1. DELOS NoE DELOS Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries Curent Trends in Digitization Torun, 3-4 February 2003

2. DELOS NoE - Contract Issues zThe DELOS contract (2000-2002) has been extended to June 30, 2003 zThe DELOS contract has been expanded (additional funding) to promote the achievements and activities of DELOS to the CEE countries

3. DELOS NoE - Objectives zContribute towards improving effectiveness of European research in this important area zProvide forum where researchers, practitioners, representatives of interested applications and industries can exchange ideas and experiences zCo-operate with on-going standardisation activities in relevant fields for the DL domain zFacilitate take-up of DL technologies in all interested application communities zImprove international cooperation in DL research areas

4. NoE Activity Organisation zThe Network activities are organised in a set of Forums:  Research Forum  Evaluation Forum  Standardisation Forum  Training and Knowledge/Technology Transfer Forum  International Co-operation Forum

5. Digital Library Research Forum Objectives:  to stimulate and co-ordinate actions aiming at the advancement of research in the DL domain  to improve scientific collaboration between European research teams working in this area Actions:  Thematic Workshop Series  European Conference on Digital Libraries Series  International Research Exchange Programme  Brainstorming Workshop Series

6. Digital Library Research Forum Thematic Workshops: “Information Seeking, Searching, and Querying in Digital Libraries” Zurich, 11-12 Dec. 2000 “Personalization and Recommendation Systems in Digital Libraries”Dublin, 18-20 June 2001 “Interoperability in Digital Libraries” Darmstadt, 8-9 September 2001 “Evaluation of DLs: Testbeds, Measurements, and Metrics”, Budapest, 6-7 June 2002

7. Digital Library Research Forum Conferences: European Conference on Digital Libraries, “ECDL 2000” Lisbon, 18-20 September 2000 European Conference on Digital Libraries, “ECDL 2001” Darmstadt, 5-7 September 2001 European Conference on Digital Libraries, “ECDL 2002” Rome, 18-20 September 2002

8. Digital Library Research Forum International Research Exchange Programme Brainstorming Workshops : First Brainstorming Workshop on: “The Next Generation of Digital Libraries” Alta Badia, Italy, 13-15 June 2001 Second Brainstorming Workshop on: “Digital Libraries: Main Research Themes for a Research Programme in Digital Libraries” Pisa, Italy, 6-7 December 2002

9. Digital Library Evaluation Forum Objectives:  to accelerate and enhance research into digital libraries  to provide appropriate testbeds for evaluating research in the DL domain Actions:  Metalibrary and DL Schema  Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval - INEX  Evaluation of Cross-Language Spoken Document Retrieval Systems

10. Digital Library Evaluation Forum Metalibrary and DL Schema  A DL Test Suite WG has been set-up  Description scheme for digital collections  Survey on existing DL test collections  Evaluation Methodology and Metrics

11. Digital Library Standardisation Forum Objectives:  to contribute to the definition of relevant standards  to follow standardisation activities in the DL domain carried out by international bodies and working groups Actions :  to set-up and operate a number of Working Groups

12. Digital Library Standardisation Forum Three WGs have been set up:  Registries  Ontology Harmonization  Project Metadata Two White Papers were prepared: Principles of Metadata Registries Building Core Ontologies

13. Digital Library Training and Technology Transfer Forum Objectives:  to train young researchers in DL technologies  to speed up the take-up process of new DL technologies Actions:  International Summer School Series  National Technology Transfer Actions  Specific Technology Transfer Actions

14. Digital Library Training and Technology Transfer Forum International Summer School Series International Summer School Series: First International Summer School on Digital Library Technologies, “ISDL’01” Pisa, 9-13 July 2001 Second International Summer School on Digital Library Technologies, “ISDL’02” Pisa, 8-12 July 2002

15. Digital Library Training and Technology Transfer Forum National Technology Transfer Actions:  Italian National Workshop Rome, 31 October 2001  Greek National Workshop Corfu, 21 June 2002

