Schöne Grüße, Susanne Dobratz.
|
Creating a European Forum
for Open Archives Activities
13-14th May 2002, Pisa Italy |
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The “open archives” approach is gaining popularity in the scientific, cultural
and learning communities. The technology adopted makes it possible to disseminate
and exploit content that is currently not accessible to the wider public
at a relatively low cost. If the full potential of this approach is fulfilled,
it will have a significant impact on the building of new and more powerful
service provision.
The Open Archives Forum (OA-Forum) is an EC 5th Framework Accompanying
Measure for supporting the dissemination of information about European activities
that adopt an open-archives based approach. OA-Forum aims at building a forum
where European and national initiatives that use this approach can share
their experiences and co-ordinate the development of software tools and
infrastructures. Special attention is dedicated to those initiatives which
are implementing or using the Open Archives Initiative Metadata Harvesting
Protocol (<
http://www.openarchives.org
>), but the forum is also
alert to other emerging solutions.
The First OA-Forum Workshop seeks to bring together researchers, technical
implementers and project managers who are experimenting, or are willing to
experiment, with the open archives
approach. The goal of the Workshop is to set up the basis of a European
forum for sharing experiences and solutions
, and encouraging networking among projects. In order to achieve
this objective, the workshop
will consists of presentations given by invited speakers
as well as small group sessions
where participants can discuss key issues, possibly raised during the workshop
itself. Possible topics are:
* Communities
What communities can benefit from the open archive approach? Do incentives,
technical and organisational challenges, etc. differ in different communities?
Which communities are already implementing the Open Archive Initiative Metadata
Harvesting Protocol or other solutions? What kinds of services are emerging?
* Definition of the key vocabulary
Can we agree on
basic terminology? What are the main concepts that are used
in the open archive everyday activity? Do these
concepts differ for different communities? Are the definitions of these concepts
clear? Can we jointly build a glossary
?
* Organizational Issues
What lessons about organisational issues, both
barriers to adoption and positive factors, can we learn from early adopters?
Which are the business models adopted? Are there
issues related to subject-based archives as opposed to institutional-based
archives? Can organisations reach consensus on metadata formats?
* Technical issues
Which kind of software tools are needed to support the open archives approach?
What tools are already being used? Who is developing them?
In
* Building services in an open archive environment
What lessons have been learned by early-adopters of the open archives approach
in the context of service provision? Can we extend openness to services?
How can this be supported? What
kind of organizational and technical infrastructures are needed to facilitate
this development?
The discussions and results of the Workshop will be summarised in a Workshop
report that will be published on the OA-Forum Website.
Who should attend
People from organisations or projects that implement, or are considering
implementing
, open archives. Technical, research and project managers who are interested
in the open archives approach.
Invited Speakers (to be completed)
Fabio Asnicar, International School For Advanced Studies, Italy --
Francoise Genova
, Strasbourg Astronomical Data Center, France
-- Michael Nelson, Old Dominon
University, USA --
Venue
13-14th May, 2002
CNR
Area della Ricerca di Pisa,
Via G. Moruzzi, 1
Pisa (Italy)
The registration form and the workshop agenda
are available on the Project Website (
http://www.oaforum.org
).
If you have queries please do not hesitate to
contact Donatella Castelli
(tel. +39 050 3152902,
castelli _at__ iei.pi.cnr.it
) or Francesca Borri
(tel. +39 050 3153470,
borri
_at__ iei.pi.cnr.it
)
.
Booking deadline: