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Open Archives Forum a “place” for you to meet
Leona CarpenterUKOLN, University of Bath
www.ukoln.ac.uk
UKOLN is funded by Resource: The Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries, the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) of the Higher and Further Education Funding Councils, as well as by project funding from the JISC and the European Union. UKOLN also receives support from the University of Bath where it is based.
Introduction to OA-Forum -- 1st Workshop -- Pisa -- May 2002 -- Leona Carpenter
Open Archives (or OA-) Forum
European Union IST accompanying measure to support EU projects and national initiatives
• funding for two years• then self-sustaining?
Partners•Humboldt University, Berlin•IEI-CNR, Pisa•UKOLN, University of Bath
Most important: your participation
Introduction to OA-Forum -- 1st Workshop -- Pisa -- May 2002 -- Leona Carpenter
Why is the EU funding us?
Potential for EU of OAI aim to provide a “low barrier interoperability specification”
“hidden web” of European resources– Eprints, the research literature– Products of digitisation projects– Other kinds of data
Share experience among IST projects, and also other initiatives
Support European input into OAI
Introduction to OA-Forum -- 1st Workshop -- Pisa -- May 2002 -- Leona Carpenter
OA-Forum objectives
Disseminate information on the open archives approachEncourage collaborative software development Support European liaison with OAIExchange information on implementationEvaluate open archive approach
– organisational issues– technical issues
… building a community of interest
Introduction to OA-Forum -- 1st Workshop -- Pisa -- May 2002 -- Leona Carpenter
OA-Forum needs you…
Introduction to OA-Forum -- 1st Workshop -- Pisa -- May 2002 -- Leona Carpenter
Participation opportunities
Open archives Information Source– tailored for Europe – inventory of software tools– interoperability issues register– current implementations database
Resources via our web site– Glossary– Links to external information
Introduction to OA-Forum -- 1st Workshop -- Pisa -- May 2002 -- Leona Carpenter
Participation opportunities
Workshops– This first workshop, setting the agenda– Expert reviews for following workshops
Mailing list – if you want it
Liaison with OAI continues– will be reported on OA-Forum web site
Introduction to OA-Forum -- 1st Workshop -- Pisa -- May 2002 -- Leona Carpenter
URLs for OAI & OA-Forum
– Open Archives Initiativehttp://www.openarchives.org
– Open Archives Forumhttp://www.oaforum.org
– Information on OAI from HUBhttp://edoc.hu-berlin.de/oai
– Information on OAI from IEI-CNRhttp://???
– Information on OAI from UKOLNhttp://www.ukoln.distributed-systems/oai/