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IESR/OCKHAM Meeting

4 March 2005

Manchester Computing, University of Manchester

The IESR team met with members of the OCKHAM Initiative, which seeks to promote the development of digital libraries via collaboration between librarians and digital library researchers through a National Science Foundation/National Science Digital Library grant. The meeting came about as OCKHAM has adopted the IESR's metadata for use in their distributed registry system.

Presentations were made in the morning by the IESR team and members of OCKHAM. The slides of the presentations are available for downloading in either PowerPoint or PDF formats. PDF files can be read using Adobe Reader, which may be downloaded free of charge from Adobe.

Introduction to the IESR, by Amanda Hill (MIMAS), and IESR Metadata and Services, by Ann Apps (MIMAS):
IESR presentation (PowerPoint: 697kB);
IESR presentation (PDF: 572kB).
The OCKHAM Project, by Jeremy Frumkin (Oregon State), Eric Morgan (Notre Dame), Peter Krenesky (Oregon State) and Martin Halbert (Emory):
OCKHAM presentation (PowerPoint: 1.06MB);
OCKHAM presentation (PDF: 931kB).

During the meeting it was decided that both projects are to co-operate more closely in the future and hence members of the IESR team and OCKHAM are to give a project briefing at the CNI Spring 2005 Task Force Meeting in Washington, D.C., USA on 4-5 April 2005.

The briefing will present both projects, detail activities to be undertaken by each project, and demonstrate how the two projects are to collaborate and look long-term to how their separate approaches could eventually converge to an approach that works for all of the two projects' respective communities.

Further developments from the meeting included:

  1. The setting up of a closed mailing list to allow further discussion between the two projects.
  2. Longer term loosely coupled joint funding opportunities are to be examined via the new mailing list.
  3. A joint meeting with JISC is to be set up to discuss interoperability.
  4. The Cheshire Development Team at The University of Liverpool are to test an implementation of the OCKHAM registry software.
  5. Applications of registries for personalised services are to be explored, for instance MyLibrary. MyLibrary is open source software for customizable library portals.

Eric Morgan, of OCKHAM, has written a travel log of his experiences of visiting Manchester for the meeting.