International Symposium on
Digital Libraries and Knowledge Communities in
Networked Information Society

Electronic Proceedings

• Foreword
• Symposium Organization
• Table of Contents

The "digital library" is broadly recognized as a key component in the networked information environment - a means of sharing information and knowledge in our society not only today but in the future. Since the mid-1990s, there have been substantial efforts to develop practical technologies for digital library services. Starting in the scholarly and professional communities, the development of networked information has already brought about significant changes in publishing and in information-seeking behavior - not just of scientists and professionals but of the general public as well, including children. The Internet has been adopted as a major part of corporate and government information infrastructures and is already an integral part of our information lifelines.

All of these have brought significant changes not only to individuals but also to our communities. While the Internet serves as part of the information infrastructure for traditional communities rooted in geographical location, it is also enabling the formation of knowledge-centric communities based on intellectual interest.

DLKC'04, which is the fourth international symposium on digital libraries in Tsukuba, is planned as a forum to discuss these changes and the new directions of our networked information society. As in the previous symposia, ISDL'95, '97 and '99, DLKC'04 provides broad perspectives on digital libraries and knowledge communities, from information technologies to the humanities and social sciences. We believe this cross-disciplinary forum will bring novel concepts and technologies together and create new ideas for our information and knowledge-centric society.

We would like to thank Dr. Steve Griffin of the National Science Foundation and Dr. Constantino Thanos of the DELOS Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries for their kind cooperation with DLKC'04. In addition, we would also like to thank the Japan Society of Library and Information Science for their support. We would like to express our special thanks to Infocom Corporation for their support to this symposium and to our research activities based at the Institute of Library and Information Science and the Research Center for Knowledge Communities, University of Tsukuba. Last, but not the least, many thanks to all committee members involved in DLKC'04.

Symposium Committee Chair

• Koichi Tabata (University of Tsukuba, Japan)

Executive Committee Chair

• Hirotoyo Ishii (University of Tsukuba, Japan)

Program Committee Chair

• Shigeo Sugimoto (University of Tsukuba, Japan)

Symposium Committee

• Jun Adachi (National Institute for Informatics, Japan)
• Steve Griffin (National Science Foundation, USA)
• Kimio Hosono (Keio University, Japan)
• Hirotoyo Ishii (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
• Jun'ichi Isoya (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
• Haruki Nagata (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
• Shin'ichi Nakayama (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
• Seiichi Nishihara (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
• Shigeo Sugimoto (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
• Constantino Thanos (DELOS, EU)
• Syunsuke Uemura (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
• Sadao Uematsu (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
• Mikio Wanaka (National Diet Library, Japan)
• Yoshifumi Yamauchi (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
• Takeo Yamamoto (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)

Local Arrangements Co-chairs

• Norihiko Uda (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
• Tetsuo Sakaguchi (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
• Atsushi Toshimori (University of Tsukuba, Japan)

Publicity Chair

• Takahide Umeda (University of Tsukuba, Japan)

Registration Chair

• Mitsuharu Nagamori (University of Tsukuba, Japan)

Website Chair

• Tetsuya Maeshiro (University of Tsukuba, Japan)

Publications Chair

• Atsuyuki Morishima (University of Tsukuba, Japan)

Program Committee

• Ray Atarashi (IIJ Lab., Japan)
• Thomas Baker (Fraunhofer Gesellshaft, Germany)
• Christine Borgman (University of California Los Angeles, USA)
• Hsinchun Chen (University of Arizona, USA)
• Hsueh-hua Chen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
• Keysun Choi (KAIST, Korea)
• Suk-doo Choi (Ewha Womans University, Korea)
• Schubert Foo (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
• Edward Fox (Virginia Tech., USA)
• Yuzuru Hiraga (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
• Masakazu Imai (Tottori University of Environmental Studies, Japan)
• Noriko Kando (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
• Hiroyuki Kitagawa (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
• Ee-Peng Lim (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
• Akira Maeda (Ritsumeikan University, Japan)
• Makiko Miwa (National Institute of Multimedia Education, Japan)
• Atsuyuki Morishima (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
• Shin'ichi Nakayama (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
• Haruki Nagata (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
• Keizo Oyama (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
• Edie Rasmussen (University of British Columbia, Canada)
• Tetsuo Sakaguchi (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
• Koichi Takeda (IBM, Japan)
• Katsumi Tanaka (Kyoto University, Japan)
• Norihiko Uda (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
• Kenji Uetsuki (National Diet Library, Japan)
• Stuart Weibel (OCLC, USA)
• Vilas Wuwongse (Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand)
• Masatoshi Yoshikawa (Nagoya University, Japan)