Extending the multilingual capacity of The European Library in the EDL project
Stockholm, Swedish National Library, 22-23 November 2007

Programme

Day 1

Morning: 9:30-11.45
Welcome from the Swedish National Library

Introduction
Presentation of the agenda and practical arrangements
General overview of the work package 2 / Maja Žumer, National and University Library of Slovenia and Genevieve Clavel, Swiss National Library

Session 1: Cross language subject access to data : results and future plans
Chair: Genevieve Clavel

• MACS : multilingual access to subject and link management / Patrice Landry ; Swiss National Library

10:30-10.45 Coffee break

• Integrating:  MACs links into The European Library portal : a prototype / Sjoerd Siebinga ; The European Library Office (including demonstration)
• After EDLproject: controlled vocabularies in TELPlus / Antoine Isaacs, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Discussion (included in the times above)

11:45 – 12:45 : Library visit

12:45 – 13:30 Lunch

Afternoon session 13:30 – 17:00
Chair: Sjoerd Siebinga

Session 2: Searching free-text: identifying languages and moving to cross-language access

• The FAST index engine and its linguistic tools / Torstein Thorsen, FAST
• CACAO : multilingual access to bibliographic records / Luca Dini, President of CELI s.r.l. and CELI France SAS

14: 45 – 15:00 Coffee

Session 3: Interoperability in the cultural heritage sector
Chair: Maja Žumer

• FRBR and CRM : the way ahead / Trond Aalberg, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Dept. of Computer and Information Science    
• Querying federated data from museums and archives in Sweden / Fredrik Palm, Umea University, Sweden [abstract]

General discussion of the first day and summing up

Group dinner

Day 2

9:00-12:00
Chair: Patrice Landry

Session 4: The future of authority control

• Subject access : the Swedish approach / Pia Leth, Swedish National Library
• Mapping name authorities: VIAF / Christel Hengel, German National Library
• Mapping Dewey and Subject authorities: CrissCross / Helga Karg, German National Library

10:15 – 10:30 Coffee

• Authority Files and Web 2.0: Wikipedia and the PND - An Example / Patrick Danowski, StBB [abstract]  
• Authority control wrap-up: trends and challenges for libraries / Paula Goossens, Royal Library Brussels

11:30 – 12:00 Final discussion and summary