This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, ICADL 2006, held in Kyoto, Japan in November 2006.The 46 revised full papers, 14 revised short papers, and 6 poster papers presented together with 3 keynote and invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 170 submissions. The topics covered by the papers include information extraction, information retrieval, metadata, architectures for digital libraries and archives, ontologies, information seeking, cultural heritage and e-learning. In addition there are 6 papers on national and regional projects on digital libraries and archives.
Keynote and Invited Talks The Age of Content and Knowledge Processing Cyber Science Infrastructure and Scholarly Information for the Promotion of e-Science in Japan Working Together in Developing Library and Information Science Education in the Asia Pacific Advanced Digital Archives Annotating the Web Archives - An Exploration of Web Archives Cataloging and Semantic Web Owlery: A Flexible Content Management System for "Growing Metadata" of Cultural Heritage Objects and Its Educational Use in the CEAX Project A Digital Library for Preservation of Folklore Crafts, Skills, and Rituals and Its Role in Folklore Education A Digital Video Archive System of NDAP Taiwan Digital Libraries and Learning A Research Project to Convert Chinese Traditional Calligraphic Paintings to SCORM-Compatible E-Learning Materials Interdisciplinary Curriculum Development for Digital Library Education Distributed Repositories A Digital Resource Harvesting Approach for Distributed Heterogeneous Repositories Parallelising Harvesting Information Extraction Sibling Page Search by Page Examples Contextualization of a RDF Knowledge Base in the VIKEF Project Visualizing User Communities and Usage Trends of Digital Libraries Based on User Tracking Information Extracting Mnemonic Names of People from the Web Automatic Task Detection in the Web Logs and Analysis of Multitasking Extracting Structured Subject Information from Digital Document Archives Topic Structure Mining Using PageRank Without Hyperlinks Personalization for Digital Libraries Information Retrieval Metadata Digital Libraries and Archives Architecture Multimedia Reslource Retrieval and Organization Organizing Knowledge Semistructured Data/XML Information Seeking in Digital Archives Information Organization Short Papers Poster Papers National and Regional Projects on Digital Libraries and Archives Author Index