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

Draft Workshop Program

Session One - Introduction to the Open Archive Initiative --- 8:30am - 10:00am

• Introductory Remarks - "The Big Picture"
  Clifford Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information

• The Open Archives Initiative - Where We Are Today
  Carl Lagoze, Cornell University
  A brief introduction to the Open Archives Initiative and progress since the Santa Fe Meeting in terms of metadata, protocol, server, and harvesting efforts. Discussion of the latest version of the Dienst software.

• Making Archives "Open" - Practical Lessons Learnt and Future Directions
  Edward Fox, Virginia Tech
  Discussion and demonstration of the interoperability technology deployed in the Computer Science Teaching Center, Web Characterization Repository and NDLTD. Demonstration of the Repository Explorer and alternative Dienst-subset protocol implementation software. Future directions for research on integrated services.

Break --- 10:00am - 10:30am

Session Two - Demonstrations --- 10:30am - 12:00pm

• Rob Tansley et al., Southampton University
  The EPrints software package - free, generic, web-based electronic pre-print archive software.

• Kurt Maly, Old Dominion University
  UPS prototpye software, upgraded to run over oracle for more reliable performance.

• Thomas Krichel, University of Surrey & RePEc
  OAI gateway for RePEc document data

• Jim French, University of Virginia
  Vocabulary interoperability issues in interfacing with NASA Earth Science data.

• John L. Schnase, NASA - Earth and Space Data Computing Division
  Work on Biodiversity

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

Session Three - Presentations --- 1:00pm - 2:30pm

• Terry Noreault - Online Computer Library Center (OCLC)
  RDF, Dublin Core, and OCLC's perspectives on interoperability

• Diann Rusch-Feja - Max Planck Institute for Human Development
  Requirements for new preprint systems based on recent user feedback, and avenues for collaboration with archive/preprint servers in Germany.

• Anna Gold - Univerity of California - San Diego
  Requirements for a value-added service based at UCSD to provide access to open archive literature in the areas of computational science generally or bio- and eco-informatics particularly.

• J. Alfredo Sánchez - Universidad de las Américas, Mexico
  Work on Digital Theses Collection and Personalized Interfaces

• Stephen Helmreich - New Mexico State University
  Multilingual issues

Break --- 2:30pm - 3:00pm

Session Four - Group Discussion --- 3:00pm - 4:30pm

There will be three parallel breakout groups, discussing future directions in each of the following focal areas in greater depth:

1. Organization, Outreach and Dissemination
   incorporating harvesting, data quality/cleaning, etc.

2. Core Technical Issues, Stability and Continuity
   incorporating standards for metadata, protocol/server, etc.

3. New Services
   incorporating integrated services, linking, etc.

Session Five - Concluding Remarks --- 4:30pm - 5:00pm

• Integration of discussion from breakout groups

• Future directions for the Open Archives Initiative