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TCDL/Digital Libraries

TCDL/Digital Libraries. Technical Committee on Digital Libraries To promote research in the theory and practice of all aspects of Collective Memory, i.e. the fields of Digital Libraries, Digital Museums and Digital Archives of all kinds.

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TCDL/Digital Libraries

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  1. TCDL/Digital Libraries • Technical Committee on Digital Libraries • To promote research in the theory and practice of all aspects of Collective Memory, i.e. the fields of Digital Libraries, Digital Museums and Digital Archives of all kinds. • Technical challenges in digital libraries require contributions from many areas: • User interfaces • Classification and indexing • Information retrieval • Content delivery • Presentation • Administration and preservation May 4-5, 2011 TAC Workshop 1

  2. TCDL/Digital Libraries • Conference: Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) • Premier venue for Digital Library research community • Typical attendance: 300 to 400 • TCDL is fully involved with conference and its steering committee • Includes associated doctoral consortium, tutorial program and workshops • Jointly sponsored by TCDL, ACM SIGWEB, ACM SIGIR • Other conferences we cooperate with include: • TPDL (was ECDL) • ICADL • Publication: TCDL Bulletin • Freely available online • Target is three issues per year May 4-5, 2011 TAC Workshop 2

  3. TCDL/Digital Libraries • Reaching the Members • Open community meeting at JCDL • http://www.ieee-tcdl.org/ • Social media, including linkedin group • The digital libraries community is diverse • Multiple academic areas including Computer Science, Information Science, Library Science • International focus: JCDL 2010 was colocated with with ICADL and held in Australia • Research focus moving into practice • TCDL seeks to foster a community that includes all aspects May 4-5, 2011 TAC Workshop 3

  4. TCDL/Digital Libraries • Recent Accomplishments / Highlights • Leadership transition: Chair, JCDL steering committee representative, bulletin editor • Key support volunteers recruited beyond these: Webmaster • Executive committee meetings at JCDL, ECDL • Plans • Continue sponsorship of JCDL and involvement with TPDL and ICADL • TCDL Bulletin • Challenges • Continuing shift of digital library activity from research to practice • Coordination with other sponsors of JCDL and conference’s need to handle both IEEE-CS and ACM procedures. Difficulties caused by differences in procedures • New initiatives unlikely due to lack of budget May 4-5, 2011 TAC Workshop 4

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