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DELOS Thematic Workshops This series of workshops is intended to provide the opportunity to European researchers to present results of on-going research activities and to exchange opinions and experiences in an informal and friendly environment. 1st DELOS Thematic Workshop on Information Seeking, Searching and Querying in Digital Libraries 11-12 December 2000 - Zurich (Switzerland) The workshop was held in the premises of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland, 11-12 December, 2000. The goal of the workshop was to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in Digital Libraries to present and discuss recent results as well as future research directions. [Proceedings] 2nd DELOS Thematic Workshop on Personalization and Recommender Systems in Digital Libraries 18-20 June 2001 - Dublin (Ireland) One of the important ways for users to feel comfortable with and become productive using information technology is to personalise or tailor systems to individuals or groups of users. This covers both explicit personalisation directly by the user, and implicit tailoring by systems that track users usage patterns and preferences and adapt systems and interfaces accordingly. The concept of personalisation thus is about making systems different for individual people, but the concept of personalization itself can mean different things. This workshop brought together researchers and practitioners, from 14 countries, whose work includes the development of personalisation and recommender systems and techniques, particularly as they apply to digital libraries. Twenty-five papers were submitted to the workshop; fifteen were accepted, covering a range of topics from basic personalisation technologies to studies of user interfaces. [Proceedings] 3rd DELOS Thematic Workshop on Interoperability and Mediation in Heterogeneous Digital Libraries 8-9 September 2001 - Darmstadt (Germany) Interoperability and mediation in distributed, heterogeneous digital libraries require a middleware that provides transparent access to inherently heterogeneous digital collections. Among other things, such a middleware must support data translation between different data types, representations, detection of same-objects, and data propagation for ensuring global consistency. There are research and industrial efforts under way to develop techniques for the modelling, creation, and management of metadata and ontologies for integrating and exchanging content. Transparent search (and metasearch) and consolidation of information from multiple digital libraries pose many challenges beyond the typical problems encountered in web searches and distributed heterogeneous databases. Therefore, this workshop provided a forum for discussing these problems and the approaches that have been taken to address them. [More] 4th DELOS Thematic Workshop on
Evaluation of Digital Libraries: Testbeds, Measurements, and Metrics 6-7 June 2002 - Budapest (Hungary) The DL research communities need large test beds in order to be able to evaluate and demonstrate new concepts. Research results are most valuable when they are compared with other approaches and validated against many sets of data. Considering users, collections and systems as the major components of a digital library, evaluations may involve only a subset of these components. Besides the evaluation context, the underlying criteria have to be specified. Also, for comparing different evaluations, specification of the test material employed is essential. Since there are no standard description schemes yet and only little work has been done in this area so far, papers on ongoing research are especially invited. Therefore the Workshop invited papers that focussed on generalizable metrics or that focussud on methods and measures specific to individual digital library contexts. These included, but were not limited to, education, publishing, cultural heritage, science and technology, medicine, sound, and images. [Homepage] 5th DELOS Thematic Workshop on Multimedia Contents in Digital Libraries 2-3 June 2003 - Chania, Crete (Greece) Distributed Digital Libraries throughout the world are beginning to organize, store, and manage large amounts of human knowledge for universal remote access any where any time. While traditional libraries were normally built to house collections of print-based information resources (such as books and journals), digital libraries can store information resources in many other forms, including images, sound, video, graphics, programs, etc. Thus, with the development of appropriately sophisticated user interfaces and the deployment of advanced technologies and techniques, users of digital libraries can clearly obtain more complete and more comprehensive information than traditional libraries provide. This Workshop, organized under the joint sponsorship of DELOS and US/NSF, was to bring together researchers, practitioners and subject specialists interested in multimedia contents in digital libraries to share their ideas and concerns, to present and discuss recent research results, and to map future research directions. [Homepage] 6th DELOS Thematic Workshop on Digital Library Architectures: Peer-to-Peer, Grid, and Service-Orientation 24-25 