OGF Digital Repositories Workshop

OGF Digital Repositories Workshop 

EGEE 4th User Forum/OGF25 & OGF-Europe’s 2nd International Event

Wednesday 4 March - 16:00 - 19:00 -  Da Vinci Room

With the emergence of the Knowledge-based economy, the interoperability of Digital Repositories (DR) offers benefits not only for different types of users within the user community, but also eScience application developers. Through interoperability, e-Infrastructure providers can ensure the easy deployment and management of software distributions. eScience users have the freedom to choose services deployed in different infrastructures based on functionality with the potential to use a far greater amount of resources than is currently available to them. For eScience application developers on the other hand, interoperability ensures the portability of applications across multiple infrastructures to increase uptake.

Co-sponsored by OGF-Europe, OGF, DReSNET ((EPSRC Digital Repository eScience Network) and OMII-UK, the Session is the third in a series of workshops connecting the Digital Repositories community. The previous two workshops at OGF23 - Interoperability using Grid Technology, and at the IDCC '08 conference - Repository Curation Service Environments (RECURSE) focused on identifying user community needs that can be addressed by the adoption of Grid & OGF standards. This workshop is aimed at:

  • Analysing how the adoption of Distributed Computing and open standards can address DR community needs.
  • Exploring the challenges in using DRs in a grid or cloud environment.
  • Strengthening synergies between OGF and the DR community.
  • Establishing the scope and long-term goals of a dedicated OGF DR community/research group.
  • Identifying requirements for setting up this community/research group.
  • Defining how to liaise with other standards bodies for the benefit of the DR community. 

Workshop agenda

Session 1 - Policy & Standards, Chair: Neil Chue Hong, OMII-UK & OGF

16:00 – 16:15  Welcome & Setting the Scene for Data Interoperability & Challenges: An Overview of OGF Data Working Groups,  Neil Chue Hong, OMII-UK & OGF

16:15 – 16:30 Policy Aspects: A view from Fedorazon, Mark Hedges, King’s College, London

Real Use Cases & Best Practices (Part 1)
16:30 – 16:45 An Enterprise Perspective, Matt Zumwalt, MediaShelf

16:45 – 17:00 Research Perspective: Cases of the Use of iRods,  Reagan Moore, University of North Carolina

17:00 – 17:15 A Regional Perspective – gLibrary, Antonio Calanducci, Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN Catania)

17:15 -17:30 Networking Break
 
Session 2 18:00 – 19:00 Real Use Cases & Best Practices (Part 2), Chair: Mark Hedges, King’s College, London

17:30 – 17:45 A Standards Perspective, Jens Jensen, Science & Technologies Facilities Council (STFC)

17:45 – 18:00 An Interoperability Perspective, Pasquale Pagano, Insititute of Information Science & Technology, Italian National Research Council (CNR-ISTI)

18:00 – 18:15 An Environmental Perspective – The Earth Observation Group, Luigi Fusco, European Space Agency (ESA)

Roundtable Discussion (18:15-19:00) 

Session speakers deliberate challenges in Data Repositories in a Grid Environment: Security, Authentication/Authorization, Data Formats, Data Management); and define the next steps for DR community engagement with OGF. Chair: Neil Chue Hong

19:00 End of Workshop

For  more on standards of interest to the DR community, download OGF-Europe's eAnnouncement on Standards as Key to Interoperability