ERCIM News 66July 2006Special theme: European Digital Library Contents This issue in pdf Subscription Archive: Next issue: October 2006 Next Special theme:
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KEYNOTE
Building Europe's Digital Library
by Horst Forster, Director Content, Directorate General Information Society and Media, European Commission
Joint ERCIM Actions
ERCIM Beyond-the-Horizon Action Coordinates European ICT Research for the Future
by Peter Kunz
Stelios Orphanoudakis ERCIM Memorial Seminar
by Erzsébet Csuhaj-Varjú
ERCIM Workshop on Software Evolution
by Tom Mens, Maja D'Hondt and Laurence Duchien
The European Scene
EC Expert Group on Next Generation GRIDs
by Keith Jeffery
IST Rsults - Insight into EU R&D Achievements
EURO-LEGAL
European Commission Consulting on Copyright Levy
by Yue Liu
News from W3C
W3C to Participate in Advisory Board of Internet Governance Forum
W3C Workshop on a Device Description Repository
Second Incubator Group to Explore Semantic Web for Multimedia Content
W3C Launches WebCGM Working Group
Call for Implementations of Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0
W3C Web Security Workshop Report
R&D and Technology Transfer
Visualization
Computer measures Coral Structures
by Chris Kruszynski and Annette Kik, CWI, The Netherlands
Pattern Recognition
Fast Synthesis of Dynamic Colour Textures
by Jiří Filip, Michal Haindl, Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Academy of Sciences / CRCIM, Czech Republic, and Dmitry Chetverikov, SZTAKI, Hungary
Multilingual/Multimodal Information Retrieval
MultiMATCH - Multilingual/Multimedia Access to Cultural Heritage
by Carol Peters, ISTI-CNR, Italy
Security
Access Control and Data Distribution Solutions for the Swedish Network Based Defence
by Frej Drejhammar, Ali Ghodsi, Erik Klintskog, Erik Rissanen and Babak Sadighi, SICS, Sweden
Ambient Intelligence
Bringing Ambient Computing out of the Labs - INRIA's Agreement with JCDecaux
by Michel Banâtre, INRIA/IRISA, France
Text Research
New Text - New Conversations in the Media Landscape
by Jussi Karlgren, SICS, Sweden
Logistics
LOG4SMEs: Improving the Logistics Performance of SMEs in the Automotive Sector
by Imre Czinege, Széchenyi István University, Gyõr, Hungary, and Elisabeth Ilie-Zudor and András Pfeiffer, SZTAKI, Hungary
Networks
VTT Develops Dependability Evaluation Methods for IP Networks
by Ilkka Norros, VTT -Technical Research Centre of Finland
Software Engineering
Validating Complex Telecommunication Software
by Sergio Contreras, María del Mar Gallardo, Pedro Merino, David Sanán, University of Málaga/SpaRCIM; Javier Rivas, Joaquín Torrecilla, Centro de Tecnología de las Comunicaciones, S.A (CETECOM), Spain
Events
For conference announcements, see ERCIM's calendar of events
In Brief
INRIA - Michel Cosnard appointed as INRIA's new chairman. [more]
SpaRCIM - The 2006 Spanish National Awards in Informatics were announced in May 2006 [more]
SICS - Center for Networked Systems established [more]
CNR - Francesco Beltrame has been nominated Director of the Department for Information and Communications Technologies of the Italian National Research Council [more]
CWI - Peter Boncz wins ICTRegie Award 2006 [more]
CWI - CWI was rated 'excellent' by an international evaluation committee [more]
CWI - Krzysztof Apt elected as Member of the Academia Europaea [more]
Special Theme
European Digital Library
Towards the European Digital Library - Introduction
by Ingeborg Torvik Sølvberg, NTNU, Norway, and Costantino Thanos, ISTI-CNR, Italy
Invited articles
From Digital Libraries to Knowledge Commons
by Yannis Ioannidis, University of Athens, Greece
The European Digital Library – A Project of the Conference of European National Librarians
by Elisabeth Niggemann, Die Deutsche Bibliothek, Frankfurt, Germany
A Forward-Looking European Digital Library? Hence 5S?
