DELOS NoE

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DELOS NoE

• DELOS
• Network of Excellence for
• Digital Libraries
• Carol Peters
• IEI-CNR, Pisa Italy

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DELOS NoE - Objectives

• Contribute towards improving effectiveness of
  European research in the DL domain
• Provide forum where researchers, practitioners,
  representatives of interested applications and
  industries can exchange ideas and experiences
• Provide reference point for all EU-funded DL
  projects where common problems can be discussed,
  and areas of cooperation identified
• The DELOS NoE aims at providing a set of
  services for the European DL Community.

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DELOS NoE - Background

• DELOS Working Group 1996-1999 set up to promote
  European research in the DL domain
• Thematic Workshop Series
• European Conferences on Digital Libraries (ECDL)
• NSF-EU Collaborative Working Groups
• ERCIM Technical Reference Digital Library
• Network of Excellence will continue and extend WG
  activities with increasing involvement of
  application community

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DELOS NoE - Activities

• The Network activities are carried out in a set
  of Forums
• Research Forum
• Evaluation Forum
• Standardization Forum
• Technology Transfer Forum
• International Cooperation Forum

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DELOS NoE - Research Forum

• Advance European DL research and encourage
  scientific collaboration through
• thematic workshops
• (1st Workshop on Complex Queries and Relevance
  Feedback in DLs, ETH-Zurich, Autumn 2000)
• ECDL conference series
• (ECDL 2000, Lisbon, Portugal, 18-20 Sept.)
• international research exchange programme

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DELOS NoE -Evaluation Forum

• Build publicly available reusable evaluation
  infrastructures two different testbeds are being
  created, maintained and operated
• digital library test suite
• (linked with US-D-Lib Test Suite initiative run
  by CNRI)
• cross-language system evaluation infrastructure
• (in collaboration with NIST continuation and
  extension of CLIR track at TREC as Cross-Language
  Evaluation Forum (CLEF) 1st evaluation campaign
  Jan - Sept. 2000 1st Workshop, 21-22 Sept. 2000,
  Lisbon)

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DELOS NoE -Standardization Forum

• Working Group will focus on
• deployment of standard metadata schemas
• deployment of related infrastructures for
  publishing, registering, and cross-linking
  application schemas.
• Standardisation Forum is organising a workshop on
  How multiple metadata standards can be used in
  combination at EC concertation event for
  Cultural Heritage projects, 30 June, Vienna

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DELOS NoE - Technology Transfer

• Take-up activities aimed at research,
  application and industrial communities
• International Summer School
• focus on the state-of-the-art in selected DL
  technologies
• 1st Summer School, 2001 - Director Prof. Hans
  Roosendaal, Univ. Twente
• Training
• - technology transfer courses in selected
  application/commercial environments
• - tutorials on DL technologies organised in
  conjunction with international conferences (IFLA,
  FIAT/IFTA)

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DELOS NoE -International Cooperation

• Three forms of cooperation are planned
• Joint thematic workshops with EU and non-EU
  participants in order to exchange results and
  experiences on specific topics
• Joint working groups to investigate topics in key
  areas in order to define a research agenda
• Joint research projects with DL communities in
  N.America, S. America, Russia, Japan, and
  Mediterranean

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DELOS NoE -International Cooperation (cont.)

• Current activities include
• organisation of exploratory Workshop in
  conjunction with 2nd All-Russian DL Conference,
  Protvino Sept. 2000
• - discussion of common problems between EU and
  Russian DL researchers
• organisation of a Workshop at Al Akhawayn
  University in Ifrane, Morocco, Nov. 2000
• presentation of state-of-the-art by DELOS
  invited speakers
• evaluation of areas for collaboration between
  EC-funded groups and partners from non-EU
  Mediterranean countries

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DELOS NoE -International Cooperation (cont.)

• Agreement for Cooperation on Digital Libraries
  between EC (5FP-IST-KAIII) and NSF
• Possible actions for DELOS NoE - in collaboration
  with NSF
• organisation of dissemination event to launch
  this agreement
• organization of annual DL meetings, alternately
  in Europe and US, with presentation of DLI and EU
  projects and joint discussion sessions
• creation of joint EU-US working groups on
  selected topics

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DELOS NoE - All-Projects Meeting

• The NoE will support concertation activities for
  all 5th FP-IST DL projects, aimed at facilitating
  exchanges of experiences and results.
• All-projects European Meeting (Dec 2000)
• technical workshop to identify synergies and
  common problems
• thematic workshops (2001-2002) on particular
  areas where projects have common
  problems/interests

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DELOS NoE - Members

• About 30 members from
• Academia
• 8 ERCIM institutions (CNR-IEI, CWI, ETHZ, FORTH,
  GMD, INRIA, SICS, MTA SZTAKI), Univ. of Athens,
  Dortmund, Mannheim, Norwegian Univ. of Sci.
  Technology, Tech. Univ. of Crete, Bavarian
  Research Centre, Milan Polytechnic, Austrian
  Acad. of Sciences, Social Sciences Centre - Bonn.
  
• Application Communities
• libraries (National Library of Portugal, It.
  Inst. for Union Catalog), electronic publishing
  (Springer, Elsevier), education (Arts and
  Humanities Data Service - UK), archives (It.
  Ministry of Cultural Heritage), broadcasting
  (BBC - UK).
• IT Industries
• The NoE is open

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DELOS NoE - Advisory Board

• The NoE programmes are reviewed and approved by
  an International Advisory Board
• Stephen M. Griffin Digital Library Initiative,
  NSF
• Lorcan Dempsey UK Distributed National Electronic
  Resource
  (DNER)
• Makoto Nagao Japanese Multimedia DL project
  President Kyoto University
• Yuri Hohlov Russian DL programme, Institute of
  the Information Scoiety, Moscow
• Rudi Schmiede German DL programme, University
  of Darmstadt

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DELOS NoE - Contact Information

• For more information, see our Web site
• http//www.ercim.org/delos/
• or
• Contact the Network Director,
• Dr Costantino Thanos
• thanos_at_iei.pi.cnr.it