Digital Library Projects at Columbia University Columbia University houses a range of digital library projects throughout the university. The University Libraries and the Academic Computing division has a working digital collection and has sets of production services integrated within the university. The School of Engineering and Applied Sciences has also research in new technologies necessary to achieve the digital library. Projects span natural language generation for summarization, feature-based image and video search and retrieval, visualization of complex data, and improved search and retrieval algorithms. CRIA has taken an active role in initiating new projects linking key research in the School of Engineering with ongoing operations oriented research throughout the University.
Projects abound in numerous academic departments, which can be found on the the above pages.
Since CRIA is an integrating organization, our role is to ensure interdisciplinary involvement both between ongoing projects, as well as newly initiated projects. CRIA has been involved in a wide range of new and ongoing research and development projects , many of which bridge the various cultures that come together in achieving successful digital libraries. The initial testbed will be in a health care delivery domain, with subsequent development for and application to earth sciences education. Yiddish Language Data Base - to convert the contents of the largest archive of recorded data of Ashkenazic Yiddish into digitally available format. Search engine evaluation and improvement - to establish the infrastructure for technology developments in algorithms to be tested within the Columbia University production systems.