CARARE - D6.5: CARARE International conference workshop 2011 (Final)

During the second year of the CARARE Project, Work package 6 specifies that a CARARE Workshop would be organised by NTUA to be held at an international conference. The European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL) was the suggested event, being held in Berlin in late September. NTUA duly submitted a proposal entitled “Achieving Semantic Interoperability in European Digital Libraries” which focussed upon Europeana, the metadata schemas and digital libraries and which was to be jointly sponsored by CARARE and EU Screen, another Europeana content ingestion project. However, the proposal was unsuccessful and an alternative event had to be selected. (Europeana did not feature in any of the selected workshops and the nearest in subject matter was on semantic archives and digital curation).

Fortunately, Erfgoed Nederland (a CARARE participant) organise a bi-annual conference “Digital Strategies for Heritage” which was to take place in December and as such, CARARE partners were invited to submit a proposal for a workshop. This resulted in one workshop proposal from the Swedish Heritage Board in conjunction with the Cyprus Institute plus two presentations from KNAWS-DAN and N303 providing very good coverage for the CARARE project.

The presentations and workshop are described in further detail in the following sections and this report concludes with the planned international workshops for the final year of the CARARE project.