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!