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2.00: Tuesday 10th July (concurrent with Workshop 4)
FREE OF CHARGE
Organisers:
David Dawson, Senior Policy Advisor (Digital Futures), Museums, Libraries and Archives Council
Jill Cousins, TEL
The European digital library aims at making Europe's cultural and scientific heritage easier and more interesting to use online. It builds on Europe's rich heritage, combining multicultural and multilingual environments with technological advances and new business models to achieve a multilingual access point to cultural collections from all Member States. By 2010 the European digital library will expand to include collections from archives, museums, libraries, and possibly publishers.
European digital library project http://www.edlproject.eu/
This free workshop is a call to action for museums across Europe, from the largest national museums to the smallest local museum. Museums are an essential part of the European Digital Library, and this workshop will present some of the latest developments at both political and technical levels, including:-
• the outcomes of the first meeting of the Member State Experts Group. This has been established by the European Commission to ensure collaboration between Member States and the European Commission in the development of the European digital library
• the recommendations of the Interoperability Group
• the latest news about the creation of a cross-domain foundation for the European digital library
The creation of the European digital library is being supported by the eContentplus programme, with approximately €20m allocated in 2007. The programme will aim to achieve interoperability between national digital collections and services (e.g. through common standards) and ensure that these will be accessible through the multilingual European digital library service.
• Jill Cousins, Director of The European Library, The European Library is an Internet portal which offers access to the combined resources of national libraries in Europe, and is one of the foundations of the European digital library.
• David Dawson, Senior Policy Adviser for Digital Futures at the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council. David is UK representative on the European digital library Member State Experts group and is a member of the European digital library Interoperability Group.
• Guus Schreiber, Professor of Intelligent Information Systems, Free University of Amsterdam. Guus is working on the MultimediaN eculture project which is using semantic web technologies to cross-search a number of Netherlands museum collections
chaired by David Fuegi, independent consultant, aimed to formulate recommendations as to how museum and galleries can actively engage in the European digital library initiative.