Breakout charge:
The Chatham workshop distinguished two major components of
a DL research program: (1) investment in long-term, exploratory,
basic research into fundamental issues underlying digital libraries,
and (2) investment in a sustaining infrastructure, including
near-term, incremental, applied research designed to advance
specific opportunities, address challenges and remove impediments
to progress. In the long-term research area, the following objectives were
proposed:
- Increasing the scope and scale of information resources
and services,
- Employing context at the individual, community,
and societal levels to improve performance,
- Developing algorithms
and strategies for transforming data into actionable information,
- Demonstrating
the integration of information spaces into everyday life,
and
- Improving availability, accessibility and, thereby,
productivity.
In the near-term infrastructure area, the following objectives
were proposed:
- Acquisition of new information resources
- Effective access
mechanisms that span media type, mode, and language
- Facilities
to leverage the utilization of humankind’s
knowledge resources
- Assured stewardship over humanity’s
scholarly and cultural legacy
- Efficient and accountable
management of systems, services, and resources
Charge for Session 1 –
Review the draft objectives for long-term research. How do
these relate to European perspectives and perceptions? Are
there significant areas that are missing? Within each area,
what do you see as the major challenges and opportunities?
What areas may be suitable for international collaboration?
Charge for Session 2 –
Review the draft of objectives for sustainable infrastructure
and near-term research. Are these consistent with European
needs? What is missing? Within each area, what are the most
promising opportunities and the most serious needs? What opportunities
do you see for international collaboration? |
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