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

拟议的资金将用于将于2010年11月/12月在华盛顿特区举行的一次会议，以确定和确定研究优先事项，并帮助构建一个框架，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。该项目借鉴了早先两次活动的成果：2006年1月15-17日在埃及亚历山大亚历山大图书馆举办的“中东数字图书馆”讲习班，以及2007年1月25-29日在摩洛哥拉巴特举办的“美国--马格里布教育、文化和科学数字图书馆讲习班”。这两项活动都得到了国家科学基金会的部分资助。拟议的会议将促进对话，并提供信息，以改进为北非马格里布地区创造新一代数字资源的努力，使其能够利用先进的计算和网络能力。会议的结果预计将向其他国家的赠款机构、私人基金会和潜在的资助者通报新的研究和基础设施建设机会，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和国际科学与工程办公室联合资助。

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.