The PERSIVAL digital library project involves an interdisciplinary
team of participants consisting of 6 major research teams: (1) multimedia
search over distributed collections; (2) multimedia resource
summarization; (3) query interface and presentation; (4) clinical
infrastructure; (5) content and library ; and (6) evaluation.
These teams correspond to different components of the system
architecture, shown at http://www.cs.columbia.edu/diglib/PERSIVAL.
In each section, we overview the progress we have made in each of
these teams, followed by a description of the scenario we are working
towards.
In the first year of the project, we have continued the three main
directions in our work. We are working on development of components of
the overall system each within a focused team, on identification of
user needs and on a system scenario. In addition, we have worked on
definition of system design and interactions between planned
components in our bi-weekly group meetings. Finally, in year one, we
have developed an integration plan to ensure smooth connection between
project teams.