[Ore-ac] ORE TC and other updates

[peter murray-rust]

At 18:03 22/11/2006, Herbert Van de Sompel wrote:
>Dear
>
>We would like to share the below information regarding ORE progress with you:
>
>(1) ORE Technical Committee
>(2) First meeting ORE Technical Committee
>(3) ORE Liaison Group
>(4) Upcoming ORE presentations
>
>Kind regards
>
>Carl Lagoze & Herbert Van de Sompel

Thanks - as you may know I met Simeon a month ago.

I am not clear what and when I am likely to be 
asked to do things. Are we expected to meet or is it be email, etc.

P.



>==
>
>(1) ORE Technical Committee
>
>We have now finalized the constituency of the 
>ORE Technical Committee. It differs slightly 
>from the one we shared with you in a previous 
>communication.  We feel we have a tremendous 
>group of people lined up to work on this effort:
>
>· Les Carr, University of Southampton
>· Leigh Dodds, Ingenta
>· Tim DiLauro, Johns Hopkins University
>. Dave Fulker, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
>· Tony Hammond, Nature Publishing Group
>. Richard Jones, Imperial College
>· Peter Murray, OhioLINK
>· Michael Nelson, Old Dominion University
>· Ray Plante, National Center for Supercomputing Applications
>· Andy Powell, Eduserv Foundation
>· Rob Sanderson, University of Liverpool
>· Simeon Warner, Cornell University
>· Jeff Young, OCLC

Looks very good.



>(2) First meeting ORE Technical Committee
>
>The ORE TC will have its first in-person meeting 
>at Columbia University in NYC on January 11th 
>and 12th 2007.  Last week, Carl and Herbert met 
>in the UCAR offices in Boulder to start preparing for that meeting.
>
>(3) ORE Liaison Group
>
>We also made progress regarding the Liaison Group and so far have lined up:
>
>. Tim Cole, UUIC, for DLF Aquifer
>. Rachel Heery, UKOLN, for the JISC Digital Repository support effort
>. Thomas Place, University of Tilburg for DARE (soon to be renamed SurfShare)
>. Rob Tansley, Google, for Google
>
>We also have extended invitations to the EC DRIVER project and to Microsoft.
>
>(4) Upcoming ORE presentations
>
>We will give presentations about ORE at:
>
>. The Fall CNI Task Force meeting, see 
><http://www.cni.org/tfms/2006b.fall/abstracts/PB-oai-sompel.html>
>. The Open Repositories 2007 conference, see 
>Session 5 at <http://openrepositories.org/program/presentations>
>
>--
>Herbert Van de Sompel
>Digital Library Research & Prototyping
>Los Alamos National Laboratory, Research Library
>http://public.lanl.gov/herbertv/
>tel. +1 505 667 1267
>
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Peter Murray-Rust
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