Dear members of the Digital Repositories RG, we had a good workshop of the DR-RG at the recent Digital Curation Conference (http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/dcc-2009/). As always, the burning issues in the curation community are often on organisation and context (they consider technology transient and resolvable). Moving on to the next event: OGF28, Munich. The deadline for session proposals is approaching (Dec 15). Please find below some quick suggestions for a session outline - we have time until the workshop to refine these. None of the suggested speakers have been contacted yet, this brainstorming is really waiting for your input. (Please do send your suggestions to Nick Ferguson, who has agreed to take the lead in organising this workshop.) best wishes, aA -- Duration Attendance at previous OGF conferences has decreased considerably. Anyway, we could plan for a whole morning/afternoon and submit two sessions: 2 x 90mins. If attendance turns out to be really low at OGF Munich as well, we can always skip one session. e.g. 9:00-10:30 - Session 1 10:30-11:00 - Break 11:00-12:30 - Session 2 12:30-13:30 - Lunch -- Session Outline ############################################## Title: Repository Federations - Virtualising Distributed Knowledge Networks Abstract: The Digital Repository Research Group (OGF DR-RG, http://www.ogf.org/gf/group_info/view.php?group=dr-rg) conducts a series of activities aiming to span the grid, the curation, as well as the repository communities. After a number of events at OGF, IEEE and other conferences, the latest workshop took place at the Digital Curation Conference (http://www.wissgrid.de/publikationen/ext-ws/reprise_en.html). Following the two focus areas of the DR-RG, the workshop aims to look at both: 1. embedding repositories into community contexts (e.g. metadata, scientific workflows) 2. evolving the architecture of grid-based repositories and repository federations 1. The success of existing repositories is deeply linked to how repository services link into the application context and, essentially, community uptake. Like a (generic) database and (application-specific) database schemas and applications, repositories have generic infrastructure services and application-specific data models and services. This session looks at successful models for repository-based infrastructure projects and specifically at the interface of application-specific services and community-specific workflows. * Adil Hasan (Dresnet) * Chris Awre (http://www.fedora-commons.org/confluence/display/FCCWG/Scholars+Workbench) * Harry Enke (AstroGrid) * Wolfgang Gentzsch (Deisa) 2. Distributed repositories have successfully formed repository federations in various contexts. These federations are often building on the protocols offered by the Open Archives Initiative, as well as the results from the Linked Data movement. This session aims to learn from their experiences and architectural models. * Europeana (Stefan Gradmann), alternatively Driver and Dare * Adonis (Yannick Maignien) * OAI-ORE (http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/17744/) * Jens Klump ############################################## Please note, that we did not mention DR-RG reports at this point of time. We may introduce a dedicated presentation into the workshop, but we need to see how the work of DR-RG develops until the conference.