Kickoff meeting: guest speaker on OAI

[Tony Linde]

I'm pleased to say that we will have a guest speaker at the Registry
Kickoff meeting to tell us about OAI and Dublin Core. The speaker is
Andy Powell, Assistant Director and Team Leader, Distributed Systems and
Services at UKOLN, University of Bath (http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/).

Andy's reponse to an email I sent to the OAI list states: 'I was a
member of the OAI technical committee that developed the OAI v2
specification.  I have done a number of presentations on OAI.  I set the
interoperability standards for the RDN (which uses the OAI protocol
internally) and the JISC Information Environment technical architecture,
which specifies use of OAI for metadata harvesting.  I also work on the
ePrints UK project, which will use the OAI protocol to develop a series
of subject-focused eprint discovery services.'

I'm sure we'll find this presentation useful and interesting. I'm
talking to Andy tomorrow lunchtime about the pitch of his presentation -
does anyone have any topics they especially want covered?

Cheers,
Tony. 

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