University of Michigan Digital Library Project Publications

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• Progress Reports (submitted to sponsors)
• UMDL Publications
• Related Publications
  (related papers by UMDL team members or UMDL publications by non-UMDL team members)
• Working Documents

Progress Reports (submitted to sponsors)

• UMDL Annual Report and Program Plan, February 1997
• UMDL Annual Report and Program Plan, February 1996
• UMDL Annual Report and Program Plan, February 1995
• Semi-Annual Research and Testbed Report, August 1997
• Semi-Annual Research and Testbed Report, August 1996
• Semi-Annual Research and Testbed Report, August 1995
• UMDL Project Summary, February 1996
• Quarterly Report #1, December 1994
• Quarterly Report #2, May 1995
• Quarterly Report #3, November 1995
• Quarterly Report #4, May 1996
• Quarterly Report #5, November 1996
• Quarterly Report #6, May 1977
• Press Release: National Science Foundation
• Press Release: University of Michigan, School of Information

UMDL Publications

 
• Alloway, G., Bos, N., Hamel, K., Hammerman, T., Klann, E., Krajcik, J., Lyons, D., Madden, T., Margerum-Leys, J., Reed, J.,Scala, N., Soloway, E., Vekiri, I., & Wallace, R. M. (1996, July 25-27). Creating an inquiry learning environment using the world wide web. Proceedings, International Conference on the Learning Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
• Alloway, G., Bos, N., Hamel, K., Hammerman, T., Klann, E., Krajcik, J., Lyons, D., Madden, T., Margerum-Leys, J., Reed, J., Scala, N., Soloway, E., Vekiri, I., Wallace,R., (1997) "Creating an Inquiry-Learning Environment Using the World Wide Web", Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Academic Press Ltd., in press.
• Atkins, Daniel E., Birmingham, William P., Durfee, Edmund H., Glover, Eric, Mullen, Tracy, Rundensteiner, Elke A., Soloway, Elliot, and Vidal, Jose, Wallace, Raven and Wellman, Michael. Toward Inquiry-Based Education Through Interacting Software Agents, IEEE Computer, May 1996, p. 69.
• Atkins, Daniel E., Frank, R., Lougee, W., and Willis, K. An Overview of Digital Library Initiatives at the University of Michigan, March 6, 1996.
• Birmingham, W.P. An Agent-Based Architecture for Digital Libraries, D-Lib, July, 1995.
• Birmingham, W.P., Drabenstott, K.M., Frost, C.O., Warner, A.J., and Willis, K. The University of Michigan Digital Library: This is Not Your Father's Library. In Digital Library '94 Proceedings, June 1994, 53-60
• Birmingham, W. P., Durfee, E. H., Mullen, T., and Wellman, M. P. The Distributed Agent Architecture of the University of Michigan Digital Library. AAAI Spring Symposium on Information Gathering in Heterogeneous, Distributed Environments, Stanford, CA, AAAI Press. (Postscript File)
• Bos, N., Student publishing of value-added resources in a WWW digital library. Paper presented at AERA, 1997.
• Bos, N., Krajcik, J., and Soloway, E., Student publishing in a WWW digital library: goals and instructional support. Paper presented at AERA, 1997, symposium Artifact-building in computer learning environments: supporting students' scientific inquiry. Chair: Philip Bell
• Crum, Laurie. University of Michigan Digital Library Project. Communications of the ACM, Vol. 38, No. 4, April 1995, 63-64.
• Crum, Laurie. University of Michigan Digital Library Project, Final Report, Volume I, Telepublishing Survey, TFPL Ltd., June 9, 1995.
• Durfee, E. H., Kiskis, D. L., and Birmingham, W.P., "The Agent Architecture of the University of Michigan Digital Library", IEE/British Computer Society Proceedings on Software Engineering (Special Issue on Intelligent Agents) 144(1), February 1997.
• Hoffman, J., Kupperman, J., and Wallace, R.,Online learning materials for the science classroom: design methodology and implementation. Paper presented at AERA, 1997.
• Jackson, Jay. Enhancing access in a national digital library federation, New Edition, School of Information and Library Studies, University of Michigan, Spring 1995.
• Jackson, Jay. Update: The U-M Digital Library Project, New Edition, School of Information and Library Studies, University of Michigan, Winter 1995.
• Kiskis, D. UMDL Architecture Requirements Analysis. School of Information and Library Studies, University of Michigan, August, 1995. (Internal Report)
