Interoperability Working Group Meeting

Ann Arbor, Michigan

September 1st and 2nd, 1998

The Interoperability Working Group (IWG) has been developing a document that outlines major research problems and opportunities in interoperability research related to digital libraries. A version of this report, the basis for this meeting, can be found at http://www.si.umich.edu/UMDL/EU_Grant/interop/interop.htm . The final version of this report will be submitted to both the NSF and EU. Our objective for this meeting is to finish drafting the report.

To achieve the objective, we will have a working meeting. We expect that attendees will read the draft reports on the website, and have comments about them. In particular, we want to make sure that we have the broadest possible coverage of research issues and opportunities. We expect that the attendees will make short statements about the report at the start of the meeting. We will then divide into small groups to edit or rewrite sections of the report. We will then reconvene to discuss the report as a whole.

Timetable

Tuesday

9:00- 9:15: Welcome, Introductions, and Orientation

9:15- 9:30: Comments and Welcome, Professor Dan Atkins, Dean School of Information

9:30 — 10:30: Comments by attendees

10:30 — 10:40: Break

10:40 — 11:10: Formation of working groups, discussion about the structure of the report, assignment of topics to working groups

11:45 — 12:30: Lunch

12:30 — 4:30: Working groups

4:30 — 5:30: Reconvene to discuss changes made and the summary statement

6:30 - ?: Dinner