The first workshop of the Open Archives Forum: Creating a European Forum on Open Archives Initiatives, will be held in Pisa, Italy on 13-14 May 2002. The Open Archives Forum provide a focus for dissemination of information about European activity related to open archives and, in particular, to the Open Archives Initiative. The first workshop seeks to bring together researchers, technical implementers and project managers who are experimenting, or are willing to experiment, with the open archives approach, in order to establish a basis for sharing experience and solutions among projects and initiatives.
The workshop combines presentations by invited speakers with the opportunity to work together in small groups on issues of concern to the open archive community, including those who are or who are considering implementing the Open Archive Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting. On Monday the workshop starts at 10.30, preceded by coffee and registration between 09.30-10.30. On Tuesday, the end of workshop is at 15.15. Although participants will have to fund their own accommodation and travel cost, the only charge for the workshop itself is 60 Euros to cover lunches and coffee breaks and an optional conference dinner at an additional charge of 50 Euros. The booking deadline is 19 April. Further information and online registration for the workshop are available at http://www.oaforum.org/workshops_pisa.php If you have queries please do not hesitate to contact Donatella Castelli (tel. +39 050 3152902, [email protected]) or Francesca Borri (tel. +39 050 3153470, [email protected]). The Open Archives Forum (OA-Forum) is funded as an accompanying measure within the Information Societies Technology (IST) Programme, a theme of the European Union's Fifth Framework Programme managed by the Information Society Directorate-General of the European Commission. ************************************************************************ Leona Carpenter UKOLN University of Bath tel: +44 (0)1225 383618 Bath, BA2 7AY, UK fax: +44 (0)1225 826838 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ ************************************************************************
