DELOS NoE

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DELOS NoE

• DELOS
• Network of Excellence on
• Digital Libraries
• Vittore Casarosa
• CNR-IEI, Pisa, Italy

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DELOS NoE - Objectives

• Contribute towards improving effectiveness of
  European research in this important area
• Provide forum where researchers, practitioners,
  representatives of interested applications and
  industries can exchange ideas and experiences
• Co-operate with on-going standardisation
  activities in relevant fields for the DL domain
• Facilitate take-up of DL technologies in all
  interested application communities
• Improve international cooperation in DL research
  areas

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NoE Activity Organisation

• The 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

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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 and worldwide research teams working in
  this area
• Actions
• Thematic Workshop Series
• European Conference on Digital Libraries Series
• Brainstorming Workshops
• DELOS-NSF Joint Working Groups

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Research ForumThematic Workshops Series

• 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
• DLs Users and User Behaviour (proposed)
• Non-Traditional Data In Digital Libraries
  (proposed)
• Agents and Roles in Digital Libraries (proposed)

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Research ForumEuropean Conference on DL

• 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
• European Conference on Digital Libraries, ECDL
  2003
• Trondheim, 17-22 August 2003
• European Conference on Digital Libraries, ECDL
  2004
• UK, September 2004

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Research ForumBrainstorming Workshops

• Digital Libraries Future Research Directions
  for a European Research Programme, 13-15 June
  2001, San Cassiano - Alta Badia (Dolomites),
  Italy
• Digital Libraries Main Research Themes for a
  Network of Excellence under FP6, October, Pisa
  (proposed)

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Research ForumDELOS/NSF Joint Working Groups

• Digital Imaging for Significant Cultural and
  Historical Materials
• Spoken-Word Digital Audio Collections
• Information Extraction from Digital Libraries
• Personalization and Recommender Systems in
  Digital Libraries
• Emerging Language Technologies and Rediscovery of
  the Past
• Preservation and Archiving
• Evaluation and Test Suites
• Agents in Digital Libraries

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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
• Digital Library Test Suite
• Cross-Language Evaluation
• Evaluation of Cross-Language Spoken Document
  Retrieval System (feasibility study)

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Evaluation ForumTest Suite

• A DL Test Suite WG has been set-up
• Description scheme for digital collections
• Survey on existing DL test collections
• Building of a metalibrary of DL test collections
• Further development of the metalibrary of DL test
  collections
• Evaluation of XML document retrieval

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Evaluation ForumCross-Language Evaluation

• CLEF 2001 Evaluation Campaign (January - August
  2001)
• Multilingual information retrieval (5 languages)
• Bilingual information retrieval
• Monolingual information retrieval
• Mono- and bilingual domain-specific system
  evaluation
• Interactive system evaluation (experimental
  track)
• CLEF 2001 Workshop
• Cross-Language Retrieval and Evaluation,
  Darmstadt, 3-4 September 2001
• CLEF now established as an independent activity
  separately funded by the European Commission
• CLEF 2002 Workshop in connection with ECDL 2002

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Digital Library Standardisation Forum

• Objectives
• to contribute to the definition of relevant
  standards by studying topics considered mature
  for standardisation
• 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

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Standardisation ForumWorking Groups

• Two WGs have been set up
• Registries
• Ontology Harmonization

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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
• Specific Technology Transfer Actions

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Training and TT ForumInternational Summer School
Series

• First International Summer School on Digital
  Library Technologies (ISDL01), Pisa, 9-13 July
  2001,Fundamentals in Digital Libraries
  Technologies
• Second International Summer School on Digital
  Library Technologies (ISDL02), Pisa, 8-12 July
  2002, Digital Libraries in Applications

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Training and TT ForumSpecific TT actions

• Tutorial at EVA 2001 Conference, Moscow
• 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
• Workshop at FIAT/IFTA 2002 Conference, Antalya,
  16 October 2002 (planned)

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Training and TT Forum Specific TT actions

• Involve the local DL communities to organize
  National events
• Italy, Rome, October 31, 2001
• Digital Libraries Research and Development in
  Italy
• Greece, Corfu, June 21, 2002
• Developing Digital Libraries
• Portugal
• Austria
• Germany

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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

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International Co-operation ForumDL All Projects
Workshops Series

• DL-EU All projects meeting, Luxembourg, February
  7-8, 2001
• Harmonization Meeting on Digital Libraries
  National Initiatives and EC Actions The Need for
  Harmonization, Brussels, May 11, 2001
• NSF-EU DL All project Meeting, Rome, March 25-26,
  2002

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International Co-operation ForumInternational
Workshops

• DELOS - Russian DL Community Workshop, Moscow,
  June 7-9, 2001(Jointly sponsored by DELOS, RAS,
  IITE-UNESCO)
• DELOS - non-EU Mediterranean DL Communities
  Workshop, Ifrane (Morocco), November 8-9,
  2001(Jointly sponsored by DELOS, Al Akhawayn
  University)

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International Co-operation ForumInternational
Workshops

• DELOS - Eastern European DL Communities Workshop
  (proposed)
• A proposal aiming at extending the achievements
  and activities of DELOS to the Eastern European
  countries has been approved by the European
  Commission and its formalization is under way

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DELOS NoEDissemination

• DELOS Web sites
• DELOS poster
• DELOS fliers
• ERCIM News
• DELOS Presentation
• 2nd NTCIR Workshop, 7-9 March 2001, Tokyo, Japan
• EVA 2001 Conference, 26-30 March 2001, Florence,
  Italy
• CBCS IRSG 23rd European Colloquium, 4-6 April
  2001, Darmstadt, Germany
• 12th NIT International Conference, 29-31 May,
  2001 Beijing, China
• First ACM/IEEE JCDL Conference, 24-28 June, 2001
  Roanoke, USA

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DELOS NoE

• DELOS
• Network of Excellence on
• Digital Libraries
• http//www.delos-noe.org