A Workshop Series for Grid/Repository Integration
Andreas Aschenbrenner, Tobias Blanke, Neil Chue Hong, Nicholas Ferguson, Mark Hedges · D-Lib Magazine · 2009
Researchers and information scientists are often forced to move back and forth between different digital environments in their daily work.Institutional or thematic repositories have become a prevalent mechanism to manage publications, and increasingly also to manage research outputs and primary data.Integration of the user's natural work environment with repositories is improving (albeit slowly), and repository-based research environments are emerging (e.g., eSciDoc 1 ).The natural habitat for many scientific users, however, is e-Infrastructure like the "grid".At the same time, these users are employing repositories -often home-grown systems -to store their research outputs and publications.A workshop series supported by OGF-Europe, 2 DReSNeT 3 and OMII 4 set out to reduce this fragmentation and explore the interfaces between grid-and repository-based architectures.