1. Why a Document Academy? High Quality Research (and life) demands: Interoperability across solutions, media and domains ( 2.5.6 Research networking testbeds ) Multimodality / Multilinguality across disciplines and languages ( 2.5.7 Multimodal interfaces ) Collaboration across distances, cultures and standards ( 2.5.9 Collaborative Working Environments ) Preservation and Access of results across time and interests ( 2.5.10 Access and preservation of cultural and scientific resources ) In one word: Documents (of high quality)

2. How a Document Academy? A European / International distributed document lab Multidimensional Document Analysis (multimedia, multiple producers, multiple users) Multidisciplinary Document Analysis (IST, Humanities and Social Sciences) Three testbeds: Health care (EHR), Arts (Multimedia arts) and Libraries (Digilib) Merging European / North American Document Research communities (despite Google dispute !)

3. Who are the Document Academy? So far : University of Tromso, Norway, Documentation studies, CS, Medical informatics, http://thedocumentacademy.hum.uit.nohttp://thedocumentacademy.hum.uit.no RTP-DOC, France, Réseau Thématique pluridisciplinaire « Document et contenus : création, indexation, navigation, http://rtp-doc.enssib.fr, appr. 150 scholars, 20 labs University of California, Berkeley, SIMS, U.S.A. University of Western Ontario, Information and Media studies, Canada Université de Montreal, EBSI, Canada Interest in UK, Spain, Sweden and Germany SEARCHING EUROPEAN PARTNERS ? Contact me: niels.windfeld.lund@hum.uit.no