Bajcsy to Speak on Digital Libraries

released September 09, 2003

Ruzena Bajcsy, director of the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) at the University of California, Berkeley, will speak at 4 p.m. today (Sept. 9) in 3269 Beckman Institute about the use of digital libraries in heritage preservation.

Social science and humanities research is increasingly advanced by interdisciplinary and interinstitution collaborations. Recent advances in information technology, and the collaborative nature of the Internet, make it possible to provide advanced tools to humanities researchers: peer-to-peer tools that lower the barrier to publication; a new understanding of a common lingua franca among humanities disciplines; and new tools for the creation and visualization of images, media, solid artifacts and virtual reality experiences.

The data can be one dimensional, such as speech of dying languages, two dimensional text and images or three dimensional, such as digitized objects from museums and architectural sights of cultural heritage.

 

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