http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/repositories/newsletter/ The purpose of this newsletter is to provide specialised information to all those interested in Digital Repositories Research. en-gb http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/repositories/newsletter/jisc_repository_net.gif http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/repositories/newsletter/ http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/repositories/newsletter/september2007.htm The purpose of this newsletter is to provide specialised information to all those interested in Digital Repositories Research. This special issue is packed with useful information about the various activities the JISC Repositories Research Team have been and are involved in the area of Digital Repositories.
 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/repositories/newsletter/september2007.htm#ECDL Welcome to our Newsletter from ECDL2007 in Budapest! http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/repositories/newsletter/september2007.htm#Ecology The more that networks of repositories and services grow, the more complex interactions between them become. The software developers and implementers adopt protocols and choose standards which are used by the implemented repository or service but this is only the first step in developing a useful and consistent semantically-interoperable service. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/repositories/newsletter/september2007.htm#ORE The Open Archives Initiative are developing a new specification to support digital repository interoperability, this work - Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI-ORE) - is funded by the Mellon Foundation and led by Herbert Van der Sompel (Los Almos National Laboratory) and Carl Lagoze (Cornell University). http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/repositories/newsletter/september2007.htm#RepNet JISC have launched RepositoryNet to bring together a core set of activities to “to help coordinate and share practice” among repositories in higher and further education in the United Kingdom. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/repositories/newsletter/september2007.htm#Events http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/repositories/newsletter/september2007.htm#StaffChanges Julie Allinson has moved on from RRT to become the Digital Library Manager at the University of York. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/repositories/newsletter/september2007.htm#SusRepositories The Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories (APSR, http://www.apsr.edu.au/) has a newsletter – Sustaining Repositories. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/repositories/newsletter/september2007.htm#CTWatch “CTWatch Quarterly is an online journal that focuses on cyberinfrastructure related research critical to collaboration and information dissemination within the science community as a whole. Each issue of CTWatch centers on a topic with currency and importance to this community with articles written by experts in their field from both academia and industry.” (http://www.ctwatch.org/quarterly/) http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/repositories/newsletter/september2007.htm#Blog Read from our selected list of Blogs