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DL.org Outreach & Training - Driving Forward Interoperability, Best Practices & Modelling Foundations Issue July/August 2010New Look! PDF Downloadable Version |
DL.org would like to open this Summer 2010 eNewsletter with a “special thank you” to the experts, both inside and outside the project, who are bringing valuable insights into the challenges surrounding interoperability, best practices and modelling foundations with the aim of taking Digital Libraries to the next level. This is very much the focus of a series of DL.org upcoming events where we will continue to harness expertise in the field and strategic alliances with an eye to sharing these insights with the community and through our educational and training programme. The ultimate goal is to enable the embedding of research into real-world systems, thus opening up new research perspectives, from Cultural Heritage to eScience. Upcoming DL.org events to mark in your diary:
On 17 August 2010 the DL.org User Working Group will also be presenting at the 8th International Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval in Linz, Austria. Our special feature is an interview with Wolfram Horstmann, Expert in the DL.org Quality Working Group and Programme Chair of the 5th International conference on Open Repositories last July in Madrid, offering insights into the grand integration challenges addressed during the event and how future conferences will build on the achievements attained. The interview is complemented by an overview of our involvement in this conference. This summer’s strategic alliance with Scientix, a European initiative aimed at fostering skills development in a fast-evolving scientific and technological landscape. We wrap up this eNewsletter with a teaser on some recent insights delivered by DL.org Experts recently posted on our Blog. |
8th International Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval, 17-18 August 2010, Linz, Austria Spotlight on the DL.org User Working Group DL.org presentations for more on this and related DL.org presentations. |
2nd DL Workshop, 9-10 September 2010 @ ECDL2010, Glasgow, Scotland, UK Making Digital Libraries Interoperable: Challenges & Approaches The central theme of this Workshop is Digital Library Interoperability, a multi-layered and context-specific concept, which encompasses different levels along a multidimensional spectrum ranging from organisational to technological aspects. The Workshop addresses this challenging area from several perspectives: content, user, functionality, policy, quality, and architecture. Contributions, based on a Call for Papers, will focus on relevant Digital Library interoperability aspects from conceptualisation at a high organisational level to instantiation at process level, as well as modelling techniques for representing and enabling interoperability between heterogeneous digital library mediation approaches, methods, and systems. The Workshop, which targets between 40 and 50 participants from the Digital Library research and application communities, as well developers from scientific communities and Library professionals and decision-makers, will thus move beyond addressing the interoperability challenge at content or service level to encompass multiple dimensions that need addressing. |
ICT2010 Networking Session, Wednesday 29 September during ICT2010, Brussels, Belgium. Global Information Systems for Science and Cultural Heritage: The Interoperability Challenge ICT2010 is Europe's most visible forum for research and innovation in the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) arena, bringing together researchers, business people, investors and high-policy makers in the field of digital innovation from across Europe and globally. The policy priorities of ICT2010 are the Digital Agenda and the European Commission’s next financial programme of EU funding for research and innovation. Overview of the ICT2010 Networking Session. |
Digital Libraries & Digital Repositories: Modelling, Best Practices & Interoperability Hosted by the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Athens (NKUA), the DL.org Autumn School in Athens next October is a premier educational and training event in the Digital Library landscape. Autumn School overview, programme & learning outcomes, registration (please read the Terms & Conditions), lecturers, venue & accommodation. Five DL.org Bursaries are available to PhD students, post-doctoral researchers and young professionals. Please refer to the dedicated section on this website for more details. |
Wolfram Horstmann, CIO Bielefeld University Library Expert in the DL.org Quality Working Group and Programme Chair of the 5th International Conference on Open Repositories, July 2010, Madrid Digital Repositories are being developed in a number of fields, spanning education, research, science and cultural heritage, on national, regional, institutional, lab and personal level. In this evolving landscape, repository platforms are transforming the nature of scholarly communication. |
Interoperability for Digital Repositories: Towards a Quality and Policy Framework – Interoperability Policy Session, Tuesday 6 July Birds of a Feather 7 July 2010, Wednesday 7 July 2010 |
Scientix is a web-based community for science education launched by the European Commission to ensure access to teaching materials, research results and policy documents from European science education projects financed by the European Union and by various national initiatives. Scientix targets teachers, researchers, policy makers, local actors, parents and anyone interested in science education. Scientix is operated by European Schoolnet, which brings together 31 EU Ministries of Education. The Alliance with DL.org has been forged to foster the project's training and educational programme, as well as to disseminate key findings chiefly on the policy front. DL.org has forged alliances to underpin its investigation into Digital Library Interoperability, Best Practices & Modelling Foundations and to share important insights into the evolving Digital Library and Repository Landscape. See the full list of our Alliances. |
Sharing DL.org Insights Virtually A number of experts from the DL.org Working Groups are offering valuable insights not only into the wider Digital Library landscape as we move towards new frontiers, as exemplified by the Digital Agenda for Europe (EC, May 210) but also with regard to specific findings and approaches undertaken by the project culminating in outputs like the Reference Model and the Cookbook. Recent Posts include:
See also updates in our Publications section for background documents of interest to the Digital Library community and the intellectually inquisitive. |
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