An intersting bit for Europeans on the list. Perhaps next year, we should try to get involved. -pate Pat Eyler Kaitiaki/manager migrant Linux sys admin the Koha project ruby, shell, and perl geek http://www.koha.org http://pate.eylerfamily.org ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 09:05:26 -0500 From: Eric Lease Morgan <emorgan@nd.edu> To: OCKHAM System Framework Listserv <OCKHAM-SYS@listserv.cc.emory.edu>, OSS4Lib <oss4lib-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: [oss4lib-discuss] European Conference on Digital Libraries travel log I have documented my experience at the ECDL in an European Conference on Digital Libraries travel log where I helped Martin Halbert and Ed Fox facilitate a plenary panel discussion on an idea called OCKHAM: http://dewey.library.nd.edu/travel/ecdl-2002/

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This travel log documents my experience at the 6th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL), Rome, Italy, September 16-18, 2002. In a sentence, this conference, attended by mostly university computer science faculty, facilitated the sharing of digital library research ideas and experimental results. The majority of attendees would not call themselves librarians, but they were doing real library work. They were concerned with creating tools allowing for the collection, organization, archiving, disseminating, and sometimes evaluation of data and information for the purposes of expanding knowledge. The only difference was that their data and information was not manifested in physical mediums but digital mediums. Additionally, the traditional library professions could learn a lot from these people because they were applying of the scientific method for evaluating and measuring digital library research. Instead of relying heavily on antidotal evidence, these participants used experiments, even social experiments to verify and validate their assumptions. Furthermore, they build their ideas on the documented ideas of their predecessors. Finally, OAI and its simplicity certainly has made an impression on the digital "librarians" at the conference. Everybody appreciates the mathematical elegance of the OAI protocol. It represents something we can all learn from. FYI. -- Eric Lease Morgan Head, Digital Access and Information Architecture Department University Libraries of Notre Dame (574) 631-8604 ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ oss4lib-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oss4lib-discuss see also http://www.oss4lib.org/