Automatic metadata generation for scanned scientific volumes

ABSTRACT

Large scale digitization projects have been conducted at the Internet Archive digital library to preserve cultural artifacts and to provide permanent access. The increasing amount of digitized resources requires advanced tools and methods that will efficiently analyze and manage digitized resources. In this position paper, we identify several issues related to scanned books projects, present our initial work on automatic metadata generation for scanned scientific journals, and suggest potential future actions.

REFERENCES

• 1: Biodiversity Heritage Library: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org.
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• 3: Xiaonan Lu , Brewster Kahle , James Z. Wang , C. Lee Giles, A metadata generation system for scanned scientific volumes, Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries, June 16-20, 2008, Pittsburgh PA, PA, USA [doi>10.1145/1378889.1378918]

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
      H.3.7 Digital Libraries
          Subjects: Collection

Additional Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
      H.3.1 Content Analysis and Indexing
      H.3.7 Digital Libraries
          Subjects: Systems issues

General Terms:
Algorithms, Experimentation, Verification

Keywords:
metadata generation, scanned journal