2007 Working Papers
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Computer graphics techniques for modeling page turning
(University of Waikato, Department of Computer Science, 2007-10-24)Turning the page is a mechanical part of the cognitive act of reading that we do literally unthinkingly. Interest in realistic book models for digital libraries and other online documents is growing. Yet actually producing ... -
A map-based place-browser for a PDA
(University of Waikato, 2007-10-24)This article describes PlaceBrowser, a PDA based application that allows the user of the application to navigate around an area of geographical interest, such as a city, using a zoomable, panable hierarchy of aerial images, ... -
Digital libraries on an iPod: Beyond the client-server model
(University of Waikato, Department of Computer Science, 2007-10-24)This paper describes an experimental system that enhanced an iPod with digital library capabilities. Using the open source digital library software Greenstone as a base, this paper more specifically maps out the technical ... -
Extracting corpus specific knowledge bases from Wikipedia
(University of Waikato, Department of Computer Science, 2007-06-01)Thesauri are useful knowledge structures for assisting information retrieval. Yet their production is labor-intensive, and few domains have comprehensive thesauri that cover domain-specific concepts and contemporary usage. ... -
Sharing, privacy and trust issues for photo collections
(University of Waikato, 2007-02-01)Digital libraries are quickly being adopted by the masses. Technological developments now allow community groups, clubs, and even ordinary individuals to create their own, publicly accessible collections. However, users ... -
Initiating and Sustaining Female Networks in Computer Science and IT
(University of Waikato, Department of Computer Science, 2007-08-01)Over the last decade, several networks and communities for women in IT have been initiated. It has been known that specific needs for support exist where members of a minority have difficulties in finding like-minded people ... -
Flexible refinement
(University of Waikato, 2007-05-07)To help make refinement more usable in practice we introduce a general, flexible model of refinement. This is defined in terms of what contexts an entity can appear in, and what observations can be made of it in those ... -
Location-based indexing for mobile context-aware access to a digital library
(University of Waikato, 2007-08-22)Mobile information systems need to collaborate with each other to provide seamless information access to the user. Information about the user and their context provides the points of contact between the systems. Location ...
