Augmenting interoperability across scholarly repositories

In April 2006, an Interoperability Summit was sponsored and supported by Microsoft, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Coalition for Networked Information, the Digital Library Federation, and JISC.

The goals of the meeting were:

-To agree on the nature and characteristics of a limited set of core, protocol-based repository interfaces (REST-full and/or SOAP-based Web services) that allow downstream applications to interact with heterogeneous repositories in an efficient and consistent manner.

-To compile a concrete list of action items aimed at fully specifying, validating and implementing such repository interfaces.

-To devise a timeline for the specification, validation and implementation of such repository interfaces.

For details on summit participants, presentations and outcomes, please see http://msc.mellon.org/Meetings/Interop/.