The DELOS Association for Digital Libraries has been established in order to keep the "DELOS spirit" alive by promoting research activities in the field of digital libraries. More info...
2007-06-08: Second Workshop on Foundations of Digital Libraries
The 2nd International Workshop on Foundations of Digital Libraries will be held in Budapest (Hungary) on 20 Septemeber 2007, in conjunction with the 11th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technologies for Digital Libraries (ECDL 2007). Event website
DL Events
January 24-25, 2008 - Padova, Italy
4th Italian Research Conference on Digital Library Systems Event website
December 5-7, 2007 - Pisa, Italy
Second DELOS Conference on Digital Libraries Event website
Digital Library architectures and interoperability. Metadata, and Dublin Core in particular. Policies for digital content. E-learning and E-services on digital content. Evaluation and Usability of Digital Libraries. Information Retrieval on Libraries. Apart from the current research interests in digital libraries and electronic publishing he is also interested in algorithms, programming languages, operating systems, electronic commerce and parallel and distributed systems.
Possible contributions to DELOS activities
Participate in working groups
Participate in working groups in the domains of my interest
Liaison to other organizations
Possible liaison to organizations in the domains of my interest
Panels
Participate with topics on Metadata standards in Digital Libraries; Digital Libraries overview; Electronic Publishing overview.
Tutorials
Participate with topics on Metadata standards in Digital Libraries; Digital Libraries overview; Electronic Publishing overview.
Summer Schools
Participate with topics on Metadata standards in Digital Libraries; Digital Libraries overview; Electronic Publishing overview.
Coordinates
Institution
Department of Archives and Library Sciences, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece
Sarantos Kapidakis is associate professor at the Department of Archives and Library Sciences, at the Ionian University at Corfu, Greece, and director of the Laboratory on Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing. He received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Princeton University in 1990, on “Average case analysis of graph searching algorithms”. He also holds a MSc. from Princeton University and a Diploma in Electrical Engineering from National Technical University of Athens. In the past, he has been the Head of Information Systems in the National Documentation Centre, in Greece, and a professor and researcher at the Computer Science Department of the University of Crete, and the Institute of Computer Science of the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas. He also worked as a researcher at the Operations Research Center, at MIT, USA. He is also a member of the Steering committee of the General State Archives of Greece.