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I'm sending this message on behalf of Les Carr, the Conference Chair  
for Open Repositories 2008

Sayeed


Sayeed Choudhury
Associate Dean for Library Digital Programs
Hodson Director of the Digital Research and Curation Center
Sheridan Libraries
Johns Hopkins University
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> From: Leslie Carr <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: November 18, 2007 4:58:30 AM EST
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [openrepositories] Open Repositories 2008 CFP
> Reply-To: [log in to unmask]
>
> I have sent out the following reminder to JISC-REPOSITORIES, LIS- 
> ELIB (another JISC list) and AMSCI. Please pass it on!
> I have also sent it to 293 individual authors of papers in JCDL in  
> 2006 and 2007.
> If you have other suggestions, please let me know!
> ---
> Les
>
> OPEN REPOSITORIES 2008: Deadline 9th Dec 2007 for Papers & Panels
> (Calls for Posters and User Group Participation to follow later)
> http://www.openrepositories.org/2008
>
> We invite developers, researchers and practitioners to submit  
> papers describing novel experiences or developments in the  
> construction and use of digital repositories. Submissions of UP TO  
> 4 pages in length are requested for review. See the CFP page at the  
> conference site for submission instructions. Submissions for panel  
> discussions are also requested.
>
> Repositories are being deployed in a variety of settings  
> (research,  scholarship, learning, science, cultural heritage) and  
> across a range of scales (subject, national, regional,  
> institutional, project, lab, personal). The aim of this conference  
> is to address the technical, managerial, practical and theoretical  
> issues that arise from diverse applications of repositories in the  
> increasingly pervasive information environment.
>
> A programme of papers, panel discussions, poster presentations,  
> workshops, tutorials and developer coding sessions will bring  
> together all the key stakeholders in the field. Open source  
> software community meetings for the major platforms (EPrints,  
> DSpace and Fedora) will also provide opportunities to advance and  
> co-ordinate the development of repository installations across the  
> world.
>
> IMPORTANT DATES AND CONTACT INFO
> Paper Submission Deadline: Friday 7th December 2007
> Notification of Acceptance: Monday January 21st 2008
> Submission of DSpace/EPrints/Fedora User Group Presentations: TBA
> Submission of Posters: Monday 4th February 2008
> Conference: April 1-4, 2008. University of Southampton, UK.
>
> Enquiries to: Program Committee Chair ([log in to unmask]) or  
> General Chair ([log in to unmask])
>
> CONFERENCE THEMES
> ====================
> The themes of the conference include (but are not limited to) the  
> following:
>
> TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE IN THE KNOWLEDGE WORKPLACE
> - Embedding repositories in business processes and individual  
> workflow.
> - Change Management
> - Advocacy and Culture Change
> - Policy development and policy lag.
>
> PROFESSIONALISM AND PRACTICE
> - Professional Development
> - Workforce Capacity
> - Skills and Training
> - Roles and Responsibilities
>
> SUSTAINABILITY
> - Economic sustainability and new business models,
> - Technical sustainability of a repository over time, including  
> platform change and migration.
> - Technical sustainability of holdings over time. Preservation.  
> Audit, certification. Trust. Assessment tools.
> - Managing sustainability failure - when a repository outlives its  
> organisation or its organisational commitment.
>
> LEGAL ISSUES
> - Embargoes
> - Licensing and Digital Rights Management
> - Mandates
> - Overcoming legislative barriers
> - Contractual relationships - facilitating and monitoring
> - International and cross-border issues
>
> SUCCESSFUL INTEROPERABILITY
> - Content standards - discipline-specific vs general
> - Metadata standards and application profiles
> - Quality standards and quality control processes
> - Achieving interchange in multi-disciplinary or multi- 
> institutional environments
> - Semantic web and linked data
> - Identifier management for data and real world resources
> - Access and authentication
>
> MODELS, ARCHITECTURES AND FRAMEWORKS
> - Beyond OAIS
> - Federations
> - Institutional Models - uber- or multi-repository environments
> - Adapting to changing e-infrastructure: SOA, services, cloud  
> computing
> - Scalability
>
> VALUE CHAINS and SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATIONS
> - Multi-stakeholder value: preservation, open access, research,  
> management, admninistratiion
> - Multi-agenda, multi-function, multi-purpose repositories
> - Usefulness and usability
> - Reference, reuse, reanalysis and repurposing of content
> - Citation of data / learning objects
> - Changes in scholarly practice
> - New benchmarks for scholarly success
> - Repository metrics
> - Bibliometrics: usage and impact
>
> SERVICES BUILT ON REPOSITORIES
> - OAI services
> - User-oriented services
> - Mashups
> - Social networking
> - Commentary / tagging
> - Searching / information discovery
> - Alerting
> - Mining
> - Visualisation
> - Integration with Second life and Virtual environments
>
> USE CASES FOR REPOSITORIES
> - E-research/E-science (e.g., data and publication; collaborative  
> services)
> - E-scholarship
> - Institutional repositories
> - Discipline-oriented repositories
> - Open Access
> - Scholarly Publishing
> - Digital Library
> - Cultural Heritage
> - Scientific repositories / data repositories
> - Interdisciplinary, cross-disciplinary and cross-sectoral  
> repositories