16. National Technology Transfer Events – Italy Italian National Workshop on “Digital Libraries – Research and Development in Italy” Rome, 31 October 2001 –Survey of Italian research and development activities –Exchange of ideas and experiences –Promote collaboration between the research community and the Cultural Heritage institutions About 120 participants from all communities

17. National Technology Transfer Events - Greece Greek National Workshop on “Developing Digital Libraries” (in cooperation with the Archive and Library Sciences Department of the Ioanian University) Corfu, Greece, 21 June 21 2002 –organization, developing stages and opportunities for the development of Digital Libraries. –basic elements of DLs, digital objects, meta data –success stories –digitization guidelines and calls for digitization About 110 participants, mostly library personnel and senior students

18. Digital Library International Co-operation Forum Objectives:  To enhance the collaborative links between the EU DL projects  to establish collaborative links with other non-EU DL research communities Actions:  DL All Projects Workshop Series  International Workshop Series  DELOS/NSF Joint Working Groups

19. Digital Library International Co-operation Forum DL All Projects Workshops :  EU DL All Projects Meeting Luxembourg, 7-8 February 2001  Harmonization Meeting on “Digital Libraries National Initiatives and EU Actions: The Need for Harmonization” Brussels, 11 May 2001  EU/NSF DL All Projects Meeting Rome, 25-26 March 2002

20. Digital Library International Co-operation Forum International Workshops :  DELOS - Russian DL Community Workshop Moscow, June 7-9, 2001  DELOS - non-EU Mediterranean DL Communities Workshop Ifrane (Morocco), November 8-9, 2001

21. Digital Library International Co-operation Forum DELOS/NSF Joint Working Groups  Spoken-Word Digital Audio Collections  Digital Libraries Information -Technology Infrastructures  Emerging Language Technologies and the Rediscovery of the Past  Digital Imaging for Significant Cultural and Historical Materials  Digital Archiving and Preservation  Actors in Digital Libraries  Personalization and Recommender Systems in Digital Libraries

22. Digital Library International Co-operation Forum DELOS Activities in CEE Countries  First DELOS-CEE Workshop Torun (Poland), 23-29 October 2002

23. Delos - CEE  Open opportunities for the extension of already realised projects towards the NAS countries  Needs of undertaking the topic of digital libraries in CEE  Already started activities in digitisation  Preparation to the accession to the European Union  Will of cooperation between the institutions

24. Delos - CEE Organizational structure  Coordinator – ERCIM, France  Principal Contractor – Head Office of State Archives, Poland  Members:  ICIMSS, Poland  Comenius University, Slovak Republic  Latvian University, Riga  Library and Information Science Institute, Hungary

25. Delos - CEE Planned tasks  Participation in DELOS network of excellence activities  Dissemination of DELOS NoE achievements:  Translation  DELOS-CEE website  Workshops organization  Technology transfer

26. Delos - CEE  Planned translation:  Lund report in digitisation: Digitisation Europe  San Casciano report  Metadata, Onthologies (reports by Thomas Baker)  EU-NSF working groups – reports:

27. Delos - CEE  Planned translation:  Other documents being on preparation as deliverables of DELOS working groups in the topics of:  Preservation  Digital library information, technology, digital structure  Access to multimedia  Personalisation and recommended systems  Actor s in digital libraries

28. Delos - CEE  Training activities  Three international workshops  Four national events  Meeting with the national librarians  Meeting with the national archivists

29. Delos - CEE  Three international workshops:  Introduction to digital libraries (delivered in October 2002, Torun)  International cooperation. May Prague  Technology Transfer workshop 12-13 June Gdansk

30. Delos - CEE  Four national events:  Latvia: Metadata in digital libraries March  Hungary: Preservation of the digital cultural heritage: initiatives and technologies April  Slovak Republic: User Behaviour in Digital Libraries May 21-22  Poland: Preservation of digital resources April 25-26

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