DELOS NoE

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DELOS NoE

• DELOS
• Network of Excellence on
• Digital Libraries
• Curent Trends in Digitization
• Torun, 3-4 February 2003

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DELOS NoE - Contract Issues

• The DELOS contract (2000-2002) has been extended
  to June 30, 2003
• The DELOS contract has been expanded (additional
  funding) to promote the achievements and
  activities of DELOS to the CEE countries

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DELOS NoE - Objectives

• Contribute towards improving effectiveness of
  European research in this important area
• Provide forum where researchers, practitioners,
  representatives of interested applications and
  industries can exchange ideas and experiences
• Co-operate with on-going standardisation
  activities in relevant fields for the DL domain
• Facilitate take-up of DL technologies in all
  interested application communities
• Improve international cooperation in DL research
  areas

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NoE Activity Organisation

• The Network activities are organised in a set of
  Forums
• Research Forum
• Evaluation Forum
• Standardisation Forum
• Training and Knowledge/Technology Transfer Forum
• International Co-operation Forum

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Digital Library Research Forum

• Objectives
• to stimulate and co-ordinate actions aiming at
  the advancement of research in the DL domain
• to improve scientific collaboration between
  European research teams working in this area
• Actions
• Thematic Workshop Series
• European Conference on Digital Libraries Series
• International Research Exchange Programme
• Brainstorming Workshop Series

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Digital Library 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
• Evaluation of DLs Testbeds, Measurements, and
  Metrics, Budapest, 6-7 June 2002

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Digital Library Research Forum

• Conferences
• European Conference on Digital Libraries, ECDL
  2000
• Lisbon, 18-20 September 2000
• European Conference on Digital Libraries, ECDL
  2001
• Darmstadt, 5-7 September 2001
• European Conference on Digital Libraries, ECDL
  2002
• Rome, 18-20 September 2002

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Digital Library Research Forum

• International Research Exchange Programme
• Brainstorming Workshops
• First Brainstorming Workshop on
• The Next Generation of Digital Libraries
• Alta Badia, Italy, 13-15 June 2001
• Second Brainstorming Workshop on
• Digital Libraries Main Research Themes for a
  Research Programme in Digital Libraries
• Pisa, Italy, 6-7 December 2002

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Digital Library Evaluation Forum

• Objectives
• to accelerate and enhance research into digital
  libraries
• to provide appropriate testbeds for evaluating
  research in the DL domain
• Actions
• Metalibrary and DL Schema
• Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval -
  INEX
• Evaluation of Cross-Language Spoken Document
  Retrieval Systems

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Digital Library Evaluation Forum

• Metalibrary and DL Schema
• A DL Test Suite WG has been set-up
• Description scheme for digital collections
• Survey on existing DL test collections
• Evaluation Methodology and Metrics

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Digital Library Standardisation Forum

• Objectives
• to contribute to the definition of relevant
  standards
• to follow standardisation activities in the DL
  domain carried out by international bodies and
  working groups
• Actions
• to set-up and operate a number of Working Groups

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Digital Library Standardisation Forum

• Three WGs have been set up
• Registries
• Ontology Harmonization
• Project Metadata
• Two White Papers were prepared
• Principles of Metadata Registries
• Building Core Ontologies

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Digital Library 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
• National Technology Transfer Actions
• Specific Technology Transfer Actions

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Digital Library Training and Technology Transfer
Forum

• International Summer School Series
• First International Summer School on Digital
  Library Technologies,
• ISDL01
• Pisa, 9-13 July 2001
• Second International Summer School on Digital
  Library Technologies,
• ISDL02
• Pisa, 8-12 July 2002

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Digital Library Training and Technology Transfer
Forum

• National Technology Transfer Actions
• Italian National Workshop
• Rome, 31 October 2001
• Greek National Workshop
• Corfu, 21 June 2002

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National TechnologyTransfer Events Italy

• Italian National Workshop on Digital Libraries
  Research and Development in ItalyRome, 31
  October 2001
• Survey of Italian research and development
  activities
• Exchange of ideas and experiences
• Promote collaboration between the research
  community and the Cultural Heritage institutions
• About 120 participants from all communities

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National TechnologyTransfer Events - Greece

• Greek National Workshop on Developing Digital
  Libraries (in cooperation with the Archive and
  Library Sciences Department of the Ioanian
  University)Corfu, Greece, 21 June 21 2002
• organization, developing stages and opportunities
  for the development of Digital Libraries.
• basic elements of DLs, digital objects, meta data
• success stories
• digitization guidelines and calls for
  digitization
• About 110 participants, mostly library personnel
  and senior students

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Digital Library International Co-operation Forum

• 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
• DELOS/NSF Joint Working Groups

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Digital Library International Co-operation Forum

• DL All Projects Workshops
• EU DL All Projects Meeting
• Luxembourg, 7-8 February 2001
• Harmonization Meeting on Digital Libraries
  National Initiatives and EU Actions The Need for
  Harmonization
• Brussels, 11 May 2001
• EU/NSF DL All Projects Meeting
• Rome, 25-26 March 2002

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Digital Library International Co-operation Forum

• International Workshops
• DELOS - Russian DL Community Workshop
• Moscow, June 7-9, 2001
• DELOS - non-EU Mediterranean DL Communities
  Workshop
• Ifrane (Morocco), November 8-9, 2001

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Digital Library International Co-operation Forum

• DELOS/NSF Joint Working Groups
• Spoken-Word Digital Audio Collections
• Digital Libraries Information -Technology
  Infrastructures
• Emerging Language Technologies and the
  Rediscovery of the Past
• Digital Imaging for Significant Cultural and
  Historical Materials
• Digital Archiving and Preservation
• Actors in Digital Libraries
• Personalization and Recommender Systems in
  Digital Libraries

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Digital Library International Co-operation Forum

• DELOS Activities in CEE Countries
• First DELOS-CEE Workshop
• Torun (Poland), 23-29 October 2002

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Delos - CEE

• Open opportunities for the extension of already
  realised projects towards the NAS countries
• Needs of undertaking the topic of digital
  libraries in CEE
• Already started activities in digitisation
• Preparation to the accession to the European
  Union
• Will of cooperation between the institutions

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Delos - CEE

• Organizational structure
• Coordinator ERCIM, France
• Principal Contractor Head Office of State
  Archives, Poland
• Members
• ICIMSS, Poland
• Comenius University, Slovak Republic
• Latvian University, Riga
• Library and Information Science Institute,
  Hungary

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Delos - CEE

• Planned tasks
• Participation in DELOS network of excellence
  activities
• Dissemination of DELOS NoE achievements
• Translation
• DELOS-CEE website
• Workshops organization
• Technology transfer

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Delos - CEE

• Planned translation
• Lund report in digitisation Digitisation Europe
• San Casciano report
• Metadata, Onthologies (reports by Thomas Baker)
• EU-NSF working groups reports

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Delos - CEE

• Planned translation
• Other documents being on preparation as
  deliverables of DELOS working groups in the
  topics of
• Preservation
• Digital library information, technology, digital
  structure
• Access to multimedia
• Personalisation and recommended systems
• Actors in digital libraries

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Delos - CEE

• Training activities
• Three international workshops
• Four national events
• Meeting with the national librarians
• Meeting with the national archivists

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Delos - CEE

• Three international workshops
• Introduction to digital libraries (delivered in
  October 2002, Torun)
• International cooperation. May Prague
• Technology Transfer workshop 12-13 June Gdansk

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Delos - CEE

• Four national events
• Latvia Metadata in digital libraries March
• HungaryPreservation of the digital cultural
  heritage initiatives and technologies April
• Slovak Republic User Behaviour in Digital
  Libraries May 21-22
• Poland Preservation of digital resources April
  25-26

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DELOS NoE

• DELOS
• Network of Excellence on
• Digital Libraries
• http//www.delos-noe.org
• http//www.icimss.edu/delos