On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 08:17 -0500, Lars D. Noodén wrote: > OOo could have a presence at the 10th European Conference on Research and > Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL) which will be held in > September. > http://www.ecdl2006.org/
Unfortunate use of ECDL as the title as most people will think its to do with an IT qualification! > If there is someone here who might find themselves in Alicante, Spain in > September, the deadlines for posters, tutorials and demos have not passed: > http://www.ecdl2006.org/tutorials.jsp > http://www.ecdl2006.org/posters.jsp > > Seeing as OOo now supports OpenDocument and that five library associations > in the US felt the OpenDocument in important enough that they drafted a > letter of support to Massachusetts, that might be one topic, or the > database front-end, Base, or, the bibliographic reference functions, or > the licensing of OOo and OpenDocument. > > However, even just an overview of the advantages OOo could have for > libraries (both staff and visitors) might be an option. > > Some of the main themes this year are: > > # System architectures, integration and interoperability. > # Information organization, search and usage. > # Multilingual information Access and Multimedia Information Handling. > # User studies and system evaluation. > # Digital archiving and preservation: methodological, technical and legal > issues. Spain would be a good place to go as I visited twice recently and they are very friendly to Open Source migration. I could probably go but it would need some Spanish native speaker support. -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMS Ltd --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
