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DELOS Network of Excellence

D ELOS NoE D igital Library r esearch directions ELAG/DELOS workshop on IT Profiles and Curricula for Libraries Parma, 13-14 October, 2005 VIttore Casarosa ISTI – CNR casarosa @ is t i.cnr.it. DELOS Network of Excellence.

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DELOS Network of Excellence

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  1. DELOS NoEDigital Library research directionsELAG/DELOS workshop on IT Profiles and Curriculafor LibrariesParma, 13-14 October, 2005VIttore Casarosa ISTI – CNRcasarosa@isti.cnr.it

  2. DELOS Network of Excellence An initiative funded until 2007 by the European Commission, under the 6th Framework Program. Presently it has 55 members: European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics►Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie dell’Informazione – CNR►Swiss federal Institute of Technology Zurich►University of Bath►University of Athens►Technical University of Crete►Università degli Studi di Firenze►Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.►University of Glasgow►Universität Duisburg-Essen►Stichting Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica►Risoe National Library►Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas►Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza” – DIS►Brunel University►National Technical University of Athens►Università degli Studi di Padova►Università degli Studi di Milano►University for Health Informatics and Technology Tyrol►Max-Planck-Ges.z.F.d.W.vertr. d. MPI fuer Informatik►Kuratorium OFFIS e.V.►Queen Mary & Westfiled College►University of Strathclyde►Ionian University, Archive and Library Science Department►Université Paris-sud XI/Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique►University of Southampton►The University of Edinburgh►Institute for Information Processing and Computer Supported new Media ►Vienna University of Technology►University of Urbino►Norwegian University of Science and Technology – DCIS►Lund University /Lund University Libraries, Head Office►Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique►Aristotelio Panepistimio Thessalonikis ►National Archief ►Univesitaet Bremen ►Phonogrammarchiv der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften ►Universität zu Köln►Consorzio Forma►Swedish Institute of Computer Science AB►Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia►Masarykova univerzita v Brne►Universiteit van Amsterdam►Università Della Svizzera Italiana►Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Számítástechnikai és Automatizálási Kutatóintézet►Università degli Studi di Bari - Dipartimento di Informatica

  3. Main Objective To define and conduct a joint program of activities in order to integrate and coordinate the on-going research activities of the major European research teams in the field of digital libraries for the purpose of developing the next generation digital library technologies

  4. Other Objectives • Network and structure European research on digital libraries, so as to consolidate an emerging community • Contribute towards improving the effectiveness of European research in the digital library field • Provide a forum where researchers, practitioners, and representatives of interested applications and industries can exchange ideas and experiences • Promote cooperation between European and national digital library initiatives • Improve international cooperation in DL research areas

  5. Activity Organization • The Network activities are organised into a set of Research Clusters (Work Packages): • WP1: Digital Library Architecture • WP2: Information Access and Personalization • WP3: Audio/Visual and Non-Traditional Objects • WP4: User Interfaces and Visualization • WP5: Knowledge Extraction and Semantic Interoperability • WP6: Preservation • WP7: Evaluation • WP8: Dissemination and Spreading of Excellence

  6. Dissemination andSpreading of Excellence • Network Web Site • Electronic Newsletter • Thematic Workshops • Brainstorming Workshops • Joint Workshops • National Awareness Events • Summer Schools

  7. Information Space for DLs High Databases/IR Structure of User Behavior Digital Libraries Web High Low Structure of Data

  8. Usage Management Contents Conceptual Framework Digital Library System

  9. Grand 107-Year Vision #1 Digital librariesshould enable any citizen to access all human knowledge anytime and anywhere, in a friendly, multi-modal,efficient, and effective way, by overcoming barriers of distance, language, and culture and by using multiple Internet-connected devices

  10. Grand 10-Year Vision #2 The potential exists for digital libraries to become theuniversal knowledge repositoriesandcommunication conduitsforthefuture,acommonvehiclebywhicheveryonewillaccess,discuss, evaluate, and enhanceinformationofallforms

  11. Visualisation (generic) User Interface (generic) Access (generic) Preservation (generic) Digital Library Management Systems Visualisation (specialised) Personalisation Customisation User Interface (specialised) Management Access (specialised) Spoken-Word Audio Mgmt Preservation (specialised)

  12. Circles of User Experience Layers of System Architectures Foundation research Research Directions Horizontal issues User-related research System-related research

  13. System-related research • Digital Library System Architectures • Addressing large-scale distribution, scalability, availability, reliability, self organization, etc. • Peer-to-peer, GRID middleware, Service-Oriented Architecture • Information Access to Digital Libraries • Indexing for novel data types (e.g. similarity measures) • Query routing • Audio/Visual Digital Libraries • Automatic meta-data extraction • Content-based retrieval • A/V user interface • Semantic Interoperability in Digital Libraries • Integration of higher-level ontologies

  14. Foundation research • Reference Model for Digital Library Systems • Conceptual framework for the architecture, functionality, operations and behavior of a DL

  15. User-related research • User Interfaces for Digital Libraries • New query and browse paradigms (non-conventional objects) • Task-specific user interfaces • Collaboration oriented functionality (e.g. annotation) • Digital Library Visualization • Visual clues in presentation of information • Direct user manipulation of visualized information • Adaptabilty to different devices • Personalization in Digital Libraries • Modelling of user preferences • Increased use of context • Query routing

  16. Horizontal issues • Digital Library Curation and Preservation • Integration of preservation functionality into system design • Automation of the selection and ingest of materials into a preservation repository • Digital Repositories • Access policies • Infrastructures • Digital Library Evaluation Methodologies and Infrastructure • Framework for comparative evaluation of DL systems • Multilingual information access (CLEF) • XML information access (INEX)

  17. Digital Libraries <adjective><content abstraction><created entity> • adjective := Digital • content abstraction := ‘’ • created entity := Library

  18. New name for Digital Libraries ?

  19. DYNAMIC KNOWLEDGE UNIVERSAL COMMONS KNOWLEDGE ENVIRONMENTS What’s in a name ? DIGITAL LIBRARIES ... what's in a name? that which we call a rose, by any othername would smell as sweet…...

  20. The end Many thanks for your attention Further information at: www.delos.info or Vittore.Casarosa@isti.cnr.it

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