On April 20-21 in New York City the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation hosted an invitational meeting, convened jointly by Mellon, Microsoft, CNI, JISC and DLF, to explore issues in repository interoperabiltiy, with a view towards mapping out a development agenda. General information on the meeting is at:

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The report from this meeting, prepared by Jeroen Bekaert and Herbert Van de Somple of LANL, has just been finalized and is now available at

http://msc.mellon.org/Meetings/Interop/FinalReport

This report is very much worth reading, and I think does a great job of summarizing a very complex and important discussion.

Look for announcements of additional work in this area in the coming months.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI