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 among repository software.
When?
July 25th, 2008
Where?
Montpelier Room
Madison Building
101 Independence Avenue SE
Library of Congress, Washington DC
map with Metro lines
What?
RepoCamp is devoted to interaction, rather than presentation, and on doing, rather than reporting. So the format is self-organizing and emergent. No two BarCamps are the same. But generally, the activity will consist of pre-meeting web postings, 5-10 minute pitches to introduce ideas or information, ad hoc prototyping and demonstrations, and lots of free-range discussion.
If you have been to a BarCampor an Unconference you'll get the general idea. The key to these events is to show up and be ready to engage in discussion about your own and other people's thoughts and innovative ideas. Watch this space as the topics and participants for this event reveal themselves.
Who? (go ahead and add yourself (the password/invite key is c4mp), we'll probably only have room for 30-40)
- Gabriel Farrell, Drexel University
- Dave Flanders, JISC CRIG
- Mike Giarlo Library of Congress
- Leslie Johnston, Library of Congress
- Elliot Metsger, Johns Hopkins University
- Chad Mills, Rutgers University Libraries
- Ben O'Steen Oxford University
- Jim Safley, Center for History and New Media
- Seth Shaw, Duke University Archives
- Ed Summers Library of Congress
- Dave Tarrant, ECS Southampton
- Brian Vargas, Library of Congress
- Daniel Krech, Library of Congress
- David Kennedy, University of Maryland
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)
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
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 down in Dupont Circle area, where there are some nice places to eat and drink. They are typically close to a metro stop as well. 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.
