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
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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
Landoni, Monica - University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
Research interests
I am involved in a number of projects related to information retrieval, e-learning and electronic publishing including: REVEAL THIS (REtrieval of VidEo And Language for The Home user in an Information Society), STREP Contract N. 511689. Start Date: 1 November 2004 (http://www.reveal-this.org/) PENG (PErsonalised News Content ProgramminG), STREP Contract N. 004597. Start Date: September 2004 (http://www.peng-project.org/) DELOS, Network of Excellence in Digital Libraries (http://www.delos.info/), funded by the EU's Sixth Framework Programme. Start date on January 1, 2004. Participant in the activities of the research cluster on Digital Library Evaluation.
Possible contributions to DELOS activities
Participate in working groups
Electronic books; digital documents; IR techniques for structured content (books)
Liaison to other organizations
Possible liaison to BCS or IRSG
Panels
Organize with topics on the role of e-books in DLs. Participate with topics on standards and models for e-books and their evaluation over the last ten years.
Tutorials
Participate with topics on design of usable interfaces for e-books; international initiatives for building a universal archive and library of digital books (Internet Archive plus Million Books vs Google Library).
Summer Schools
Organize with topics on the role of e-books in DLs. Participate with topics on digital documents: design, implementation and evaluation.
Presentations
Present the role of electronic books in digital libraries; DELOS overall activities.
Coordinates
Institution
Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
Monica Landoni holds a PhD in Information Science and has been a lecturer in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Strathclyde since 1997. Her research interests lie mainly in the fields of information retrieval and electronic publishing, particularly in the area of user interface aspects. She has worked and still is involved in a number of major projects see http://ebooks.cis.strath.ac.uk for details. She is a member of the British Computer Society's Information Retrieval Specialist Group committee. She has published numerous papers in the eBooks and information retrieval area and won the Dynix prize for best paper in the Electronic Library (co-authored) and the Literati Club Highly Commended Award in 2001 (co-authored).
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