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Fedora repository conference in Wales October 24, 2005

If you've been reading about the Euro Fedora [repository] meeting and wished you could be there, luck has it that the National Library of Wales is also hosting a meeting next month, and although registration has closed perhaps the nice chaps there may still let you in :)

It's called Digital Asset Management with Fedora [repository].

To be held on the 24th October 2005

Hosted by Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / The National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, Wales, UK

Euro Fedora User Meeting 2005 - Fedora as an OAI-PMH (and WS) Compliant Data Provider

Fedora as an OAI-PMH (and WS) Compliant Data Provider (PowerPoint)
Ana Macario, Alfred Wegener Institute

* very data-centric organization
* involved in DataGrid

* SOA at AWI
[diagram of 2004]

In practice...
post-print -> repository
PI is supposed to release data when published, but by then, it is lost or there are excuses

So need Staging -> Publication

So: Fedora to do all this.

* Reasons for Fedora
- Virtual Repository
- not restricted to Dublin Core
- standards compliant
- etc.

[diagram of 2005]

currently using dc.source and dc.relation as a hack to express linkages,
convinced that proper way to do this is RDF/XML

Long-term issues
* Benchmarking for large number of files
* out-of-box web client acceptance
* fine-grained access control and Shibboleth based AuthN - relevant in DataGRID
* support for sets
* federation model
* collaboration and support
- disseminators for visualizations services; relevant for DataGrid
- Eclipse project to facilitate plugin devel
- Google strategy?
- seminars, tutorials for advanced Fedora users

Euro Fedora User Meeting 2005 - Researching Fedora to Serve as Central Repository System of the State and University Library

Researching Fedora to Serve as Central Repository System of the State and University Library
Stephan Drescher (PowerPoint)
and Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard (PowerPoint)

* National Library - digital preservation
* Storage Preservation
- as many different systems as different objects (currently)
- including both digitized and born-digital (IR and Webarchive)

working on automatic ingest
working on national infrastructure for institutional repositories, with infrastructure in charge of
preservation - national infrastructure for storage with redundancy etc.

Preferred preservation strategy: migration

working with Royal Library in Holland who have an emulation program running with IBM

Stephan: Archiving of Denmark's Broadcasting of Radio and Television (BART)

* covering 24/7/365
* 220 GB a day
* data needs to be evaluated and eventually corrected after 48 hours
* automatically ingested into repository

How to fit Fedora within Bart's resource workflow

Uses Linux and off-the-shelf.

80-100 TB a year

Q: are you going to put this data into the repository?
A: into the repository only references (to the raw data) will be input

Euro Fedora User Meeting 2005 - Institutional Repository In A Box

Institutional Repository In A Box (PDF)
Christian Tønsberg

DTU uses local (specialized) version of National Research Database

Current state:
- Data Production App: MetaToo
- Storage
- Indexer (zebra)
- Web Front (HTTP, java/tapestry, sru/srw)

want to talk to Fedora instead of National Research Database software
- generalize Data Production Application
- generalize Web Front
- should work out of the box

CVT Project Fedora2 (IR-in-a-box)
http://defxws.cvt.dk/projects/fedora2/

Euro Fedora User Meeting 2005 - 09:20 - Fedora Project Update

Fedora Project Update (PowerPoint)
Sandy Payette

version 2.1 of Fedora embodies the full core system they had envisioned

Fedora for Digital Archives and Records Management

interest in RDF capabilities

designed so that modules can be replaced

improved OAI provider service coming in 2.1, can also be used separately

objects stored as FOXML (Fedora Object XML)

variety of ingest/export formats
- FOXML, METS, METS 1.4, MPEG21 DIDL

Fedora 2.1
- introduce Fedora Service Framework (services distributed as part of the official distribution)
guarantee compatibility as Fedora evolves
- intro PROAI (OAI Provider Service) ? on sourceforge now ?
- intro directory ingest service

Authentication and Authorization improvements

* AuthN plugins
- HTTP basic auth
- Tomcat realms and login modules

* SSL

* AuthZ
- XML-based policies using XACML

developing a user interface for policy building

RDF-based Resource Index (RI)

* ontology of common relationships
* stored in Resource Index
- automatic index (using Kowari triple-store)

* RI search (search the repository as a graph)

* new in Fedora 2.1 for Resource Index
- scale and performance testing (NSDL 2 million objects, > 100 million triples)

RDF relaxed rules now permits relating to objects outside a specific repository.

