Partners in SCHEMAS

PricewaterhouseCoopers Subsidy and Technology Consultants:

PricewaterhouseCoopers is based in The Hague (The Netherlands) and Luxembourg, is part of the world-wide PricewaterhouseCoopers network of Management Consulting Services. It provides specialised technical and management consultancy to government and industry in the field of industrial innovation. Expertise includes specifically: E-business and E-government; information technology and new media; (project) management; and strategic planning of research and development assurance. PwC is the project co-ordinator for SCHEMAS.

UK Office for Library and Information Networking

UKOLN is a national focus of expertise in network information management. It provides policy, research and awareness services to the UK library and information communities.

UKOLN is funded by Resource: The Council for Museums, Archives & Libraries (the organisation succeeding the Library and Information Commission), the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) of the Higher Education Funding Councils, as well as by project funding from the JISC and the European Union. UKOLN also receives support from the University of Bath where it is based.

German National Research Centre for Information Technology

GMD is the German National Research Center for Information Technology. It conducts research in four key areas of information technology: system design technology, communication and cooperation systems, intelligent multimedia systems, and scientific computing. GMD's research and development activities are application-oriented, and the relevant projects closely cooperate with partners from industry and science.

Legally, GMD is a non-profit, limited liability private company (GmbH). It has a staff of 1000, plus 250 students, doctoral candidates, and trainees. Its total annual budget is approximately DM 180 million, roughly 30% of which comes from project work and cooperation with industry. Four of its eight research institutes are located at GMD's headquarters in Sankt Augustin, two research institutes each are located in Darmstadt and Berlin, and there is a liaison office in Tokyo. Its shareholders are the Federal Republic of Germany and the Federal States of Hessen, Berlin, and North Rhine-Westphalia. It is a member of the Hermann von Helmholtz Association of German Research Centers (HGF).

In the area of Digital Libraries, GMD is developing intelligent interaction and presentation interfaces; advanced tools for cooperative work; tools for exploring heterogeneous and dynamic resources; and several types of digital libraries. Most of this research is conducted in the DELITE group of the Integrated Publication and Information System Institute (IPSI); in the Value-added Services group (VaS) of the Institute for Media Communication (IMK); and in the GMD Library.