Workshops

ERCIM - DIS Workshop

The ERCIM-DIS working group will hold its first workshop on large scale and federated information spaces in Paris, France on May, 27th, 2009.

Main topics expected to be covered will be (but not limited to)

• Infrastructures and services for DIS
• Large scale DIS (corporations, research/e-Science, private/family, etc.)
• Long-term preservation and curation in DIS
• DIS and interoperability (data and metadata schemas, processes between systems, etc.)
• DIS in specific contexts (such as geo-referenced/spatial, temporal, etc.)
• Business processes and workflows in DIS (information life-cycle management, etc.)
• Other issues in DIS, such as Open access, Open Archives, Federated repositories, etc.

Confirmed invited speakers

• Wolfgang Nejdl (L3S)
• Keith Jeffery (ERCIM)

Organisation

• Ingeborg T. Sølvberg, NTNU, Norway (DIS coordinator)
• José Borbinha, INESC-ID, Portugal
• Anne Gams Steine Asserson, Univ. of Bergen, Norway
• Heiko Schuldt, Univ. of Basel, Switzerland

Important Dates

• 17 April - Proposals due
• 27 April - Notification of acceptance
• 27 May - Workshop

Further information can be found in the call for proposals below.

Call for proposals

Workshop on Large scale and federated information spaces 27 May 2009 – Paris, France

Call for proposals for the ERCIM-DIS workshop in Paris, May, 27th, 2009, provided by Ingeborg Sølvberg