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Digital Library Architecture

Can Türker has provided us with an update on activity by the Digital Library Architecture cluster in terms of workshops, exchange programme work and site development.

Over recent months considerable progress has been made in preparing a survey on service-oriented architectures (SoA), peer-to-peer architectures (P2P), and grid infrastructures, which is one of the central objectives of WP1 within the first 18 months of the DELOS Project. Input from all WP1 partners on applying SoA, P2P, and/or grid technology to Digital Libraries has been collected and integrated. The survey was completed in February 2005. For further information, do contact the .

Many WP1 partners were also involved in preparing a revised, extended version of their paper presented at the Sixth Thematic Workshop of DELOS on Digital Library Architectures at S. Margherita di Pula (Cagliari), Italy, 24-25 June 2004. (See http://dbis.cs.unibas.ch/delos_website/6thworkshop.html) These papers have now undergone a second reviewing phase. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop post-proceedings and appear as a book in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series of Springer. Can Türker (ETHZ), Hans-Jörg Schek (ETHZ/UMIT), and Maristella Agosti (U Padua) are in charge of editing and producing this book. For further information, do contact the .

Over the same period, joint work between several DELOS partners has intensified within the researcher exchange programme. For instance, MUNI hosted Giuseppe Amato from ISTI-CNR Pisa for two weeks in November 2004 and ETHZ hosted Harald Krottmaier from Graz for three weeks in total from September to November 2004.

The DELOS OpenDLib (http://www.opendlib.com) managed by ISTI/CNR has been updated by including documents produced during the DELOS events organized over the autumn. In particular, it now contains material from the Third International Summer School on Digital Library Technologies (ISDL 2004), the DELOS WP7 Workshop on the Evaluation of Digital Libraries, and CLEF 2004.

The Spring 2005 joint WP1/WP2 workshop organized by MPII took place at Dagstuhl Castle, Germany over 29 March - 1 April. This workshop, the 8th in the DELOS series of Thematic Workshops, devoted itself to two critical themes in digital libraries: system architecture and information access. The main workshop objectives were to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in these two areas and their inter-connections, to identify fundamental system services that allow the development and operation of future Digital Libraries, and to explore the main relevant technical directions. More information about this workshop is available under http://dbis.cs.unibas.ch/delos_website/8thworkshop.html

Author details

Can Türker
Member
ETH Zurich,
Institute of Information Systems,
CH-8092 Zurich
E-mail:
url: http://www.dbs.ethz.ch
Telephone: +41 1 6327248
Fax: +41 1 6321172

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Publication date: June 2005
File last modified: Monday, 22-May-2006

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