Utrecht, The Netherlands
Professor Wim Liebrand, Director of Surf Foundation gave a very warm welcome today to more than 70 technical experts in Institutional Repositories, attending the first Knowledge Exchange specialist workshop, at the SURF headquarters in Utrecht, Netherlands.
After introducing the work of SURF Foundation and vision of the Knowledge Exchange,
Professor Liebrand emphasised the importance of this event to influence the agendas of the four Knowledge Exchange partners (DEFF, DFG, JISC and SURF).
Professor Liebrand reminded the delegates that the purpose of the Knowledge Exchange is to exchange information about the ICT programmes in our four countries, seeking to add genuine value to the investments we make. We try to support the European agenda, by ensuring that the expert view is recognised at the political level and inspire virtual networks of expertise.
Gerard van Westrienen, Assistant Director of Research, SURF Foundation highlighted the purpose of the workshop; to exchange information and ideas and define a set of issues, suitable for collaborative approaches which will translate into recommendations to each of the Knowledge Exchange partners.
Covering a range of issues, the workshop proposed to explore a range of issues, across six themes:
- Usage statistics
- Metadata of research papers
- Exchanging research information
- Author identification
- OAI-PMH
- e-Theses
Leading one of the six workshop strands, Neil Jacobs, Repositories Programme Manager, JISC expressed optimism and enthusiasm for the workshop, anticipating that the Metadata of research papers strand will identify priorities for action to improve the interoperability for institutional repositories, with an emphasis on finding pragmatic solutions for the Knowledge Exchange partners, to the benefit of their communities.
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