Early announcement, mark your calendars:
Fedora-EU meeting
to be held in the week of December 7, 2009.
After the successful Fedora-EU meeting in Aarhus, September last year, we invite you to join us this year in Oxford, early December 2009.
Numerous people were calling for this event, and we are particularly happy for the support of Fedora-UK and the local team in Oxford.
To minimise travelling, particularly for international participants, the meeting is set to coincide with
* UK All Hands, Dec 7-9, Oxford - http://www.allhands.org.uk/
* IEEE e-Science, Dec 9-11, Oxford - http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/ieee
We are still looking for the perfect timing to ensure Fedora-EU will not be overlapping with the planned repository track at IEEE e-Science and other interesting sessions. So please book the week of December 7 in Oxford for an intense week to share and discuss.
The meeting will be roughly structured in two half-days:
1. *Fedora-based e-Research environments*
The first half-day session is moderated by the "Scholars Workbench Solution Community"
http://www.fedora-commons.org/confluence/display/FCCWG/Scholars+Workbench
The Fedora community is progressing from one of lots of initial experiments with Fedora, to one with a number of more stable implementations. Also repository-based environments are increasingly embedding in the whole research life-cycle and integrate with research-specific tools. This session will share existing experiences on repository-aware tools for scholarship and research, as well as (vice versa) repository-based research environments.
2. *Fedora content modelling*
The theme of the second half day dives into the foundations of Fedora content modelling, with issues including definition and usage of ontologies, cooperation of repository objects and the triplestore with RDF, service definition and deployment, best practices and software tools, as well as a roadmap for development of Content Modeling in upcoming Fedora versions.
This half day will be moderated by the Danish Fedora group.
For whom?
The meeting is intended for people acquainted with Fedora, its application, management, and/or data modeling. Please do share your current activities: demo your production site of Scholars Workbenches, share your research on content models, or simply contribute your ideas and concerns. Please do forward brief statements of intent or abstracts, in case you want to present something. We will also create a Wiki-page with all the information and for your input.
We are looking forward to seeing you in Oxford !
