During the last week in October, the IU participated in three interesting events all held in the Washington, D.C. area. On Tuesday afternoon, October 26th, at the Digital Library Federation’s (DLF) Fall Forum in Baltimore, IU’s Raymond Yee gave a talk entitled: Interactions of Emerging Gather/Create/Share End-User Tools with Digital Libraries.

Earlier, IU Director David Greenbaum addressed the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences — a session convened in conjunction with the DLF Forum.

To complete the IU’s week of presentations and discussions, Greenbaum and Yee traveled to George Mason University, where Roy Rosenzweig, Director of GMU’s Center for History and New Media (CHNM) had invited them to share IU’s strategies and visions for how to make digital materials more readily available to scholars, students and public communities.

The presentations served to disseminate some of the IU’s work and thinking to academic and professional peers, and also to continue to identify projects, and potential partners, working in areas of research, development and implementation that overlap with IU projects and technical developments.

A theme common to the IU presentations, and one informing all aspects of IU work, is the democratization of knowledge: creating ways and means to increase the availability and usefulness of knowledge created and archived in university and research communities, making it readily accessible to all public learners.

. . . Continue on to the IU News November 2004 page to read more about the October presentations.