Community

The core activities and main outputs of DL.org have mainly targeted the Library and Information Science (LIS) Community, spanning educationalists, students, practitioners, and decision makers. DL.org has also engaged closely with the computer science and research community to ensure a focused approach to future advancement in the digital library field. To underpin and shape outputs, DL.org has harnessed global expertise through six Working Groups (Content, Functionality, User, Policy, Quality and Architecture), a Liaison Group and an External Advisory Board. Together, all these professionals make up the DL.org stakeholder community on multiple levels: developing or enhancing digital libraries, making these systems interoperable, learning and teaching, as well as assessing the extent to which a specific digital library conforms with the DL.org Digital Library Reference Model. Stakeholders can gain important new knowledge on interoperability from the DL.org Cookbook, presented under Outputs.

The DL.org international community has emerged chiefly from two international workshops, three events in Greece, Italy and the UK respectively, and an Autumn School coupled with international conferences across Europe, where DL.org has presented its findings and networked with key stakeholder groups. A sample of the core DL.org community is illustrated through participant details from:

Strategic Alliances have also played a key role in building the DL.org, sharing insights,  supporting events and reaching out to a broader group of stakeholders. Dissemination and distribution of outputs alongside community building are continuing after project conclusion, primarily through: