Wednesday, February 07, 2007

EDLproject 2nd Workshop / Vision statement

During the EDLproject 2nd Workshop in Vienna 31 January to 1 February 2007 the participants started to work on the creation of a vision statement for the European digital library.
Two wordsmiths in the shape of David Dawson of the MLA and Hans de Haan of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, The Netherlands went to work and came up with the following for input and comment.

Click on the below thumbnail to view the Vision statement keywords.


Click on the below thumbnail to view the 4 version proposals of the Vision statement.

Tuesday, February 06, 2007

Persistent Identifiers publication

During the 2nd EDLproject workshop in Vienna, Marian Lefferts, CERL (Consortium of European Research Libraries) Executive Manager promised to communicate the details of the report on Persistent Identifiers that CERL and ECPA published last year.

"Hans-Werner Hilse and Jochen Kothe, Implementing Persistent Identifiers: Overview of concepts, guidelines and recommendations. London / Amsterdam: Consortium of European Libraries and European Commission on Preservation and Access, 2006. ISBN 90-6984-508-3."

The PDF version is available at: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:7-isbn-90-6984-508-3-8

For further information, click here.

On Marian Lefferts' behalf, thank you.