DL.org

DL.org (Coordination Action on Digital Library Interoperability, Best Practices, and Modelling Foundations) is an EU FP7 Co-ordination Action co-funded by the "Cultural heritage and technology enhanced learning" Unit that will start in December 2008. It aims at creating a framework where key representatives from major initiatives and ongoing digital library and repository infrastructure related projects may collaborate, discuss experiences, exchange expertise, work on interoperability of their solutions, promote shared standards, and provide the research community with a deeper understanding of key issues and new directions. The ultimate objective of this project is to integrate the many DL efforts that are currently on-going, each one acting in isolation and adopting ad-hoc solutions and methodologies. By operating such integration the project is expected to facilitate the rapid advance of research and the development of new techniques thus promoting the creation of a European Information Space.

The main mechanism that will be used by the project for achieving its objective is the formation of six Thematic Working Groups (WGs). Each working group will target one of the six fundamental concepts of any information system: Content, User, Functionality, Quality, Policy, and Architecture. Each group will consist of a small number of experts in the corresponding concept that will be drawn from prominent projects and initiatives currently running in Europe and around the globe.