Sonex at the "Digital Library Research and Open Access: Interoperability Strategies" workshop

After delivering its paper "Handling repository-related interoperability issues" last Sep at the 2nd DL.org workshop in Glasgow, Sonex will be contributing a presentation at the forthcoming DL.org "Digital Library Research and Open Access: Interoperability Strategies" one-day event to be held at the British Academy in London next Feb 4th.









Sonex contribution will be part of this DL.org workshop dealing with digital libraries, Open Access repositories and interoperability among them. Already available conference programme includes presentations on DL. org reference model, DL.org policy and quality interoperability survey, degree of progress of Open Access repositories with regard to interoperability issues in the UK and Europe and research data library management among others.

Upcoming Sonex-related events

• OR10: The 5th International Conference on Open Repositories (Madrid, Spain, Jul 6-9, 2010)

• CRIS2010: Connecting Science with Society (Aalborg, Denmark, Jun 2-5, 2010)

• Learning how to play nicely: Repositories and CRIS (Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds, UK, May 7, 2010)

• Repository Multiple Deposit meeting (London, UK, Apr 8, 2010)

• Readiness for REF (R4R) Workshop (King's College London, Mar 23, 2010)

• OpenAIRE Inaugural Conference (Athens, Greece, Jan 13-14, 2010)

• JISC Deposit Show-and-Tell Barcamp (University College London, Oct 12, 2009)

Related projects

The following projects are dealing with some kind of deposit action into repositories, and are therefore related to the Sonex initiative:

• JISC-EDINA’s Open Access Repository Junction (OA-RJ) Project

• PEER Project

• Knowledge Exchange ‘CRIS/OAR Interoperability Project’ for defining a CERIF-based metadata exchange format between CRIS and Institutional Repositories,

• SWORD: Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit
Sword overview
Sword2 final report

• JISC-Heriot-Watt University’s JournalTOCsAPI project,

• JISC-The Deposit Plait

• JISC-EM-Loader

• JISC-EIDeR (Enhanced ingest to digital e-research repositories)

• EU OpenAIRE