The ERCIM Digital Library Initiative Carol Peters Istituto di Elaborazione della Informazione Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Pisa, Italy

Russian-British Digital Library Workshop Moscow, June 16-17, 1999 Outline of Presentation The ERCIM Digital Library Initiative and the DELOS Digital Library WG objectives activities results future intentions

Russian-British Digital Library Workshop Moscow, June 16-17, 1999 ERCIM - the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics - aims to foster collaborative work within the European research community and to increase co-operation with European industry. Leading research establishments from fourteen European countries are members of ERCIM. Members: CLRCCLRC | CRCIM | CWI | CNR | DANIT | FORTH | GMD | INRIA | SARIT | SICS | SINTEF | SRCIM | SZTAKI | VTTCRCIMCWICNRDANITFORTHGMDINRIA SARITSICSSINTEFSRCIMSZTAKIVTT

Russian-British Digital Library Workshop Moscow, June 16-17, 1999 Members CLRCCLRC - Central Laboratory of the Research Councils - United Kingdom CWICWI - Centruum voor Wiskunde en Informatica - The Netherlands CNRCNR - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Italy CRCIMCRCIM - Czech Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics - Czech Rep. DANITDANIT - Danish Consortium for Information Technology - Denmark FORTHFORTH - Foundation of Research and Technology - Hellas - Greece GMDGMD - German National Research Center for Information Technology - Germany INRIAINRIA - Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique - France MTA SZTAKIMTA SZTAKI - Magyar Tudományos Akadémia - Számítástechnikai és Automatizálási Kutató Intézete - Hungary SARIT-ETHSARIT-ETH - Swiss Association for Research in IT - Switzerland SICSSICS - Swedish Institute of Computer Science - Sweden SINTEFSINTEF - SINTEF Telecom & Informatics - Norway SRCIMSRCIM - Slovak Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics -Slovakia VTT - Technical Research Centre of Finland - FinlandVTT

Russian-British Digital Library Workshop Moscow, June 16-17, 1999 ERCIM DLI Objectives Promote research into the development of digital library technologies Encourage collaboration between research teams active in the DL area Establish links with on-going projects in the DL field

Russian-British Digital Library Workshop Moscow, June 16-17, 1999 DELOS Working Group Funded by ESPRIT Long Term Research programme (LTR 21057) Sponsored by the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) http//:

Russian-British Digital Library Workshop Moscow, June 16-17, 1999 DELOS Partners ERCIM members: CLRCCLRC - UK INRIA - FranceINRIA CNRCNR - Italy MTA SZTAKI - HungaryMTA SZTAKI CWICWI - The Netherlands SARIT-ETH - SwitzerlandSARIT-ETH CRCIM - Czech Rep. SICS - SwedenSICS FORTHFORTH - Greece SINTEF-DELAB - Norway GMDGMD - Germany SRCIM - Slovakia INESCINESC - Portugal non-ERCIM members: University of Michigan - USA Elsevier Sciences - The Netherlands

Russian-British Digital Library Workshop Moscow, June 16-17, 1999 DELOS Main Activities Workshop Series NSF-EU Collaborative Working Groups European Conferences on Digital Libraries (ECDL) ERCIM Technical Reference Digital Library (ETRDL)

Russian-British Digital Library Workshop Moscow, June 16-17, 1999 DELOS Workshop Series Objectives define a research agenda recognising key areas for DL research and development provide an international forum in which the main actors concerned - universities, research centres, libraries, museums, electronic publishers, the media - can present recent results and exchange ideas and knowhow on the research issues identified

Russian-British Digital Library Workshop Moscow, June 16-17, 1999 DELOS Workshop Series Metadata and Interoperability, Bonn, Germany Multilingual Information Retrieval, Zurich, Switzerland Image Indexing and Retrieval, Pisa, Italy Collaborative Filtering, Budapest, Hungary Preservation of Digital Information, Tomar, Portugal Electronic Commerce, Heraklion, Crete, Greece User Interfaces, Kista, Sweden Distance Learning, Brno, Czech Republic

Russian-British Digital Library Workshop Moscow, June 16-17, th DELOS Workshop on Audio-Visual Digital Libraries Motivation The DL of the future will increasingly be multimedial and multilingual. The collaborative interaction of image, sound, speech and natural language understanding technology is needed in order to successfully populate, segment, index, and search digital audio-visual collections (such as film, music, or photo archives,) with satisfactory recall and precision.

