1. It was published in 2006.
2. The authors work at Indiana University.  It is a mix of professors, librarians, and programers.  Most of them work in the Digital Library Program.
3. Communications of the ACM is one of the most important computer science journals.

Readings 3, Paper 2

Hilary Browne Hutchinson, Allison Druin, and Benjamin B. Bederson. Supporting elementary-age children's searching and browsing: Design and evaluation using the international children's digital library. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology Volume 58, Issue 11, pages 1618, September 2007. Available athttp://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.20646/abstract

Publication information:

1. It was published in 2007.
2. The authors work in the Human-Computer Interaction Lab at the University of Maryland.
3. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology is primarily for librarians.

Take-Aways:

• Children have trouble understanding hierarchies, but they are okay with boolean search and long lists. 
• Children often use websites designed for adults. 
• They took an existing digital children's library and redesigned it. 
• They ran a user study on children to evaluate the quality of their library interface.

Questions:

• What are the differences for designing interfaces for children and adults?
• What can be done to improve the new interface?
• It mostly uses old, out-of-copyright books. How would the interface scale to a much larger collection of modern books?

Readings 3, Paper 3

Eduardo Urbina, Richard Furuta, and Steven Escar Smith, "Visual Knowledge: Textual Iconography of the Quixote, a Hypertextual Archive," ACH/ALLC Conference 2005, June 2005.

Publication information:

1. It was published in 2005.
2. The authors work at Texas A&M's CSDL or library.
3. This was a joint conference between the Association for Computers and the Humanities, and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing.

Take-Aways:

• They are organizing a set of illustrations from different versions of Quixote.
• They used XML to add metadata to the text of Quixote.
• Experts tagged and classified images for the project.
• A user can browse the images in several different ways.

Questions:

• What would they need to change to support multiple novels instead of just Quixote?
• How will scholars use this system?
• How do you make the system support multiple languages?
• What metadata is useful for this system?

Readings 3, Paper 3

Carlos Monroy, Richard Furuta, and Filipe Castro. A multilingual approach to technical manuscripts: 16th and 17th-century Portuguese shipbuilding treatises. JCDL '07 Proceedings of the 7th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries, 2007, pp. 413-414.

Publication information:

1. It was published in 2007.
2. Two of the authors work in Texas A&M's CSDL, and one of them work at Texas A&M's Center for Maritime Archaeology.
3. JCDL is the main conference for digital libraries.

Take-Aways:

• They created a system that lets scholars edit a multi-lingual glossary of technical terms.
• There are several lengthy shipbuilding treatises, but understanding the language can be tricky.
• Their system supports an unlimited number of languages.

Questions:

• Does it support collaborative editing?
• Is the system significantly better than using a simple format like an html table or a word document?
• Is there a better way to do it?