Digital Repositories: Interoperability and Common Services

["Joy Davidson" <british.editor@erpanet.org>]

*Apologies for cross posting*

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN

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Digital Repositories: Interoperability and Common Services
Wednesday 11 May - Friday 13 May, 2005
The Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH),
Heraklion, Crete

9th DELOS Network of Excellence thematic workshop

http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/delos-rep-workshop/intro.html

Registration is now open for a forthcoming workshop on the topic of
digital repositories.

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.

This is a joint workshop of the Knowledge Extraction and Semantic
Interoperability and Preservation clusters of the DELOS project. DELOS is
an interdisciplinary Network of Excellence funded by the European Union to
support the development of the next generation of digital library
technologies.

Workshop content:

The workshop will provide a forum to explore such topics as inter-working
between repositories, the role of repositories in enabling a workflow to
support the digital object life-cycle, the potential for common services
and interoperability amongst various types of repositories, mapping the
repository landscape, and developing a distributed repository
architecture. Contributions will be welcome from a technical and
organisational perspective.

Audience:

The workshop will provide a forum to exchange experiences and discuss
problems, requirements and solutions within the area of digital
repositories. The workshop will provide an opportunity for European
researchers coming from academia and industry to exchange ideas and
experience, and to meet with interested practitioners from application
communities. The workshop will enable different communities to learn about
the latest research developments in this field and will provide the
opportunity to disseminate the results of the workshops in the form of
workshop proceedings.

Registration:

The registration fee for this workshop is 70 (GBP).

To register please visit

http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/delos-rep-workshop/form.html

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