One of the major outputs of DL.org is a Digital Library Reference Model shedding light on the complex Digital Library universe to facilitate Library and Information Science professionals, as well as assessors of Digital Libraries. The Model is also of value to educationalists, students and researchers from the field. It comprises four equally important parts with varying layers of abstraction and concretisation: Manifesto, In a Nutshell, Model Concepts and Relations and Conformance Check List.
DL.org is delighted to announce the Digital Library Technological and Methodological Cookbook designed to enable DL developers to build interoperable systems, broadening choice and opening up new opportunities for researchers, governments and citizens across a spectrum of domains.The interoperability framework can now be used to systematically characterise diverse facets linked to the interoperability challenge.
The Virtual Goody Bag for the London Workshop on Digital Libraries & Open Access – Interoperability Strategies is now available on line. The Workshop has gained tremendous momentum, attracting registrants ranging from Digital Library decision makers and enterprise representatives to young research scholars. This 1-day event aimed to shed light on current interoperability approaches and trigger an effective 2-way dialogue.
Italian and European Digital Humanists will be gathering in Florence for THATCamp, 23-26 March 2011 to discuss digital scholarship and methods today. The DL.org Digital Library Reference Model will be one of the key tools presented at the event, described as an un-conference.
DL.org is delighted to announce the Workshop on “Digital Libraries and Open Access. Interoperability strategies”, taking place at the British Academy in London on 4 February 2011. The Workshop gathers international experts on Digital Libraries and Open Access to explore strategies that are key to taking the field to the next level.
Final Agenda and current Virtual Goody Bag announced for the one-day Workshop on Theory and Practice in Digital Libraries: A European Approach, on Monday 13 December 2010 with over 90 registrants. DL.org has teamed up with the Veria Central Library and the Laboratory on Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing at Ionian University to deliver new insights into the field.
DL.org has teamed up with the Veria Central Library and the Laboratory on Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing at Ionian University for a one-day Workshop, Theory and Practice in Digital Libraries: A European Approach, on Monday 13 December 2010. The Workshop brings together over 80 representatives from the Greek Digital Library community, spanning librarians and library managers, researchers, PhD students, theorists and practitioners.
The TPDL Steering Committee is inviting tenders to host TPDL2012 Conference on "Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries". TDPL is the major European forum focusing on digital libraries and documents infrastructures together with associated technical, practical, and social issues, meeting the needs of practitioners, researchers, educators, policy makers and users.
The 7th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries (IRCDL2011), entitled Focus on Information Access and Interoperability, is a yearly event for the Italian Digital Library research community. As DLs advance, there is a growing need to ensure more effective and personalised access to information to user communities and improve interoperability among the heterogeneous systems that have been built.
The DL.org Autumn School on Digital Libraries & Digital Repositories: Modelling, Best Practices & Interoperability is a premier education and training event running from 3 to 8 October 2010 at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Athens (NKUA). The international lecturers leading the Autumn School have provided a Virtual Reading List in preparation of the sessions planned. The School opens with a Welcome Reception on Sunday 3 October with an introduction to DL.org and the Programme, offering the first opportunity for attendees and lecturers to interact and network.
Digital Libraries and Digital Repositories: Modelling, Best Practices & Interoperability from 3 to 8 October 2010 in Athens.
Edward Fox, Professor of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, U.S. highlights Autumn School Value-Add, "While there are online resources to help people keep up with the Digital Library world, i.e., to support teaching and learning about digital libraries, it is helpful to attend focused events like the DL.org Autumn School to gain a perspective on the field and to find answers to important questions."
Our latest interviews stem from the Parma Seminar on Research and Education in Digital Libraries, November 2010. Insights on the topic are delivered in:
Paper submission deadline: 30 June 2010. Call for Research & Project Papers - 2nd DL.org Workshop on Making Digital Libraries Interoperable: Challenges & Approaches, 9-10 September 2010, during the 14th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL2010), Glasgow, Scotland, UK. Digital Library interoperability is a multi-layered and very context-specific concept. It encompasses different levels along a multidimensional spectrum. The Workshop will address this difficult problem from several perspectives: content, user, functionality, policy, quality, and architecture. Many of the above facets include open research issues. This Workshop will highlight the several dimensions of the problem and indicate new research directions.
Europeana's first White Paper looks at the key role linked data will play in Europeana's development and in helping Europe's citizens make connections between existing knowledge to achieve new cultural and scientific developments. Without linked data, Europeana could be seen as a simple collection of digital objects. With linked data, the potential is far greater. This is because linked data gives machines the ability to make associations and put search terms into context. The value-add of linked data is illustrated through the experimental Thought Lab showing how a search for ‘Paris’ intuitively leads to connected concepts like items in the Louvre, a Paris-based institution.
