Date: November the 9^th 2006 (14:30 – 19:00) during AAIA'06 Symposium

Organized by M-CAST project: http://www.m-cast.infovide.pl/english/index.html
Contact Person: Francesco Adolfo Danza ()

The workshop will address Digital Libraries from technologists and users perspectives, two separate sections are foreseen:

• S1:Emerging technologies, namely Natural Language Processing and Domain Ontology use to driven access to contents and interoperability.
• S2:Digital Libraries best practice and success stories.

14:00 Participant Registration.
14:15 Welcome.

Opening section:

14:20 An infrastructure of Language Resources and Language Technologies: why we need it?
Nicoletta Calzolari - Director of the Institute of Computational Linguistics of the National Research Council , Pisa, Italy (invited speaker)

Emerging technologies section:

15:00 BRICKS (Building Resources for Integrated Cultural Knowledge Services) Integrated Project researches and implements advanced open source software solutions for the sharing and the exploitation of digital cultural resources.
http://www.brickscommunity.org/
Massimo Bertoncini - Engineering S.p.A., Roma, Italy – Project Coordinator.

15:30 AXMEDIS (Automating production of cross media content for multi channel distribution) Integrated Project aims to create the AXMEDIS Framework on the basis of new technologies and to make it accessible for SME and research centers.
http://www.axmedis.org/
Ivan Bruno DISIT-DSI, Department of Systems and Informatics Distributed Systems and Internet Technology Lab – University of Florence, Firenze, Italy – Project Coordinator.

16:00 M-CAST (Multilingual Content Aggregation System based on TRUST Search Engine) an eContent Project to access search, and integrate the assets of large multilingual multimedia collections.
http://www.m-cast.infovide.pl/english/index.html
Borys Czerniejewski and Sebastian Lisek from Infovide, Poland – Project Coordinator.

16:30 Coffee Break.

Best Practice and applications section:

16:50 The Future is Now – JeromeDL – A Digital Library on Social Semantic Information Sources . JeromeDL is a joined project between the Main Library of Gdansk University of Technology and DERI. International . JeromeDL leverages achievements of both Semantic Web and Web 2.0 research and development (social semantic information sources) – to deliver user/communities friendly environment for gaining and sharing knowledge.
http://www.jeromedl.org/
Sebastian Ryszard Kruk – Lead Researcher, Project Manager – Digital Enterprise Research Institute -- National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland.

17:20 MICHAEL (Multilingual Inventory of Cultural Heritage in Europe) is an eTEN project which aims to provide simple and quick information about the digital collections of museums, libraries and archives from the participating countries.
http://www.michael-culture.org/project.html
Maria Sliwinska (The InternationalCentre for Information Management Systems and Services) ICIMSS, Torun Poland.

17:40 eRMIONE (E-LEARNING RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SERVICE FOR INTEROPERABILITY NETWORKS IN THE EUROPEAN CULTURAL HERITAGE DOMAIN) is an eTEN Market Validation project with the objective to lead the validation of the eRM (e-learning Resource Management) services in the cultural heritage domain.
http://www.ermione-edu.org
Anna Sydor – Head Office of State Archives – Poland.

17:55 EURIDICE (European Recommended Materials for Distance Learning Courses for Educators). The EURIDICE service is based on a combination of technical instruments, contents, networking platforms and community of users and providers, who jointly aim at offering an open and trustful environment to the educational institutions across Europe.
http://www.euridice-edu.org
Piotr Ryszewski from ICIMSS – Poland.

18:10 M-CAST From a Library Perspective.
Teresa Szymorowska from Wojewodzka Biblioteka Publiczna – Ksiaznica Kopernikanska w Toruniu Poland.

18:30 Conclusion.

19:00 End of workshop.