Wednesday, January 16. 2008
        
                
        
                        
                                                    
            
            
                    First DRIVER Summit:  
   Towards a Confederation of Digital Repositories 
   16-17 January 2008 Goettingen, Germany
DRIVER responds to the vision that all relevant scientific content should be easily accessible through internet-based infrastructures. Achieving this vision reaches beyond technology - it is also the organisational dimension that allows a stable and trusted network of content providers. DRIVER is working with repository federations in Europe, and reaches out to further international communities (for example in the US, China, India, and Africa) in order to determine the practical requirements for a confederation of digital repositories.
   Wednesday, January 16, 2008
   13:00-13:15    Opening Address ( Norbert Lossau, DRIVER) 
   13:15-14:00    Opening Keynote - EC Research Infrastructure & Digital Repository Roadmap 
( Mario Campolargo, EC) 
   14:00-14:30    Organising Infrastructures: Experiences from D-Space, Open Content Alliance and other community efforts  
(Michele Kimpton, D-Space Foundation) 
Chair: Sylvia van Peteghem, DRIVER 
   15:00-15:30   DRIV(ER)ing Research Infrastructures  
(Yannis Ioannidis, DRIVER) 
   15:30-16:00   Growing Repositories  
(Bill Hubbard, DRIVER) 
   16:00-16:30   Repository Landscape - DRIVER Studies  
(Kasja Weenink, DRIVER) 
Chair: Sijbolt Noorda, EUA 
   17:00-18:30   Panel Discussion "Open Access and Repository Infrastructures": Responding to the "Council Conclusions on Scientific Information" 
	 
   Thursday, January 17, 2008 
Chair: Rüdiger Klein, ESF (tbc) 
   09:00-09:30   Institutional versus Central Deposit: Optimising DRIVER Policy for the OA Mandate and Metric Era  
(Stevan Harnad, Université du Québec à Montréal & University of Southampton ) 
   09:30-10:00   Challenges in DRIVER-II 
(Donatella Castelli, DRIVER) 
Chair: Carlos Morais-Pires, EC 
   10:00-10:30   Disciplinary Repository Projects 
EuroVO-AIDA: Astronomical virtual observatories, repositories and data access (Sebastien Deriere, Thomas Boch) 
METAFOR -- Climate Modelling (Michael Lautenschläger)	 
   11:00-12:30   Disciplinary Repository Projects 
Genesi-DR -- Earth Science (Luigi Fusco, Donatella Castelli) 
D4Science -- Environmental Monitoring (Donatella Castelli) 
eCrystals -- Crystallography (Simon Coles, Liz Lyon) 
OLAC: The Open Language Archives Community (Gary Simons) 
Language Resource Management and Discovery in CLARIN (Peter Wittenburg) 
Nereus/Neeo -- Economists (Vanessa Proudman) 
Discussion 
Chair: Wolfram Horstmann, DRIVER 
   13:30-14:45   National & International Repository Networks 
EIFL -- Open Access Program (Susan Veldsman, Rima Kupryte) 
Open Access Repositories in Finland (Rita Voigt) 
OpenAccess.se (Jan Hagerlid) 
NORA - The Norwegian Experience (Jan Erik Frantsvåg) 
eLABa - Lithuanian Academic e-Library (Vilius Kuciukas) 
Local Integration, National Federation: TARA, TCD-RSS, IReL-Open, Expertise Ireland (Niamh Brennan) 
OAI Spain (Alicia Lopez-Medina) 
   14.45-15.50   Discussion: Building a Joint Digital Repository Infrastructure 
(Moderator: Carlos Morais-Pires, EC; Norbert Lossau, DRIVER) 
   15.50-16.00   Wrap-up (Norbert Lossau, DRIVER)
             
            
            
            
         
        
        
                    
            
            
            
            
            
        
                    
        
        
             
    
    
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