The Personalized, Collaborative Digital Library Environment CYCLADES and its Collections Management
In Multimedia Distributed Information Retrieval. Callan, Jamie and Crestani, Fabio and Sanderson, Mark Eds. Springer Verlag, 2003.
Abstract:
The CYCLADES system envisages a Digital Library not only as an information resource where users may submit queries to satisfy their daily information need, but also as a personalized collaborative working and meeting space of people sharing common interests, may organize the information space according to their own subjective view, may build communities, may become aware of each other, exchange information and knowledge with other users, and may get recommendations based on preference patterns of users. In this paper, we describe the CYCLADES system, show how users may define their own collections of records in terms of unmaterialized views over the information space and how the system manages them. In particular, we show how the system automatically detects the archives where to search in, which are relevant to each user defined collection.