Standardization working groups

The participation of D4Science in the discussions and decisions of the Dublin Core is vital to assure interoperability between the systems and networks powered by D4Science and the broad Open Access community using DC. DC Application Profiles are main instruments to ensure interoperability between web systems. D4Science will not only use them, but also influence them, when the need arises. D4Science participates in the DC initiative through FAO. FAO has participated in every major Dublin Core conference since 2001. It has developed an extension to Dublin Core (an application profile) for the needs of the agricultural community. Known as the Agricultural Metadata Element Set (AgMES), it uses all of the Dublin Core element set and adds agriculture specific extensions.

D4Science is participating to the OGF community, being strongly interested in driving the rapid evolution and adoption of applied distributed computing, critical to develop new, innovative and scalable applications and infrastructures. D4Science people attended OGF23 (Barcelona, 2-6 June 2008), one of the largest and most important events in the Grid area held this year, featuring an extensive community program for those interested in learning about Grid and distributed computing technologies. In this event, the D4Science Project Director and Technical Director participated in the "Digital Repositories - Interoperability Using Grid Technologies" session by presenting the D4Science vision and outcomes. During this session, a decision was taken to initiate a collaboration between some of the participants (including D4Science members) and the members of the OGF Data WG. This collaboration will be dedicated to specifically address how federated repositories should relate to federated storage.