Key Areas for Development

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Key Areas for Development

• Team Members
• Miguel O. Arias Estrada, INAOE
• Ismael Esquivel, Universidad Cristóbal Colón
• Clara López Guzmán, DGSCA-UNAM
• Yolanda Martínez Treviño, ITESM Campus Monterrey
• Fernanda Meraz, UNAM
• Alvaro Quijano, Colegio de Mexico
• David Sol, Universidad de las Américas-Puebla
• Juan Eduardo Vargas, University of South Carolina

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Key Areas for Development

• Education (develop academic resources for
  students and teachers at all levels)
• Health (electronic patient records, telemedicine,
  remote access to on-line medical DLs from rural
  areas)
• Environment (develop Geograhical Info Systems,
  GIS, for environment protection, remediation,
  urbanization, farming, assessment of resources)

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Key Areas for Development

• Develop emergency action repositories to
  disseminate information during earthquakes,
  hurricanes, etc.
• Develop DLs to provide businesses with info on
  market economic trends, intra-organizational
  tools, etc.
• Develop DLs in support of small and emerging
  businesses
• Develop DLs to provide public access to law
  libraries and legal procedures

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Promotion of DL RD

• Definition of open source standards Protocols,
  technologies, tools, procedures, formats, to
  promote library interoperability
• Organize workshops, conferences, seminars,
  involving academic institutions, industry,
  service sector, and government.
• Design a world-class National DL website
• Promote the concept of DL as a didactic tool, as
  calculators are to engineering

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Promotion of DL RD

• Have pilot demo projects with measurable impact
  of DLs, e.g., measure social outcomes, such as
  improvement of health or education caused by DLs
• Disseminate DL activities at the highest level,
  showcasing examples selected from competitions
• Encourage RD on metrics to compare tools,
  technologies, etc.
• Have on-line info on national and international
  research funding opportunities (á la FEDIX)

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Human Resources Development

• Virtual courses focusing on tools, how to create
  and use DLs
• Organize workshops, conferences, seminars,
  targeting students.
• Promote undergraduate and graduate DLs programs
  as first as minor tracks within already
  established curricula (Computer Science, Lib.
  Sciences, etc) then as programs of their own

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Forum Suggestions(from Ed Fox)

• Translate banks (e.g. Lesk) into Spanish
• Have DL courses at universities, on-line,
  tutorials
• Have Spanish translation of Dlib Magazine
• Highly visible heritage resources made usable for
  K-12 students

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Other Ideas(from Juan Eduardo Vargas)

• Seek interdisciplinary collaborations with
  researchers in potentially related areas, such
  as
• Data mining
• Language translation focused on from- and to-
  Spanish
• Speech recognition focused on the Spanish
  language
• Articulate strategies for sustained development
  and growth of DL research
• Seek support at the highest levels of government
  and private sector Use the analogy of cellular
  phones, which bypassed the cost of phone lines
  infrastructure in developing countries, to
  exemplify how DLs can also bypass investment
  while providing public access to information.