Interoperability Notes from Working Group Chairs Meeting, June 1997 - Pittsburgh For a complete report of the Chairs meeting, see the Meeting Reports page. Group Members USA Bill Birmingham (michigan) Andreas Paepcke (Stanford) Barry Leiner (MCC) Europe H.J. Sheck/Markus Tresch Sophie Cluet, INRIA, France Fausto Rabitti, CNR, Italy Sverker Janson / Olle Olsson, SICS, Sweden Panos Constantoupoulos / Vassilis Christophides, FORTH, Greece Goal Statement (Still working) Explore appoaches to interoperability that consider elements of digital libraries. For example, we are interested in documents and queries in various forms, and higher-level coordination mechanisms, such as negotiation over usage rights, price, and so forth. An example abstraction level that we are considering is the following: