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 ----- Forwarded message from Knowledge Exchange Office <keo@bs.dk> ----- From: Knowledge Exchange Office <keo@bs.dk> To: cordewener@surf.nl Cc: Knowledge Exchange Office <keo@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@knowledge-exchange.info <mailto:kru@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) ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel http://authorprofile.org/pkr1 skype: thomaskrichel