Digital Libraries of Heritage Materials -- A Visual Dictionary for an Extinct Language -- A Scalable Method for Preserving Oral Literature from Small Languages -- Digital Folklore Contents on Education of Childhood Folklore and Corporate Identification System Design -- Ancient-to-Modern Information Retrieval for Digital Collections of Traditional Mongolian Script -- Annotation and Collaboration -- A Collaborative Scholarly Annotation System for Dynamic Web Documents – A Literary Case Study -- The Relation between Comments Inserted onto Digital Textbooks by Students and Grades Earned in the Course -- Visualizing and Exploring Evolving Information Networks in Wikipedia -- Mobility and Migration -- Do Games Motivate Mobile Content Sharing? -- A Multifaceted Approach to Exploring Mobile Annotations -- Model Migration Approach for Database Preservation -- Natural Language Processing -- Automated Processing of Digitized Historical Newspapers beyond the Article Level: Sections and Regular Features -- Keyphrases Extraction from Scientific Documents: Improving Machine Learning Approaches with Natural Language Processing -- Measuring Peculiarity of Text Using Relation between Words on the Web -- Imitating Human Literature Review Writing: An Approach to Multi-document Summarization -- Metadata -- A Study of Users’ Requirements in the Development of Palm Leaf Manuscripts Metadata Schema -- Landscaping Taiwan’s Cultural Heritages – The Implementation of the TELDAP Collection-Level Description -- GLAM Metadata Interoperability -- Metadata Creation: Application for Thai Lanna Historical and Traditional Archives -- Usability and Navigation -- A User-Centric Evaluation of the Europeana Digital Library -- Digital Map Application for Historical Photos -- Supporting Early Document Navigation with Semantic Zooming -- Knowledge Structures -- PODD: An Ontology-Driven Data Repository for Collaborative Phenomics Research -- A Configurable RDF Editor for Australian Curriculum -- Thesaurus Extension Using Web Search Engines -- Images and Retrieval -- Preservation of Cultural Heritage: From Print Book to Digital Library - A Greenstone Experience -- Improving Social Tag-Based Image Retrieval with CBIR Technique -- Identifying Persons in News Article Images Based on Textual Analysis -- Kairos: Proactive Harvesting of Research Paper Metadata from Scientific Conference Web Sites -- Scholarly Collaborations -- Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit: An Institutional Case Study Demonstrating Why Data Digital Libraries Are Not the Whole Answer to E-Research -- Open Access Publishing: An Initial Discussion of Income Sources, Scholarly Journals and Publishers -- Posters -- Ontology-Based Information Management: Exploiting User Perspective within the Motion Picture Industry -- Expertise Mapping Based on a Bibliographic Keyword Annotation Model -- Extended Poster Abstract: Open Source Solution for Massive Map Sheet Georeferencing Tasks for Digital Archiving -- Describing OAI-ORE from the 5S Framework Perspective -- Matching Evolving Hilbert Spaces and Language for Semantic Access to Digital Libraries -- Towards a Pattern-Based Approach for Scientific Writing and Publishing in Chinese -- Evaluation Algorithm about Digital Library Collections Based on Data Mining Technology.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, ICADL 2010, held together with the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL 2010, at the Gold Coast, Australia, in June 2010. The 21 revised full papers, 9 revised short papers, and 7 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on digital libraries of heritage materials; annotation and collaboration; mobility and migration; natural language processing; metadata; usability and navigation; knowledge structures; and images and retrieval.