[Koha] [oss4lib-discuss] European Conference on Digital Libraries travel log (fwd)

[Pat Eyler]

An intersting bit for Europeans on the list.  Perhaps next year, we should
try to get involved.

-pate

Pat Eyler
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 09:05:26 -0500
From: Eric Lease Morgan <emorgan at nd.edu>
To: OCKHAM System Framework Listserv <OCKHAM-SYS at listserv.cc.emory.edu>,
     OSS4Lib <oss4lib-discuss at 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/

>From the text:

  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





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