CDL: COLLABORATIVE WORKING IN A DIGITAL LIBRARY ENVIRONMENT

From: John P. Abbott <AbbottJP_at_appstate.edu>
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 12:29:11 -0400
To: colldv-l_at_usc.edu
From: Francesca Borri <francesca.borri_at_isti.cnr.it>

*Apologies for cross-posting*

Please circulate the announcement below to other interested persons 
and communities.  Thank you
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COLLABORATIVE WORKING IN A DIGITAL LIBRARY ENVIRONMENT at the D-Lib
Competence Center ISTI-CNR, via G. Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy

ERRATA CORRIGE ON DATES: 20-21 November 2003

http://dlibcenter.iei.pi.cnr.it

This is the announcement of a course on Collabortive Digital Libraries
environments.  The course, which will take place in Pisa on November
20-21, 2003 (1 + 1/2 day), is organized in the context of the Digital
Library Competence Center (IST-2001-32587), a project funded within 
the FP5 of the European Community. The competence center aims at 
providing specific user communities with access to advanced DL 
tesbeds, services, expertise and knowledge.

Courses at the Digital Library Competence Center are addressed to
librarians, archivists, scholars and technicians, and offer direct
experience of advanced digital library testbeds. Courses are free of
charge. Registration is requested, maximum number of participants for
each course is 10.

COLLABORATIVE WORKING IN A DIGITAL LIBRARY ENVIRONMENT

The aim is to provide a theoretical and experimental background on the
methods for organizing collaborative work among people accessing
remotely to heterogeneous, multidisciplinary digital archives.

The course is centred on the CYCLADES system
(http://www.ercim.org/cyclades), which combines several technologies
from the Information Retrieval and Digital Library area, where users 
and user communities deal with digital archives. CYCLADES provides a 
highly personalized environment where users may organize (and search 
into) the information space according to their individual taste and 
use, and, more important, it also provides advanced features of 
collaborative work among the users. It is up to the system to discover 
interesting properties about the users' interests, the relationship 
between users and user communities, as well as meaningful events that 
happen in user shared workspaces, and finally to notify the involved 
users according to their own preferences.

The course will teach the techniques and methodologies so that
institutions, user communities, groups of people, projects, etc. may
acquire the skill required to profitably use such advanced systems.

System documentation will be available

Teaching staff:
Umberto Straccia (umberto.straccia_at_isti.cnr.it)


Francesca
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Francesca Borri
ISTI-CNR
Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione
via G. Moruzzi 1
56124 Pisa, Italy
Tel: +39 050 315 3470
Fax: +39 050 315 3464
Email: francesca.borri_at_isti.cnr.it
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