June 2004 - S. Margherita di Pula, Cagliari (Italy) This was the Sixth Workshop in the series of Thematic Workshops organized by DELOS - Network of Excellence in Digital Libraries. This workshop was devoted to the architectural infrastructure of future DLs. The objective of the workshop was to bring together researchers interested in the architecture and related basic services that allow to build and operate DLs and to identify ongoing research directions.Therefore, a main goal of this workshop was to provide a forum for discussing the development and integration of building blocks and services for DLs infrastructures. In the spirit of a workshop it was asked for extended abstracts describing ongoing research and development. [Homepage] 7th DELOS Thematic Workshop on Audio-Visual Content and Information Visualization in Digital Libraries (AVIVDiLib'05) 4-6 May 2005 - Cortona (Italy) Audiovisual digital libraries require new solutions for content organization, access and interaction. In particular, user interfaces, querying, browsing and visualization solutions, query languages for multimedia data, metadata extraction, ontologies, efficient data base organizations, are important and critical subjects of investigation. Based on tailorable interaction and visualization models, future interface functionality will include options for selection, filtering, linking, ranking, and recommendation of multimedia documents, for collaboration with peer groups in various contexts, for re-using and re-interpreting information objects in different contexts. All these modes of operation have to be designed taking into account various aspects such as: user type, user characteristics and their needs. Selection of appropriate metadata for the representation of the objects' properties, and suitable data organization and management will support retrieval by content either based on local or global characteristics of the objects. This workshop, jointly organized by WP3 and WP4, aimed at providing a forum to present the latest research results, new technology development and new applications in the areas of multimedia content and information visualization in digital libraries. [Homepage] 8th DELOS Thematic Workshop on Future Digital Library Management Systems: System Architecture and Information Access 29 March - 1 April 2005 - Schloss Dagstuhl (Germany) This workshop, the 8th in the DELOS series of Thematic Workshops, was devoted to two critical themes: system architecture and information access. Clearly, the two themes are closely interrelated and some of the most exciting problems arise at the intersection of the two. The objective of the workshop was 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. The main goal has been to provide a forum for discussing the latest advances and on-going efforts in these and related areas as the field moves towards future DLMSs. [Homepage] 9th DELOS Thematic Workshop on Digital Repositories: Interoperability and Common Services 11-13 May 2005 - Heraklion, Crete (Greece) Digital repositories as 'managed collections of digital objects' are an essential part of the architectural framework within many domains. This workshop focussed in particular on the role of repositories within e-learning and e-research and related digital library services, and considered such repositories as providers of both preservation and access services. Digital repositories supported the requirements of a number of communities, and the workshop welcomed participation from content providers and practitioners, as well as those with a research interest in the development of repositories.This was a joint workshop of the Semantic Interoperability and Preservation clusters of the DELOS project. [Homepage] 10th DELOS Thematic Workshop on Personalized Access, Profile Management, and Context Awareness in Digital Libraries 29-30 June 2007 - Corfu (Greece) Future digital libraries require new solutions to several problems related to content organization, information access, and user-system interaction. A key characteristic of emerging systems will be customizability of their behavior, in particular, taking into account the various characteristics, preferences, and needs of individual users or groups of users, as well as the context in which these users interact with the system. Presently, there are many research efforts within various fields that are trying to address several research problems that arise when developing such systems. Most of these efforts are associated with the general notions of "personalization" and "contextualization" which are nevertheless, interpreted quite differently by researchers coming from different research areas. As the meeting point of several diverse fields, Digital Libraries encompass many existing notions of personalization and contextualization and would benefit greatly from a common, broader definition of them that would cover all views and needs. Organized by the DELOS Network of Excellence, the PersDL 2007 workshop aims at providing a forum for presentation of the latest research results, new technology developments, and new applications in the areas of personalized access, profile management, and context awareness in digital libraries. [Homepage] |
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