Networking Multimendia Resources - 3rd OA-Forum workshop, Berlin, March Leona Carpenter Networking Multimedia Resources -- Summing up the workshop... Leona Carpenter, UKOLN

Networking Multimendia Resources - 3rd OA-Forum workshop, Berlin, March Leona Carpenter We came, we clustered Many thanks to the Humboldt University & DINI – To Birgit & also Susanne and Peter – To everyone else who worked so hard We achieved some objectives Sharing knowledge and experience Initiating joint work We identified some Emerging themes Future actions

Networking Multimendia Resources - 3rd OA-Forum workshop, Berlin, March Leona Carpenter Keynote OAI speaker: Herbert van de Sompel The past and future of OAI – showed how OAI got where it is – repositioning libraries closer to authors/creators in the information chain – continued relevance of open archives approach in light of IP drain and journal costs – his hopes for next work to extend OAI implementation eased for small organisations base recommender services on usage logs

Networking Multimendia Resources - 3rd OA-Forum workshop, Berlin, March Leona Carpenter Emerging themes Workshop participants represent differing Projects and services Organisations Repositories Subjects and data / content types Yet still find common interest in Balancing complexity with simplicity Sustainability / business models Open standards for interoperability Need for guidance on good practice (especially in the area of metadata?) Need for interoperable subject schemes

Networking Multimendia Resources - 3rd OA-Forum workshop, Berlin, March Leona Carpenter Actions Continue to share knowledge and experience – through forged alliances – through info and other lists – through OA-Forum information source Register your service/project/repository in: Draft guidelines with OI! Working group Participate or encourage others to participate in 4th OA-Forum workshop (Bath, 4-5 September)