European Digital Library Questions, issues
The project The “Google-Print” issue; Chirac et al. letter to Barroso; (speculation:) EU support for a large-scale digitisation project ! European Digital Library [EDL] (?)
EDL: organizational issues who will administer & maintain the project? content, software... how the existing resources will be “integrated” (“federalized”) ? (e.g. Gutenberg Project) what about the “national” digital libraries ? how to join the project ? volunteers: to attract or not ? organizational framework ? (TEL, MinervaPlus, eContentPlus, Michael...) ?
EDL: content EDL formats: facsimiles (tiff, jpeg, ...) ? (crude, OCR-ised) text ? proof-red text ? encoded text (TEI, DocBook, ...) ? EDL priorities: fiction, humanities, historical documents, scientific papers, ... ? public domain ? 70 years ?
EDL: technical issues EDL: “deep web” vs. “surface web” ? distributed vs. centralised vs. centralised-replicated ? specific search engine vs. Google (et al.) ? EDL’s catalogue: shared vs. OAI harvesting ? traditional (UNIMARC) vs. FRBR/XML ? alternative platforms ?
Related ... financing: how ? what about the speech synthesizers ? ELAG: SIG [Special Interest Group] ?