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.
Digital repositories have evolved from institutional to trusted repositories for publications as well as primary data, shifting from a bespoke software tool towards a generic framework accommodating various contexts and requirements. As repositories become part and parcel of e-Science environments in all disciplines, individual repositories are converging both technologically and organisationally into federations of multiple repositories, often offering external services for tasks such as print-on-demand and preservation (e.g. PLANETS, PRESERV), and out-sourcing storage (e.g. Fedorazon).
This RECURSE workshop will focus on highlighting application environments where both e-Science and repositories have much to gain, coupled with the benefits of open standards.

Discussion points: benefits of digital curation for e-Science and user requirements; interoperability of technologies; workflow integration; views of long-term digital curation; benefits to user communities of the adoption of Distributed computing.

Agenda

• 13:30-14:00 Welcome and Introduction
• Neil Chue Hong, OMII-UK / Tobias Blanke, King’s College London

• Digital Repositories - User community needs - Nicholas Ferguson, OGF.eeig & OGF-Europe

• Digital Repositories and the Grid - David E. Martin, IBM & OGF Data Area Co-Director
• 14:00-15:00 Requirements for repository environments
• CARMEN and the human infrastructure of research data sharing - Graham Pryor, University of Edinburgh, DCC CARMEN
• David Giaretta, Science & Technology Facilities Council, CASPAR
• Supporting user and provider friendly single sign-on models - Richard Sinnott, National eScience Centre, University of Glasgow
• 15:00-15:30 Break
• 15:30-16:30 Repository environments in domain contexts
• The eCrystals Federation - Manjula Patel, UKOLN, eCrystals (Crystallography)
• Astronomical data centres as everyday tools for scientists - Francoise Genova, Strasbourg Astronomical Data Centre, EuroVO-AIDA (Astronomy)
• 16:30-17:00 - Panel discussion
• 17:00 End of workshop

Partners of DReSNet for the DCC 2008 RECURSE workshop