Designing multimedia (MM) in digital libraries and travel support for DELOS MM Workshop, Crete, Greece

建议：IIS-0334824机构：Simmons CollegePI：Ching-chih Chen这项建议要求为美国研究人员参加在希腊克里特岛举行的“数字图书馆中的多媒体(MM)设计”活动提供差旅支持。研讨会由欧洲数字图书馆研究和规划活动的主要组织者Delos Forum共同赞助。DELOS得到了欧盟委员会信息社会技术(IST)第五框架计划的支持。研讨会继续利用美国-欧盟/DELOS关于“重要文化和历史材料的数字图像”工作组开始的对话和研究议程，工作组在过去一年里举行了会议，讨论和评估在这一一般专题领域合作活动的富有成效的联合活动和研究途径，并就其结果编写并分发了一份有影响力的报告。重要的是，这次研讨会的议程将包括与最近伊拉克文物损失有关的紧迫问题。将与为探讨不可替代的文化遗产文物的补救和复原工作而召集的机构间努力协调解决这一问题。

Proposal : IIS- 0334824Institution: Simmons CollegePI: Ching-chih ChenThis proposal requests travel support for US researchers to participate in the "Designing Multimedia (MM) in Digital Libraries"to be held in Crete, Greece The workshop is cosponsored 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.The workshop contin;ues the dialogue and research agenda begun under an US-EU/DELOS working group on "Digital Imagery for Significant Cultural and Historical Materials" The working group has met over the past year to discuss and evaluate fruitful joint activities and research paths for collaborative activities in this general topical area and produced and circulated an influential report on their findings. Importantly, this workshop will include in the agenda pressing issues related to the recent loss of antiquities in Iraq. This will be addressed in coordination with an interagency effort convened to explore possible remediation and recovery efforts for irreplacable cultural heritage artifacts.