History of ECDL

The ECDL Conference Series started in 1997 in conjunction with the activities of the first  DELOS Working Group. The Working Group, partially funded by the European Union, laid the foundations for the establishment of an European Research Community on Digital Libraries. ECDL has become the major European forum focusing on digital libraries and associated technical, practical, and social issues, meeting the needs of a large and diverse constituency, which includes practitioners, researchers, educators, policy makers and users.

For more information please see the European Digital Library Conference website.