OAF 4th workshop announcement

[Frank Scholze <frank.scholze _at__ ub.uni-stuttgart.de>]

Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen,

ich bin gebeten worden, Sie auf u.a. Konferenz aufmerksam zu machen.

Beste Gruesse
Frank Scholze

*** Apologies for cross posting ******



The Fourth Open Archives Forum will take place at UKOLN, University of Bath, UK, on the 4th and 5th

of September. The title of the workshop is: 'In Practice, Good Practice: the Future of Open

Archives'.



The event will focus on good practice in the implementation of open archives. A particular theme of

the workshop will be the use of the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting

[OAI-PMH] in the area of Cultural Heritage. The workshop will also be looking at the use of the OAI

protocol as a way of publishing information about university theses, and how that might contribute

to developing useful content for institutional (as opposed to subject-based) eprint archives.



The workshop will build on issues discussed during the whole project, and facilitate exchange of

information about best practice. The workshop will consider European experience of open archives

regarding technical issues, organisational issues and Intellectual Property Rights. A report on

organisational issues written by an OAForum working group will be presented at the workshop.

Breakout sessions will offer the opportunity to discuss issues of practice with others working at

the sharp end of implementation.



There also will be an introduction to one of the project's key deliverables: an online tutorial

which will give guidance to those wishing to implement a project using the OAI-PMH. This tutorial

will be based on the experience of the successful pre-workshop tutorials held in Lisbon (2002) and

Berlin (2003).



There will be a poster session to allow you to disseminate information about your project, and to

allow time and space (and coffee) for all-important networking.



There will be present a representative of the Open Archives Initiative as well as other important

figures in the open archives world. A panel session closing the second day of the workshop will

offer the opportunity to exchange views about the future direction of open archives, and about our

experience of the open archives approach so far.



Who should attend:

-> People from media service institutions, museums, digitization projects and librarians who are

considering making their repositories of information available via the Internet;

-> Technical, research and project managers who are interested in providing third party services for

interoperable open archives and libraries;

-> Decision makers in the area of libraries, media centres and museums looking for new strategic

opportunities to promote their organizations and working areas.



The Open Archives Forum is a EU funded project, whose purpose is to explore the possibilities of the

open archives idea in the European context, and to facilitate access to relevant information.

Further information and a draft programme will appear in the near future on the Open Archives Forum

website : http://www.oaforum.org/



Bath is a World Heritage City, famous for its Georgian architecture and its Roman Baths, as well as

its general beauty of aspect. The dinner on the first day of the workshop will be held in the

world-famous Guildhall, close by the Abbey and the Baths.



Workshop Contact:

Sara Hassen

s.hassen _at__ ukoln.ac.uk





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