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PITTSBURGH—The National Science Foundation (NSF)
has awarded an $86,078 grant to Ronald Larsen, dean of
the School of Information Sciences at the University of
Pittsburgh, and Howard Wactlar, vice provost for research
computing in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie
Mellon University, to conduct an NSF Post Digital Library
Futures workshop June 15 through 17 at the Wequassett Inn
in Chatham, Mass.
Following eight years of research in the development
of digital libraries technologies, resources, and services,
digital libraries have advanced from dream to reality,
producing major national projects such as the National
Science Digital Library. NSF is taking this opportunity
to refine and extend its long-term research agenda to
address the evolving challenges and opportunities of
advanced network-based information services.
According to Larsen, the workshop is intended to “build
more ubiquitous, comprehensive digital environments that
become interactive and functionally complete for research
communities in terms of people, data, information, tools,
and instruments and that operate at unprecedented levels
of computational, storage, and data transfer capacity.”
More than 40 national and international researchers
and scholars are expected to participate in the workshop.
The NSF hopes to engage the international community of
scholars, practitioners, and users to advise it on future
research needs and opportunities. Larsen said he anticipates
that the workshop and its proceedings will “spawn
a broader discussion throughout the research community
that will converge in substantial concurrence around
a final set of recommendations to help shape the future
of federally-sponsored research in this critical area.”
The proceedings will be available on the workshop Web
site later this summer. For more information, visit www.sis.pitt.edu/~dlwkshop/. |
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