CIDL Activities

CIDL activities centre on the following areas of digitization:

• Digitization best practices
• Roles and responsibilities for long-term archiving
• Access policies and practices
• Metadata
• Digital preservation issues
• Coordinated use of gateways and exchange protocols
• Rights management practices
• Communication strategies and resources
• Sponsorship of learning opportunities
• Funding issues
• Promotion and Advocacy
• Identification of potential collaborative digital library projects such as www.OurRoots.ca - Canada's Local Histories Online.

2006

• CIDL Ends Mandate: Invitation to join AlouetteCanada
• CIDL and AlouetteCanada: Joint Task Force
• CIDL: In discussion with AlouetteCanada since June 2006
• CIDL proposes new identity: Digital Canada numérique
• CIDL Metadata Survey draft report
• CIDL initiates review of Inventory of Canadian Digital Initiatives
• CIDL 2006 Workplan
• CIDL Steering Committee 2006-2007

2005

• CIDL supports Open Canada Digitization Initiative
• CIDL Metadata Working Group (2005) conducts Metadata Survey
• CIDL Sponsors Canadian Metadata Forum 2005
• CIDL meets with Canadian Culture Online (Canadian Heritage)

2004

• CIDL Responds to Library and Archives Canada Consultation
• CIDL forms Working Group on Metadata Standards (2004)
• Digital Canada numérique: Toward a common infrastructure for Canada
• CIDL Open Meeting Winnipeg June 3, 2004
• CIDL hosts Our Roots National Editorial Committee

2003

• CIDL sponsors Canadian Metadata Forum 2003
• Assessment of Organizational Options for Canadian Initiative on Digital Libraries

2002

• Open Meeting Quebec City November 1, 2002
• Canadian Newspapers Online: National Consultation October 7-8, 2002 (National Library of Canada)

2000

• Consultation Session on Electronic Theses December 4, 2000 (National Library of Canada)
• CIDL Membership Survey 2000