[Dspace-general] DSpace User Group Call for Presentations / Open Repositories 2007]

[Tyler Walters]

DSpace User Group Program at the International Conference on Open
Repositories, 2007

Call for Presentations:

The DSpace User Group Program Committee invites you to submit
presentation proposals for the DSpace program track of the 2007
International Conference on Open Repositories (San Antonio, Texas,
USA – January 23-26). The DSpace program sessions will be held
January 23-24, 2007. Please submit an abstract (in English) of no
more than 500 words by Friday, October 27. The Program Committee
will select the conference presentations from these submissions.
Selected speakers will receive an email by November 20, 2006 with
guidelines for their presentation. Presentations will be limited
to no more than 45 minutes, including 10-15 minutes for questions.

Important Dates:

Friday, October 27, 2006  Extended abstract, less than 500 words
November 20, 2006	  Notification of acceptance
January 8, 2007	          Final presentation due
January 23-26, 2007	  Open Repositories 2007 Conference

Author Info:

Authors, please use the submission site
<http://www.easychair.org/OR07/> powered by EasyChair. Select the
submission category “DSpace User Group” toward the bottom of the
submission screen.

Conference Themes:

Abstracts should focus on the conference themes specific to
DSpace. Proposals not specific to DSpace should be submitted to
the International Conference’s program committee under the
“general conference” category. When submitting abstracts, authors
should consider the following suggested themes for the DSpace
program:

Infrastructure Developments and Value-added Services
  --document versioning
  --access control
  --searching / mining / querying tools
  --repository metrics / usage analysis
  --user interface developments
  --self-organizing collections
  --federation, virtualization, and replication
  --scalability issues (hardware / load balancing / redundancy)
  -- alternatives to handles for persistent identifiers
  --other architecture developments

Innovative Adaptations
  --e-portfolios
  --learning and multimedia objects
  --data management/curation
  --archival materials
  --researcher pages

Integration and Repurposing
  --integration with other end user applications
  --workflow integration
  --syndicating content to portals and web sites
  --automated submission of content residing in other information
    systems

Digital Preservation
  --trusted digital repositories and certification
  --archives and long-term record management
  --format migration/emulation
  --asset and collection authentication
  --format registries
  --digital preservation software

Interoperability for DSpace Repositories
  --standards-based approaches
  --metadata schemas (descriptive, structural, technical, policy,
    rights)
  --automated metadata extraction
  --customizable schema
  --digital object packaging (METS, SCORM, MPEG21-DID, RDF)
  --semantic web, RDF, ontologies
  --service frameworks (e.g., web services)
  --protocols (e.g., OAI-PMH)
  --import/export of objects and collections
  --integrating platforms (e.g. DSpace with Fedora, EPrints,
    Greenstone, SRB, etc.)

Security and Access Control
    --authorization policies for administrators
    --authorization policies for users
    --attribute-based access control
    --fine-grained authorization for users and administrators

Management and Policy Issues
  --gaining institutional support and “buy-in”
  --business, financial and legal models
  --national and international context
  --certification
  --sustainability of DSpace repositories
  --standards integration processes
  --mandating policies
  --community-driven evolution of the code base

DSpace Governance
  --governance issues and developments
  --legal issues
  --distributed software development issues
  --long-term sustainability of DSpace


-- 
Tyler O. Walters
Associate Director, Technology & Resource Services
Library and Information Center
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332-0900

Chair, DSpace User Group Program Committee for OR2007

404-385-4489 voice
404-894-6084 fax
tyler.walters at library.gatech.edu
http://www.library.gatech.edu/research_help/librarians/walters.html

"Whether you think you can, or think you can’t, you are right."
-- Henry Ford



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