Digital Libraries and Open Access workshop

The DL.org Workshop in London will gather international experts on Digital Libraries and Open Access Repositories (OARs), providing a forum in which to:

1) trigger the multi-disciplinary debate about research on Digital Libraries and Open Access

2) discuss the DL.org project results, and existing frameworks and best practices for interoperability within the communities of practice

3) propose common strategies for interoperability: start discussing how to implement a mechanism for exchanging, sharing and integrating results between DLs and OARs communities

4) create new connections and partnerships, and explore ways for a closer cooperation between researchers and the communities of practice

Programme
08.45 – 09:15 Registration and Welcome Coffee & Tea
09:15 – 09:30 Introduction, Prof. Seamus Ross, University of Toronto (CA)
09:30 – 10:00 The DL.org Reference Model, Vittore Casarosa, CNR-ISTI, Pisa (IT)
10:00 – 10:30 Interoperability best practices and solutions: the DL.org Cookbook, Leonardo Candela, CNR-ISTI, Pisa (IT)

10:30 – 11:00 The Policy & Quality Interoperability Surveys. Lessons learned from the OAR community, Perla Innocenti and Giuseppina Vullo, HATII - University of Glasgow (UK)

11:00 – 11:30 Networking Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:00 Data Libraries: A matter of trust, reliability, quality, Hans Pfeiffenberger, Alfred Wegener Institute (DE)

12:00 – 12:30 The Sonex Workgroup on Interoperability, Pablo De Castro, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (ES)
12:30 – 13:45 Lunch break
13:45 – 14:15 Open Repositories and interoperability challenges in UK, Peter Burnhill, EDINA - University of Edinburgh (UK)

14:15 – 14:45 The “many ways” to interoperability. Outcomes and challenges within DRIVER and OpenAIRE, Wolfram Horstmann, University of Bielefeld (DE)

14:45 – 15:15 Future scenarios on Open Access, Heather Joseph, SPARC (US)
15:15 – 15:45 Networking Coffee break
15:45 – 16:45 Round Table - Common strategies for interoperability. Chair: Prof. Seamus Ross, University of Toronto (CA)

16:45 – 17:00 Conclusions and Future opportunities

Audience
The workshop is addressed to Library and Information Science researchers and professionals, and to the Open Access community. It should be of interest to those involved in developing interoperability frameworks or models, and those involved in the implementation of digital libraries, institutional, subject or learning object repositories, and associated services across a broad range of communities of practice.

Venue
This full day workshop will be held at the British Academy in London (UK), 10 Carlton House Terrace, SW1Y 5AH, England.

Registration and fees
For those who register by 5 January 2011, registration fees are GBP 50. From 6 January 2011 registration fees are GBP 75.

Registration fees for students (doctoral, masters) are GBP 50.
Registration fees include: Workshop lectures and notes, lunch and coffee breaks at the British Academy.

To register to the DL.org Workshop please fill in the online form at
http://www.dlorg.eu/index.php/dl-org-events/digital-library-research-open-access-repositories/registration-2