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
My main research interest are: user-centered digital library evaluation; interactive information retrieval; information behavior; user studies; usability of information systems; information architecture; typography and visual communication.
Possible contributions to DELOS activities
Participate in working groups
Groups dealing with the user-centered evaluation of digital libraries.
Liaison to other organizations
Possible liaison to organizations representing user communities.
Panels
Participate with topics on user-centered evaluation; usability issues and methods.
Tutorials
Participate with topics on usability issues and methods; user studies; digital library evaluation; information behavior.
Summer Schools
Participate with topics on usability issues and methods; user studies; digital library evaluation; information behavior.
Presentations
Present user studies; usability issues and methods; DELOS overall activities.
Coordinates
Institution
Department of Archive and Library Sciences, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece
Email
Phone, fax, etc.
+30-2610 969625 (phone)
Professional profile
Giannis Tsakonas (born in 1976): 2000. Graduate of Department of Archive and Library Sciences, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece. 2003- PhD candidate at the aforementioned institution and member of the Laboratory on Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing. Participation to DELOS DELOS research cluster on Digital Library Evaluation (responsible for the web site: http://dlib.ionio.gr/wp7). 2000- Librarian at the Library and Information Service, University of Patras, Patras, Greece (user reference and support, development of information systems). Editor for Greece of the international e-print archive E-LIS, which is an open access depository of documents on Librarianship and Information Science (http://eprints.rclis.org).