German-Austrian W3C Office at DFKI

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has opened its German-Austrian office at a new location: DFKI, the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence. This collaboration was celebrated on February 10th with an event in Berlin. Speakers from W3C, industry and DFKI as well as German ministries gave presentations and made the event a highlight for European politics, industry and research.

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Euro-India cooperation in Future Internet Research Experiments

by Sathya Rao

The FP7 funded MyFIRE project organised the first Future Internet Research Experiments (FIRE) workshop in Pune, India on 16 December 2010 together with itsIndian partners. The workshop was co-located with the ‘Beyond Internet’ conference. The aim was to identify common interests in developing collaborative European-Indian experimental research platforms to study the Internet of the future.

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DL.org Workshop on Digital Libraries, Open Access and Interoperability Strategies

by Stephanie Parker and Giuseppina Vullo

DL.org, an EC-funded Coordination Action on Digital Library Interoperability, Best Practices and Modelling Foundations, has adopted a comprehensive and innovative approach to top-level challenges in the field by harnessing the global expertise that exists through dedicated groups.

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