Transcript The DELOS Digital Library Working Group

The ERCIM Digital Library
Initiative
Carol Peters
Istituto di Elaborazione della Informazione
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
Pisa, Italy
Outline of Presentation
The ERCIM Digital Library Initiative and
the DELOS Digital Library WG
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objectives
activities
results
future intentions
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ERCIM - the European Research Consortium for Informatics
and Mathematics - aims to foster collaborative work within the
European research community and to increase co-operation
with European industry. Leading research establishments from
fourteen European countries are members of ERCIM.
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Members:
CLRC | CRCIM | CWI | CNR | DANIT | FORTH | GMD | INRIA |
SARIT | SICS | SINTEF | SRCIM | SZTAKI | VTT
http://www.ercim.org
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Members
CLRC - Central Laboratory of the Research Councils - United Kingdom
CWI - Centruum voor Wiskunde en Informatica - The Netherlands
CNR - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Italy
CRCIM - Czech Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics - Czech Rep.
DANIT - Danish Consortium for Information Technology - Denmark
FORTH - Foundation of Research and Technology - Hellas - Greece
GMD - German National Research Center for Information Technology - Germany
INRIA - Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique - France
MTA SZTAKI - Magyar Tudományos Akadémia - Számítástechnikai és
Automatizálási Kutató Intézete - Hungary
SARIT-ETH - Swiss Association for Research in IT - Switzerland
SICS - Swedish Institute of Computer Science - Sweden
SINTEF - SINTEF Telecom & Informatics - Norway
SRCIM - Slovak Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics -Slovakia
VTT - Technical Research Centre of Finland - Finland
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ERCIM DLI Objectives
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Promote research into the development of
digital library technologies
 Encourage collaboration between
research teams active in the DL area
 Establish links with on-going projects in
the DL field
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DELOS Working Group
Funded by ESPRIT Long Term
Research programme (LTR 21057)
 Sponsored by the European
Research Consortium for Informatics
and Mathematics (ERCIM)
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http//:www.iei.pi.cnr.it/DELOS/
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DELOS Partners
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ERCIM members:
CLRC - UK
INRIA - France
CNR - Italy
MTA SZTAKI - Hungary
CWI - The Netherlands
SARIT-ETH - Switzerland
CRCIM - Czech Rep.
SICS - Sweden
FORTH - Greece
SINTEF-DELAB - Norway
GMD - Germany
SRCIM - Slovakia
INESC - Portugal
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non-ERCIM members:
University of Michigan - USA
Elsevier Sciences - The Netherlands
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DELOS Main Activities
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Workshop Series
 NSF-EU Collaborative Working Groups
 European Conferences on Digital Libraries
(ECDL)
 ERCIM Technical Reference Digital Library
(ETRDL)
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DELOS Workshop Series
Objectives
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define a research agenda recognising key areas for
DL research and development
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provide an international forum in which the main
actors concerned - universities, research centres,
libraries, museums, electronic publishers, the media can present recent results and exchange ideas and
knowhow on the research issues identified
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DELOS Workshop Series
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Metadata and Interoperability, Bonn, Germany
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Multilingual Information Retrieval, Zurich, Switzerland
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Image Indexing and Retrieval, Pisa, Italy
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Collaborative Filtering, Budapest, Hungary
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Preservation of Digital Information, Tomar, Portugal
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Electronic Commerce, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
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User Interfaces, Kista, Sweden
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Distance Learning, Brno, Czech Republic
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10th DELOS Workshop on
Audio-Visual Digital Libraries
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Motivation
The DL of the future will increasingly be multimedial
and multilingual. The collaborative interaction of
image, sound, speech and natural language
understanding technology is needed in order to
successfully populate, segment, index, and search
digital audio-visual collections (such as film, music, or
photo archives,) with satisfactory recall and precision.
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10th DELOS Workshop on
Audio-Visual Digital Libraries
Invited talks include:
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The Carnegie Mellon Informedia Digital Library
Exploiting TV archives
Video abstracting
Everything you want to know about MPEG-7
Multilingual Information Access in AudioVisual Digital Libraries
– Copyright and security issues
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EU-NSF Collaborative
Working Groups
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The aim was to provide the possibility for US and European Union
groups to jointly explore DL-related technical, social and economic
issues, to co-ordinate research, to share research results and to plan
for the future.
 Five working groups were established in key technical areas:
– Interoperability
– Metadata
– Intellectual Property Rights and Economic Issues
– Resource Indexing and Discovery in a Globally Distributed Digital
Library
– Multilingual Information Access
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ECDL Conferences
ECDL’97, Pisa, Italy, 1-3 September 1997
 ECDL’98, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, 19-23
September 1998
 ECDL’99, Paris, France, 22-24 September
1999
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ECDL Conferences
Third European Conference on Research and
Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
Paris, France, September 22-24, 1999
Co-organized by BNF (Bibliothèque Nationale de France) and
INRIA (Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en
Automatique)
ECDL will be held in Paris at the prestigious location of the
Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Its main objective is to bring
together researchers from multiple disciplines to present their
work on enabling technologies for digital libraries.
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ERCIM Technical Reference
Digital Library (ETRDL)
Objectives
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to provide a DL service for ERCIM scientists
to participate in the US NCSTRL initiative but to
create a specialised European service
to provide the ERCIM DL group with a test-bed for
experimental activities such as implementation of
new functions or services.
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ERCIM Technical Reference Digital
Library
ETRDL
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ERCIM Technical Reference Digital Library
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Results of the DELOS
Activities
DELOS has succeeded in:
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stimulating the creation of a European Digital
Library community
 establishing strong links with the international DL
community
 arousing awareness of priority DL research
issues
 encouraging the creation and funding of DL
projects
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Looking to the Future
Objectives
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build on and consolidate the experience of the
DELOS WG
 create a forum that provides the possibility for
interested communities to collaborate with the DL
research world, exchanging new ideas,
experiences, research results
 stimulate scientific and technological
developments and encourage commercial
applications
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DELOS Network of Excellence
Proposed Activities
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organize forums for discussion of research
issues and presentation of results, e.g. thematic
workshops, ECDL conference series
 promote advanced education in the DL
technologies e.g. summer schools, curriculum
revision, etc.
 stimulate the development of large-scale testbeds and implement procedures for making them
available over Internet
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DELOS Network of Excellence
Proposed Activities (cont.)
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create a European Forum for Multilingual
Information Retrieval System Evaluation
 create a Standardization Forum to analyse and
disseminate the state of standards development,
e.g. metadata,middleware, information life-cycle
 coordinate International Cooperation in the DL
domain, e.g. through joint collaborative working
groups on key topics
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The ERCIM Digital Library
Initiative
The End
Thank you for listening!!
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