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In brief
Philippe Rigaux.
Prof. des Universités - CNAM
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Office: 2 rue Conté, 37-1-41
Position(s)
I am a full professor in Computer Science at CNAM , an academic institution devoted in lifelong learning.
Since september 2010, I am salso scientific director of Internet Memory Research a startup specialized in Web data harvesting, storage and analysis at large scale. More…
Books and on-line academic supports
I wrote many books. The last one, published by Cambridge University Press, is Web Data Management. written with great co-authors from the WebDam project.
I started to publish all my course materials at http://www.bdpedia.fr. Have a look!
Music Score Library
Neuma is a Digital Library for musical scores, providing content-based services: score production, annotation, search by content. Neuma has been initally funded by the ANR (Agence Nationale de la Recherche) for three years (2008-2011) and is now hosted by the HumaNum infrastructure. More…
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Current research activities
My present research interest focuses on large-scale document databases and digital libraries. Documents collections have grown everywhere, and I think that a lot of things can be improved regarding the storage, organization, presentation and interaction with these collections. Several projects I am involved relate to these concerns. A typical example is Neuma is a Digital Libraries for musical scores. It's a bit of an exotic topic, but I find it illustrative of typical worries that arise when dealing with massive sets of documents: (i) they must be transformed -- e.g., produce the graphic score, (ii) they have a complex content which should be exploited for indexing and other purposes (e.g., annotations), (iii) users interactions, including access right, presentation and navigation, are difficult to handle.
In a (not so) recent past ...
I have been working for many years on spatial and multi-dimensional databases. Perhaps the most visible outcome of the research effort is the book Spatial Database, with Application to GIS, written with Michel Scholl and Agnès Voisard, and published by Morgan Kaufmann.