There is a plan for federation and naming services.

improved logging using log4j

handle system plugin for PID generation

you can rebuiild the entire repository by crawling the FOXML,
there is now a Rebuild Utility for Repository Indices

FedoraClient utility class for building new (SOAP) clients

Fedora Future

2006
- better interface: FIRE client
- BPEL workflow engine
- advanced Fedora search
- preservation integrity
2007
- federation pid resolution
- preservation monitoring
- event notification (pub/sub)

Pathways InterDisseminator
- OpenURL access point

- "content model" specification language
- advanced object creation workbenches
- Shibboleth and Web Services security

Community Working Groups

- Preservation (Rutgers)
- Workflow (Peter Murray, OhioLink)
- Outreach (Rutgers)
  = improve Fedora web site
  = collaboration environment - Wiki, Confluence, other?
- Content Model Working Group (under charter)

There is a Fedora Advisory Board.
- define sustainability model

* there are collaborative development opportunties

* will put up a page on http://www.fedora.info/ for user-contributed tools

Info Grid 2005 - Monday 26th, 1:45 - Fedora service-oriented repository architecture

Fedora: A service-oriented repository architecture to meet the challenges of the "Info Grid"
Sandy Payette
Co-Director Fedora Project
Cornell University

Presentation: ppt (1.8M); pdf (2.5M)

Traditional roles for digital repositories
- collections management, scholarly publication, document discovery, storage and archiving
- these roles are evolutionary, not revolutionary
- document-centric

The future: Rich Information Networks
- documents
- data
- services
- actors

"This is the information grid, fully realized"

Signs of Change
- grid computing in sciences
- humanities computing: hyperlinked historical documents, online sites, tibetan digital library

Need to translate the broad info grid requirements into repository architecture.
- rich objects, dynamic objects, info integration, service-oriented repository architecture
- security and fine-granualarity access controls

Fedora
- XML, Web Services (SOAP/WSDL) as well as REST
- OAI, RDF, OpenURL
- version 2.1 coming

who
- NDSL
- OhioLink
- many others

Flexible Digital Object Model

Document = Aggregation + Annotation + Service + Data

use "disseminators" to connect objects to services

Benefits of Object Relationships
- Enable an "information network overlay"

[diagram of web services]

example
image/gif
disseminator: methods of images service (via WSDL)
disseminator: methods of metadata service (via WSDL)

Want Fedora to exist in a broader service framework.

[diagram of Fedora Service Framework (2005-2007)]

planning BPEL-based workflow engine (Fedora Workflow)

cross-repository

* Pathways Project
http://www.infosci.cornell.edu/pathways
- Next-generation scholarly communication system

* Pathways InterDisseminator Service

Fedora Security Architecture
- tomcat, ldap (pluggable modules)
- initial work on Shibboleth (developed by OhioLink)
- XACML-based policy enforcement: provides very flexible and granular control
- including controls on backend services

Fedora Devel Plans
- new services
- federated repositories and name service
- scalabilitya and performance
- tighter Shibboleth integration
- event notification - pub/sub
- new client apps
  = FIRE client
  == advanced scholarly workbench with workflow
  = tools for RDF browse

Fedora and Data Grid

- Storage Resource Broker (SRB)
- SRB as alternate backend for Fedora storage

Ongoing Research Challenges
- enable low barrier to entry
- better integration of objects and services
  = semantic service descriptions (OWL-S)
  = object to service dynamic matchmaking

~ "we need to build easy tools, on top of the services"
- distributed security, identity and polcy
  = interop of authorization policies
- preservation
  = how do you preserve a distributed aggregation? a dynamic resource?

www.fedora.info

Q: How much time to bring up a repository?
A: technology is easy (hours), the rest depends on you

Q: when will clients for ingest be avail?
A: some now, but FIRE (more sophisticated) next year

Q: Sustainability - what happens when funding runs out
A: developing a consortium, looking at possible models
UVirginia will maintain the code base for 7 years from the end of the funding.
Followup: he believes you need vendors for long-term sustainability
mentions VTLS

Q: do you index content of datastreams?
A: No.  That's really a separate service, use some other tool to do that.

Building the Info Grid 2005

In one week I will be at Building the Info Grid 2005 - Digital Library Technologies and Services.
It lines up well with my interests as it will be covering both Service-Oriented Architectures as well as Shibboleth-based distributed authentication.

I didn't really know much about Copenhagen (København), Google Earth was a big help to me in figuring out the lay of the land.

