Proceedings of the 2008 International Workshop on Data Management in Peer-to-Peer Systems, DaMaP 2008, Nantes, France, March 25, 2008

This volume contains papers selected for presentation at the International Workshop on Data Management in Peer-to-Peer Systems (DAMAP 2008), held on March 25th 2008, in Nantes (France), in conjunction with the 11th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT 08). The purpose of this first edition of the Damap workshop is to bring together researchers who are involved in designing, managing and implementing peer-to-peer systems for large scale data management applications. The goal is to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas, knowledge and experiences in this domain, and to debate new issues and directions for research and development work in the future. After thorough review process for each of the 14 submissions, we have selected 9 papers. The program also included a keynote speech by Wolfgang Neijdl, researcher at the University of Hannover, Germany.