Repositories in Science & Technology: Preserving
Access to the Record of Science
A One-Day Workshop Co-sponsored by CENDI and NFAIS
Hosted by FLICC at the Library of Congress
The Mumford Room, Library of Congress, 101 Independence Avenue, SE, Washington, DC 20540
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
* 9:00 am - 4:30 pm *
AGENDA & PRESENTATIONS
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| 9:00am - 9:15am | Welcome and Opening Remarks Jill O’Neill, NFAIS |
| 9:15am - 10:00am | Opening Keynote |
Clifford Lynch, Director, Coalition for Networked Information |
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| The opening session provided an overview of the current repository landscape with examples of the different types that currently exist. It addressed the differences between libraries, repositories and archives. | |
| 10:00am - 10:15am | Break and Networking Opportunity |
| 10:15am - 10:45am | Case Studies: Experiences and Lessons Learned ~ Part 1 |
| Moderated by Jerry Sheehan, Executive Board, International Council of Scientific and Technical Information and Assistant Director for Policy Development, National Library of Medicine | |
| This session highlighted three different types of repositories – their objectives, challenges and lessons learned. | |
Speakers: Jane Greenburg [presentation], Professor, and Director of The SILS Metadata Research Center, Dryad; Dr. Ian Bruno [presentation], Head of External Applications at Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre; and Dr. H. K. Ramapriyan [presentation], Asst. Project Manager, Earth Science Data & Information System Project, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. |
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| 11:45am - 12:30pm | Lunch (Box lunch provided) |
| 12:30pm - 1:30pm | Case Studies: Experiences and Lessons Learned ~ Part 2 |
| Moderated by Lynn Willis, Content Development Manager, PsycINFO. | |
| This session highlighted two different types of repositories – their objectives, challenges and lessons learned. | |
Speakers: Sean Thomas [presentation], Product Manager, Dspace@MIT; and Ed Sequeira [presentation], Project Manager from NLM, PubMed Central |
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| 1:30pm - 2:00pm | Case Study: A Repository in Development |
| Moderated by Don Hagen, Associate Director, Office of Product and Program Management, NTIS | |
| This session focused on the importance of requirements gathering as the basis for a successful repository project, supporting the creation of success criteria, criteria for decision making about technologies, and system implementation. | |
Speaker: Leslie Johnston [presentation], Chief of Repository Development, Library of Congress |
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| 2:00pm - 2:15pm | Break and Networking Opportunity |
| 2:15pm - 3:15pm | Ancillary Tools |
| Moderated by Sharon Jordan, Assistant Director for Program Integration, DOE-OSTI, and CENDI Deputy Chair | |
| This session focused on DataCite and ORCID and how they help in the identification, archiving, preservation, and linking of information. | |
Speakers: Laine Farley [presentation], Executive Director from the California Digital Library, DataCite; and Brian Wilson [presentation], VP and Chief Architect at Thomson Reuters, ORCID |
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| 3:15pm - 4:15pm | Repositories and the Future of Scientific Research: Issues to be Resolved, Closing Keynote |
| Judith Russell, Dean of University Libraries at the University of Florida, Dr. Christopher Greer, Associate Director, Information Technology Laboratory, NIST (No presentations; spoke from notes) | |
| The closing session included a proposal for interoperability followed by a wrap-up and facilitated discussion of the key issues regarding interoperability, information sharing and collaboration across repositories. Consideration was given to what inter-sector cooperation is most important and how it can be encouraged. | |
| 4:15pm - 4:30pm | Conclusions and Next Steps |
| Bonnie C. Carroll, CENDI Secretariat Executive Director |
