Emerging Standards for Enhanced Publications and Repository Technology serves as a technology watch on the rapidly evolving world of digital publication. It provides an up-to-date overview of technical issues, underlying the development of universally accessible publications, their elemental components and linked information. More specifically it deals with questions as how to bring together the communities of the Current Research Information Systems (CRIS) and the Common European Research Information Format (CERIF). Case studies like EGEE, DILIGENT and DRIVER are analyzed, as well as implementations in projects in Ireland, Denmark and The Netherlands. Interoperability is the keyword in this context and this book introduces to new standards and concepts used in the design of envelopes and packages, overlays and feeds, embedding, publishing formats and Web services and service-oriented architecture. It is a must-read for quick and comprehensive orientation.

Karen Van Godtsenhoven , MA studied English Studies, Comparative Literature and Library and Information Sciences. She started working on digital copyright projects for Ghent University Library in 2006, and then became Project Manager for Ghent for DRIVER I and II. Within DRIVER, she is responsible for usability assessment, national networks and advocacy activities. She co-wrote the Interoperability chapter and edited the Technology Watch report in the context of the ‘Discovery’ work package. She is also editor of the Driver’s Guide to European repositories’ in DRIVER I. http://dare.uva.nl/aup/nl/record/260224
Dr Marjan Vernooy-Gerritsen is Programme Manager of SURFshare, the programme of the Section ICT and Research of SURFfoundation. The aim of SURFshare is to establish a nationwide infrastructure for sharing research data and information in The Netherlands.