Resumen
The first meeting of a new working group on multilingual information, Access for Digital Libraries was held last November in New York under the joint sponsorship of the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the European Union (EU). This working group is part of a larger international collaboration between the NSF and the EU bringing together the U.S. and European scientists engaged in digital library research to plan common research agendas, share research results and explore national, technical and social expectations about digital libraries. The multilingual working group includes researchers from information retrieval and natural language processing. It focuses on the problems of storage, accessibility and presentation of information in any of the world's languages. Meanwhile, other groups are addressing interoperability, metadata, intellectual property and commerce mechanisms, as well as resource indexing and discovery in globally distributed digital libraries. The long-term goal is to assist the multilingual information access community in identifying research directions toward which future efforts should be concentrated.