Speaker: Steve Mitchell, UC Riverside

Date: Thursday, April 1, 2004 4:15-5:15p ****

Location: Cornell Information Science, 301 College Avenue, Seminar Room

Abstract -

The best Internet finding tool in the coming years may not be one that
tries to meet an infinitude of information needs and audience levels but a
cooperative one that is the summative or even synergistic product of
integrating hundreds or thousands of well focused, high value, objective,
heterogeneous virtual library, digital library and other collections. These
collections will be built not only through subject expert effort but
through subject expert effort amplified by machine assistance as well as by
fully automated processes based in and incorporating subject expert design
and knowledge. Expert vetted and open information domains are being woven
together in mutually complementary though separate collections or in
hybrid, combined collections. Our projects, NSDL iVia, iVia, INFOMINE and
Data Fountains, are based in this full spectrum of approaches to collection
building. These projects combine the best subject expert approaches with
the best enabling technologies stemming from advances in machine learning
in Internet focused crawling and classifier based metadata generation. The
result has been services, collections and free, open source software that
save resources and which are open to all.

For additional information please contact hillmann@cs.cornell.edu