First DRIVER Summit: Goettingen 16-17 January 2008 Stevan Harnad 16 Jan 2008 03:18 UTC
** Apologies for Cross-Posting ** First DRIVER Summit: Towards a Confederation of Digital Repositories 16-17 January 2008 Goettingen, Germany http://www.driver-support.eu/multi/DRIVERSummit.php DRIVER responds to the vision that all relevant scientific content should be easily accessible through internet-based infrastructures. Achieving this vision reaches beyond technology - it is also the organisational dimension that allows a stable and trusted network of content providers. DRIVER is working with repository federations in Europe, and reaches out to further international communities (for example in the US, China, India, and Africa) in order to determine the practical requirements for a confederation of digital repositories. Wednesday, January 16, 2008 13:00-13:15 Opening Address (Norbert Lossau, DRIVER) 13:15-14:00 Opening Keynote - EC Research Infrastructure & Digital Repository Roadmap (Mario Campolargo, EC) 14:00-14:30 Organising Infrastructures: Experiences from D-Space, Open Content Alliance and other community efforts (Michele Kimpton, D-Space Foundation) Chair: Sylvia van Peteghem, DRIVER 15:00-15:30 DRIV(ER)ing Research Infrastructures (Yannis Ioannidis, DRIVER) 15:30-16:00 Growing Repositories (Bill Hubbard, DRIVER) 16:00-16:30 Repository Landscape - DRIVER Studies (Kasja Weenink, DRIVER) Chair: Sijbolt Noorda, EUA 17:00-18:30 Panel Discussion "Open Access and Repository Infrastructures": Responding to the "Council Conclusions on Scientific Information" Thursday, January 17, 2008 Chair: R Ruediger Klein, ESF (tbc) Optimising DRIVER Policy for the OA Mandate and Metric Era (Stevan Harnad, Universite du Quebec a Montreal & University of Southampton ) http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/Temp/harnad-driver.mov 09:30-10:00 Challenges in DRIVER-II (Donatella Castelli, DRIVER) Chair: Carlos Morais-Pires, EC 10:00-10:30 Disciplinary Repository Projects EuroVO-AIDA: Astronomical virtual observatories, repositories and data access (Sebastien Deriere, Thomas Boch) METAFOR -- Climate Modelling (Michael Lautenschl äger) 11:00-12:30 Disciplinary Repository Projects Genesi-DR -- Earth Science (Luigi Fusco, Donatella Castelli) D4Science -- Environmental Monitoring (Donatella Castelli) eCrystals -- Crystallography (Simon Coles, Liz Lyon) OLAC: The Open Language Archives Community (Gary Simons) Language Resource Management and Discovery in CLARIN (Peter Wittenburg) Nereus/Neeo -- Economists (Vanessa Proudman) Discussion Chair: Wolfram Horstmann, DRIVER 13:30-14:45 National & International Repository Networks EIFL -- Open Access Program (Susan Veldsman, Rima Kupryte) Open Access Repositories in Finland (Rita Voigt) OpenAccess.se (Jan Hagerlid) NORA - The Norwegian Experience (Jan Erik Frantsv åg) eLABa - Lithuanian Academic e-Library (Vilius Kuciukas) Local Integration, National Federation: TARA, TCD-RSS, IReL-Open, Expertise Ireland (Niamh Brennan) OAI Spain (Alicia Lopez-Medina) 14.45-15.50 Discussion: Building a Joint Digital Repository Infrastructure (Moderator: Carlos Morais-Pires, EC; Norbert Lossau, DRIVER) 15.50-16.00 Wrap-up (Norbert Lossau, DRIVER)