Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 08:10:46 +0530 From: Usha Mujoo Munshi The following book entitled "Multimedia Information Extraction and Digital Heritage Preservation" Which is one of the volumes (Vol 10) of the "Statistical Science and Interdisciplinary Research" By Usha Mujoo Munshi and Bidyut Baran Chaudhuri has been just brought out by world Scientific � 2011.

ISBN- 978-981-4307-25-3

ISBN- 10 981-4307-25-4

The reviews of the book speaks volumes about their work. I personally believe this is the first comprehensive work on digital Preservation covering various strategic issues.

An excellent reading and reference for digital preservation community. Around 400 pages book covers 20 chapters by leading experts in the area.

Broad chapters are as follows for reference.

Motivating Ontology Driven Information Extraction by *Burcu Yildiz and Silvia Miksch*

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ontology Based Access of Heritage Artifacts on the Web by *Santanu Chaudhury and Hiranmay Ghosh*

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Semantic Integration of Classical and Digital Libraries by *S. Thaddeus, A. Jeganathan, Gracy T. Leema*

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Low-level Visual Features with Semantics-based Image Retrieval by *V.P. Subramanyam Rallabandi*

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Narrowing the Semantic Gap in Image Retrieval: A Multimodal Approach by *William I. Grosky and Rajeev Agrawal*

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Challenges in the Recognition and Searching of Printed Books in Indian Languages and Scripts by *R. Manmatha and C.V. Jawahar*

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Construction and Statistical Analysis of an Indic Language Corpus for Applied Language Research by *Prasenjit Majumder, Mandar Mitra and B.B. Chaudhuri*

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Heritage Preservation in Digital Way � A Contemporary Research Issue by *A. Chatterjee and S.G. Dhande*

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digitising European Renaissance Prints � A 3-year Experiment on Image and Text-Retrieval by *Marie-Luce Demonet*

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Measuring Document Similarity with Information Retrieval Techniques by *Sudip Sanyal*

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Intinno: A Web Integrated Digital Library and Learning Content Management System by *Udit Sajjanhar, Mayank Jain, Arpit Jain and Pabitra Mitra*

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Radiologist�s Digital Workbench: Balancing Representation and Access Challenges for Medical Images by *Mayank Agarwal and Javed Mostafa*

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Conceptual Model Metadata of Thai Palm Leaf Manuscripts by *Nisachol Chamnongsri, Lampang Manmart, Vilas Wuwongse and Elin K. Jacob*

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Techniques for Extraction of Metadata from Heritage Documents by *Ratna Sanyal*

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Adaptable Records: Making Heritage Information Accessible to All by *Liddy Nevile*

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- An African Perspective on Digital Preservation by *Hussein Suleman*

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nestor and kopal � Co-operative Approaches to Digital Long-term Preservation in Germany by *Thomas Wollschl�ger*

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Preserving the Past � Towards the Digitization of German Cultural Heritage by *Thomas St�cker*

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Establishing Trust in Digital Repositories by *Bruce Ambacher*

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Issues of Scale and Storage in Digital Preservation by *Richard Wright*

-- Usha Mujoo Munshi Librarian

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