WORKSHOP: The Science Community and a Digital Library for North Africa

拟议的资金将用于2010年11月/12月在华盛顿举行的一次会议，以确定和建立研究重点，并帮助建立一个框架，支持和维持致力于为北非创建数字图书馆和相关数字资源的机构之间的合作。该项目建立在前两次活动的基础上：2006年1月15-17日在埃及亚历山大亚历山大图书馆举行的“中东数字图书馆”研讨会和2007年1月25-29日在摩洛哥的拉巴特举行的“美国-马格里布教育、文化和科学数字图书馆研讨会”。 这两项活动都得到了NSF的部分资助。 拟议的会议将促进对话，并提供信息，通过先进的计算和网络能力，为北非马格里布地区创建新一代数字资源。 预计会议的结果将使其他国家的赠款机构、私人基金会和潜在供资者了解研究和基础设施建设工作的新机会，以扩大和维持与马格里布国家研究界的科学合作。该项目由信息和智能系统司以及国际科学和工程办公室共同资助。

The proposed funds are for a meeting in Washington, DC to be held in November/December 2010 to identify and establish research priorities and to help construct a framework that will support and sustain collaboration among institutions working toward creating a digital library and related digital resources for North Africa. The project builds on the results of two earlier events: the "A Digital Library of the Middle East" workshop held at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Alexandria, Egypt, January 15-17, 2006, and the January 25-29, 2007 "US-Maghreb Workshop on Digital Libraries for Education, Culture and Science" held in Rabat, Morocco. Both of these activities were funded in part by NSF. The proposed meeting will stimulate dialog and provide information that can improve efforts toward creating a new generation of digital resources for the Maghreb region of North Africa enabled by advanced computing and networking capabilities. Findings from the meetings are expected to inform grant-making agencies, private foundations and potential funders in other countries of new opportunities for research and infrastructure building efforts to broaden and sustain scientific collaboration with the research communities in Maghreb countries. This project is jointly funded by the Division of Information and Intelligent Systems and the Office of International Science and Engineering.