DL.org at the 5th International Conference on Open Repositories: The Grand Integration Challenges, 6-10 July, Madrid, Spain
Birds of a Feather 7 July 2010
New Paths to Interoperability, Best Practices and Modelling Foundations for Digital Repositories
The Birds of a Feather (BoF) session explored interoperability from diverse perspectives spanning content, functionality, user, policy, quality and architecture, concepts being investigated by DL.org with the aim of paving the ground for interoperability as a top-level challenge that needs addressing to take Digital Libraries (DLs) to the next level.DL:org outputs, such as the enhanced version of the Digital Library Reference Model (stemming from the DELOS Network of Excellence) and the Technological and Methodological Digital Library Cookbook. The Reference Model was the first step towards fostering a common understanding and approach, ensuring shared terms of reference for any discourses on Digital Library reference modelling.
A Request for Comment version of the DL.org Cookbook will be available in late summer 2010 with the aim of incorporating Digital Library community feedback for the final version due to be published in late 2010. The Cookbook is aimed at providing an organised, pragmatic, comprehensive and effective description of ways to address interoperability by evaluating interoperability scenarios, issues and solutions. The rationale behind the Cookbook is to provide a common language for people operating in the field. The interoperability scenarios serve primarily to classify the different solutions that exist rather than propose a new solution. The Cookbook will present solutions also in terms of data access, transfer and indexing.
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DL.org Presenation during the Interoperability Policy Session, 6 July 2010
The presentation, entitled Interoperability for Digital Repositories: Towards a Quality and Policy Framework, was made by Giusepina Vullo, Humanities Advanced Technology & Information Institute, University of Glasgow and Co-ordinator of the DL.org Quality Working Group with a focus on
The talk is co-authored by Perla Innocenti, University of Glasgow and coordinator of the Policy Working Group and Prof. Seamus Ross, University of Toronto. More information is available here.