SWIG, foaf-dev, This might be fun... "Repository developers are invited to participate in a new "Repository Challenge" prize activity to produce demonstrations of novel repository capability during the OR08 conference. " (see attached) Open Data, prize money, collaborative hacking ... what's not to like? OR08 info here - http://or08.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ Repository Challenge page - http://or08.ecs.soton.ac.uk/developers.html As it happens, yesterday in #swig IRC chat, some of us were talking about OAI-PMH http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cgi/oai2?verb=Identify and how 'social graph' data might be extracted, eg. by http://simile.mit.edu/wiki/OAI-PMH_RDFizer Well, I was anyway :) I got stuck installing the RDFizer at the "where's the Sun JDK as a RedHat package" stage, but perhaps others might be more persistent. The OR08 ("orate?") event is in Southampton UK, 1st-4th April. I'm interested to see what folks come up with... cheers, Dan
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Repository developers are invited to participate in a new "Repository Challenge" prize activity to produce demonstrations of novel repository capability during the OR08 conference. The Open Repositories conference annually attracts developers who working on a wide variety of repository-oriented platforms and projects from across the world. As well as providing a forum for discussion of the cutting edge of repository R&D, this year's conference will run a rapid cross-platform repository integration challenge. The aim is to get delegates working in small teams to try to quickly pull together established platforms and services to demonstrate a glimpse of some real-life, user-relevant scenarios and services. The "Repository Challenge" will be based around small teams of developers trying to achieve goals set by the repository manager and user community. This all takes place in a "scrapheap-code challenge [UK]" / "junkyard-code wars[US]" atmosphere over the two days of the conference. An awards ceremony at the conference dinner will celebrate the achievements of the teams with cash prizes given to the best demos (first team prize £2,500 / $5,000 / €3.350). The Repository Challenge is intended to provide concrete examples of the ideas raised at a recent Repository Unconference, an event run by the JISC Common Repository Interface Group (CRIG) to identify key issues that repositories need to address to make a genuine impact in Higher Education. These include bringing the repository closer to the researcher's working environment, automatically generating metadata, running multiple interfaces and taking advantage of Web 2.0 and utility computing services. To participate in the repository challenge, register for OR08 at http://or08.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ and email the Repository Challenge Chair: David Flanders (d.flanders@bbk.ac.uk ). Comments are invited on the outputs of the Unconference (photos of the flipcharts) which are available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/ wocrig . Other CRIG discussion is available via blog planet: http://feeds.feedburner.com/jisc-crig . Background information on CRIG can be found at: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/repositories/digirep/index/CRIG . For more information on the challenge, contact the Repository Challenge Chair: David Flanders (d.flanders@bbk.ac.uk). -- Les Carr Open Repositories 2008 Conference Chair PS Although this is not an ostensibly "Open Access" technical challenge, the suggested improvements will improve OA provision by making document and metadata deposit easier. But such efforts will only be effective as part of balanced diet of OA policy and technical development!Received on Sunday, 27 January 2008 13:55:44 UTC
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