When

Friday, September 19, 2008, in extension of ECDL 2008, the day after the workshop on Digital Object Repository Systems in Digital Libraries.

We will start Thursday night at 19.00 with dinner and social networking for those interested.

Where

The State and University Library
Universitetsparken
DK-8000 Århus C
Denmark

Please note that the meeting starts before opening hours for the Library. There will be people to receive you in front of the main entrance, to let you in. If for some reason you arrive and no one is there, please phone +45 89462036.

If you arrive after 9:00AM you can enter the library from main entrance. You can ask in the reception for Meeting Room 1, and there will be signs showing the way.

For those who have attended the workshop "Digital Object Repository
Systems in Digital Libraries", it will be the day after, in the same location.

Travel information is available on the ECDL 2008 home page.

What

This will be a founding meeting of Fedora EU. Purpose will be introducing members and their projects, and discussing the future form and work of the Fedora EU User Group.

Participating is free including lunch and coffee Friday, although the dinner Thursday night will not be paid.

If you want to participate, please send an email to kfc@statsbiblioteket.dk, and please specify if you want to participate in the dinner Thursday night.

Sandra Payette from Fedora Commons has been kind enough to participate in this meeting.

Program Thursday

  • 19.00 We meet for dinner at a restaurant (see below) and informal networking.

Preliminary Program Friday

  • 08:00: Welcome to new Fedora users: session on setting up and running Fedora (GUI and basic architecture).
  • 09.30: FedoraEU members arrive for coffee
  • 10:00: "Inaugural Speech" by Sandy Payette, Executive Director, Fedora Commons
  • 10:30: Minute introduction madness: each person in attendance introduces themselves quickly and their use of Fedora
  • 10.45: Coffee Break
  • 11:00: Project Presentation (5-10min)
    • Add your project below
  • 12:45: Short Update on Fedora Commons Outreach, Wiki and Community building (Carissa Smith, Fedora Commons)
  • 13.00: LUNCH
  • 14:00: Questions and Answers with Sandy Payette
  • 14.30: small group discussions on FedoraEU and what it is and what it wants to accomplish
  • 15.30: large group discussion prompted by small group discussions
  • 16.30: free-for all networking
  • 17.00: ciao and one last beer

Project presentations

Please add your project here, if you wish to make a presentation in the slot from 11.00 to 13.00.

  • Trifork.com: OIO-kataloget, danish repository for technical standards and interface descriptions.
    Projekt presentation available (in danish) at Softwarebørsen
  • Matthias Razum (FIZ Karlsruhe): Fedora Performance and Scalability Tests
  • Andreas Hense (FH Bonn-Rhein-Sieg): wikiDORA (question)
  • Andreas Aschenbrenner (SUB Göttingen): Fedora Infrastructure Patterns (if he can make it early enough for the meeting)
  • David F. Flanders Fedorazon

Who

Currently, the following participants are registered

Name

Email

Organisation

Dinner

Sandy Payette

spayette(at)fedora-commons.org

Fedora Commons, USA

Yes

Carissa Smith

carissa(at)cs.cornell.edu

Fedora Commons, USA

Yes

Kåre Fiedler Christiansen

kfc(at)statsbiblioteket.dk

The State And University Library, Denmark

Yes

Asger Blekinge-Rasmussen

abr(at)statsbiblioteket.dk

The State And University Library, Denmark

Yes

Morten Grouleff

mgr(at)trifork.com

Trifork A/S, Denmark

No

Jakob Færch

jrf(at)trifork.com

Trifork A/S, Denmark

No

Lodewijk Bogaards

Lodewijk.Bogaards(at)dans.knaw.nl

DANS, Netherlands

Yes

Matthias Razum

Matthias.Razum(at)FIZ-Karlsruhe.DE

FIZ Karlsruhe, Germany

Yes

Peri Stracchino

ps552(at)york.ac.uk

University of York, England

No

Gert Schmeltz Pedersen

gsp(at)dtic.dtu.dk

Technical Knowledge Center of Denmark

Yes

Andreas Hense

andreas.hense(at)fh-bonn-rhein-sieg.de

Fachhochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, Germany

Yes

Andreas Aschenbrenner

aschenbrenner(at)sub.uni-goettingen.de

University of Göttingen, Germany

Yes

Andreas Nef

a.nef(at)docuteam.ch

Docuteam GmbH, Archivdienstleistungen, Switzerland

Yes

Uwe Klosa

uwe.klosa(at)ub.uu.se

Uppsala University, Sweden

Yes

Neil Dickson

Neil.Dickson(at)LIB.monash.edu.au

ARROW Project, Monash University Library, Australia

Yes

David F. Flanders

d.flanders(at)bloomsbury.ac.uk

Birkbeck, University of London, England

Yes

Richard Wright

richard.wright(at)bbc.co.uk

BBC Future Media & Technology, UK

Yes

Rob Davis

rob.davies(at)mdrpartners.com

MDR Partners, UK

no

Mary Rowlatt

mary.rowlatt(at)mdrpartners.com

MDR Partners, UK

no

David Hansson

David.Hansson(at)ub.lu.se

Universitetsbiblioteket, Lunds universitet, Sweden

yes

Arent J. Bosman

a.j.bosman(at)tudelft.nl

TU Delft, Netherlands

yes

Dinner arrangements

Dinner will be at the restaurant White Elephant
Homepage: http://www.white-elephant.dk/
Map: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=white+elephant,+%C3%A5rhus,+denmark&ie=UTF8&ll=56.1589,10.209324&spn=0.010492,0.012617&t=h&z=16&iwloc=A

Table has been reserved in the name "Kåre Christiansen"

In the lack of decent Danish cuisine, we will default to Asian (smile)