Tallinn: DC-NET e-infrastructure concertation meeting: Presentations and images available
Estonia
13-14 January 2011 - DC-NET meetings
Venue: Three Sisters Hotel, Pikk 71/Tolli 2 - Three Sisters Hotel
The overall objective of the DC-NET concertation seminar is to identify and document common approaches and mechanisms how multinational projects and memory institutions with digital cultural heritage collections could gain access to individual e-infrastructure national representatives (NRENs) as well as to the resources managed by coordination initiatives such as GEANT and Grid platforms.
In addition to the DC-Net partners, e-Infrastructure representatives will participate and will seek to establish common policies, programmes and rules which apply to e-Infrastructures across Europe.
Invited NREN/Grid participants: Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, RENATER, GARR, COMETA, INFN, EENET, BELNET, HUNGARNET, SUNET, GRNET, ARNES, DANTE, EGI.eu.
The seminar will be held at the Three Sisters Hotel (http://www.threesistershotel.com/), Pikk 71/Tolli 2, in the Old Town of Tallinn.
All presentations are available for download at: http://www.kanut.ee/index.php/koolitused
Programme
Day I: 13.01.2011
12.00-13.30 Registration and snack lunch
13.30-13.45 Welcome
13.45-15.00 Session I: Introduction
Purpose of the session: to introduce the e-infrastructure evolution, the DC-Net project and its aims, and the general issues of memory institutions accessing NREN and other e-infrastructure services.
Chair: Anton Pärn, Ministry of Culture, Estonia
Proposed speakers:
Rossella Caffo, Director Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico DC-NET Project Coordinator - Political background and strategic vision [.PDF 119KB]
Leif Laaksonen, eIRG - the Blue Paper [.PDF 218KB]
Antonella Fresa, DC-NET Technical Coordination - the DC-Net project [.PDF 115KB]
Q&A
15.00-15.30 Coffee break
15.30-18.00 Session II: e-Infrastructures and their services
Purpose of the session: To introduce typical e-infrastructure services, and to present the view from their side on the types of services memory institutions are looking for.
Chair: Richard Hughes-Jones, Dante (UK)
Proposed speakers:
Mihkel Kraav, EENet, Estonia - e-infrastructure services in Estonia [.PDF 971KB]
Dany Vandromme - RENATER, France - NREN services in France [.PDF 1MB]
Tryfon Chiotis, GRNET, Greece - e-infrastructure services in Greece [.PDF 9MB]
Roberto Barbera - Consorzio COMETA, Italy - The COMETA Grid infrastructure and its services for Digital Cultural Heritage applications [.PDF 9.5MB] (Video 1 .mp4 6MB) - (Video 2 .mp4 4MB)
Gabriella Paolini, Sabrina Tomassini – GARR, Italy – GARR services [.PDF 615KB]
Eva Stensköld - Swedish Research Council, Sweden - How eInfrastructures are financed [.PDF 674KB]
Tiziana Ferrari, EGI.eu - EGI pan-European Distributed Computing Infrastructure [.PDF 1MB]
Discussion
18.00 Close of the day
Day II: 14.01.2011
9.00-9.30 Morning coffee
9.30-11.00 Session III: memory institutions and their requirements for research e-infrastructure
Purpose of the session: to introduce the types of services memory institutions require from NRENs.
Chair: Christophe Dessaux, MCC (France)
Proposed speakers:
Rossella Caffo, Italian Ministry of Culture - the National library service (SBN) [.PDF 431KB]
Edina Sörény, Hungarian Ministry of Culture
Börje Justrell, National Archives of Sweden [.PDF 381KB]
Gordon McKenna, Collections Trust, UK [.PDF 486KB]
11.00-11.30 Coffee break
11.30-13.00 Session IV: round table discussion
Purpose of the session: To bring the needs of memory institutions together with the opportunities of e-infrastructures and to discuss the shared interests within the framework of the memorandum of understanding.
Chair: Raivo Ruusalepp, Ministry of Culture, Estonia
Introduction:
Rossette Vanderbroucke, the DC-NET Memorandum of understanding
Discussion: how to bring the requirements of memory institutions and possibilities of NRENs together, all participants
13.00-13.30 Conclusions and closing of the meeting
