FYI.... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: ** Date: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 Subject: IMPORTANT: updated information on the planned EFIR workshop on 24 April 2013 .... Dear Members of the ISA Working groups on Exchange of Best Practice, Trusted Information Exchange and Interoperability Architecture, **** ** ** We have recently informed you of the EFIR workshop which was going to be held on Wednesday April 24 to discuss the extension of the current federated catalogue of semantic assets on Joinup to other types of interoperability assets.**** ** ** *Due to the limited number of positive responses, the physical workshop will be replaced by an online webinar. This way, participants who were not able to come to Brussels on that day will have the opportunity to attend the online workshop.* ** ** The webinar is a unique opportunity for e-Government and interoperability experts, standardisation bodies, and ICT service providers to share their needs and ideas on the future European federated catalogue of interoperability assets.**** ** ** *Webinar Part 1: The need for an extended Europe’s collection of interoperability assets on Joinup* ** ** Wednesday, April 24, 2013 **** 10:30 – 12:00 CET (UTC+1) **** Duration: 1,5 hours**** ** ** The first webinar addresses the following topics:**** **• **Present the evolution of Joinup, the federation and the motivation for an extended European catalogue of interoperability assets. ** ** **• **Share experiences and gather lessons learnt from platforms for sharing and reuse of interoperability assets.**** ** ** *Webinar Part 2: Gathering requirements on the future catalogue of interoperability assets* ** ** Wednesday, April 24, 2013 **** 14:00 – 15:30 CET (UTC+1)**** Duration: 1,5 hours**** ** ** The second webinar addresses the following topics:**** **• **Discuss requirements for the upcoming extended federation:**** **· **The search: what are the expectations of the users when searching for interoperability assets?**** **· **The catalogue: what are the expectations of the repository owners / publishers when making their collections of assets available on Joinup? **** **• **Discuss how to best promote interoperability assets and the federation at a local and EU level**** ** ** ** ** *We would like to ask your assistance in the promotion of this event. To this purpose, we kindly invite you to forward this email to your national experts on standardisation, e-government, or service provision who may be interested to participate in the workshop. * * * *More information about the workshop (scope, draft agenda) is available on Joinup at http://goo.gl/RcNYv where it is also possible to register.* ** ** An invitation with practical details on how to connect will be sent out later to all participants who registered. **** ** ** Kind regards, **** ** ** The ISA Secretariat**** ** ** -- http://www.eellak.gr/, http://mycontent.ellak.gr/, http://www.creativecommons.gr/, http://mathe.ellak.gr/