Content aggregation and network architectures: Group 3

This breakout session has a technical-organisational focus and touches upon the following topics: - aggregation: aggregation services can provide added value that goes beyond search; - architectures: networked infrastructures can mediate between service providers and data providers. The session involves major initiatives in the field: OAI-practice as experienced by important service providers and implications for a smooth, machine-based content aggregation will be addressed. The relation of distributed and aggregated content and, respectively, the relation of data-providers and service-providers will be furthered: added values enabled by novel approaches to data re-use such as ORE and infrastructural architectures for inter-repository network-operation such as those coming from the DRIVER-project will be discussed. Participants will be provided time and scope to raise issues, share their experiences and elaborate possible scenarios.