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For those of you unable to attend the OAI open day in DC and preferring a trip abroad... I am including Cliff Lynch's recent message about the above along with a formal event announcement. Please circluate, in any event, to European colleagues who may be interested. Dan The Open Archives initiative, which is being supported by CNI and the Digital Library Federation, is holding two public meetings in conjunction with the release of the OAI protocol specifications for metadata harvesting. The first, which was covered by an earlier announcement, is in Washington DC on January 23; this meeting is now at capacity for the venue and registration is closed. A second meeting had been planned for Europe. The date and venue for this meeting is now set and information is below. The Open Archives Initiative (http://www.openarchives.org) (OAI) develops and promotes interoperability standards that aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination of content. An Open Meeting to make public the release of the specifications of the initial OAI interoperability architecture will be held on February 26 at the Staatsbibliothek Preußischer Kulturbesitz in Berlin. The goal of this interoperability architecture is to provide an easy way for data providers to expose their metadata and for service providers to access that metadata and use it as input to value-added services. A key component of the interoperability architecture is the use of the Dublin Core element set as the required resource discovery metadata vocabulary. The OAI invites representatives from a variety of communities including publishers, libraries, E-Print and pre-print providers, and museums to participate in the meeting and discuss the applications of this interoperability architecture to their communitity's information requirements. Complete information on the meeting and a registration form (registration is required and will be closed at 100 attendees) is available at http://www.openarchives.org/Berlin2001/OpenMeeting.html. NOTE: The meeting will be conducted in English. Translation facilities will not be available. Support for the European OAI Open Day comes from the Staatsbibliothek Preußischer Kulturbesitz and Deutsche Initiative für Netzwerkinformation (DINI). Support for other Open Archives Initiative activities and work comes from the Digital Library Federation and the Coalition for Networked Information, the National Science Foundation (Grant No. IIS-9817416) and the Defense Advanced Projects Agency (Grant No. N66001-98-1-8908). Any further questions can be mailed to [log in to unmask] Daniel Greenstein Director, Digital Library Federation CLIR 1755 Massachusetts Ave, NW Suite 500 Washington DC 20036 phone 202 939 4762