I made a placemark for the Copenhagen Business School:

Download CopenhagenBusinessSchool.kmz

I also found this map (PDF) of some hotels associated with the conference to be useful.

I have gathered a few bookmarks together under http://del.icio.us/rakerman/copenhagen

Following the Info Grid conference I will be at the European Fedora User Meeting.
(Note: That's the Fedora repository software, not the operating system.)

I made a placemark for building 101A at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU):

Download TechnicalUniversityDenmark-Lyngby.kmz

I also found this map (PDF) useful for figuring out the bus stops on the DTU campus.

I think I will have good Internet connectivity, I plan to blog the conferences under categories/tags InfoGrid2005 and EuroFedora2005.

I will have instant messaging on if you want to contact me, there is more info linked from my conferences page.

(Note: Due to TypePad MIME type issues, you may have difficulties downloading the placemarks.  In Firefox, right-click and use Save Link.)

e-science conferences

This event is an important element of ongoing efforts to achieve the broader goals of The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS - www.itu.int/wsis/ ). In particular, this workshop aims to promote development of institutional policies and guidelines for action in support of the “information commons” for e-science. The work plan comprises four objectives:

• Review opportunities/challenges for realising global collaborative e-science on the emerging "cyber-infrastructure."
• Review government and university mechanisms for managing publicly funded scientific information in the digitally networked research environment; identify problems and develop procedural solutions.
• Identify and analyse institutional, economic, policy, and legal benefits/drawbacks to providing public access to and unrestricted use of publicly funded scientific information.
• Put forward resolutions/recommendations that enable the scientific community to more effectively utilise publicly funded scientific data and information.

Creating the Information Commons for e-Science: Toward Institutional Policies and Guidelines for Action
September 1-2, 2005
Paris, France

CISTI's Director General, Bernard Dumouchel, will be chairing the session Open Archive - INRIA Activity in e-Science

INRIA, the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control, has launched in April 2005 an Open Archive dedicated to its scientific publications. INRIA is committed to the "archive open initiative" since it signed the Berlin declaration on "free access to knowledge in exact sciences, life sciences, human and social sciences", on July 25, 2004.

INRIA is convinced that such an open archive will increase its scientific visibility and impact, keep track of INRIA's scientific output, and be of use to the whole scientific community. INRIA's Open Archive is part of the HAL Open Archive, produced by the CCSD (Center for Direct Scientific Communication) (http://www.ccsd.cnrs.fr/) of CNRS, originally for physicists. INRIA is now collaborating with the CCSD for the future evolution of HAL [Hyper Articles Online]. By signing a framework agreement with CNRS, INRIA will build a pool of its scientific production, based on a self-archiving approach from research scientists.

HAL-INRIA is one of the recent outcomes of the DISC (Direction for Scientific Information and Communication), an INRIA department created in 2001, for defining and implementing INRIA policy regarding the access and dissemination of Scientific Information.

UPDATE 2005-08-22:  There is also an e-science conference in Australia coming up

1st IEEE Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing Dec.  5 – 8, 2005,   Melbourne  ,  Australia
http://www.gridbus.org/escience/

presentations from 26th Annual IATUL (International Association of Technological University Libraries) conference 2005 online

Presentations are linked from the Programme.

A few notable ones:

* Building Scholarly Information Infrastructure through Partnership

Achievement of the innovation agendas and eResearch initiatives which are being promoted in many countries, as well as the aspirations of the Millennium Declaration and the World Summit on the Information Society, depends on high quality scholarly information infrastructure

Alex Byrne, University Librarian, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

* A Researcher's Research Agenda for Scholarly Communication in Canada
Kathleen Shearer, Canadian Association of Research Libraries

* Reclaiming The Third Place: Libraries and their Communities in the Age of "Amazoogle."
Alane Wilson, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Dublin, USA

* Tapping the Global Information Base to Build an Innovative Knowledge Society

Access to and dissemination of scientific research data is fundamental to the advancement of science and researchers need rapid, unfettered use of data to remain at the cutting edge of research. However, rapid changes in the information infrastructure including e-publishing, digital content, on-line reference and searching provide both opportunities and challenges for policy makers and the technical library community. These and other issues will be the subject of this presentation.

Dr. Arthur J. Carty, National Science Advisor to the Prime Minister, Ottawa, Canada

* R&D @ Laval University Library -- Archimede and ETD's

Two of the three components of Université Laval library institutional repository will be briefly presented. The first one is called "Archimede", and includes a very effcient search engine called Lius. The second componenet is our ETD program.