The May 2010 issue of the EUScreen is now available. Features include event announcements, press releases, project development and news from partners and related projects.
2nd DL.org Workshop: Making Digital Libraries Interoperable: Challenges and Approaches - 9-10 September 2010, within ECDL2010, Glasgow, Scotland
CALL FOR PAPERS - 20 June
The central theme of the 2nd DL.org Workshop will be “Digital Library Interoperability”. Interoperability is a multi-layered and very context-specific concept. The Workshop will address this difficult problem from several perspectives: content, user, functionality, policy, quality, and architecture. Authors are invited to submit original research papers addressing current approaches and new research directions for tackling the multi-faceted digital library interoperability issues.
New Advances for the Semantic Web
"I have a dream for the Web in which computers become capable of analysing all the data on the Web", said Tim Berners-Lee in 1999. Therein lay the future.
New advances in the Semantic Web will also benefit digital libraries as an article published in the latest issue of ERCIM News reveals.
DL.org Policy & Quality Presentations
Perla Innocenti and Giuseppina Vullo, co-ordinators of DL.org's Policy and Quality Working Groups have organised a workshop entitled "Policy and Quality Interoperability: an organisational approach for digital archives and digital libraries" within the 8th European Conference on Digital Archiving (ECA2010), 28-30 April 2010, Geneva, Switzerland.
The DL.org project is presenting at the 2nd Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference (QQML2010) taking place in Chania on Crete, Greece, 25 - 28 May 2010. The talk is entitled Paving the way for Interoperability in Digital Libraries: The DL.org Project.
The April issue of Europeana's eNews circulated today spotlights some of Europe's cultural heritage treasures from monuments to literature and art. It also announces the addition of one million new items on Europeana and with some 3 million objects set to arrive on Europeana over the coming months. Efforts are also underway to improve the quality of the metadata around these objects, which is particularly valuable to students and researchers.
The ICT 2010 conference takes place in Brussels on 27-29 September 2010. ICT 2010 is organised by the European Commission and hosted by the Belgian Presidency of the European Union. Around 4.500 participants are expected to attend this event.
This year the European Cmmission would like to strengthen the participation of young researchers, following the successful experience of ICT 2008 where they were played the role of reporters for the sessions.
CALL FOR PAPERS: 6th International Digital Curation Conference, 6-8 December 2010, Chicago, U.S.
Participation & Practice: Growing the curation community through the data decade
IDCC10 will be presented jointly by the Digital Curation Centre, UK and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and in partnership with the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI).
Our latest interview is with Tobias Blanke, Kings College London and an expert in our Liaison Group , offering insights into pioneering work in the eHumanities, as well as interoperability benefits and challenges, positioning DL.org in this landscape.
"DL.org, as a co-ordination action, has a very important role to play in conveying the benefits of interoperability for the diverse stakeholders, including key players in the Humanities space, not only DL end-users but also archivists and librarians as content curators, system librarians and decision-makers particularly on the policy and investment front. If we look back in history, all standardisation effort basically boils down to human-to-human interaction. Hence community engagement is key to bringing interoperability benefits and best practices into sharp relief."
ICT 2010 Exhibition: cutting edge research - Reminder: Application Deadline 15 April 2010
Experience Europe's latest cutting edge research in digital technologies at the ICT 2010 exhibition.
Researchers from all parts of Europe and beyond will present their latest work in upstream ICT innovation as well as close-to-market projects. This is an opportunity to explore what is happening at the coal face in your area of interest and to find potential future collaborators.
Visitors to a new Virtual Exhibition - Europeana's A Roma Journey - can view a unique collection of full-text books, rare manuscripts, photographs, paintings, sound recordings and videos from the world of the Roma. Van Gogh's Les Roulottes, campement de bohémiens aux environs (1881) (pictured) is one of the features in the type of virtual exhibitions available on Europeana in the future.
The IS&T Archiving 2010 conference takes place 1-4 June 2010 in The Hague, Netherlands, bringing together imaging scientists and the cultural heritage community to explore issues related to the digital preservation and stewardship of hardcopy, audio, and video.
Call for Papers is now open for the World Library and Information Congress: 76th IFLA General Conference and Council "Open access to knowledge - promoting sustainable progress", 10-15 August, Gothenburg, Sweden.
The IFLA annual congress provides an opportunity to present library research and outcomes in Information Technology and Innovation in a multi-disciplinary international forum.
Carol Ann Peters, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologia dell'Informazione "A. Faedo", National Research Council of Italy is the 2009 winner of the Tony Kent Strix Award thanks to her pioneering work on Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF), the world's leading forum for evaluating cross language searching systems, which Carol has spearheaded.
