Detailed Program

• Ismail Serageldin, Director, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt
• Raj Reddy, Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Maode Lai, Vice President of Zhejiang University, China
• Yunhe Pan, Vice President of Chinese Academy of Engineering, China (2 minutes video)
• H. E. Horatti Basavaraj Shivalingappa, Minister of School Education, Bangalore, India
• H.E. Dr. Hany Helal, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Egypt
• H.E. Dr. Tarek Kamel, Minister of Communication and Information Technology, Egypt

Keynote Speech:
Chair: Hisham El-Sherif, IT Ventures, Egypt

• Digital Libraries - A Cornerstone for Efficient Knowledge Exchange, Anton Mangstl, FAO, Italy

Best Practices Session
Chair: Peter Chen, Louisiana State University, USA

• Museion or Vault? Universal or Hetairoi? It Depends on Accessibility, Nayel Shafei, Enkido  Inc., USA
• Good Enough Translation, Narayanaswamy Balakrishan, Indian Institute of Science, India
• Search Engines for Digital Libraries, Jaime Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Digital Library of Modern History of Egypt, Magdy Nagi, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt
• Spoken Language Digital Libraries: “The Million Hour Speech Project”, James Baker, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Cross-Media Intelligent Searching in Digital Library, Yueting Zhuang, Zhejiang University,China

Principal Papers Session
Chair: Noha Adly, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt

• Methods for Automatic Evaluation of Sentence Extract Summaries, Ravindra Guntur, Balakrishnan Narayanaswamy and Ramakrishnan K.R, Indian Institute of Science, India
• CADAL Digital Library, Jiangqin Wu, Yueting Zhuang and Yunhe Pan, Zhejiang University, China
• Mass Digitization Projects: Celebration and Challenges, Gloriana St. Clair, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Finding Institutional Courage: Copyright in an Age of Digitization, Ann Okerson, Yale University Library, USA
• Towards a Language-Independent Universal Digital Library, Sameh Alansary, Magdy Nagi and Noha Adly, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt

Invited Panel: Digital Ownership
Chair: Raj Reddy, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Panelists:

• Brewster Kahle, Internet Archive, USA
• Michael Shamos, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Ismail Serageldin, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt
• Ram Karan Varma, CDAC, India
• Zhipan Wu, Peking University, China

Keynote Speaker Session
Chair: Ismail Serageldin, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt

• From Digital Libraries to Live User-Generated Community Repositories: The Challenges of the Internet as a Publishing Medium, Usama Fayyad, Yahoo! Inc, USA
• Making All the World’s Books Fully Searchable, Daniel Clancy, Google, USA

Session A: Technical Issues
Location: Meeting Room A, B1
Chair: Xue Fangyu, Tsinghua University Library, China

• TelMore: Morphological Generator for Telugu Nouns and Verbs,Madhavi Ganapathiraju and Lori Levin, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Personalization Services in CADAL, Yin Zhang, Yueting Zhuang and Jiangqin Wu, College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University, China
• Problems and Prospects in Collection of Spoken Language Data, Kishore Prahallad, Suryakanth V Gangashetty, Yegnanarayana Bayya and Raj Reddy, IIIT Hyderabad, India and CMU, USA
• Digitization Workflow Management System for Massive Digitization Projects, Mohamed Yakout, Noha Adly and Magdy Nagi, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt
• Semantic Illustration Retrieval for Very Large Data Set, Kai Song, Tiejun Huang and Yonghong Tian, China
• Signature Based Duplicate Detection in Digital Libraries, Padmasree Lam, Vamshi Ambati, Anand Chandulal Jasthi and Sreenivasa Rao Meda, VNRVJIET, India
• Multimedia Digital Library: Performance and Scalability Issues, Lakshmipratha Hari, Manjunath Mattam, Vamshi Ambati and Raj Reddy, IIIT Hyderabad, India
• Research on the Application of Notification Service for Service-Oriented Digital Library, Qiaoying Zheng, Zhaoneng Chen and Xuesong Bai, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Library, China
• A Tool for Entering Structural Metadata in Digital Libraries, Lavanya Prahallad, Indira Thammishetty, Veera Raghavendra Eluri and Vamshi Ambati, IIIT Hyderabad, India
• Learning from Example and by Doing Approach to Train Data Entry Operators at Universal Digital Library, Lavanya Prahallad, Vamsi Garimella and Praveen Garimella, IIIT Hyderabad, India
• Book Reader Interface: Image Processing Issues, Chetan Jakkoju, Sreekanth Vempati, Rakesh Babu Bodla, Vamshi Ambati and Jawahar C.V, IIIT, India
• Multilingual Information Access: Information Retrieval and Translation in a Digital Library, Vamshi Ambati, Rohini U, Pramod P, Balakrishnan N and Raj Reddy, IIIT, India
• Real-Virtual Lab, Monika Krishan, Rutgers University, USA

Session B: Policy Issues
Location: Meeting Room B, B1
Chair: Gummala Balaramaiah, Tirumal Tirupathi
Devasthanams, India

• The Qatar Heritage Rare Book Project: Digitization and Online Publication of Treasures from the Persian Gulf, Gabrielle Michalek, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Practices and Open Problems of Document Digitization for Million Book Project, Xiao-hui Zheng, Tsinghua University Library, China
• Retrieving Arabic Printed Document: a Survey, Kareem Darwish and Ossama Emam, IBM, Egypt
• The Construction and Development of Automation, Networking and Digitalization in XJTU Library, Xiaodi Yan and Jing Shao, Xi’an Jiaotong University Library, China
• Application of Machine Translation in China-America Digital Academic Library, Chen Huang and Haiying Chen, Zhejiang University Library, China
• Towards Establishing an ETD for Egyptian Universities, Mohamed Tolba, Taymoor Nazmy, Yasser Abdel Latif and Naser Abd Elwahab, Ain Shams University, Egypt
• Andrew Carnegie Benefactions: Pilot Program at Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Gladys Maharam, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, USA
• A Comparative Study for Open Document Formats, Rabee Mohamed and Hesham Farouk, MCIT, Egypt
• Content Organization and Knowledge Management in the
  Digital Environment, Kamani Perera, Regional Centre for Strategic Studies, Sri Lanka
• Quality eLearning Content: a Principal Component of the Universal Digital Library (UDL) and Highlights on Egypt’s Regional Role in the Arabic eContent Development, Mohamed A. Azzam, eLearning and Business Solutions Union (eLABs), Egypt
• E-Information and Copyright in Botswana: the Library Exception, Kgomotso Radijeng, University Of Botswana, Botswana
• CADAL and the Literature of Republic of China, Meng Zhan and YanQing Xiao, Wuhan University, China
• The Construction and Development of Jiangsu Academic Library & Information System, Changying Liu and Ming Shen, Nanjing University Library, China

Global Presentations

• Gloriana St. Clair, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• N. Balakrishan, Indian Institute of Science, India
• Noha Adly, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt
• Yueting Zhuang, Zhejiang University, China