The eCrystals Federation: Open Data Repositories Supporting Open Science Liz Lyon Director, UKOLN University of Bath Manjula Patel Research Officer University of Bath Simon Coles Manager, National Crystallography Service University of Southhampton This presentation will describe the background of the eCrystals Federation, which is based on eBank foundations, and which, in partnership with OAI-ORE, will implement a federation of open data repositories for crystallography. An application profile, based on the Dublin Core standard, has been developed by the eBank-UK project for the initial construction of a federation of crystallography data repositories. Building on this initial deployment the eCrystals Federation will then work closely with the OAI-ORE team, as part of a wider international consortium funded by Microsoft to support the whole lifecycle of chemistry research data, to develop a more effective protocol for interoperability between data repositories and the construction of tools and third party services based on the data federation. The groundwork to establish a repository network will be described together with the evolving advocacy program, links with third party services such as data centres, publishers, learned societies, and preservation/sustainability activity. Continuing developments in partnership with the Digital Curation Centre are investigating suitable curation strategies, the creation of preservation metadata, and the application of the DRAMBORA Toolkit as a means of self-assessment to the crystallography repositories. Emerging data policy issues for institutions will be explored and some challenges for the future will be presented. http://www.ncs.chem.soton.ac.uk/projects/ecrystals/ Handout (MS Word) Presentation (PPT) Fall 2007 Meeting Home Page     Fall 2007 Project Briefings     Fall 2007 Schedule