Call for Participation
Open Working Group on Agents in Digital Libraries
DELOS - Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries
< http://www.ercim.org/delos >
WP3: Standardisation Forum
The Problem: Libraries, archives, and content and services providers in
general have different approaches and requirements for describing "agents".
Traditionally understood as authors, publishers, distributers, editors,
etc., those concepts face now new challenges in a digital world,
charascterized by new genres of contents, new business models, and an
incresing tendency for cross cooperation between libraries, archives, the
industry, and new emerging... agents!!! Can we identify interfaces and areas
of overlap between these different fields and specify requirements for
interoperability between their authority systems, or even to define systems
or standards to be shared?
The Proposal: To promote an international and multidisciplinary working
group, supported by DELOS, with an agenda for 2001. This group must produce
a final report, to be published by DELOS, presenting and explaining the key
organizations and communities to be taken in account, their context and
their actual practices, as also their main requirements and opportunities
for cross-cooperation.
Activities: The activities will start in January 2001. Discussions will be
promoted in a mailing list moderated by core members, who will meet
regularly during the year. Those core members will be the responsible by the
editing of the report, as also by the organization of a DELOS workshop in
Portugal in the spring of 2001. A first draft of the final report will be
presented in September, during ECDL2001. These efforts will be coordinated
with the LEAF project (a new european project to start activities in
February of 2001), and with the Agents Working Group of the Dublin Core
Metadata Initiative (DC-Agent).
To participate in this working group (open to anyone willing to contribute),
or simply to receive information, please contact the chair of these
activities:
José Luis Borbinha – National Library of Portugal
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José Luis Borbinha <[log in to unmask]>
Biblioteca Nacional (National Library of Portugal)
Direcção de Serviços de Inovação e Desenvolvimento
(Direction of Services for Innovation and Development)
Campo Grande, 83 - 1749-081 Lisboa - PORTUGAL
Tel./Fax: (+351) 217 982 083 / 217 982 123
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