RepoCamp

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Tag for RepoCamp is "repocamp" <-shocking

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RepoCamp is a one-day free and open event where folks who are interested in managing and creating digital repository software and their contents can gather and share ideas, innovations, trials and tribulations...and have a drink or two afterwards. One of the key goals of the event is to explore interoperability between repository software and other services.

NEW: Prizes will be given for best prototypes!

CRIG Challenge - All expenses paid trip to the JISC Academic Developer Conference in January! - see Event.
ORE Challenge - $2000 prize for best prototype that uses and promotes OAI-ORE, see announcement and results.

When?

Friday, July 25th, 2008

Coffee, donuts, and bagels will be served at 8am-ish; we'll look to begin around 9am. Keep checking back here for updates. Also plan on staying afterwards for when the real ideas begin over a couple of beers (best hacks get free beer)!

Where?

Montpelier Room

Madison Building

101 Independence Avenue SE

Library of Congress

Washington, DC 20540

map with Metro lines

What?

For an introduction to "What is RepoCamp" see here CRIG RepoCamp @ Library of Congress.

DRAFT schedule for the day:

8.00am - group of us sitting on the steps of LoC (people with laptops out), building doesn't open until 8.30
8.30am - Bagels, Donuts and Coffee
9am - People start to wake up
9am'ish - Welcome and intros
- What is CRIG?, What is RepoCamp,
9.30 - Prizes up for grabs: Announcement of what prizes we will be offering for best prototypes and how the judging process will occur.
- due as a screencast, August 8th
10.00 - Elevator Pitches ("Lift Pitches" in the Anglican): which should consist of a five minute chat (you will be timed) about a topic of your choosing (preferably no PPT), just you (and a friend or two if you like), a flipchart, and a lot of fast drawing (think Pictionary). You'll have as long as you like for Q&A with the group after your five minute pitch.
- 10.00 - Pitch no.1: SWORD (Jim Downing, Savas)
- 10.15 - Pitch no.2: OAI-ORE (Ben O'Steen, Stephan)
- 10.30 - Pitch no.3: Low-Level Storage API (Richard Rodgers, Ben O'Steen and Dave Tarrant)
- 10.45 - Pitch no.4: Putting Repositories in Their Place (Matt Zumwalt)
- 11.00 - Pitch no.5: BagIt (holey bags) at LoC (Leslie Johnston, Ed Summers, Brian Vargas) - http://www.cdlib.org/inside/diglib/bagit/bagitspec.html
- 11.15 - Pitch no. 6: Authoring/Versioning/Collaboration - Nathan
11.30 - Open Space Technology Time: will consist of flipcharts around the room where people can come together to pitch their own prototype ideas to one another for the competition (or just because they have a good idea that should be heard).
- Lunch will be served around 12.30 (during the Open Space Tech time)
13.00 - Review of morning session conversations (free t-shirts for anyone who give a review)
- node 1: SWORD + ORE
- node 2: REST-ORE
- node 3: Hardware: XAM (SNIA)
- node 4: BagIt
- node 5: Repository Architecture Drawing (non-stack)

*14.00 - Prototyping Sessions: It is expected that at this time, teams who are competing in the competition can get together to decide upon how to win the prizes, how they are going to do it, and who is going to do the various coding.

17.30'ish - Movement of event to bar for "community building"
- Going to the Hawk and Dove Pub|. Go East on Independence Avenue until it turns into Pennsylvania Avenue, go past 2nd and 3rd Street. Pub will be on the right side. 5 minutes walk away.
23.00 - End of all sensible thinking for the day
23.59 - Solved all the world's problems... ;-)

Regarding competition and prizes: The prizes are meant to provide some fun motivation for the day and are not intended to be proprietarily competitive. The focus should be upon sharing and the judges will take into account the teams that work together collaborativley.

It is expected that the prototypes for the competition will be due a fortnight after the BarCamp (August 8th?). A screencast should be submitted for the competition entry (pref Jing) which will be decided upon by a panel of judges.

Who? (go ahead and add yourself (the password/invite key is c4mp))

If you'd like to add some kind of link to a picture/profile so we can identify one another later on?

