DELOS NoE

1
DELOS NoE

• DELOS
• Network of Excellence on
• Digital Libraries
• IST-1999-12262, Jan 2000 - Dec 2002
• Director Costantino Thanos

2
DELOS NoE - Objectives

• Contribute towards improving effectiveness of
  European research in digital library domain
• Facilitate take-up of DL technologies by
  application communities
• Promote co-operation between European and
  national DL initiatives encourage international
  cooperation
• The DELOS NoE aims at providing a set of
  services for the European DL Community.

3
NoE Activities

• The Network activities are organised in a set of
  Forums

• Research Forum
• Evaluation Forum
• Standardisation Forum
• Technology Transfer Forum
• International Co-operation Forum

4
Research Forum

• Objectives
• to stimulate and co-ordinate actions to advance
  research in the DL domain

• Actions
• Thematic Workshop Series
• European Conference on Digital Libraries Series
• Brainstorming Workshops

5
Research Forum

• Thematic Workshops
• Information Seeking, Searching, and Querying in
  Digital Libraries, Zurich, 11-12 Dec. 2000
• Personalization and Recommendation Systems in
  Digital Libraries, Dublin, 18-20 June 2001
• Interoperability in Digital Libraries,
  Darmstadt, 8-9 September 2001

6
Research Forum

• European Conference on Digital Libraries
• ECDL 97, Pisa, Italy ECDL 98, Crete, Greece,
  ECDL 99, Paris, France ECDL 2000, Lisbon,
  Portugal
• ECDL 2001 - Darmstadt, 5-7 September 2001
• ECDL 2002 - Rome, 18-20 September 2002

7
Research Forum
Brainstorming Workshops

• First Brainstorming Workshop on
• The Next Generation of Digital Libraries
• Alta Badia, Italy, 13-15 June 2001

8
Evaluation Forum

• Objectives
• to provide appropriate testbeds for evaluating
  research in the DL domain

• Actions
• Digital Library Test Suite
• Cross-Language System Evaluation

9
Evaluation Forum

• Digital Library Test Suite WG
• Description scheme for digital collections
• Survey on existing DL test collections
• Evaluation Methodology and Metrics
• Building a European DL Test Suite

10
Evaluation Forum

• Cross-Language Evaluation Forum
• Has become independent project.
• See presentation on CLEF

11
Standardisation Forum

• Objectives
• to follow standardisation activities in the DL
  domain carried out by international bodies and
  working groups
• to contribute to the definition of relevant
  standards for DLs

• Actions
• to set-up a number of Working Groups

12
Standardisation Forum

• Four WGs have been set up
• Registries
• Ontology Harmonization
• Agents Requirements in Digital Libraries
• Formal Metadata

13
Training and Technology Transfer Forum

• Objectives
• to train young researchers in DL technologies
• to speed up the take-up process of new DL
  technologies

• Actions
• International Summer School Series
• Technology Transfer Actions

14
Training and Technology Transfer Forum

• International Summer School Series
• First International Summer School on Digital
  LibraryTechnologies
• ISDL01
• Pisa, 9-13 July 2001

15
Training and Technology Transfer Forum

• Technology Transfer Actions
• Tutorial at EVA 2000 Conference on
• Standards and Metadata
• Moscow, 2 November 2000
• Tutorial at IFLA 2001 Conference on
• Multilingual Information Access
• Boston, 25 August 2001
• Workshop at FIAT/IFTA 2001 Conference on
• Audio-visual Metadata Models and Editors
• London, 23 September 2001

16
International Cooperation

• Objectives
• to enhance the collaborative links between the EU
  DL projects
• to establish collaborative links with other
  non-EU DL research communities

• Actions
• DL All Projects Workshop Series
• International Workshop Series

17
International Co-operation

• DL All Projects Workshops
• EU DL All Projects Meeting, Luxembourg, 7-8
  February 2001
• Digital Libraries National Initiatives and EU
  Actions The Need for Harmonization,
• Brussels, 11 May 2001
• EU/NSF DL All Projects Meeting
• December 2001

18
International Cooperation

• International Workshops
• DELOS - Russian DL Community Workshop
• Moscow, 7-9 June 2001
• DELOS - non-EU Mediterranean DL Communities
  Workshop
• Ifrane (Marocco), November 2001

19
DELOS NoE

• DELOS
• Network of Excellence on
• Digital Libraries
• http//www.ercim.org/delos