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Michele and Dspace community: For those of you who attend SPARC you may
want to continue your stay in Baltimore and attend the Preservation
Archive Special Interest Group (which is attended by DSpace users and
community, along with others). Please forgive the broad posting, but if
you are interested please see below details<br>
Thanks<br>
Gail Truman, Sun Microsystems, Open Archive product manager<br>
<br>
Details:<br>
The venue for the next Sun Preservation and Archiving Special Interest
Group (PASIG) has now been set. It will be at the Baltimore Hilton
November 19-21. The event will start with a reception on <b>Tuesday,
November 18th and will end midday on Friday, November 21st.</b>
Receptions will also be held on Wednesday and Thursday evenings. <br>
<br>
1) Location and Registration: Baltimore was chosen as the venue for
November's meeting in order not to compete with the SPARC Digital
Repositories Conference (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.arl.org/sparc/meetings/ir08">http://www.arl.org/sparc/meetings/ir08</a>)
on
Monday and Tuesday. We heard from Sun PASIG members that there was a
conflict, so we decided to optimize both conferences by allowing cross
fertilization in Baltimore. The Summer PASIG meeting in June will shift
back to Europe.<br>
<br>
The Hilton hotel room rate is $194.00. We will have the registration
open on the <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="http://www.sun-pasig.org">www.sun-pasig.org</a> mid-next week.<br>
<br>
Though Sun is defraying most of the costs for the event, there will be
a registration fee for the PASIG conference. Education, non-profit, and
Government customers will be charged a $100.00 Early Bird Special
through October 17 and $200.00 afterwards. Sun partners and commercial
entities will be charged $500.00 per person and Sun employees will be
charged $400.00. Partners may bring literature for distribution at the
conference. <br>
<br>
2) The Agenda: We will be maintaining the focus on previous working
group topics -
Enterprise Repository Architectures, Preservation, Longterm Data
Management and Storage, and Data Curation. But any ideas for content,
presentations, or an additional working group topic are welcome! We
will be taking input from the Advisory Group and also the registration
forms we receive in the first month in order to collaboratively craft
the agenda with the community. So, iterations of the agenda will be
sent out with the final agenda appearing mid-October. But we will keep
the basic structure of plenaries, panels, working group break outs, 1-1
architectural sessions, etc. that has been successful. <br>
<br>
Michele Kimpton wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:B3EE1F53-A006-4CDC-9F10-BAA7B57FD2D5@dspace.org"
type="cite"><font size="-1"><font face="Lucida Sans">SPARC ANNOUNCES
INTERNATIONAL SPEAKER ROSTER<br>
FOR NOVEMBER REPOSITORIES MEETING<br>
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Early bird registration deadline is September 15, 2008<br>
<br>
Washington, DC – September 11, 2008 – SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing
and Academic Resources Coalition) has announced a prominent slate of
speakers for the SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting 2008 in Baltimore
on November 17 and 18. The gathering, organized by SPARC in cooperation
with SPARC Europe and SPARC Japan (a Japan National Informatics
Institute initiative), will examine how open online archives may be
enhanced to further serve scholars, institutions, and the public. <br>
<br>
Leaders, innovators, and practitioners from North America, Europe, and
Asia will explore new frontiers in building and supporting online open
archives. Four timely discussion tracks bring together speakers with
far-reaching experience: <br>
<br>
New Horizons (Monday, November 17, morning)<br>
<br>
Speakers: Norbert Lossau (Director, Goettingen State and University
Library and a leader of Europe’s DRIVER Project, Germany), Jennifer
Campbell-Meier (Doctoral Student, Communication and Information
Sciences, University of Hawaii, USA), Shawn Martin (Scholarly
Communication Librarian, University of Pennsylvania, USA).<br>
<br>
Developing Value-Added Services (Monday, November 17, afternoon)<br>
<br>
Speakers: Sayeed Chodhury (Associate Dean for Library Digital Programs,
Johns Hopkins University, USA), Joan Giesecke (Dean of Libraries) and
Paul Royster (Coordinator of Scholarly Communications, University of
