“May I invite you, to contribute to the development of a knowledge society and digital infrastructure in Europe, by taking part in the European Commission’s online public consultation on e-Science Digital Repositories which is available at http://ec.europa.eu/yourvoice/ipm/forms/dispatch?form=eSciDR.

This consultation forms a key part of the e-SciDR (http://www.e-scidr.eu/) study funded by the Commission into repositories holding digital data and publications for use in the sciences (in the widest sense, encompassing disciplines from the humanities and social sciences to the life sciences and physical sciences).

Your answers will help identify needs, priorities and opportunities which the European Union, through the Commission, can help address and drive forward in the FP7 Capacity Programme and will provide an important input to developing future policy initiatives.

We would be grateful if you could respond to the consultation by no later than 30 July 2007.

All answers will be strictly confidential and anonymised.