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Digital Library Architecture  

In addition to introducing The Work and Vision of Work Package 1, Can Türker has provided us with information on the main event in WP1's summer calendar, the Sixth Thematic Workshop on Digital Library Architectures.
  
Sixth Thematic Workshop on Digital Library Architectures
  
This summer period was dominated by the Sixth Thematic Workshop of the EU Network of Excellence DELOS on Digital Library Architectures, which was held at S. Margherita di Pula, Cagliari, Italy, over 24-25 June 2004. This first workshop in DELOS FP6 was co-organized by the WP1 members Maristella Agosti (UNIPD), Hans-Jörg Schek (ETHZ/UMIT), and Can Türker (ETHZ). The workshop was co-located with the 12th Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems (SEBD 2004) facilitating the exchange of research results and information at European and Italian level between the digital library and database communities. The local organization of the workshop was carried out jointly by the DELOS Network of Excellence and the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Padua, Italy.
  
The objective of the workshop was to bring together researchers interested in the architecture and related basic services which form the basis of building and operating DLs to identify ongoing research directions. In particular, the impact of newer computing paradigms, such as peer-to-peer, grid, and service-oriented computing, on future DL architectures was the focus of the workshop. Many lively discussions arose around the opportunities and challenges of applying these technologies for digital library architectures.
We had more than forty participants, twenty regular talks and three invited speakers. Nearly all WP1 cluster members were represented at the workshop by one or more attendees.
  
The papers accepted for this workshop were published in the following pre-proceedings:
  
Maristella Agosti, Hans-Jörg Schek, Can Türker (eds): Digital Library Architectures: Peer-to-Peer, Grid, and Service-Orientation, Pre-Proceedings of the Sixth Thematic Workshop of the EU Network of Excellence DELOS, S. Margherita di Pula, Cagliari, Italy, 24-25 June 2004. Edizioni Progetta Padua, 2004. ISBN 88-87331-60-X.
  
Springer has recently agreed to publish post-proceedings of this workshop in the LNCS series. The papers of the pre-proceedings will undergo a second reviewing phase. Selected papers will then move into these post-proceedings in an extended, revised form. The post-proceedings will also include papers from the workshop’s invited speakers.
  
For further details about this workshop, please refer to
http://dbis.cs.unibas.ch/delos_website/6thworkshop.html.
There you will also find the pre-proceedings mentioned above ready for download in PDF format.
   
Author Details
   
Can Türker
Member
ETH Zurich,
Institute of Information Systems,
CH-8092 Zurich
   
url: http://www.dbs.ethz.ch
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