Thanos C.
Digital Libraries
The DELOS conference this year takes over from the All-Tasks meeting, the annual appointment of the DELOS community where the scientific results achieved during the previous year are presented. This year, instead of the usual status reports from the various DELOS Tasks, we issued a Call for papers reporting the scientific achievements of the DELOS members during 2006. These "Working Notes" provide a good documentation of the DELOS activities during the last year. The idea is to produce from this volume a book published by a well known publisher. All the papers that have been submitted for the "Working Notes" will thus be reviewed by the DELOS Scientific Board acting as Programme Committee. This year we received 37 papers which represent a good coverage of the 27 scientific DELOS Tasks. In addition, we have two invited papers: "Semantic Digital Libraries (John Mylopoulos) and "Digital Libraries: From proposals to projects to systems to theory to curricula" (Edward Fox). The Conference is open to the larger Digital Library Community not only to the DELOS community. We have 114 registrations, half of which are not from DELOS members. This indicates an increasing interest in the DELOS research activities and the important role that DELOS plays in the European Digital Library scene. The Conference is surrounded by several satellite events. A number of meetings of the DELOS virtual clusters have been organized in order to promote the integration among the DELOS research teams In addition, a workshop on Ontology-driven Interoperability has been jointly organized by DELOS and the MultiMatch project. In conclusion we should like to thank all the contributors and the participants as their active involvement in the Conference has greatly contributed to its success. Particular thanks are due to Francesca Borri for her untiring and intelligent editorial work. Finally, let me wish all the participants a pleasant stay in Tirrenia and a fruitful Conference.
@inproceedings{oai:it.cnr:prodotti:160779,
title = {Introduction. DELOS Conference 2007 - Working Notes},
author = {Thanos C.},
year = {2007}
}