Guy Teasdale, Directeur des services de développement et de support, Université Laval, Québec, Canada

* Institutional Repositories and Desktop Silos

XML-fuelled systems offer the opportunity to blur the lines between desktop computing and global collaboration in ways that could radically change the knowledge cycle. The long term success of Open Access and Institutional Repositories could be further assured by making it possible to publish and web-enable information much closer to the applications where it currently often lives.

Art Rhyno, Systems Librarian, University of Windsor, Windsor, Canada

Lorcan Dempsey's weblog: Repositories ain't what they used to be ...

Lorcan Dempsey with another insightful post on the future of library technology.  CISTI has been working very hard on this direction.  We have an Enterprise Architecture (EA) that helps us to think about the business and technology "target state" - the IT components we will need to achieve the goals defined in our Strategic Plan.  We will shortly (expect an announcement next week) be bringing up our second-generation full-text journal article repository, with several terabytes of article data.  And we are just in the process of learning how to build a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) using Web Services (where appropriate), based on the foundations of our EA.

Lorcan writes

I have just been looking at a presentation [pdf] given by Herbert Van de Sompel at Olybris 2005 in Kos.

Herbert sketches an environment in which libraries manage institutional intellectual assets in 'repositories'. Crucially, they will also facilitate the emergence of 'value chains' across repositories by building services which consume, aggregate, analyse, mine, link, recommend, .....

This service recombinance depends on agreed interfaces, which allow information objects to flow between repositories and between repositories and consuming applications. It is an example of how services will increasingly be oriented towards 'intermediate consumers', where systems, rather than humans, are significant users.

teiPublisher XML repository

teiPublisher was developed to bridge the gap between having a collection of structured documents that are posted on the Web as static HTML or XML pages, and having a functional digital repository. This is being done by providing the tools to manage an XML-based repository which will make available, search, and browse documents encoded according to any XML DTD.

teiPublisher was designed to provide the administrative tools to help repository administrators with limited technical knowledge manage their digital collections. Building on Lucene, an indexing tool, and the native XML database eXist, the application provides a range of administrative functions crucial to maintaining a web-assessable digital repository.

For more information about teiPublisher, as well as download instructions, please visit our website teipublisher.sf.net

from Library Technology Guides

presentations from international conference on institutional repositories

Presentations are up from International Conference on Developing Digital Institutional Repositories: Experiences and Challenges (December 9-10, 2004 - Hong Kong).

via Open Access News

Fedora 2.0 repository software

Fedora Version 2.0 Open-Source Repository Supports XML and Web Services, Cover Pages, March 18, 2005. A very extensive (unsigned) article profiling the software, diving into some technical detail on its three open API's, listing the 23 institutions using the software, and offering a slew of links to related tools and literature.

from Open Access News

these are the people in your repository neighbourhood

Carol Hixson has posted the results of her informal survey on institutional repositories. The survey focuses on the people implementing IR's, how many are involved at each responding institution and what backgrounds they have. Institutions that would like to respond after the fact may send their responses directly to Carol.

from Open Access News

JISC report on institutional repositories

Rachel Heery and Sheila Anderson, Digital Repositories Review, JISC, February 19, 2005. Excerpt: 'The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) Digital Repositories Programme is initiating a programme of work to assist deployment of digital repositories within the learning and research communities. ...Scholars need to share their research results (and the data these are based upon) more quickly and easily than is available to them through the usual publishing route and are therefore arguing that their publications should be deposited in e-print repositories, and the underlying data in either institutional or subject repositories for sharing with others.

...

Also see the report's Annex 1  (Focus Group Report), Annex 2 (Software Developers Survey), and Annex 3 (Teaching and Learning Perspective).

from Open Access News

Vers un accès libre aux résultats de la recherche

Vers un accès libre aux résultats de la recherche…Le CNRS, l'Inserm, l'INRA et l'INRIA créent des archives institutionnelles pour les chercheurs

L'accès à l'information scientifique est un enjeu vital pour le chercheur et pour la société dans son ensemble

La publication d'un article et, plus largement, toute communication faite par les chercheurs lors de colloques, correspond généralement à une avancée significative de travaux de recherche.

...

Southampton : Quatre établissements publics de recherche Français présentent leur politique en faveur du libre accès

Les quatre organismes ont choisi de se concerter pour mettre en place plus rapidement une politique commune, pour développer des archives ouvertes.

