Travel Support for Activities of DELOS-NSF Working Group on "Digital Imagery for Significant Cultural and Historical Materials"

该提议是建立一个美国-欧盟/Delos关于“重要文化和历史资料的数字图像”的工作组。工作组将在明年举行会议，讨论和评价在这一一般性专题领域开展合作活动的富有成效的联合活动和研究途径。这项工作的欧盟部分由Delos论坛资助和管理，Delos论坛是欧洲数字图书馆研究和规划活动的主要组织者。DELOS得到了欧盟委员会信息社会技术(IST)第五框架方案的支持。这一努力延续了NSF-欧盟早先工作组进程开始的规划和评估活动。在1998年10月在布鲁塞尔提交的题为“数字图书馆国际研究议程”的最后报告中，加强合作和互动被认为是建立多语种、多国家数字图书馆的关键。新工作组的目标是确定特定主题的研究议程，并确定欧盟和美国研究人员之间的合作领域和活动。这一特别小组的努力通过评估与数字图像收集有关的富有成效的研究活动和资源开发，在规划进程中迈出了下一步。

The proposal is to establish a US-EU/DELOS working group on "Digital Imagery for Significant Cultural and Historical Materials". The working group will meet over the next year to discuss and evaluate fruitful joint activities and research paths for collaborative activities in this general topical area. The EU component of the effort is funded and managed by the DELOS Forum, a major organizer of digital libraries research and planning activities in Europe. DELOS receives support from the Information Societies Technologies (IST) 5th Framework Programme of the European Commission.This effort continues the planning and assessment activities begun by an earlier NSF-EU working groups' process. In their final report "An International Research Agenda for Digital Libraries", delivered in Brussels in October 1998, increased levels of collaboration and interaction was seen as critical to building multi-lingual, multi-national digital libraries. The objective of the new working groups, of which this is one, is to define a research agenda on a specific topic and identify areas and activities for cooperation between EU and US researchers. The efforts of this particular group take the next step in the planning process by assessing fruitful research activities and resource development related to digital imagery collections.