[OAI-implementers] ECDL 2001 OAI Workshop

[Michael L. Nelson]

Experimental OAI-based Digital Library Systems Workshop 

to be held in conjunction with:

  5th European Conference on Research and 
  Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries

  September 4-9 2001, Darmstadt, Germany
  http://www.ecdl2001.org/

Workshop Date: September 8 2001
Workshop Duration: Full-day
Workshop URL : http://www.cs.odu.edu/OaiEcdlWorkshop
Worshop Paper Submission Deadline:  July 10, 2001

The objective of the Open Archive Initiative (OAI) is to develop a
simple, lightweight framework to facilitate the discovery of content
in distributed archives (http://www.openarchives.org). The focus of
this workshop is to bring together researchers in the area of digital
libraries who are building OAI-based systems in order to share their
experiences, problems they are facing, and approaches they are taking
to address them. The workshop will consist of a few invited talks from
well-established researchers working in building OAI-based digital
library system along with short paper presentations.

Topics of Interest
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We invite submissions describing experiences with OAI based system
building and reporting on results on the following, non exhaustive,
list of relevant topics:

- OAI based data and service providers 
- Unified interface for searching heterogeneous libraries 
- Metadata mapping across different libraries 
- Harvesting metadata for building higher level services 
- Issues in harvesting multilingual digital libraries 
- Scalable digital library architectures 
- Business models for sustainable digital libraries 

Submission Information
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- Papers should be at most 2000 words in length. 
- Please submit your paper in Postscript or PDF formats. 
- See http://www.cs.odu.edu/OaiEcdlWorkshop for further submission
  information

Workshop Organizers
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K. Maly and M. Zubair
Old Dominion University
Virginia, USA
Phone: +1 757 683 4817
Email: {maly,zubair}@cs.odu.edu

Diann Rusch-Feja
Max Planck Institute for Human Dev.
Berlin, Germany
Tel. +49 30 824 06-230
Email: ruschfeja@mpib-berlin.mpg.de

M. L. Nelson
NASA Langley Research Center
Virginia, USA
Phone: +1 757 864 8511
Email: m.l.nelson@larc.nasa.gov



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