Develop a set of innovative Digital Library User Tools and Services that implements a workflow allowing communities of practice to create, interpret and use their own personalised digital interactive cultural and scientific experiences using multimedia, 3D, virtual and augmented realities, thus enhancing learning through innovative technologies.  The workflow consisting of creation, archival, exposition, visualisation and interaction services that operates on documents, 3D and multimedia data.

Develop a set of novel Digital Library Content Creation Services that allow communities of practice to create their own multi-format and multi-source digital objects (these services will create actual digital 3D objects using 3D reconstruction methods such laser scanning, photogrammetry, other data from sensors attached to cameras such as gyroscopes, wi-fi and Bluetooth devices, not just text and images) and resources and place them into a community based digital library for preservation and reuse in a heritage based data, information, knowledge, wisdom hierarchy, while observing appropriate standards such as GML, MPEG7, CIDOC.  Preservation metadata, e.g. retention priorities, will be used to allow the system to deal appropriately with the long-term storage of the data.

Develop innovative Digital Library Archival Services that requires zero maintenance from the ‘community of practice’ and allows users to index, retrieve, aggregate, preserve, use and creatively exploit digital resources and their integration into a sustainable large scale digital library service, with an emphasis on digital preservation methodology. All information archived will be assigned appropriate preservation metadata to determine if long term preservation is required.

Develop Digital Library Exposition Services that allow communities of practice to publish their own multimedia heritage experiences for the web or local memory institutions, using existing ICT infrastructure such as broadband, home computers, displays and webcams, as virtual museum expositions. These too will be assigned appropriate metadata to indicate their preservation requirements.

Develop Digital Library Visualisation and Interaction Services that allow communities of practice to visualise their own multimedia-based heritage experiences in a multi-lingual and multi-disciplinary context, using virtual, mixed and augmented realities on the web, and more importantly allow the community to interact with their digital objects using innovative multimodal interfaces developed from cost effective gaming interfaces.

Specify and implement for the ‘community of practice’ a large scale Digital Library Applications and Services that use a service-oriented approach, and utilise a distributed application framework to provide semantic  based search and digital preservation services that will handle multi-format and multi-source digital objects as specified through a common resource discovery framework.  Figure 2 illustrates our Digital Library in terms of its management and distributed access services that serves the communities’ Portable Antiquities collections.

Develop a set of Digital Library Management Services including: 1) rights description and management schemes to ensure the ownership of, and rights to use, digital resources are respected, using off the shelf DRM technologies where applicable; 2) identity, trust and security services to ensure that usage policies are respected, 3) discovery services that use semantic descriptions of data and application; 4) a self organising database and file system management service to provide distribution and storage of digital Portable Antiquity repositories in distributed environments.

Develop a Digital Library Distributed Application Framework that allows the communities’ digital content and resources to be shared over a distributed network infrastructure. This in effect provides the low level ‘protocols’ needed to convert the Digital Library Applications and Services into a coordinated and shared digital library resource using management services tools to facilitate creation, preservation and access to community based digital objects using the heritage based data, information, knowledge, wisdom hierarchy.