Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries: Second European Conference, ECDL’98 Heraklion, Crete, Greece September 21–23, 1998 ProceedingsAuthor: Published by Springer Berlin Heidelberg ISBN: 978-3-540-65101-7 DOI: 10.1007/3-540-49653-XTable of Contents:Intelligent Multimedia Communication Autonomous Search in Complex Spaces Scientific Digital Libraries in Germany: Global-Info, a Federal Government Initiative Flexible and Extensible Digital Object and Repository Architecture (FEDORA) The Alexandria Digital Library Architecture A Framework for the Encapsulation of Value-Added Services in Digital Objects A Management Architecture for Measuring and Monitoring the Behavior of Digital Libraries Building HyperView Wrappers for Publisher Web Sites The Application of Metadata Standards to Video Indexing Search and Progressive Information Retrieval From Distributed Image/Video Databases: The SPIRE Project Improving The Spatial-Temporal Clue Based Segmentation By The Use Of Rhythm Multilingual Information Retrieval Based on Document Alignment Techniques Experimental Studies on an Applet-Based Document Viewer for Multilingual WWW Documents —Functional Extension of and Lessons Learned from Multilingual HTML SIS - TMS: A Thesaurus Management System for Distributed Digital Collections Parallel Text Alignment An Analysis of Usage of a Digital Library Illustrated Book Study: Digital Conversion Requirements of Printed Illustrations Structuring Facilities in Digital Libraries E-Referencer: A Prototype Expert System Web Interface to Online Catalogs The Planetary Data System - A Case Study in the Development and Management of Meta-Data for a Scientific Digital Library, Includes bibliographical references and index