Editorial

摘要

In December last year I attended the sixth triennial DLM Forum in Brussels[l] for the first time in a long while. Despite the economic constraints a large number of delegates filled the main hall and there was sometimes "standing room only" for the parallel sessions. There was a definite buzz in the breaks as everyone networked and shared thoughts on the conference sessions. The main conference theme was Interoperability and MoReq2010 - Making intelligent information control a reality in Europe. Invited to give one of the opening presentations to set the scene for the conference was quite a challenge, particularly in the wake of two excellent keynote speakers from the European Commission's Informatics Directorate-General (DIGIT) and the Federal Agency for ICT Belgium (FEDICT). However, many of our thoughts were similar or complementary.