EARL has announced the award of a Digital Libraries Grant for Longitude from the Council for Museums, Archives, and Libraries. It is widely acknowledged that a greater understanding of user interaction with technology, especially in the public library setting, is crucial to the successful application of networked services.
Longitude, an 18-month project researching into Library Networking Impact Toolkit for a User-Driven Environment, is to be undertaken by EARL and its joint Project Director, CIPFA, is designed to develop and test a toolkit of long-term longitudinal qualitative survey methodologies to assess user needs and how they evolve in the digital library. The project, to commence in May 2000, will include the participation of CERLIM, as an evaluative consultant, as well as partner library sites in Luton, Norfolk, and Westminster.
For further information see the Earl press release
<http://www.earl.org.uk/news/index.html>
or contact
Linda Berube
EXPLOIT Portal - the gateway to TAP Libraries Projects is ready for use now. The portal is an initiative of the EC funded EXPLOIT accompanying measure.
You can find it under
<http://www.dbi-berlin.de/projekte/einzproj/exploit/db/homepage.htm>
. It can also access it via the EXPLOIT homepage. So far EXPLOIT
portal contains only EU-projects, however it is also open to national
projects applying telematics.
Location: london, UK
Date: 3 - 8 September 2000
Source: Posting to Mailbase list (May 23 2000)
CIHA London 2000 will be one of the biggest and most exciting art-historical event ever held in the United Kingdom. A programme of academic papers and discussions of unparalleled breadth, variety and richness has been organised. The key objectives of CIHA London 2000 are to organise a Congress characterised by the qualities of:
To meet those objectives we a Congress has been planned lasting a full five days and embracing no fewer than 23 Academic Sections together with a host of other related activities.
For further information see the congress web site
<http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Units/arthist/CIHA2000/>
To register use the folllowing PDF file
<http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Units/arthist/CIHA2000/form.pdf/>
Location: Villa Monastero, Varenna, Italy
Date: 11 - 15 September 2000
Source: Posting to Mailbase list (June 6 2000)
ESSIR'2000 is the third European Summer School in Information Retrieval. The first one was organised by the University of Padova (Prof. Agosti) and was held in Bressanone in 1990. The second ESSIR was organised by the University of Glasgow (Prof. van Rijsbergen) and held in Glasgow in 1995. This third ESSIR is jointly organised by the University of Padova (Prof. Agosti), the University of Strathclyde (Dr. Crestani) and the CNR of Milan (Dr. Pasi).
This five-day school (Monday to Friday) will give participants a grounding in the core subjects of IR - architectures, algorithms, formal theoretical models of IR, and evaluation - as well as covering some of the current "hot" topics such as the digital libraries, retrieving from multimedia document collections, and retrieving over wide area networks such as the Internet and the Web.
For further information see the ESSIR web site
<http://www.itim.mi.cnr.it/Eventi/essir2000/index.htm>
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
Date: 18-20 Sept 2000
Source: Posting to a Mailbase list (May 2000)
There is a Semantic Web: Models, Architectures workshop following the conference on 21st September 2000
The term "semantic web" has been coined by Tim Berners-Lee in 1998 to denote the efforts dealing with the conceptual structuring of the Web in an explicit and machine-readable way. The primary goal of semantic web is to facilitate resource discovery, information filtering and "intelligent browsing". The objective of the workshop is to bring together and foster interaction among individuals conducting research in the theory and implementation of the semantic web. We invite submissions reporting original results on the following, non-exhaustive, list of relevant themes:
For further information see the semantic web site
<http://www.ics.forth.gr/proj/isst/SemWeb/>
or the conference web site
<http://www.bn.pt/org/agenda/ecdl2000/>
Location: Palais de Nice Acropolis, Nice, Paris
Date: 6 - 8 Novemeber 2000
Source: Posting to Mailbase list (May 23 2000)
No further information at present
Location: National Library of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Date: 4 - 6 October 2000
Source: Posting to DC-General mailing list http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/dc-general/join.html
The 8th Dublin Core workshop affords the opportunity for practitioners, theoreticians, systems developers and metadata administrators to meet to discuss implementation issues, share perspectives and experiences, and contribute to the evolution of the standard through working group meetings and plenary discussions.
For further information see the The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Home Page
<http://purl.org/DC>
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