Ibero-American Science and
Technology Education Consortium
Consorcio Iberoamericano para la
Educación en Ciencia y Tecnología
Consórcio
Iberoamericano para a Educação em Ciência e
Tecnologia
NSF - CONACyT - ISTEC
Digital
Libraries Workshop
Alburquerque, New Mexico, USA * July 7-9, 1999.
1st Draft Goals of the Mexican Digital Libraries
Conference
A.) Draft goals of the Mexican Digital Library Working group.
1.) To support projects focusing on the development of digital collections
and associated services for utilization by wide user communities
2.) To promote DL R&D in key areas for national development
3.) To foster the generation of digital collections that promote Mexican
science and culture nationally and internationally
4.) To fully utilize the Internet 2 infrastructure and to provide a tested
for its applications
5.) To contribute to the development of expertise in DLs in Mexico
6.) To provide a general framework for new DL projects through the
definition of a research agenda and a general model for DLs
First Draft of Mexican Program for Digital Libraries
Mission: To provide information to all users in a form appropriate to
them, through building and exploiting Digital collections
Strategies (some)
Collections Generation
· To acquire and develop required technologies and Acerros
· To define legal frameworks
· To define standards
Collections Organization
· Interdisciplinary approach to user-driven projects (librarians and
computer scientists)
Services
· To foster R&D groups in computer science
· Fund-raising for DL projects
· International collaboration
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