[RAS] Invitation to Knowledge Exchange summit on Digital Author Identifiers - 13 and 14 March 2012, London]

[Thomas Krichel]

  I was invited to this meeting. I think RAS should be present
  there. I am not sure if I will go, as I think this type of
  event is quite useless, and they don't propose to refund travel.

  I have placed the attachements into 

http://openlib.org/home/krichel/meetings

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From: Knowledge Exchange Office <keo at bs.dk>
To: cordewener at surf.nl
Cc: Knowledge Exchange Office <keo at bs.dk>
Subject: Invitation to Knowledge Exchange summit on Digital Author Identifiers - 13 and 14 March 2012, London

Invitation to

Summit meeting on Digital Author Identifiers
13-14 March 2012, London

 

Dear sir/madam,
 
The Knowledge Exchange initiative has the pleasure of inviting you to a
two day summit meeting on Digital Author Identifiers to be held in
London on 13 and 14 March 2012.

 

Knowledge Exchange is a cooperative effort between four European
organisations that support the use and development of Information and
Communications Technologies infrastructure for higher education and
research. The four partners are Denmark's Electronic Research Library
(DEFF), the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Joint Information
Systems Committee (JISC) in the UK and the SURFfoundation in the
Netherlands. 

 

The objectives of this meeting are:

*	
	to share knowledge and experience and to exchange views on
desired developments 
*	
	to identify priority issues for technology, service and policy
development 
*	
	to explore and stimulate interoperability and common approaches 
*	
	to inform and support future planning - explore role KE can play

The themes or perspectives we would like to discuss are Governance,
Interoperability and Added Value.

Governance

What are the roles and responsibilities for international, national and
university players, and researchers? How do we achieve sustainability;
what business models are possible and acceptable?

 

Interoperability

How do particular solutions interoperate with other systems or
infrastructures? What are issues regarding data exchange? How can trust
between different providers/solutions be built? What are the major
hurdles to be taken before achieving interoperability, and what are the
consequences of not being interoperable? 

 

Added Value

How do/can our current  solution/systems improve the user experience?
What processes/communities could benefit, what problems could be
solved/what challenges met? What is needed to achieve these benefits?

 

A general challenge in all three themes is to identify the gaps, the
missing elements that prevent an optimal solution, that should be worked
on. And how can existing national, not-for-profit and commercial author
ID systems co-operate and strengthen each other?

 

Participation

Participants are invited from national and international organisations
working on author identifiers. They are asked to consider any of the
above perspectives in relation to the organisation or expertise they
represent. You will be given the opportunity to present your position,
perceived challenges and ambitions at the start of the workshop. This
overview will help us all to understand the important issues regarding
digital author identifiers. You will find a  suggested programme for the
workshop attached.

 

With this event Knowledge Exchange hopes to be a catalyst stimulating
integrated approaches towards transparent use of author identifiers. All
who share this view are invited to join. Attached you will find the list
of invitees. 

 

Registration

Could you please let us know whether you will be able to attend this
workshop before Monday 16 January 2012 by replying to this email. Please
could you also inform us if you are not able to attend. If you have any
questions regarding this workshop, please do not hesitate to contact us.

In January we will provide you with more practical details and a more
definite programme.

The workshop is free of charge and dinner will be paid for on the
evening of the 13th March 2012. Hotel, Travel and Subsistence will need
to covered by delegates. We will make hotel reservations for one night
(the night of 13 March, single room) for all invitees. Please also let
us know if you do not wish to have a hotel room reserved.

 

Kind regards,

 

Keith Russell

Knowledge Exchange Coordinator 

 

On behalf of Bas Cordewener

Chair of the Knowledge Exchange working group Interoperability of
Digital Repositories

 

Keith Russell
Knowledge Exchange Coordinator | www.knowledge-exchange.info
<http://www.knowledge-exchange.info>  | kru at knowledge-exchange.info
<mailto:kru at knowledge-exchange.info>  | Danish Agency for Libraries and
Media | H.C. Andersens Boulevard 2, 5th floor | DK-1553 Copenhagen V |
Denmark | T +31 (0)30 234 66 99 | F +31 (0)30 233 29 60 | 

 

Knowledge Exchange is a co-operative effort of DEFF (Denmark), DFG
(Germany), JISC (United Kingdom) and SURFfoundation (The Netherlands)

 







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  Thomas Krichel                    http://openlib.org/home/krichel
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