by Edward A. Fox, Virginia Tech, USA
Search Engine Technology Applied in Digital Libraries
by John M Lervik, FAST, Norway, and Svein Arne Brygfjeld, The National Library of Norway
The Shifting Landscape of Digital Libraries Research and Development in Australia
by Jane Hunter, University of Queensland, Australia
Architecture
A Reference Architecture for Digital Library Systems
by Leonardo Candela, Donatella Castelli and Pasquale Pagano, ISTI-CNR, Italy
DelosDLMS - Infrastructure for the Next Generation of Digital Library Management Systems
by Hans-J. Schek, University of Konstanz, Germany, and Heiko Schuldt, University of Basel, Switzerland
A Powerful and Scalable Digital Library Information Service
by Henri Avancini, Leonardo Candela, Andrea Manzi and Manuele Simi, ISTI-CNR, Italy
Semantic Search in Peer-to-Peer-Based Digital Libraries
by Hao Ding, Ingeborg Torvik Sølvberg, NTNU, Norway
XPeer: A Digital Library for the European Higher Education Area
by Mark Roantree, Dublin City University, Ireland, and Zohra Bellahsène, University of Montpellier II, France
Ontologies and Metadata
Increasing the Power of Semantic Interoperability for the European Library
by Martin Doerr, ICS-FORTH, Greece
A Tool for Converting Bibliographic Records
by Trond Aalberg, NTNU, Norway
Information Patterns for Digital Cultural Repositories
by Chryssoula Bekiari, Panos Constantopoulos and Martin Doerr, ICS-FORTH, Greece
Towards a Semantic Information Platform for Subsea Petroleum Processes
by Jon Atle Gulla, NTNU, Norway
Towards The European Metadata Registry
by László Kovács, András Micsik, SZTAKI, Hungary, and Jill Cousins, The European Library Office, The Netherlands
Information Access and Multimedia
Personalizing Digital Library Access with Preference-Based Queries
by Periklis Georgiadis, Nicolas Spyratos, Vassilis Christophides, ICS-FORTH, Greece and Carlo Meghini, ISTI-CNR, Italy
Multilingual Interactive Experiments with Flickr
by Jussi Karlgren, SICS, Sweden, Paul Clough, University of Sheffield, UK, and Julio Gonzalo, UNED, Spain
Multimedia Ontologies for Video Digital Libraries
by Alberto Del Bimbo, Marco Bertini and CarloTorniai, University of Florence, Italy
Structured Multimedia Description for Simplified Interaction and Enhanced Retrieval
by Stephane Marchand-Maillet, Eric Bruno and Nicolas Moënne-Loccoz, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Taking a New Look at News
by Arne Jacobs and Nektarios Moumoutzis, University of Bremen, Germany
Radio Relief: Radio Archives Departments Benefit from Digital Audio Processing
by Martha Larson, Fraunhofer IAIS, Thomas Beckers, WDR, and Volker Schlögell, Deutsche Welle, Germany
Self-Organizing Distributed Digital Library Supporting Audio-Video
by László Kovács, András Micsik, SZTAKI, Hungary, and Martin Schmidt and Markus Seidl, University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten, Austria
Repositories and Preservation
Repositories and Preservation in the UK
by Neil Jacobs, Joint Information Systems Committee, UK
Digital Library of Historical Newspapers
by Martin Doerr, Georgios Markakis, Maria Theodoridou, ICS-FORTH, Greece
DML-CZ: Czech Digital Mathematics Library
by Jirí Rákosník, Mathematical Institute AS CR, Prague, Czech Republic
New Projects
CASPAR and a European Infrastructure for Digital Preservation
by David Giaretta, Digital Curation Centre, UK
PROBADO - Non-Textual Digital Libraries put into Practice
by Thorsten Steenweg and Ulrike Steffens, OFFIS, Germany
WIKINGER - Semantically Enhanced Knowledge Repositories for Scientific Communities
by Lars Broecker, Fraunhofer IMK, Germany
