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One more step towards the European digital library
International Conference

Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Frankfurt am Main
31 January - 1 February 2008

Agenda

Wednesday, 30 January 2008

17:00 – 18:00 Registration

18:00 – 20:00 Reception

Thursday, 31 January 2008

8:30 Registration

9:30 – 11:15 Opening session

Elisabeth Niggemann, Deutsche Nationalbibliothek: Welcome

Horst Forster, European Commission: Policy context and ambitions

Keynote speaker: Herbert Van de Sompel, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Thoughts about Repositories, Use, and Re-Use (16 MB)

11:15 – 11:45 Coffee break

11:45 – 13:15 Session II: EDLproject results and findings
Chair: Jill Cousins, The European Library Office

Olaf Janssen, The European Library Office: From The European Library to EDLproject; The European Library latest developments

Hans Petschar, Austrian National Library: Roadmap of digitisation activities in European national libraries

Maja Žumer, National and University Library of Slovenia;
Geneviève Clavel-Merrin, Swiss National Library: Extending the multilingual capacity of The European Library

Sjoerd Siebinga, The European Library Office: Implementing multilingual access to the European Library (11,4 MB)

13:15 – 14:15 Lunch

14:15 – 16:00 Session III: EDL Foundation
Chair: Elisabeth Niggemann, Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Chair of the EDL Foundation

Discussion of the process to build the inter-sectoral community and to harness digital content of different types and from different sources. Some of the executive members of the EDL Foundation will be present.

Angelika Menne-Haritz, Bundesarchiv, Germany: How the archives can contribute to the European Digital Library process (6,53 MB)

Claudia Dillmann, Association des Cinemathèques Européennes (ACE), Deutsches Filministitut (DIF), Germany: How audio-visual archives can contribute to the European Digital Library process

Christophe Dessaux, Michael AISBL: How the Michael AISBL can contribute to the European Digital Library (1,13 MB)

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 – 17:30 Session IV: European Digital Library – Europeana: Semantic and Inter-sectoral Interoperability
Chair: Geneviève Clavel-Merrin, Swiss National Library

Guus Schreiber, VU University Amsterdam: Principles and pragmatics of a semantic culture web (1,38 MB)

Sonja de Leeuw, Utrecht University: Project Videoactive – an example how audio-visual archives can contribute to the creation of the European Digital Library

Friday, 1 February 2008

9:00 – 10:00 Session V: European Digital Library – Europeana: Results to date and next steps.
Chair: Catherine Lupovici, EDLnet Office

Stefan Gradmann, Regionales Rechenzentrum der Universität Hamburg: Technical aspects of the European Digital Library

Daniel Teruggi, Institut national de l’audiovisuel (INA): EDL users – what do they want?

10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 - 12:15 Session VI: EDLnet: vision and the Europeana maquette
Jill Cousins, The European Library Office, EDLnet Office: The EDLnet vision
Demonstration of the Europeana maquette and setting requirements of Breakout sessions

Testing and feedback in facilitated breakout sessions
Short introduction on aim and course of breakout sessions
Facilitated structured breakout sessions to discuss different aspects of the maquette.

The maquette is available from: www.europeana.eu. If you complete the relevant survey you will be entered into a draw to win a new iPhone!

12:15 – 13:00 Sandwich Lunch

13:00 – 14:00 Reporting back and Discussion
Chair: Mats Lindquist, Kungl. biblioteket - Sveriges nationalbibliotek

14:00 – 14:30 Final Session: Next Steps for Europeana
Chair: Monika Segbert-Elbert, Eremo srl

Work Package 1 – David Dawson, The Next Steps for Europeana

Work Package 2 – Stefan Gradmann, Europeana The Road Ahead