• Lee, A., Nica, A., and Rundensteiner, "Surviving in an Evolving Environment: View Perservation", Technical Report, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, Computer Science and Engineering Division, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1997 (submitted for publication)
• Lougee, Wendy P. Beyond access: new concepts, new tensions for collection development in a digital environment." Collection Building, vol. 14, no. 3, 1995, p. 19-25.
• MacKie-Mason, Jeffrey K. and White. Kimberly. An Axiomatic Approach to Evaluating and Selecting Digital Payment Mechanisms. (PDF file)
• Mullen, T. and Wellman, M.P. Market-based negotiation for digital library services. Second USENIX Workshop on Electronic Commerce, November, 1996.
• Mullen, T. and Wellman, M.P. A Simple Computational Market for Network Information Services. In First International Conference on Multiagent Systems, June 1995. (Postscript File)
• Nica, A., Lee, A., and Rundensteiner, "View Sychronization under Capability Changes of Decoupled Information Sources", Technical Report, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, Computer Science and Engineering Division, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 1997 (submitted for publication)
• Nica, A. and Rundensteiner, E.A. "DIIM: A Foundation For Translating Loosely-Specified Queries into Executable Plans in Large-Scale Information Systems", in the Proceedings of the Second IFCIS Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS-97), Charleston, South Carolina, June, 1997.
• Nica, A. and Rundensteiner, E.A. Uniform Structured Document Handling Using a Constraint-based Object Approach, Advances in Digital Libraries (ADL'95), A Forum on Research and Technology Advances in Digital Libraries, Virginia, May 1995. (Postscript File)
• Park, S., and Durfee, E.H. "Contracting Strategy based on Markov Process Modeling" (abstract), Proceedings of the Thirteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, page 1400, July 1996.
• Park, S., and Durfee, E.H. "An Optimal Contracting Strategy in Digital Library", AAAI-96 Workshop on Agent Modeling, Portland, OR July 1996.
• Park, S., Durfee, E.H., and Birmingham, W.P. "Advantages of Strategic Thinking in Multiagent Contracts (A Machanism and Analysis)", Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems ICMAS96), pages 259-266, December 1996.
• Price-Wilkin, John. WWW-to-PAT Gateway: Exploiting an SGML-aware System Through the Web. The Public-Access Computer Systems Review 5, no. 7, 1994, 5-27.
• Rundensteiner, E., Lee, A., and Nica, A., "On Preserving Views in an Evolving Environment", in the Proceedings of 4th International Workshop KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION MEETS DATABASES (KRDB'97): Intelligent Access to Heterogeneous Information, Athens, Greece, August, 1997.
• Soloway, Elliot and Wallace, Raven, Does the internet support student inquiry? Don't ask. Communications of the ACM, May 1997, Vol 40, No. 5, 11-16.
• Vidal, Jose and Durfee, Ed. Task Planning Agents in the UMDL Proceedings from CIKM '95: Workshop on Intelligent Information Agents, December 1-2, 1995.
• Wallace, R. and Kupperman, J. Online search in the science classroom: benefits and possibilities. Paper presented at AERA,1997.
• Wallace, R., Krajcik, J., Soloway, E., "Digital Libraries in the Science Classroom: An Opportunity for Inquiry", D-Lib Magazine, September 1996
• Wellman, M.P., Durfee, E.H., Birmingham, W.P. The Digital Library as Community of Information Agents, IEEE Expert 11(3):10-11, June 1996.
• Vidal, J.M., and Durfee, E.H. "Agents Modeling Agents in Information Economies", (abstract) Proceedings of the Thirteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Page 1415, July 1996.
• Vidal, J.M., and Durfee, E.H. "Building Agent Models in Economic Societies of Agents", AAAI-96 Workshop on Agent Modeling, Portland, OR, July 1996.
• Vidal, J.M., and Durfee, E.H. "The Impact of Nested Agent Models in an Information Economy", Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS96), pages 377-384, December 1996.
• Vidal, J.M., and Durfee, E.H. "Using Recursive Agent Models Effectively", in M. Wooldridge, J. Muller, and M. Tambe (eds.) Intelligent Agents, volume II, pages 171-186, Springer-Verlag, 1996.

