Description
IT First @ Centre Internationale de Conferences Geneve
The death of paper: digital libraries & e-
archiving
CONTEXT
As computers are integrated into every aspect of
modern
organisations, much of the information that used to be
stored on paper is being moved to digital storage
systems.
These offer many new ways to organise, access and
analyse
documents, providing organisations with novel sources
of
valuable information. However, if implemented badly,
e-archiving can be worse than paper, with valuable
data lost
forever or winding up in the wrong hands. As a result,
digital libraries and e-archiving are now a hot topic in
political, business, scientific and cultural circles.
Taking advantage of EGEE’06, a major gathering in
Geneva of
over 500 experts on Grid technology, Rezonance has
organised
a special First on this topic in collaboration with CERN
openlab and EGEE (Enabling Grids for E-sciencE),
Europe’s
largest Grid infrastructure project. Grid technology
provides seamless access to distributed data and
processing
capacity on a global scale, and is a promising
infrastructure for digital libraries to share information –
either within businesses and international
organisations or
within virtual organisations, such as scientific
communities, or even with the general public, providing
access to cultural heritage via the Internet.
OBJECTIVES
The event features experts from CERN, WHO, leading
digital
library and e-archiving research initiatives in Europe,
and
solution providers from the IT industry. They will outline
the state-of-the-art, illustrating their presentations with
examples from communities and organisations with
enormous
amounts of documents that must be digitised. Whether
you are
facing e-archiving challenges, developing digital library
solutions, or simply keen to keep abreast of this
fast-moving field, this event will provide you with a
glimpse of the future. And the future is paperless.
Really!
