The scope of the workshops and the associated briefing material assumed that federated access management is a requirement for repositories; it did not infer this as a solution to previously-identified requirements. This assumption was made by JISC as a pragmatic approach to developing a tentative programme of work, which will be subject to further iterative development.

EPSRC DReSNet: Digital Repositories in e-Science

Kick-off meeting

Culture Lab, University of Newcastle

November 4th, 2008

Presentations

Mark Hedges and Tobias Blanke (King's College London): "Targets of DReSNet and overview of a research agenda for Digital Repositories in e-Science and e-Research"

The first presentation by Mark Hedges presented the Network’s aims and objectives and reported on activities so far:

• Mark presented at OGF 21 in Barcelona at the workshop on Digital Repositories.

The first DReSNet face to face meeting agreed to set up a catalogue of active Data Repositories to help us to create an ontology of E-Science Digital Repositories, and to circumscribe the issues and activities that we want to focus on.

The repositories represented in this catalogue could be international BioScience Gene databases, or lab- or project-specific repositories or even Institutional Repositories with a significant data holding. The important criteria are

• a significant data is stored in the environment

Repository Curation Service Environments (RECURSE) Workshop

4th International Digital Curation Conference
1 December 2008
Hilton Edinburgh Grosvenor Hotel, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

This workshop, jointly supported by OGF-Europe, OMII-UK and DReSNeT, aims to address the specific requirements for Digital Repository curation service environments.

Special Session at the 4th IEEE International Conference on e-Science

December 12, 2008, Indianapolis, USA

Morning Session

9.30am-10.30am

Keynote by David de Roure (Southampton) - How Repositories can Learn from the Failings of the Grid

10:30am-10:45am

Virtual Poster Presentation: Aschenbrenner, Andreas; Blanke, Tobias; Hedges, Mark - Synergies between Grid and Repository Technologies - a Methodical Mapping

Abstract

High Energy Physics has been the leading research domain when it comes to e-Science. It has however been less involved in the digital preservation agenda. This might change now, as computer weekly reports. They interviewed Physicist Rolf-Dieter Heuer, who becomes CERN director general in January.

http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2008/08/06/231762/in-search-of-th...

IEEE DEST 2009, 1-3 June 2009, Istanbul, Turkey

A tutorial with lecturers:

- Tobias Blanke - King's College London, UK
- Mark Hedges - King's College London, UK

Open access to research information is becoming more and more vital for today's global community. Research, government and enterprise can all benefit from reliable, open access, interoperable Digital Repository infrastructures. This seminar, the first of six OGF-Europe Community Outreach Seminars (COS), showcases how grid technologies are supporting the Digital Repositories (DR) agenda, highlighting how grid is pertinent in vertical and horizontal domains of Digital Repositories and emphasizing best practices and case studies through examples of user adoption.

Special Session at the 4th IEEE International Conference on e-Science

December 7-12, 2008, Indianapolis, USA.

Conference website: http://escience2008.iu.edu/

New Keynote

Prof. David de Roure, Southampton, has agreed to give a keynote on his experiences in grid technologies and what these could mean for digital repositories. Details to follow soon.

DEADLINE EXTENDED

This is the first development site of the newly established EPSRC e-Science Network on Digital Repositories in e-Science environments.