1. European Digital Library
Questions, issues

2. 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] (?)

3. 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...) ?

4. 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fiction, humanities, historical documents, scientific papers, ...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 ?

5. 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 ?

6. Related ... financing: how ? what about the speech synthesizers ?
ELAG: SIG [Special Interest Group] ?