DEBORA Deliverables & Publications

Publications submitted by our project partners.

Project deliverables

• Deliverable D8.1 - DEBORA client functional requirements
  Date - 27/5/99 Revision - 1.4 (Final)
  [ Word97 | PDF | PS | RTF ]

• DEBORA Client-Server Architecture Diagram
  Date - 9/8/99 Revision - 1.0
  [ Word97 | PDF | PS | RTF ]

• Slides for the EU Telematics for Libraries Review Meeting, Luxembourg, 26/09/00.

Other Publications

• Title: "DEBORA: Digital Access To Books Of The Renaissance"
  Journal: Exploit Interactive Issue 3, October 1999.

• Title: "DEBORA: Developing an Interface to Support Collaboration in a Digital Library"
  Notes: Conference Paper
  To Be Presented At: ECDL2000
  Also Available As: [ Word97 | PDF ]
  

Miscellaneous Documents

A short presentation illustrates the salient features of the DEBORA Project

DEBORA Prototype Software

The above image shows the main user interface display of the DEBORA client software, including dialogs for information searching, rendering, book reading - navigation, annotation, and page comparision, virtual book collections, and shared workspace control.

The client prototype incorporates a full page thumbnail view. This allows the user to easily control the fine-grained zoom location in the document viewer window. Pages can be displayed side-by-side for visual comparision.

The above image shows the tooltip based annotation display of the DEBORA client. Users can use highlighting tools, and annotation areas to mark documents for further reference. Annotations may be shared with other users, and hence collaboratively edited, thereby supporting CSCW style software interactions.

The page metadata display showing archive information about the current page. This data can be augmented by the user.

Before using the client, the user should enter the Internet address of the servers used by the client software to access stored information. Other user interface settings can also be changed from this dialog.

On-line help is available in the tool to guide the user through its operation. This will be provided in internationalized versions as required by software evaluators.

Image display preference controls are available to allow the user to set their preferred contrast and brightness of the displayed image. A filter is also available for image sharpening. These controls can help correct badly scanned images and also may be used to crisp up detail at extreme zoom factors.

The software is currently available for evaluation to DEBORA project partners in the internal project pages section of this website.