Aaron Birkland, NSDL, Fedora Commons
Bill Branan, Fedora Commons
Peter Cliff, UKOLN
Daniel Davis, Fedora Commons
Tim DiLauro, Johns Hopkins University
Stephan Drescher, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Nat Eiseman, American Geophysical Union
Gabriel Farrell, Drexel University
David Flanders, JISC CRIG twitter: http://twitter.com/dfflanders
Mike Giarlo Library of Congress
Wayne Graham College of William and Mary
Ethan Gruber, The University of Virginia Library
Sean Hannan, Johns Hopkins University
Mark Hedges, King's College London and WoCRIG
Susie Henderson Florida Distance Learning Consortium
Alvin Hutchinson, Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Greg Jansen, UNC Chapel Hill University Library
Mark Johnson, United States Naval Academy, Department of Computer Science
Leslie Johnston, Library of Congress
David Kennedy, University of Maryland
Michele Kimpton, DSpace Foundation
Daniel Krech, Library of Congress
Carl Lagoze
Michael R. Levy, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Justin Littman, Library of Congress
Mark Matienzo, New York Public Library
Brad McLean, DSpace Foundation
Elliot Metsger, Johns Hopkins University
Chad Mills, Rutgers University Libraries
Carol Minton Morris, Fedora Commons, National Science Digital Library
Erik Mitchell, Wake Forest University
Andrew Nagy, Villanova University
Ben O'Steen Oxford University
Savas Parastatidis, Microsoft
Sandy Payette, Fedora Commons
Bess Sadler University of Virginia Library
Jim Safley, Center for History and New Media
Nathan Sarr
Doron Shalvi, National Library of Medicine
Seth Shaw, Duke University Archives
Eddie Shin, Fedora Commons
Ed Summers Library of Congress
Dave Tarrant, ECS, University of Southampton, UK
Brian Vargas, Library of Congress
Matt Zumwalt, MediaShelf

The event has been sponsored by JISC Common Repository Interfaces Working Group and the Library of Congress

Topics - add your ideas: invite/password is c4mp

oai-ore
Honeycomb
fedora
dspace
eprints
SWORD
BagIt
PAWN
Collaborative Authoring and Versioning
Explore what PREMIS might look like as an rdfs vocabulary, and whether it would be useful.
Work on a tool for validating resource maps
Work on a tool for harvesting resource maps

Interesting Tools to discuss, look-up or be aware of.

(E.g. tools, services and software that might be useful that some may not be aware of)

TiddlyWiki - Wiki-implementation that doesn't need a server - masses of plugins, including RippleRap - conference collaboration and note-taking wiki, built to work with infrequent connectivity.
RDF stores in the cloud - e.g. Talis Platform (I can provide access to three blank Talis stores for anyone's use during the camp - Ben O'Steen)
Solr
eXist + Orbeon
Google appengine
Yahoo Pipes
Yahoo term extraction, OpenCalais, and other text mining services
Hadoop, its HDFS and HBase in particular
Tahoe
My Experiment.org "myExperiment makes it really easy to find, use and share scientific workflows and other files, and to build communities"
Open Knowledge Foundation http://www.okfn.org/ <-various data typing projects

Discuss

First of all, please edit this wiki page with your ideas, and add your name if you are interested in attending. invite/password is c4mp We also have a discussion list where we'll cover logistics, which you'll want to get on. If you'd like to keep up with changes to this page, but don't want to see all the changes that are going on at BarCamp, subscribe to the rss for the RepoCamp Yahoo Pipe

Hotels

Participants will need to make their own hotel arrangements. Capitol Hill Suites is definitely the closest hotel to the Library of Congress. (Just across the street from the Madison Bldg). If money is no object, you might want to stay in the Dupont Circle area, where there are many nice places to eat and drink. They are close to the Dupont Circle metro stop on the Red Line. Also, for people who are looking to save some money by staying in a hostel here is a list. The William Penn House looks decent and is very close to the Library of Congress. Some other recommended hostels are the International Guest House and International Hostel.