Nebraska-Lincoln, USA), Hideki UCHIJIMA (Librarian, Kanazawa University
Library, Japan).<br>
<br>
The Policy Environment (Tuesday, November 18, morning)<br>
<br>
Speakers: Bernard Rentier (Rector, University of Liège, Belgium), Syun
Tutiya (Professor of Cognitive and Information Sciences, Chiba
University, Japan), Bonnie Klein (Information Collection and Copyright
Specialist, Defense Technical Information Center, USA). <br>
<br>
Campus Publishing Strategies (Tuesday, November 18, morning)<br>
<br>
Speakers: Rea Devakos (T-Space Service Coordinator, University of
Toronto, Canada), Catherine Mitchell (Director, eScholarship Publishing
Group, California Digital Library, USA), Teresa Fishel (Library
Director) and Janet Sietmann (DigitalCommons Project Manager,
Macalester College, USA).<br>
<br>
Filling out the extensive program will be a marketing practicum for
repository advocates, an innovation fair, and keynote talks by John
Wilbanks, Vice President for Science at Creative Commons and director
of the Science Commons program; Bob Witeck, CEO and co-founder of
Witeck-Combs Communications, a renowned marketing communications and
public relations agency in Washington, DC; and David Shulenburger, Vice
President for Academic Affairs at the National Association of State
University and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC).<br>
<br>
For program detail, see the conference Web site at <a
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.arl.org/sparc/ir08">http://www.arl.org/sparc/ir08</a>. <br>
<br>
The SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting 2008 is supported by major
contributions from Microsoft (Conference Sponsor); Berkeley Electronic
Press, BioMed Central, and EPrints, (Coffee Break Sponsors); and by
additional contributions from: Association of College and Research
Libraries (ACRL), Association of Research Libraries (ARL), CRKN
(Canadian Research Knowledge Network), DSpace Foundation, Fedora
Commons, Greater Western Library Alliance, HP, the Japanese
Coordinating Committee for University Libraries, JISC, and NISO. <br>
<br>
This meeting is a follow up to SPARC’s popular 2004 institutional
repositories conference, which drew hundreds of participants from
around the globe and set the stage for some of the key developments in
open access of the past four years.<br>
<br>
To register for the SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting 2008, visit the
conference Web site at <a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.arl.org/sparc/ir08">http://www.arl.org/sparc/ir08</a>.
Early Bird Registration is available only until midnight on Monday,
September 15. <br>
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SPARC<br>
<br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.arl.org/sparc">http://www.arl.org/sparc</a>.<br>
<br>
The SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting program has been developed by
the members of the 2008 Program Committee: Jun Adachi (SPARC Japan),
Raym Crow (SPARC), Richard Fyffe (Grinnell College), Susan Gibbons
(University of Rochester), Melissa Hagemann (Open Society Institute),
Karla Hahn (Association of Research Libraries), Bill Hubbard (SHERPA),
Rick Johnson (SPARC), Michelle Kimpton (DSpace Foundation), Norbert
Lossau (Goettingen State and University Library and DRIVER), Joyce
Ogburn (University of Utah), Terry Owen (University of Maryland,
College Park), Kathleen Shearer (Canadian Association of Research
Libraries), Alma Swan (Key Perspectives Ltd.), Sean Thomas
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Susan Veldsman (eIFL), and
Charles Watkinson (The American School of Classical Studies at Athens).<br>
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Director of Communications
SPARC
(The Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition)
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Save the date: The SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting 2008
November 17 18, 2008 | Baltimore, MD
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(202) 296-2296 ext 121
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width="249"><b> Gail Truman </b><br>
Open Archive, Data Protection Business Development Mgr,<br>
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<b>Sun Microsystems, Inc.</b><br>
Open Storage and Open Networks Business Group<br>
San Francisco, California US<br>
Phone 510 550 7313<br>
Mobil 510 502 6497<br>
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