Related Publications

• Atkins, Daniel E. The Future of Libraries and Library Schools, Kanazawa Institute of Technology (KIT) International Roundtable for Library and Information Science, Japan, November 1995.
• Atkins, Daniel E. A Library Educator's Perspective. Speech from the Research Library: The Day After Tomorrow, Association of Research Libraries, Proceedings of the 124th Annual Meeting, May 18-20, 1994, Austin, TX.
• Bowen, William G. The Foundation's Journal Storage Project (JSTOR), Report of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 1994.
• Cobbs, Liz. U-M project's helping America establish system for electronic libraries, The Ann Arbor News, November 6, 1994.
• D'Ambrosio, J. and W.P. Birmingham. Preference-directed Design. AI in Engineering, Design, Analysis, and Manufacture, 1995 (to appear).
• Darr, T.P., and Birmingham, W.P. Automated Design for Concurrent Engineering. IEEE Expert, Vol. 9, No. 5, 1994, 35-42.
• Drabenstott, K. and Atkins, D. "The Kellogg CRISTAL-ED Project: An Overview of Digital Library Initiatives at the University of Michigan", March, 1996.
• Durfee, E.H. and Montgomery, T.A. Coordination as Distributed Search in a Hierarchical Behavior Space. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Special Issue on Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Vol 21, No. 6, 1991, 1363-1378.
• Gosling, William A., Margo Crist, Brenda Johnson, Wendy P. Lougee and Beth Forrest Warner. Cooperative efforts in new methods of information delivery: the Michigan experience." Advances in Librarianship, vol. 19, 1995, p. 23-42.
• Huebel-Drake, M., Finkel, L., Stern, E., Mouradian, M. Planning a Course for Success. Science Teacher, October 1995, Vol. 62, No. 7, p. 18-21.
• Jacobson, Robert. Desktop libraries: University researchers strive to make vast networked collections a reality. The Chronicle of Higher Education, Vol. XLIL, No. 11, November 10, 1995.
• Klein, Amy. Nasa, National Science Foundation give grants to "U." The Michigan Daily, October 11, 1994.
• MacKie-Mason, Jeffrey K., and White, Kimberley. An Axiomatic Approach to Evaluating and Selecting Digital Payment Mechanisms.
• Nesbit, Joanne. Digital library project will receive $8.5 million, The University Record, University of Michigan, Vol. 50, No. 7, October 17, 1994.
• Peters, Paul Evan. Digital libraries are much more than digitized collections, Educom Review, July/August 1995.
• Pool, Robert. Turning an Info-Glut Into a Library. Science, Vol. 226, No. 7, October 1994, 20-22.
• Stix, Gary. The Speed of Write. Scientific American, December 1994, 106-111.
• Weise, John. Visual Media Collections Browser for the Earth and Space Sciences
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• Woodford, John. The new "media union" on the North Campus: Building for the Future, Michigan Today, Vol. 27, No. 3, October, 1995.

Working Documents

• Architecture
   
  • Current Requirements Analysis Document
  • Remora Agent HomePage
  • UMDL Implementation Specification
  • Z39.50 Interface Examples

   

• Conspectus
   
  • Ontology Page
  • UMDL Conspectus Specification Version 2.0
  • NSF Controlled Vocabulary Lists for Defined Fields(12-1-94)
  • Conspectus Field Listings and Definitions Version 2.0 (02-01-94)

   

• General Reports
   
  • Report from the First Alexandria Design Review Workshop
  • Report from the Rutgers Digital Libraries workshop, May, 1994.

   

• Intellectual Property and Economics
   
  • Economic Resource Allocation (extract from the original project proposal)
  • Intellectual Property Rights Specification
  • Mission Statement
  • Pricing Information Resources
  • Some Pointers to Relevant Work (not up-to-date)
  • UMDL Negotiation Protocols

   

• User Evaluation and Education
   
  • Application for Human Subjects Review
  • Draft of Curriculum Framework 9-95

   

• User Interface
   
  • User Interface Mock-Up

    
    This is an OLD mock-up!

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