Innovative solutions for Multimedia Digital Libraries

Cross Library Services provides innovative solutions for Multimedia Digital Libraries, overcoming language barriers to access Digital Information. By coupling sound Natural Language Processing techniques with available information retrieval systems and tools for facilitating the maintenance of multilingual resources, Cross Library Services delivers a non-intrusive infrastructure to be integrated with current library catalogs and digital libraries.Cross Library Services offers an innovative approach for accessing, understanding and navigating multilingual contents in digital libraries and library catalogs.

Our services are offered to:

  • Public libraries: they typically have on-line catalogs and they have both multilingual contents and multilingual users, while on-line catalogs are accessible in a monolingual way. Cross Library Services technology allows integration of cross-lingual search capabilities in the existing catalogs.
  • Web-based Aggregators: any kind of aggregated web based content (news, technical articles, user generated contents, as well as large databases of documents that the Public Administration wants to make accessible), as long as it is supported by metadata, can benefit from our services to offer cross-language to the end users.
  • Multimedia digital libraries: the users interested in multimedia digital collections are ìby definitionî multilingual, in the sense that they do not need to know the language in which metadata are encoded to appreciate a picture or a music. Cross Library Services offers an answer to the natural need for multilingual approach to such kind of collections.
  • Publishers: Cross Library Services technology offers competitive solutions for technical publishers who aim at providing a global access or deal with publications in several different languages. Our metadata-based search and retrieval approach provides advanced and efficient search facilities, while avoiding the need for the publisher to provide external access to their IPR protected contents.