanford DLI Project
    • Berkeley DLI Project
    • Illinois DLI Project
    • CMU DLI Project
  • Visits and Demonstrations
• AUGMENTATION OF THE RESOURCES OF THE PROJECT
  • Funding Request Under Consideration
  • Unsuccessful Funding Requests
  • Professional interactions with DL Community
  • Publicity
• EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES
  • Courses Concerning Digital Library at UCSB and U.Colorado
  • Information and Training Programs for Project Personnel
  • Project Seminars
  • Educational Activities in Relation to Schools
  • Completed Dissertations
• PUBLICATIONS
  • References to Published Articles
  • Presentations
• FINANCIAL REPORT
• Certification
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