The ERES Digital Library: Online Access to Proceedings

This contribution presents the initial steps in the creation of a Digital Library consisting of previous ERES proceedings. The series of ERES conferences started in 1993, but their visibility has predominantly been limited to the ERES website. Sixteen conferences related to Real Estate resulted in an interesting output of over two thousands papers and it makes sense to offer them to a broader audience in an easily accessible way. Nowadays, average “annual paper production” amounts to approx. 200 entries and the use of this growing amount of information requires guidance. This includes the option to search for entries of a certain author (within a certain time span), as well a possibility to retrieve records on a specific topic related to Real Estate. First results on the gathering of initial content will be presented. At the time of writing over 1,500 entries are recorded. In the framework of this contribution, ideas on future developments related to the ERES Digital Library will also be presented.