The International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL) is an annual international forum that provides opportunities for librarians, researchers and experts to exchange their research results, innovative ideas, service experiences and state-- the-art developments in the field of digital libraries. Building on the success of the first six ICADL conferences, the 7th ICADL conference hosted by the Shanghai Jiao Tong University and the Shanghai Library in Shanghai, China aimed to further strengthen the academic collaboration and strategic alliance in the Asia- Pacific Region in the development of digital libraries. The theme of ICADL 2004 was: Digital library: International Collaboration and Cross-fertilization, with its focus on technology, services, management and localization. The conference began with an opening ceremony and the conference program featured 9 keynote speeches and 5 invited speeches by local and international experts. During the 3-day program, 40 research paper presentations were given in 3 parallel sessions. The conference also included 6 tutorials and an exhibition. The conference received 359 submissions, comprising 248 full papers and 111 short papers. Each paper was carefully reviewed by the Program Committee members. Finally, 44 full papers, 15 short papers and 37 poster papers were selected. On behalf of the Organizing and Program Committees of ICADL 2004, we would like to express our appreciation to all authors and attendees for participating in the conference. We also thank the sponsors, Program Committee members, supporting organizations and helpers for making the conference a success. Without their efforts, the conference would not have been possible.

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Keynote and Invited Papers.- Biomedical Informatics and Security Informatics Research in Digital Library.- ChinaGrid: Making Grid Computing a Reality.- Content Management and Resources Integration: A Practice in Shanghai Digital Library.- Digital Libraries: Developing Countries, Universal Access, and Information for All.- Digital Libraries for Education: A Progress Report on the National Science Foundation's (NSF) National Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education Digital Library (NSDL) Program.- Digital Libraries for Education: Case Studies.- Digital Preservation and Workflow Process.- Global Memory Net: New Collaboration, New Activities and New Potentials.- Gold at the End of the Digital Library Rainbow: Forecasting the Consequences of Truly Effective Digital Libraries.- Information Retrieval Challenges for Digital Libraries.- Knowledge Service and Digital Library: A Roadmap for the Future.- Ontological Service Layer for Digital Libraries: A Requirement and Architectural Analysis.- The Distributed Collaborative Virtual Reference System and Its Scheduler Mechanism for Chinese University Libraries.- The Role of Context for Information Mediation in Digital Libraries.- Papers.- A Policy-Based System for Institutional Web Archiving.- Building a Distributed Heterogeneous CALIS-ETD Digital Library.- Building Digitized Collection: Theory and Practice.- Cataloging and Preservation Toolkit of a Chinese Mathematics Ancient Books Digital Library.- Exploiting Extended Service-Oriented Architecture for Federated Digital Libraries.- OAI Protocol for Chinese Culture Resources Metadata Harvesting.- Preserving Digital Media: Towards a Preservation Solution Evaluation Metric.- Technical Issues of Sharing and Integration of OPAC and E-Learning Resources.- Technical Issues on the China-US Million Book Digital Library Project.- The Construction and Research on Academy Culture Database.- The Institutional Repository: The Chinese University of Hong Kong 'SIR' Model.- The Semantic Architecture for Chinese Cultural Celebrities' Manuscript Library.- WebGIS-RBDL - A Rare Book Digital Library Supporting Spatio-Temporary Retrieval.- Approaches to Interoperability Amongst Australian Digital Information Providers.- An Experimental Study of Boosting Model Classifiers for Chinese Text Categorization.- CatRelate: A New Hierarchical Document Category Integration Algorithm by Learning Category Relationships.- Constrains in Building Domain-Specific Topic Maps for the Discipline "Gender Studies in Informatics (GSI)".- Managing Digital Repositories Through an Ontology-Based Design.- Metadata Extraction from Bibliographies Using Bigram HMM.- Metadata Quality Evaluation: Experience from the Open Language Archives Community.- New Feature Selection and Weighting Methods Based on Category Information.- Metadata Quality Study for the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) Metadata Repository.- Providing Parallel Metadata for Digital Libraries with Linguistically Heterogeneous Documents.- A Kind of Index for Content-Based Music Information Retrieval and Theme Mining.- An Implementation of Web Image Search Engines.- A Relevance Feedback Model for Fractal Summarization.- A Query Analytic Model for Image Retrieval.- Character Region Identification from Cover Images Using DTT.- Multilingual Story Link Detection Based on Event Term Weighting on Times and Multilingual Spaces.- PaSE: Locating Online Copy of Scientific Documents Effectively.- Temporal Versioning of XML Documents.- Text-Based P2P Content Search Using a Hierarchical Architecture.- A Document Image Preprocessing System for Keyword Spotting.- A Gaussian-Fuzzy Content Feature Recognition System for Digital Media Asset Objects.- A Novel Watermarking Scheme Based on Video Content.- Subjective Relevance: Implications on Digital Libraries for Experts and Novices.- Visual Information Retrieval Based on Shape Similarity.- A Query Rewriting System for Enhancing the Queriability of Form-Based Interface.- Digital Library Retrieval Model Using Subject Classification Table and User Profile.- Hot-Spot Passage Retrieval in Question Answering.- Query Formulation with a Search Assistant.- Semantic Query Expansion Based on a Question Category Concept List.- Multilingual Collection Retrieving Via Ontology Alignment.- Using Content-Based and Link-Based Analysis in Building Vertical Search Engines.- wHunter: A Focused Web Crawler - A Tool for Digital Library.- Extending Your Neighborhood-Relationship-Based Recommendations Using Your Personal Web Context.- Interest-Based User Grouping Model for Collaborative Filtering in Digital Libraries.- Leveraging Enterprise Technology for the Library Portal at the National University of Singapore.- Supporting Field Study with Personalized Project Spaces in a Geographical Digital Library.- Academic Digital Library Portal - A Personalized, Customized, Integrated Electronic Service in Shanghai Jiaotong University Library.- A Digital Library of a Service-Orientated Architecture in SJTU - A Case Study.- A Research to Increase Users' Satisfaction and Loyalty Based on the Customer Satisfaction Index: A Case Study on the National Taichung Institute of Technology's Library.- Cross-Cultural Usability of Digital Libraries.- Design Lessons on Access Features in PAPER.- Information and Communication Technologies, Libraries and the Role of Library Professionals in the 21st Century: With Special Reference to Bangladesh.- Integrating Electronic Pathfinders in Digital Libraries: A Model for China.- Copyrighting Digital Libraries from Database Designer Perspective.- Design and Development of Internet Resource Navigation Database on Key Disciplines in CALIS Project.- Live Digital Reference Service: Its Present and Future.- Posters.- 3D Object Retrieval by Bipartite Matching.- A Hybrid Neural Network for Web Page Classification.- A Metasearch Engine with Automatic Resource Binding Ability.- Certificate-Based Authentication and Authorization Architecture in Digital Library.- Culture Grid and Its Key Technologies.- Face Region Detection on Skin Chrominance from Color Images by Facial Features.- Image Assisted Remote Visualization of Volume Data.- Improving Multimedia Delivery Performance for Digital Library Applications.…