Share.TEC First Year Report - D1.3 Annual Report #1

First annual report documenting progress in the Share.TEC European project. Share.TEC has undertaken to build an advanced user-focused system that aggregates metadata describing TE-related digital resources located Europe-wide. The system aims to offer personalized, culturally-sensitive brokerage for the retrieval of relevant digital content and to nurture a more Europe-wide perspective among those working in and with the TE community. The specific Share.TEC objectives that have been pursued during the first project year are: - Semantic, linguistic/cultural and technical interoperability; - Fostering reusability; - Provision of an effective means for describing heterogeneous TE resources while maintaining compliance with international standards and specifications; - Overcome resistance to solutions "Not Invented Here"; - Provision of an effective brokerage system for TE.