The ERES Digital Library: Online Access to Proceedings

ERES Digital Lib? Bob Martens Vienna University of Technology

 Introduction  Setup of the Digital Library  Gathering and Recording of Data  Developmental Steps  Outlook

Introduction... Previous ERES proceedings (>1993)... Output > 2,000 papers  Reaching broader audience & visibility  Collective memory  Abstracts … full papers … presentation sheets … references / literature citations

Setup of the Digital Library  Progress in web-based technologies  User interface  Shoestring budget must be borne in mind  Initial filling

Gathering and recording of (digital) metadata

Recorded entries, displaying the results of a search for “Taltavull”

Entry in detail

Developmental Steps  Body of initial content: snow-ball effect  Missing entries  Clarity of metadata ?  Digital vs. “Classical” Library SciX “Open Scientific Exchange of Information”

“Google-like” interface

Search results

Outlook  Comprehensive overview beyond the scope of a single conference  Exchanges “in between” conferences.  Additional workload for conference chairs ?  Pre-publishing !  Semantic Web applications

Mark the date ERES Education Seminar Vienna University of Technology (Austria) December 4-5th 2009