Dear members of the repositories RG, as discussed at our meeting at OGF26, please find the announcement of a upcoming workshop at the Digital Curation Conference below. best wishes, aA -------------------------- Repository Preservation Infrastructure (REPRISE) (co-organised by the OGF Repositories Group, OGF-Europe, D-Grid/WissGrid) Venue: Digital Curation Conference - Millennium Gloucester Hotel & Conference Centre London Kensington, UK Wednesday 2 December, 2009 - 14:00-17:30 Register Now - http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/dcc-2009/ (£45.00 for Associates Network members; £60.00 for non-members) Following on from the successful Repository Curation Service Environments (RECURSE) Workshop at IDCC 2008, this workshop discusses digital repositories and their specific requirements for/as preservation infrastructure, as well as their role within a preservation environment. Digital repositories in various shapes and sizes are the basis for management and long-term retention of data (e.g. text publications, research data, multimedia). Some repositories have existed over a number of years, and have had to adapt to changes in their organisational and technological contexts. For example, organisational changes or cooperation across repositories may demand the translation of meta/data between the diverse contexts. Their experiences give insight into the kind of pro-active flexibility needed to sustain the repository and adapt to changes. This workshop aims to tap into these experiences and discuss technical features and shared services (beyond format registries, for example) for an open repository environment. Discussion points: open repository environment, preservation infrastructure, interoperability of repository services, (automatic) meta/data creation and mediation. Speakers at the event include: • Andreas Aschenbrenner, SUB Goettingen, WissGrid - Curation Infrastructure for Research Data • Ross King, Austrian Institute of Technology - The Planets Interoperability Framework • John Kunze, California Digital Library - Preservation is not a Place • Paolo Missier, University of Manchester - Provenance in distributed environments to establish trust • Andy Powell, Eduserv - Open and Social Information Environments • Andrew Treloar, Australian National Data Service - The Australian National Data Service and loosely-coupled verb-based architectures The goal of the Digital Repositories Research Group (DR-RG) is to analyze how digital repositories can be built on top of federated storage infrastructure, focusing on the exploitation of existing data-related standards and the identification of need for new or revised data-related standards. The group is currently collecting metadata use-cases in order to survey metadata handling in various DR communities, the groups will also carry out an architecture study highlighting the architecture of several digital repositories in order to identify the potential for exploitation of existing standards as well as the need for new or revised standards. The workshop will be held at the 5th International Digital Curation Conference "Moving to Multi-Scale Science: Managing Complexity and Diversity" 2-4 December 2009 Millennium Gloucester Hotel Kensington, London - http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/dcc-2009/