Summary of Research Agenda European and United States scientists are engaged in large-scale digital library research and development. However, although digital libraries are inherently global, these researchers have not had an opportunity to work together. Both the U.S. and Europea n Union groups understand that there are technical, social and economic issues that require joint exploration and that they must have the opportunity to meet regularly to coordinate research; to share research results; and where possible, to consider the different national, technical, and social expectations about digital libraries (DLs). To meet this challenge for an international DL research agenda, five working groups have been established in key technical areas. These groups will meet twice over a two-year period to foster an international community of DL researchers and will focus on generating joint research agendas. They will examine issues related to Interoperability, Metadata, Optimized Retrieval, Intellectual Property/Economics, and Multilinguality. These meetings will serve as the basis for the researchers to define critical research questions through which joint research proposals will emerge. In addition, to ensure proper intellectual coordination and linking among the groups, all the working group leaders will meet together once during the two-year period. Current Info/Documents Brussels Documents Meeting Schedule Meeting Reports Travel Reimbursement - US Travel Reimbursement - EU Working Group Leaders Interoperability      Leaders: William Birmingham, U.S. and Hans-Joerg Schek, Europe Metadata      Leaders: Thomas Baker, Europe and Clifford Lynch, U.S. Intellectual Property and Economics      Leaders: Christos Nikolaou, Europe and Michael Wellman, U.S. Resource Indexing and Discovery in a Globally Distributed Digital Library      Leaders: Norbert Fuhr, Europe and Carl Lagoze, U.S. Multilingual Information Access      Leaders: Judith Klavans, U.S. and Peter Schauble, Europe Materials of General Interest Interoperability, Scaling, and the Digital Libraries Research Agenda:A Report on      the May 18-19, 1995 IITA Digital Libraries Workshop. Clifford Lynch and      He ctor Gar cia-Molina.      http://www-diglib.stanford.edu/diglib/pub/reports/iita-dlw/main.html Project Funders This project has been sponsored jointly by: The National Science Foundation, through the University of Michigan The European Union, through the DELOS Working Group.