...

L'ouverture de ces archives institutionnelles CNRS, Inserm, INRA et INRIA dans l'esprit du mouvement du Libre Accès tel que défini dans la Déclaration de Berlin, ainsi que l'interopérabilité technique entre toutes ces banques de dépôts, assureront une plus grande visibilité des travaux des chercheurs en les rendant consultables gratuitement, notamment via les grands portails thématiques internationaux.

aussi: Le CNRS et les archives institutionnelles

UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) and Wellcome Trust

Funding the Way to Open Access, in PLOS Biology, Vol 3 No 3, March 2005 by Robert Terry, Senior Policy Adviser at the Wellcome Trust.

Imagine this scenario. You're the director of one of the world's largest medical research charities, and you receive notification from one of your funded investigators in Africa reporting some exciting progress toward the development of a vaccine for malaria. The work has just been published, so you log onto the Web to do a quick keyword search, and a link to the article is brought up on your screen.

Then imagine the frustration when you click on the link to read the message, “Access Denied—access to this journal is restricted to registered institutional and individual subscribers.”

And there's the rub: this actually happened to the Director of the Wellcome Trust.

...

the Trust has been in discussion with the US National Library of Medicine about the possibility of creating a UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) as a publicly accessible repository for Trust-funded research. 

UK PubMed Central

The proposal is that a UKPMC will be run as a proper electronic library: it will collect, collate, and archive whole journals and be developed to receive single articles as well. Submission will be as straightforward as attaching a document to an email. UKPMC will be able to accept manuscripts in any format, including Microsoft Word, and it will be the responsibility of UKPMC to convert the files it receives into extensible markup language (XML) to enable the appropriate document type definition (DTD) to be assigned. UKPMC will also correct the structural, content, and consistency errors that occur when converting text for digital preservation, and provide the conversion process to print a “clear” PDF version of included articles to those users who download them. This is a process well used by the National Library of Medicine, and the one most suited for the long-term, digital preservation of articles.

And once articles are in a digital format they can be searched and used in different ways. For example, genome sequence data, chemical compounds, or protein structures embedded within an article can be searched for in other articles and linked directly to genome or structural databases uncovering new genetic markers, drug uses, or protein functions. The articles themselves become live research material greatly improving the efficacy of the research itself.

via Slashdot Wellcome Trust to Require Open-Access Publishing /.
That title is a bit misleading, they're actually requiring articles to go into UKPMC within 6 months of publication.  They're not requiring that they must be published in OA journals.

the Trust will be making it a requirement of its grant conditions that Trust-funded researchers deposit an electronic version of their manuscripts in UKPMC to be made available for free via the Internet within 6 months of publication.

OAIster link to Yahoo

This is old (March 2004) but it talks about how Yahoo uses OAIster, to help get previously unindexed content into their search engine.

OAIster offers information that links to hidden digital resources   such as the complete contents of books and articles, technical reports, preprints   (unpublished works that have not yet been peer reviewed), white papers, images   of paintings, movies and audio files of speeches.

OAIster retrieves these elusive resources by tapping directly into the collections   of a variety of institutions using harvesting technology based on the Open   Archives Initiative (OAI) Protocol for Metadata Harvesting. The U-M's OAIster   service provides access to over 3 million harvested records describing and   pointing to these resources. Currently, the resources are created and hosted   by 267 research libraries and institutions from around the world.

Many of the scholarly collections included in OAIster were   not previously indexed in popular Web search services and remained hidden from   those who need the resources for their research. By enabling access through   Yahoo!'s CAP [Content Acquisition Program], these materials will be widely available to an international   audience of scholars, students, researchers and enthusiasts.

from U-M expands access to hidden electronic resources with OAIster

OAIster currently has
5,195,319 records from 444 institutions
(updated 4 March 2005)

institutional repositories - OCLC, Canada

Lorcan Dempsey writes about the OCLC Repository infrastructure, which is described in a March 2005 D-Lib article OCLC Research Publications Repository.

I think OCLC does amazing things.

The Institutional Archives Registry lists 26 repositories in Canada.

You might wonder, where is CISTI's repository?
Well, CISTI has no repository.
If anyone in the Government of Canada would like to let me know how we can actually get some support to build one, instead of running into a series of giant regulatory obstacles, please drop me a line.

summit on archives for science, tech, med (STM)

The ASIST will be presenting the Second Digital Archives for Science & Engineering Resources Summit (DASER-2) at the University of Maryland, April 29th to May 1st 2005.

