This workshop, jointly supported by OGF-Europe and DReSNeT, aims to address the specific requirements for digital repository curation service environments. It will take place in Edinburgh on 1 December prior to the 4th International Digital Curation Conference. As repositories become
part and parcel of e-Science environments in all disciplines, individual repositories are converging both technologically and organisationally into federations of multiple repositories, often offering external services for tasks such as print-on-demand and preservation as well as out-sourcing storage. This RECURSE workshop will focus on highlighting application
environments where both e-Science and repositories have much to gain,
coupled with the benefits of open standards. Principal discussion points
will include: benefits of digital curation for e-Science and user
requirements; interoperability of technologies; workflow integration;
views of long-term digital curation; benefits to user communities of the
adoption of distributed computing.