Mahendra Mahey reports on the third international Open Repositories 2008 Conference, held at the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton in April 2008. <a href="/category/issue-number/issue56">issue56</a> July 2008 <a href="/category/article-type/event-report">event report</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/879/author-info">mahendra mahey</a> Sarah Currier gives an overview of current initiatives in standards for educational metadata. <a href="/issue55">issue55</a> April 2008 <a href="/category/article-type/feature-article">feature article</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/640/author-info">sarah currier</a> Sue Manuel and Charles Oppenheim take a look at recent developments in the digital repositories field and present a light-hearted project narrative. <a href="/issue52">issue52</a> July 2007 <a href="/category/article-type/feature-article">feature article</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/908/author-info">sue manuel</a> Wolfram Horstmann, Liv Fugl and Jessica Lindholm report on the two-day conference Building the Info Grid on trends and perspectives in digital library technology and services held in Copenhagen in September. <a href="/issue45">issue45</a> October 2005 <a href="/category/article-type/event-report">event report</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/687/author-info">jessica lindholm</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/860/author-info">liv fugl</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/859/author-info">wolfram horstmann</a> Daniel Chudnov, Jeremy Frumkin, Jennifer Weintraub, Matthew Wilcox and Raymond Yee describe a potential groupware framework for integrating access to diverse information resources and distributed personal collection development. <a href="/issue40">issue40</a> July 2004 <a href="/category/article-type/feature-article">feature article</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/769/author-info">daniel chudnov</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/771/author-info">jennifer weintraub</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/770/author-info">jeremy frumkin</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/772/author-info">matthew wilcox</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/773/author-info">raymond yee</a> Steve Richardson and Andy Powell on Harvesting and searching IMS metadata using both the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, and the Z39.50 Protocol. <a href="/issue34">issue34</a> January 2003 <a href="/category/article-type/feature-article">feature article</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/354/author-info">andy powell</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/701/author-info">steve richardson</a> Andy Powell describes steps which content providers can take to integrate their resources into the JISC IE. <a href="/issue33">issue33</a> October 2002 <a href="/category/article-type/feature-article">feature article</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/354/author-info">andy powell</a>