EUscreen, a new project that will supply TV archive footage to Europeana, launched its website this week.
Information Access & Interoperability - 6th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries - IRCDL 2010, Department of Information Engineering - University of Padua, 28-29 January 2010 in Padua, Italy.
DL.org involvement & presence:
Making Digital Library COntent Interoperable
L.Candela, D. Castelli, C. Thanos
An event-centric Provenance Model for Digital Libraries
C. Tang, D. Castelli, L. Candela, P. Manghi, P. Pagano, C. Thanos
The Call for Workshop, Tutorial and Panel Submissions is now open for the European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL), the leading European scientific forum on digital libraries and associated technical, practical, and social issues, bringing together researchers, developers, content providers and users in the field. The University of Glasgow hosts ECDL 2010, the 14th conference in this series.
11th International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services
12-14 April 2010, Desenzano del Garda, Italy
The International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS) is one of the main international events for the presentation and discussion of the latest technological advances in interactive multimedia services.
Professor Dame Wendy Hall, a leader in the Semantic Web movement to enable users to identify, reuse, and derive new knowledge from existing data, joined Professor Nigel Shadbolt as the opening keynote speakers at the Online Information Conference 2009 on Tuesday 1 December. The keynote addressed the latest developments in Web technology and its significance for the vast amounts of data that is published on the Web.
The first test version of the DL.org eTraining is available online. eTraining is a part of DL.org’s Training Programme aimed at fostering a common understanding of the benefits and importance of interoperability among experts from diverse domains. The courses are designed to help DL experts and professionals acquire important knowledge on Digital Libraries and the DELOS Digital Library Reference Model.
Moving to Multi-Scale Science: Managing Complexity and Diversity
In partnership with the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) the two day conference will address topics such as data-driven infrastructure for science - looking at the wide range of scale, discipline, skills, sectors, and funding; and practitioner approaches, solutions and models, with peer-reviewed papers in themed parallel sessions.DL.org regularly conducts interviews with leaders and pioneers from the Digital Library space in Europe and across the globe to explore how grand challenges like interoperability are being tackled and share this knowledge with the wider community.
Geneva Henry, Rice University, interviewed during the 1st DL.org Workshop on 1 October 2009 in Corfu, Greece.
The Foundation Rinascimento Digitale, the Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage and the Library of Congress is organising the Cultural Heritage on-line conference to explore, analyse, and evaluate the state of the art and future trends in user communities and cultural contents on the web from an international perspective. The conference brings together academic researchers, policy makers and practitioners in a forum for the discussion and dissemination of the selected themes.
8 December 2009, Berlin, World Business Alliance Center.
The MLIA Technology Transfer Day will facilitate a two-way communication of research priorities, advances and results between researchers, software developers and users.
Hosted by Government of South Africa through the Department of Science and Technology, IST-Africa 2010 Conference & Exhibition will take place in Durban, 19 – 21 May 2010. The event brings together senior representatives from leading commercial, government & research organisations across Africa and Europe, to bridge the Digital Divide by sharing knowledge and best practices as well as discussing policy related issues.
Call for Papers Deadline 6 November, 2009.
The 2nd issue of the European Film Gateway (EFG) Newsletter is out now. Offering up-to-date information on the project outcomes, the newsletter also reports on activities and events regarding the film archival community as well as the wider group of Europeana projects to which the EFG belongs.
Download the European Film Gateway newsletter.
"Europe's Digital Library doubles in size but also shows EU's lack of common web copyright solution", a recent Europeana press release highlights not only the achievements of Europe's multilingual digital library but also the need for Member States to speed up and improve the process, and reform the copyright framework.
4.6 million digitised books, maps, photographs, film clips and newspapers can now be accessed by internet users on Europeana with a target of 10 million in 2010. However, key challenges need addressing to advance Europe's digitisation programme benefiting all citizens.
June and July saw the first set of DL.org working group face-to-face meetings take place in Italy and Greece. All six working groups met up for two days in order to discuss the main issues surrounding interoperability, the further development of the DELOS Reference Model, and working group objectives.
There are six DL.org working groups in all: Architecture, Content, Functionality, Policy, Quality and User, each dedicated to exploring DL interoperability issues from specific perspectives. Summaries of the meetings are available by clicking below.
The beautiful island of Corfu, Greece, hosts the 13th European Conference on Digital Libraries, ECDL'09, which this year focuses on Digital Societies.
The conference explores new challenges for Digital Libraries prompted by the expansion of the social networking applications bringing new user communities, as well as a renewed focus on metadata to address these challenges.