Main discussion in EuroCRIS Platform group

(Dejan Dinevski)

-         Bibliographic service background as a tool.

-         Mulitilingual thesaurus (Ortelius) + classification schemes.

-         What kind of tools (search engines…) do we need for creating metaCRIS?

-         How to solve interface problems?

-         Collaboration between CRIS-es.

-         New aproaches (multimedia…)

-         Use of Metadata

-         Commercialization of R&D results.

-         From documentation to information (historical consolidation of data).

-         How could we be financed for our projects?

-         Electronic full-text self publishing (master and PhD thesis, electonic journals), format: HTML, PDF -> XML

Decisions:

1. Next EuroCRIS Platform meeting in May 2001 in Brussels:

-         Organization of the CRIS 2002 conference

-         Multimedia (Walter)

-         Classification (Franz)

-         Metadata techniques, search engines (Soren, Claes)

-         Case studies

2. Next CRIS conference - CRIS 2002 in Kassel, Germany

-         Orientation and structure of the conference

-         Topics

-         Organizing commitee

-         The dates