The Summit will examine new issues and challenges related to digital archives and Science-Technology-Medicine (STM) publishing. This conference will explore issues surrounding digital libraries, institutional repositories and open access publishing, such as:

• Impact of OA on the future of STM libraries;
• Institutional repository models: what works and what doesn't;
• Publisher-library collaboration strategies, now and in the near future;
• Institutional repository object issues--theses, datasets, learning objects, etc.;
• User needs and patterns related to digital libraries.

They have a blog providing updates about the preparations for the conference.

from EngLib

The presentations from the previous summit are available.

eIFL Open Access project

eIFL.net (Electronic Information for Libraries) is launching a new Open Access Project. From the website: 'As many of you know, eIFL has been working closely with OSI's Open Access Project for the past three years. We are pleased to announce that we have formalized this partnership and will launch the eIFL Open Access Program in 2005. Through this Program, a Call for Interest will be issued for those eIFL member countries which would like to promote Open Access more widely within their countries. The selected countries will work with eIFL to hold Open Access workshops similar to that held in South Africa last July. The workshops will then be followed with assistance in establishing institutional repositories at leading research institutions within the country.

from Open Access News

UQAM - libre accès

(UQAM = l'Université du Québec à Montréal)

Dossier - Le mouvement de Libre Accès à la Recherche
BiblioCliQ - vol 2, num 1, automne 2004

Les bibliothèques de l'UQAM sont membres de l'Association des Bibliothèques de Recherche du Canada [ABRC] qui favorise la création de dépôts institutionnels et le Libre Accès à la Recherche.

Par ailleurs, dans son Plan de relance 2004-2010, le Service des bibliothèques mentionne qu'il a l'intention «de s'inscrire dans les mouvements nationaux et internationaux en vue d'encourager l'accès gratuit à la documentation savante par le biais de la mise en place de dépôts institutionnels» (p. 16) et qu'il prévoit jouer un rôle de support à l'édition des thèses et des mémoires en mode électronique, et à la diffusion des publications savantes par le biais de dépôts institutionnels (p. 31).

UQAM has a repository at eprints2.uqam.ca

U Southampton OA IRs workshop underway

Two one-day workshops, one a tutorial on practice, one a symposium on policy, held back-to-back provide a comprehensive overview of Open Access Institutional Repositories (OA IRs) in the UK, ...

Background

2005 is poised to be a breakthrough year for Open Access Institutional Repositories in the UK. JISC is set to announce a major call for projects on Institutional Repositories (JISC 2004). Following the lead of the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee (HoC 2004) -- which recommended mandating author-institution self-archiving of all UK-funded research output, as did the Congress-endorsed open-access plan now being implemented by the National Institutes of Health in the USA (NIH 2004) as well as by the Wellcome Trust -- the eight UK research councils are now considering how to increase access to UK research output. Open Access Institutional Repositories (OA IRs) are critical in supplementing existing access to peer-reviewed journals.

[UK] Open Access Digital Repositories: Leadership, Direction and Launch
January 25-26, 2005

 

DELOS workshop - Digital Repositories: Interoperability and Common Services - CFP

DELOS invites papers for a forthcoming workshop on the topic of digital repositories.  Initial submission and selection will be by extended abstract. The authors of accepted abstracts will be asked to submit a full paper for inclusion in the workshop proceedings.

Digital repositories as 'managed collections of digital objects' are an essential part of the architectural framework within many domains. In this workshop we will focus in particular on the role of repositories within e-learning and e-research and related digital library services, and will consider such repositories as providers of both preservation and access services.  Digital repositories support the requirements of a number of communities, and the workshop will welcome participation from content providers and practitioners, as well as those with a research interest in the development of repositories.

...

Abstract Submission Deadline:22 Feb 2005
Notification of Acceptance: 8 March 2005 (to be confirmed)
Full paper 22 April 2005 (to be confirmed)

May 11-13, 2005 in Crete.
see Digital Repositories: Interoperability and Common Services

via Ten Thousand Year Blog

NERCOMP Library IT SIG events

North East Regional Computing Program (NERCOMP) - SIGS - Library IT

They have had lots of interesting events including:

Sept 28, 2004  Integration Library Systems: Migration Strategies and Practice (although this event was cancelled, the presentations are still available)

June 9, 2004  DSpace: An Open Source Institutional Digital Repository

April 30, 2003  DSpace @ MIT: An Open Source Institutional Digital Repository