Speaker:
Dr. Gordon W. Paynter, Research Programmer for the INFOMINE Project at the University of California in Riverside

Date: Monday, June 13, 2005 4:15p - 5:15p

Location: 301 College Avenue, Seminar Room

Abstract -

The INFOMINE Project has developed a range of automatic metadata assignment tools, which are used by virtual libraries, metadata repositories and other digital libraries to generate metadata describing resources found on the Internet. The metadata assignment tools assign several fields, including Title, Format, Language, Description, Keywords, Library of Congress Classification and Library of Congress Subject Headings, using techniques that range from simple text parsers to complex hierarchical classification algorithms. They are used in a variety of applications, including tools that suggest potential metadata fields to librarians as they edit records, Web crawlers that assign thousands of metadata fields every day, and services for supplying metadata records for use in NSDL collections.
This presentation will describe the assignment tools, some of the applications that have driven their development, and the lessons we have learned along the way.

Bio -

Dr. Gordon W. Paynter is a research programmer for the INFOMINE Project (http://infomine.ucr.edu). He is working on automatic metadata assignment, and on focused and manually-guided Web crawling. Gordon was awarded a Ph.D. in Computer Science by the University of Waikato in New Zealand for work on programming by demonstration. He then spent a year as a Post-doctoral Fellow with the New Zealand Digital Library Project, where he worked on keyphrase extraction, phrase-based interfaces, and the Greenstone Digital Library Software, before joining the INFOMINE Project at the University of California in Riverside.

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