"This paper describes the need for new infrastructures for future eScience scenarios in the humanities. Three projects working on different aspects of these infrastructures are examined in detail. The first project is trying to achieve a federation of archives, developing an integration layer at the level of localization, access to and referring to an archive’s raw data objects. The other two try to achieve interoperability at the level of semantic interpretation of linguistic data-types and tagging systems." Available online at http://www.ges2007.de

"At its 2005 business meeting in Oslo, the Health and Biosciences Libraries Section (HBLS) agreed that an international directory of institutional repositories would be a useful tool for IFLA. Members suggested that it could be mined and monitored for growth in numbers of repositories, their collections and content development, the services they provide, their acceptance and use by scholars, and their impact on scholarship."