The Bibliotheca Alexandrina will host the 2nd International Conference on Universal Digital Library 2006 (ICUDL 2006) under the theme “Towards building the globally owned Universal Digital Library where human knowledge is equally preserved and accessed”.
The annual Million Book Project (MBP) workshop will take place in conjunction with the conference. The Million Book Project is considered the first milestone towards building this digital library with a free-to-read, searchable collection of one million books in various languages belonging to diversified cultures and civilizations available to people worldwide over the Internet. Partners from USA, China, and India will attend to discuss several issues relevant to the Million Book project and digital libraries. Topics such as information storage and management, search engines, image processing, Optical Character Recognition (OCR), copyright laws and digital rights management will be addressed during the workshop.
For more information about the 2nd International Conference on Universal Digital Libraries, please visit www.bibalex.org/ICUDL06/.
For more information about the Million Book Project, please visit www.bibalex.org/isis.