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　 Goethe-Institut, Tokyo

　 German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB)

　 German National Library of Medicine (ZB MED)

Moderator: Toneo Aoki
(Deputy Director, Cyber Science Infrastructure Development Department, National Institute of Informatics)

Title

Speaker

Opening

Barbara Richter-Ngogang
(Head of the Library, the Goethe-Institut Japan in Tokyo)

"Libraries and the information infrastructure in Germany: standards and recent developments"

[Abstract]

Ulrich Korwitz
(Director, German National Library of Medicine)

Jun Adachi
(Professor and Director of Cyber Science Infrastructure Development Department, National Institute of Informatics)

"New developments in digital library services: textual and non-textual information in a science portal"

[Abstract]

Uwe Rosemann
(Director, German National Library of Science and Technology)

Koichi Ojiro
(University of Tokyo Library System)

※Consecutive interpretation (English to Japanese)

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Deadline: March 7, 2011
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Barbara Richter-Ngogang
(Head of the Library, the Goethe-Institut Japan in Tokyo)

Barbara Richter-Ngogang, born in Giessen/Germany, is the Head of the Library at the Goethe-Institut Japan in Tokyo. She studied French literature and science of sport at the "Justus-Liebig University" in Giessen and received a doctorate there. Richter-Ngogang began her professional career in 1983 as a guest lecturer at the "Ecole Normale Superieure" in Yaounde. In 1984, She moved to the library at the Goethe-Institut Yaounde as its head and then had been the Head of the Library at the Goethe-Institut Korea in Seoul from 2005 to 2010.

Ulrich Korwitz
(Director, German National Library of Medicine)

Ulrich Korwitz was born 1953 in Magdeburg/Germany. He studied biology, geography, philosophy and pedagogy at the University of Cologne and got his library education from 1981 to 1983 there and at the Public Library of Cologne. He started his career at the Central Library of the University of Lubeck at the Baltic Sea. 1987 he moved to the German National Library of Medicine in Cologne as deputy director where he was appointed as director in 1996.
Ulrich Korwitz has been member of several boards like the European Association of Health Information and Libraries (EAHIL), the German Medical Library Association, Vascoda and libraries of national importance.
He has been and is still responsible of several library projects of national relevance like ADONIS, especially projects funded by the German Research Foundation like MEDPILOT, GREENPILOT, German Medical Science and "Virtual Microscopy". He publishes articles and holds lectures in the field of modern library management, digital libraries and information infrastructure in the digital age.
In 2008, Ulrich Korwitz got the EAHIL award for his achievements for a high standard in copyright and interlibrary loan. He is lecturer for information competence at the University of Cologne.

Jun Adachi
(Professor and Director of Cyber Science Infrastructure Development Department, National Institute of Informatics)

Jun Adachi, is Professor in the Digital Content and Media Sciences Research Division, National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan. He is also the Director of the Cyber Science Infrastructure Development Department of NII and the Managing Director of SPARC Japan which is operated by NII with the support of Japanese university libraries since 2006. His professional career has largely been spent in research and development of scholarly information systems, such as NACSIS-CAT and NII-ELS. He is also an adjunct professor of the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, University of Tokyo. His research interests are information retrieval, text mining, digital library systems, and distributed information systems. Adachi received his BE, ME and Doctor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1976, 1978, and 1981, respectively. He is a member of IEICE, IPSJ, IEEE, and ACM.

Uwe Rosemann
(Director, German National Library of Science and Technology)

Uwe Rosemann, born in Westphalia, has been the director of the Technische Informationsbibliothek (German National Library of Science and Technology) and the Universitatsbibliothek Hannover (University Library Hannover) (TIB/UB) since the 1st October 1998. He studied mathematics with sociology as his subsidiary subject at the University of Bielefeld. Rosemann began his professional career in 1980 as a subject specialist in mathematics and computer science at Bielefeld’s university library where, in 1990, he became the head of department for library use and library technology. Uwe Rosemann then assumed the post as deputy director at the former UB/TIB in 1993.
Uwe Rosemann has managed large-scale, third-party funded projects and has worked for the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) on various boards and committees. In addition, he has also acted as an expert adviser. Rosemann is a member on several scientific advisory boards and commissions.
For many years, Uwe Rosemann has been the chairman and member of the board for the ‘subito’ and ‘vascoda’ library networks, as well as a co-publisher of the specialist publication, “Zeitschrift fur Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie”, which is a journal for librarianship and bibliography.
Uwe Rosemann publishes articles and holds lectures on themes related to the management of libraries, digital libraries and copyright law.

"Libraries and the information infrastructure in Germany: standards and recent developments" (Ulrich Korwitz)

"New developments in digital library services: textual and non-textual information in a science portal" (Uwe Rosemann)

INTRODUCTION
Worldwide, digitised collections of non-textual material are growing fast, yet many of these materials are inaccessible because they are stored on researchers’ local servers or physical storage media only. This drives the demand for new services, making audiovisual storage and search one of the major challenges for Information providers such as the Technical Information Library (TIB).

MAIN IDEA
The TIB plans on a Competence Center for non-textual materials where practical solutions for capturing, storing, finding and using of those materials shall be found. The main idea is to make metadata of multimedia collections accessible to users across types of sources through one access point no matter whether the sources are kept by libraries, archives, or other institutions.In response to these needs the TIB provides GetInfo, a portal for science and technology.
In order to improve access to multimedia objects content-based image retrieval (CBIR) solutions shall be implemented in the GetInfo Portal. CBIR provides methods to extend and complement text-based retrievals by querying and retrieving images and videos by content. CBIR solutions identify objects in images, segment videos into short sequences, and compute features describing color, texture, shape, position or motion information.
Another project goal is to make multimedia objects citeable as publications. In 2005, the TIB became a non-commercial DOI registration agency for research data sets from the fields of technology/science and medicine. In this system, a multimedia object would be attributed to its investigators as authors and may have its own identity.
Furthermore the Competence Center shall be established to disseminate results, build up a network and provide best practice services and training.