[Dspace-general] DSpace Call for Presentations
Julie Harford Walker
jhwalker at MIT.EDU
Wed Apr 13 08:24:49 EDT 2005
Apologies for cross-posting...
CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS
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2nd DSpace Federation User Group Meeting
University of Cambridge, UK
7-8 July 2005
www.lib.cam.ac.uk/dspace/usergroup2005/
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Submissions are invited from organizations using DSpace who wish to present
at the upcoming DSpace Federation User Group meeting.
The objective of the User Group meeting is to bring together the DSpace
open source community to share experiences and discuss the future
developments of the DSpace platform and Federation of
adopters. Preliminary information about registration is now available on
the meeting
website: http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/dspace/usergroup2005/registration.htm.
Submissions are invited for the following categories:
Long presentations (20 - 30 minutes): organizations which are leading
large DSpace-related research projects or significant DSpace initiatives.
Short presentations (10 - 15 minutes): organizations/individuals who have
contributed new features, tools, or plug-ins or are addressing specific
technical issues.
DSpace Around the World: short presentations (10 - 15 minutes) from
organizations worldwide who are using DSpace. Submissions should highlight
innovative uses of DSpace or DSpace policy, implementation or other
activities that are influenced by or derived from local, regional or
national issues or culture.
Posters: forum for sharing project plans or results.
Presentation/poster proposals:
- must be sent via email to jhwalker at mit.edu;
- should specify whether the submission is for the long, short, Around the
World, or poster category;
- should take the form of a brief (1 page) description of the topic for
presentation or poster;
- should include 50 word biographical sketch of the primary author; and
- should include mailing address, phone, fax, email for the primary author.
Submissions are requested by 29 April 2005 and will be reviewed by members
of the Programme Committee
(http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/dspace/usergroup2005/organisers.htm) for
acceptance notification by 20 May 2005. If the presentation is accepted,
final versions of the presentation must be submitted electronically by 1
July 2005. We will not be seeking text for publication, but will ask all
authors to post their presentations on the DSpace Federation website after
the meeting.
Further information can be obtained from the programme committee
chair: Julie Walker (jhwalker at mit.edu)
Many thanks,
The DSpace Federation User Group Meeting Programme Committee
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