D-Lib Working Group on Digital Library Metrics 

This Working Group is aimed at developing a consensus on an appropriate set of metrics to evaluate and compare the effectiveness of digital libraries and component technologies in a distributed environment. Initial emphasis will be on (a) information discovery with a human in the loop, and (b) retrieval in a heterogeneous world.  

 Working Group Charter  
 Other Working Group Documents  
 Working Group Private Area  

This is an open working group, and anyone interested in the subject and in contributing to the work of the group is encouraged to join. For further information or to join the group, contact Ronald Larsen <rlarsen@deans.umd.edu>.  

The Working Group sponsored a Workshop on Digital Library Metrics, organized by Bill Pottenger and Bob McGrath, and held 27 June 1998, just after the DL'98 conference. 

The D-Lib Program is based at the Corporation for National Research Initiatives and is sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) on behalf of the Digital Libraries Initiative under Grant No. N66001-98-1-8908.

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