Russian-British Digital Library Workshop Moscow, June 16-17, th DELOS Workshop on Audio-Visual Digital Libraries Invited talks include: –The Carnegie Mellon Informedia Digital Library –Exploiting TV archives –Video abstracting –Everything you want to know about MPEG-7 –Multilingual Information Access in Audio- Visual Digital Libraries –Copyright and security issues

Russian-British Digital Library Workshop Moscow, June 16-17, 1999 EU-NSF Collaborative Working Groups The aim was to provide the possibility for US and European Union groups to jointly explore DL-related technical, social and economic issues, to co-ordinate research, to share research results and to plan for the future. Five working groups were established in key technical areas: –Interoperability –Metadata –Intellectual Property Rights and Economic Issues –Resource Indexing and Discovery in a Globally Distributed Digital Library –Multilingual Information Access

Russian-British Digital Library Workshop Moscow, June 16-17, 1999 ECDL Conferences ECDL’97, Pisa, Italy, 1-3 September 1997 ECDL’98, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, September 1998 ECDL’99, Paris, France, September 1999

Russian-British Digital Library Workshop Moscow, June 16-17, 1999 ECDL Conferences Third European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries Paris, France, September 22-24, 1999 Co-organized by BNF (Bibliothèque Nationale de France) and INRIA (Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique)BNF INRIA ECDL will be held in Paris at the prestigious location of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Its main objective is to bring together researchers from multiple disciplines to present their work on enabling technologies for digital libraries.

Russian-British Digital Library Workshop Moscow, June 16-17, 1999 ERCIM Technical Reference Digital Library (ETRDL) Objectives  to provide a DL service for ERCIM scientists  to participate in the US NCSTRL initiative but to create a specialised European service  to provide the ERCIM DL group with a test-bed for experimental activities such as implementation of new functions or services.

Russian-British Digital Library Workshop Moscow, June 16-17, 1999 ERCIM Technical Reference Digital LibraryETRDL

Russian-British Digital Library Workshop Moscow, June 16-17, 1999 ERCIM Technical Reference Digital Library

Russian-British Digital Library Workshop Moscow, June 16-17, 1999 Results of the DELOS Activities DELOS has succeeded in: stimulating the creation of a European Digital Library community establishing strong links with the international DL community arousing awareness of priority DL research issues encouraging the creation and funding of DL projects

Russian-British Digital Library Workshop Moscow, June 16-17, 1999 Looking to the Future Objectives build on and consolidate the experience of the DELOS WG create a forum that provides the possibility for interested communities to collaborate with the DL research world, exchanging new ideas, experiences, research results stimulate scientific and technological developments and encourage commercial applications

Russian-British Digital Library Workshop Moscow, June 16-17, 1999 DELOS Network of Excellence Proposed Activities organize forums for discussion of research issues and presentation of results, e.g. thematic workshops, ECDL conference series promote advanced education in the DL technologies e.g. summer schools, curriculum revision, etc. stimulate the development of large-scale test- beds and implement procedures for making them available over Internet

Russian-British Digital Library Workshop Moscow, June 16-17, 1999 DELOS Network of Excellence Proposed Activities (cont.) create a European Forum for Multilingual Information Retrieval System Evaluation create a Standardization Forum to analyse and disseminate the state of standards development, e.g. metadata,middleware, information life-cycle coordinate International Cooperation in the DL domain, e.g. through joint collaborative working groups on key topics

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