Extending Interoperability of Digital Libraries: Building on the Open Archives Initiative

Workshop Program

Registration --- 8:00am - 8:30am

Session One - Introduction and Review --- 8:30am - 10:00am

• Introductory Remarks - "The Big Picture"
  Clifford Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information (30 minutes)

• The Open Archives Initiative - Where We Are Today
  Carl Lagoze, Cornell University (20 minutes)
  A brief introduction to the Open Archives Initiative and progress since the Santa Fe Meeting in terms of metadata, protocol, server, and harvesting efforts.

• Reviews and Discussions of Implementation Issues - Part I
  chaired by: Clifford Lynch, CNI (40 minutes)
  input from: Michael Nelson (Old Dominion University), Hussein Suleman (Virginia Tech), Robert Tansley (Southampton University), Simeon Warner (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Break --- 10:00am - 10:20am

Session Two - Review of Open Archives Initiative --- 10:20am - 12:00pm

• Reviews and Discussions of Implementation Issues - Part II
  chaired by: Clifford Lynch, CNI (1 hour and 40 minutes)

Lunch --- 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Session Three - Future of the Initiative I --- 1:00pm - 2:50pm

• General Discussion
  - Review of morning's activities and wrapping up of any loose ends (30 minutes)

• The Way Forward - An introduction to the issues that need to be resolved
  Edward Fox, Virginia Tech (20 minutes)

• Discussion: Organization, Outreach and Dissemination

• Discussion: Core Technical Issues

Break --- 2:50pm - 3:15pm

Session Four - Future of the Initiative II --- 3:15pm - 4:15pm

• Discussion: Research Issues and Opportunities

• Discussion: Scope (Context in terms of data types and domains)

Session Five - Concluding Discussion --- 4:15pm - 5:00pm