Report on the BooksOnline'10: Third Workshop on Research Advances in Large Digital Book Repositories and Complementary Media

摘要

The BooksOnline Workshop series aims to foster the discussion and exchange of research ideas and initiatives addressing challenges and exploring opportunities around large collections of digital books and complementary media. The third workshop in the series, BooksOnline'10 boosted a high quality program, including keynote addresses by James Crawford from Google Books and John Mark Ockerbloom from the University of Pennsylvania. Prom the accepted papers two main themes emerged: 1) Issues relating to building suitable infrastructure for online book collections and for the evaluation of the applications and services that make use of such collections, and 2) Opportunities relating to the social or collaborative reading and annotation of books and issues relating to the design of suitable eReaders. This paper provides a summary of the workshop and the accepted contributions.