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DELOS NoE. DELOS Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries IST-1999-12262 , Jan 2000 - Dec 2002 Director: Costantino Thanos. DELOS NoE - Objectives. Contribute towards improving effectiveness of European research in digital library domain
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DELOS NoE DELOS Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries IST-1999-12262, Jan 2000 - Dec 2002 Director: Costantino Thanos
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. Concertation Event, Vienna, 21 June 2001
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 Concertation Event, Vienna, 21 June 2001
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 Concertation Event, Vienna, 21 June 2001
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 Concertation Event, Vienna, 21 June 2001
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 Concertation Event, Vienna, 21 June 2001
Research Forum • First Brainstorming Workshop on: “The Next Generation of Digital Libraries” Alta Badia, Italy, 13-15 June 2001 Brainstorming Workshops Concertation Event, Vienna, 21 June 2001
Evaluation Forum Actions • Digital Library Test Suite • Cross-Language System Evaluation Objectives to provide appropriate testbeds for evaluating research in the DL domain Concertation Event, Vienna, 21 June 2001
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 Concertation Event, Vienna, 21 June 2001
Evaluation Forum Cross-Language Evaluation Forum Has become independent project. See presentation on CLEF Concertation Event, Vienna, 21 June 2001
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 Concertation Event, Vienna, 21 June 2001
Standardisation Forum Four WGs have been set up • Registries • Ontology Harmonization • Agent’s Requirements in Digital Libraries • Formal Metadata Concertation Event, Vienna, 21 June 2001
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 Concertation Event, Vienna, 21 June 2001
Training and Technology Transfer Forum International Summer School Series First International Summer School on Digital LibraryTechnologies ISDL’01 Pisa, 9-13 July 2001 Concertation Event, Vienna, 21 June 2001
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 Concertation Event, Vienna, 21 June 2001
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 Concertation Event, Vienna, 21 June 2001
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 Concertation Event, Vienna, 21 June 2001
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 Concertation Event, Vienna, 21 June 2001
DELOS NoE DELOS Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries http://www.ercim.org/delos Concertation Event, Vienna, 21 June 2001