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!
- ORE Challenge - $2000 prize for best prototype that uses and promotes OAI-ORE, see announcement.
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, Donuts and Coffee
- 9am - People start to wake up
- 9am'ish - Welcome and intros
- 9.30 - Prizes up for grabs: Announcement of what prizes we will be offering for best prototypes 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 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)
- 10.15 - Pitch no.2: OAI-ORE (Carl Lagoze & Rob Sanderson?)
- 10.30 - Pitch no.3: Low-Level Storage API (Richard Rodgers, Ben O'Steen and Dave Tarrant)
- 10.45 - Pitch no.4: Scholarly Workbench (Matt Zumwalt & ???)
- 11.00 - Pitch no.5: Fedora Future (Sandy Payette)
- 11.15 - Pitch no. 6: DSpace Future (Michele Kimpton)
- 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 becuause they have a good idea that should be heard).- Lunch will be served around 12.30 (during the Open Space Tech time)
- 13.00 -
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.- 16.30 -
Elevator Pitch Part II: Teams will have an opportunity to come up and discuss what they have decided regarding competing for the prizes (or if they had an ephiphany during the day that needs saying regardless of purpose).- 16.40 - Pitch A
- 16.50 - Pitch B
- 17.00 - Pitch C
- 17.10 - Pitch D
- 17.20 - Pitch E
- 17.30'ish - Movement of event to bar for "community building"
- 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))
- Aaron Birkland, NSDL, Fedora Commons
- Bill Branan, Fedora Commons
- Peter Cliff, UKOLN
- Daniel Davis, Fedora Commons
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Kathy Kwan, National Library of Medicine
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
