1. DELOS NoE DELOS NoE DELOS Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries, Jan 2000 - Dec 2002 IST-1999-12262, Jan 2000 - Dec 2002 Director: Costantino Thanos

2. Concertation Event, Vienna, 21 June 2001 DELOS NoE - Objectives z Contribute towards improving effectiveness of European research in digital library domain z Facilitate take-up of DL technologies by application communities z Promote co-operation between European and national DL initiatives; encourage international cooperation The DELOS NoE aims at providing a set of “services” for the European DL Community.

3. Concertation Event, Vienna, 21 June 2001 NoE Activities NoE Activities zResearch Forum zEvaluation Forum zStandardisation Forum zTechnology Transfer Forum zInternational Co-operation Forum The Network activities are organised in a set of Forums

4. Concertation Event, Vienna, 21 June 2001 Research Forum Research Forum Objectives z to stimulate and co-ordinate actions to advance research in the DL domain Actions zThematic Workshop Series zEuropean Conference on Digital Libraries Series zBrainstorming Workshops

5. Concertation Event, Vienna, 21 June 2001 Research Forum 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

6. Concertation Event, Vienna, 21 June 2001 Research Forum Research Forum European Conference on Digital Libraries ECDL ‘97, Pisa, Italy; ECDL ‘98, Crete, Greece, ECDL ‘99, Paris, France; ECDL 2000, Lisbon, Portugal z ECDL 2001 - Darmstadt, 5-7 September 2001 z ECDL 2002 - Rome, 18-20 September 2002

7. Concertation Event, Vienna, 21 June 2001 Research Forum Research Forum z First Brainstorming Workshop on: “The Next Generation of Digital Libraries” Alta Badia, Italy, 13-15 June 2001 Brainstorming Workshops

8. Concertation Event, Vienna, 21 June 2001 Evaluation Forum Actions z Digital Library Test Suite z Cross-Language System Evaluation Objectives to provide appropriate testbeds for evaluating research in the DL domain

9. Concertation Event, Vienna, 21 June 2001 Evaluation Forum Evaluation Forum Digital Library Test Suite WG zDescription scheme for digital collections zSurvey on existing DL test collections zEvaluation Methodology and Metrics zBuilding a European DL Test Suite

10. Concertation Event, Vienna, 21 June 2001 Evaluation Forum Evaluation Forum Cross-Language Evaluation Forum Has become independent project. See presentation on CLEF

11. Concertation Event, Vienna, 21 June 2001 Standardisation Forum Standardisation Forum Objectives zto follow standardisation activities in the DL domain carried out by international bodies and working groups zto contribute to the definition of relevant standards for DLs Actions zto set-up a number of Working Groups

12. Concertation Event, Vienna, 21 June 2001 Standardisation Forum Four WGs have been set up z Registries z Ontology Harmonization z Agent’s Requirements in Digital Libraries z Formal Metadata

13. Concertation Event, Vienna, 21 June 2001 Training and Technology Transfer Forum Objectives z to train young researchers in DL technologies z to speed up the take-up process of new DL technologies Actions zInternational Summer School Series zTechnology Transfer Actions

14. Concertation Event, Vienna, 21 June 2001 Training and Technology Transfer Forum International Summer School Series First International Summer School on Digital LibraryTechnologies ISDL’01 Pisa, 9-13 July 2001

15. Concertation Event, Vienna, 21 June 2001 Training and Technology Transfer Forum Technology Transfer Actions  Tutorial at EVA 2000 Conference on “Standards and Metadata” Moscow, 2 November 2000  Tutorial at IFLA 2001 Conference on “Multilingual Information Access” Boston, 25 August 2001  Workshop at FIAT/IFTA 2001 Conference on “Audio-visual Metadata Models and Editors” London, 23 September 2001

16. Concertation Event, Vienna, 21 June 2001 International Cooperation Objectives z to enhance the collaborative links between the EU DL projects z to establish collaborative links with other non-EU DL research communities Actions zDL All Projects Workshop Series zInternational Workshop Series

17. Concertation Event, Vienna, 21 June 2001 International Co-operation DL All Projects Workshops z EU DL All Projects Meeting, Luxembourg, 7-8 February 2001 z Digital Libraries National Initiatives and EU Actions: The Need for Harmonization, Brussels, 11 May 2001 z EU/NSF DL All Projects Meeting December 2001

18. Concertation Event, Vienna, 21 June 2001 International Cooperation International Workshops z DELOS - Russian DL Community Workshop Moscow, 7-9 June 2001 z DELOS - non-EU Mediterranean DL Communities Workshop Ifrane (Marocco), November 2001

19. Concertation Event, Vienna, 21 June 2001 DELOS NoE DELOS Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries http://www.ercim.org/delos