[Dspace-general] SPARC innovation fair
Michele Kimpton
michele at dspace.org
Mon Jul 14 13:44:43 EDT 2008
CALL FOR PROPOSALS: SPARC DIGITAL REPOSITORIES MEETING – INNOVATION
FAIR
Registration now open for November event
(July 14, 2008) SPARC, in partnership with SPARC Europe and SPARC
Japan (an initiative of the National Institute of Informatics), is
hosting the SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting 2008, November 17 and
18, at the Renaissance Harborplace Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland.
Librarians, researchers, funders, administrators, government
officials, publishers, and technologists from around the world will
share their experiences and best practices in building and supporting
institutional and disciplinary digital repositories. The focus will be
on effective engagement with scholars and scientists to expand the
sharing of research outputs via open repositories.
The meeting program, being developed by a diverse and expert program
committee, will delve into four key areas: The Policy Environment, New
Horizons, Building Bridges: Campus Publishing Strategies, and Value-
Added Services. These tracks will be supplemented with an Innovation
Fair and a Practicum on marketing and advocacy.
The organizers now invite proposals to the Innovation Fair. The
Innovation Fair is an event inspired by Open Repositories’ Minute
Madness that invites participants to present, in no more than two or
three minutes, innovative or creative approaches to:
Use of repository content (such as new publishing models, data
visualizations, data-mining, mash-ups, educational resources, etc.)
Discovery of research outputs (such as area-of-interest profiling,
peer-discovery channels, content recommendations, research news
integration, discipline aggregations or information portals, etc.)
Value-added services (such as author bibliographies, usage reporting,
research promotion, multi-target deposit, distributed discovery
channels, content of interest alerts, deposit rights clearance, etc.)
Repository promotion (such as creative marketing techniques, slogans,
graphics, elevator speeches, etc.)
Fair projects will be featured on the Crowdvine network for the
conference at http://sparc08.crowdvine.com, where presenters will be
asked to post their slide or graphic on the network in a blog post.
Meeting participants will be encouraged to constructively comment,
build, and expand upon them with new ideas through their own posts and
graphics.
For details and to submit a proposal to the Innovation Fair, visit http://www.arl.org/sparc/ir08
. Submissions must be received no later than August 10.
The SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting 2008 is supported by major
contributions from Microsoft (Conference Sponsor), Berkeley Electronic
Press and BioMed Central (Coffee Break Sponsors), and by additional
contributions from a number of Supporting Organizations.
This is the first North American SPARC digital repositories conference
since the organization’s popular 2004 meeting, which drew hundreds of
participants from around the globe and set the stage for some of the
key developments of the past four years.
To register, book accommodation, and for more information, visit the
conference Web site at http://www.arl.org/sparc/meetings/ir08/.
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SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), with
SPARC Europe and SPARC Japan, is an international alliance of more
than 800 academic and research libraries working to create a more open
system of scholarly communication. SPARC's advocacy, educational and
publisher partnership programs encourage expanded dissemination of
research. SPARC is on the Web at http://www.arl.org/sparc.
For more information:
Jennifer McLennan
Director of Communications
SPARC
(The Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition)
http://www.arl.org/sparc
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