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------ Forwarded Message From: Charles Watkinson <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:22:38 -0400 To: <[log in to unmask]> Subject: November 12 seminar on "Opportunities for Publishers in a World of Institutional Repositories" Society for Scholarly Publishing seminar in Washington DC on November 12 explores ³Opportunities for Publishers in a World of Institutional Repositories.² A seminar organized by the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) will be held at the American Geophysical Union in Washington, DC, on November 12, 2007. A distinguished panel of speakers will explore the ways in which publishers and librarians can collaborate more effectively in building and sustaining digital repositories. Registration is open now at http://www.sspnet.org Chuck Henry, president of CLIR, will open the seminar by attempting to define the concept of the ³digital repository.² He will explore the differences between institutional and disciplinary configurations, and assess the impact of existing models on the world of scholarly communication. Thornton Staples, a pioneer in digital library development at the University of Virginia, and now a director of the Fedora Commons organization, will lead participants through the technology behind digital repositories, and the challenges different platforms (such as D-Space, E-Prints, Fedora) pose when structuring and managing digital information. Amy Friedlander, director of programs at CLIR, will survey the way in which repositories are changing the ways in which scholars work and share their knowledge in the sciences. She will investigate the tensions among data, archiving, and publication, and the implications for scholarly publications, repository systems, and cyberinfrastructure. John Unsworth, chair of the American Council of Learned Societies committee on cyberinfrastructure in the humanities and social sciences, and co-author of the landmark ACLS report on ³Our Cultural Commonwealth,² will provide some empirical evidence and representative case studies of institutional repositories in the arts and humanities as they exist now, and explore some of the challenges and opportunities he sees for publishers and librarians in the future. Kate Wittenberg, director of electronic publishing at Columbia University, will explore editorial and business models for developing and then sustaining discipline-based digital repositories. She will also discuss effective strategies for identifying potential disciplinary areas, acquiring content for these resources, and the organizational and staffing requirements for successful development and sustainability. Thomas Garnett, associate director for digital library and information systems at the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, will describe his experiences in building the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), an ambitious repository project in the field of biological sciences involving ten major natural history libraries and associated publishers. Thomas Nygren, executive director of Aluka, will explore the strategic issues this important digital project in the field of African Studies has faced in its progress toward self-sustainability. Throughout the session, the speakers will offer practical examples of the challenges that repository building involves and will show how the unique skills that librarians and publishers possess can be effectively harnessed to overcome these. Ample opportunity for discussion will be provided, and a networking lunch is included in the registration fee. The full seminar schedule and registration details are online at http://www.sspnet.org ------ End of Forwarded Message