[FYI] DESIRE Gateways

[Horns@t-online.de (Axel H. Horns)]

                    CORDIS RTD-NEWS/c European Communities, 1999. 

                    Record Control Number: 12893

                    Date: 1999-05-04

                    Category: Event

                    General Information:

                    A workshop entitled "Building National and Large
                    Scale Internet Information Gateways" is being
                    organised on 14 and 15 September 1999 in The
                    Hague, The Netherlands. It is being run by the
                    DESIRE (Development of a European Service for
                    Information on Research and Education) project,
                    funded by the European Commission. 

                    The workshop aims to consider the implications of
                    building gateways using international Web and
                    library standards. Subjects to be addressed will
                    include: 

                    - Internet cataloguing; 
                    - Metadata and Web standards; 
                    - Internet resource and discovery; 
                    - Tools and methods for building large-scale
                    Internet information gateways. 

                    DESIRE is a pan-European project promoting the use
                    of the Web within the European research community.
                    Supported by the European Commission, DG XIII,
                    under the Telematics Applications programme, the
                    project involves collaboration between partners
                    working in ten institutes from four European
                    countries - The Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and
                    the UK. 

                    Data Source Provider: European Commission, DG XIII

                    Document Reference: Based on an event announcement
                    from the DESIRE project.

                    Programme Acronym: FRAMEWORK 4C; TELEMATICS 2C

                    Subject Index Codes: Telecommunications;
                    Information, Media; Innovation, Technology
                    Transfer

                    Contact Person:

                    For further information, please visit the
                    following website: 

                    URL:
                    http://www.desire.org/html/subjectgateways/worksho
                    ps/work1-booking.html