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 protoype including trip to London for Developer Conference!
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:
- 8.30am: Bagels and Coffee
- 9am: People start to wake up
- 9am-ish: Welcome and intros
- 9.30 Prize Announcement: Announcement of what prizes we will be offering for best protoypes and how the judging process will occur.
- 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 powerpoint) just you (and a friend or two if you like) a flipchart and a lot of fast drawing. You'll have as long as you like for Q&A after your five minute pitch.
- 10.00 - Elevator Pitch no.1: SWORD (Jim Downing)
- 10.15 - Elevator Pitch no.2: OAI-ORE (Carl Lagoze?)
- 10.30 - Elevator Pitch no.3: Low Level Storage API (Richard Rodgers, Ben O'Steen and Dave Tarrant)
- 10.45 - Elevator Pitch no.4: Scholarly Workbench (Matt Zumwalt & ???)
- 11.00 - Elevator Pitch no.5: ??? <- ideas
- 11.15 - Elevator Pitch no. 6: DSpace and Fedora Collaboration (Sandy Payette and Michele Kimpton)
- 11.30: OpenSpace Technology Time: will consist of flipcharts around the room where people can come together to pitch their own protoype ideas (we will offer prizes for best protoypes based on various themes).
- 12.30: Lunch (Pizza!)
- 13.30: End of Lunch
- 14.00: Protoyping Session (More detials to follow)
- 16.30: End of formal prototyping session.
- 17.00: Movement of event to bar for informal team preparation time
- 23.00: End of sensible thinking for the day
- 23.59: Solved all the world's problems... ;-)
Regarding competition and prizes: The prizes are meant to add a bit of fun for the day and are not intended to be extremely compteitive
Who? (go ahead and add yourself (the password/invite key is c4mp))
If you could please confirm your attendance to wocrig@gmail.com by Friday July 18th. Otherwise we'll be giving your place away to someone else (this event is now in high demand).
- Aaron Birkland, NSDL, Fedora Commons
- Bill Branan, Fedora Commons
- David Brunton, Library of Congress
- Dan Chudnov, Library of Congress
- Stephan Drescher, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Gabriel Farrell, Drexel University
- Dave Flanders, JISC CRIG
- Mike Giarlo Library of Congress
- Wayne Graham College of William and Mary
- 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
- Daniel Krech, Library of Congress
- Michael R. Levy, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Justin Littman, Library of Congress
- Mark Matienzo, New York Public Library
- Elliot Metsger, Johns Hopkins University
- Chad Mills, Rutgers University Libraries
- Erik Mitchell, Wake Forest University
- Andrew Nagy, Villanova University
- Ben O'Steen Oxford University
- Bess Sadler University of Virginia Library
- Jim Safley, Center for History and New Media
- Doron Shalvi, National Library of Medicine
- Seth Shaw, Duke University Archives
- Ed Summers Library of Congress
- Dave Tarrant, ECS, University of Southampton, UK
- Brian Vargas, Library of Congress
- Matt Zumwalt,MediaShelf
- Eddie Shin
- Sandy Payette, Fedora Commons
- Michele Kimpton, DSpace
- Carl Lagoze
- Nathan Sarr
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
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)
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.
Directions
Location
View Library of Congress Campus Map
Metro Subway
Closest Metro Stop: Capitol South (orange/blue line)
Driving
Visit MapQuest for turn-by-turn directions
Thomas Jefferson Building
1st Street SE, between Independence Avenue and East Capitol Streets
James Madison Building
101 Independence Avenue, SE
Washington, DC 20540
John Adams Building
2nd Street SE, between Independence Avenue and East Capitol Streets
Parking Options
- VERY, VERY Limited two-hour zone and metered parking on streets
- Public parking lots
By Train
From Area Airports
Ronald Reagan National Airport (DCA) – 4.4 miles, closest to the Library
- Shuttle service or taxi
- Subway (Metro) – blue line
Dulles International Airport (IAD) – 31.2 miles
Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI) – 32.4 miles
