Digital Library Workshop

 Here is the agenda for the CSG Workshop on Digital Libraries to be held
at the San Diego Hilton on Thursday, January 8, 1998, beginning at 8 a.m.
The Technical Architecture Committee of the Digital Library Federation
will lead the workshop.


1. Introduction and overview - Donald Waters, Director, Digital Library
Federation (10 minutes)


2. Summary of digital library developments at selected locations (20
minutes)


-- National Digital Library Project - Caroline Arms, Library of Congress
-- The Making of America Project, Part II - Bernie Hurley, University of
California at Berkeley


3. Digital library components and architectural issues - Dale Flecker,
Harvard University (90 minutes)


Dale Flecker, who chairs the Architecture Committee, will lead an
interactive discussion with CSG. He will call on other members of the
Committee to define selected technical components of digital libraries,
the interrelationships among them, implementation options, open
questions, and implications, and invite detailed comment from CSG
members.  The components and issues to be highlighted in the discussion
include types of digital content, technologies for discovery and
intellectual access, conversion, archiving, licensing, security,
naming, printing, and billing, and the challenges of providing
sufficient network capacity, desktop facilities, and support.


4. Conclusion and next steps (30 minutes)


The Digital Library Federation (DLF) was established in 1995 to establish
the necessary conditions for creating, maintaining, expanding, and
preserving a distributed collection of digital materials accessible to
scholars, students, and a wider public.  The charter group that founded
DLF consists of 15 research libraries and archives (Columbia, Cornell,
Emory, Harvard, Library of Congress, National Archives, New York Public
Library, Penn State, Princeton, Stanford, University of California at
Berkeley, University of Michigan, University of Southern California,
University of Tennessee, and Yale).  There are three new DLF
participants: Indiana, University of Minnesota, and University of
Pennsylvania.  The Technical Architecture Committee of DLF is chaired by
Dale Flecker (Harvard) and includes Caroline Arms (Library of Congress),
Bernie Hurley (Berkeley), David Millman (Columbia), John Price-Wilken
(Michigan), and Steve Worona (Cornell).