By outlining the limits of architectural approach to repository interactions, these slides summarize the need for approaches to modeling repository and service interoperability that are able to complement/ supplement an architectural approach. They formed the introduction to this workshop on the repository ecology. Given at: Towards an European repository ecology: conceptualising interactions between networks of repositories and services. Workshop at ECDL 2007, 21 September 2007, Budapest, Hungary.

1. The interoperability challenge Towards a European ecology Workshop at ECDL 2007, Budapest R. John Robertson, Repositories Research Officer JISCCETIS 21st Sept 2007, [email_address] 9/21/2007 R. John Robertson, JISCCETIS, ECDL2007