[Dspace-general] FW: Open Scholarship, Glasgow 2006

[Peter Morgan]

Forwarded at the organisers' request.  Last chance to register...
 
--
Peter Morgan
Project Director, DSpace at Cambridge
Cambridge University Library
West Road
Cambridge
CB3 9DR
UK

email: pbm2 at cam.ac.uk
tel: +44 (0)1223 336757/333130
fax: +44 (0)1223 331919/339973  

	
	-----Original Message-----
	

	Open Scholarship 2006: New Challenges for Open Access
Repositories 
	
	*** Registration for Open Scholarship 2006 closes on 30
September 2006 ***
	
	Open Scholarship 2006: New Challenges for Open Access
Repositories is a companion European Conference to the OAI meetings at
CERN in Geneva, and to the Nordic Scholarly Communication Conferences,
and is aimed at Librarians, University Administrators, funders,
academics and technical specialists.
	
	This should be an excellent conference with many of the key
figures in European repository development speaking or attending. It
offers a great opportunity for networking and for exchanging ideas,
comparing work and keeping up to speed with the latest developments from
across Europe.
	
	Details of registration are available at:
	
	http://www.lib.gla.ac.uk/openscholarship/registration.html
	
	Please note: The Conference Hotels are now fully booked but if
you provide your accommodation dates the Conference Office will organise
accommodation on an individual basis.
	
	Conference Update
	
	Opportunities are still available to promote your work in open
access and scholarly communication in the poster session of OPEN
SCHOLARSHIP 2006: NEW CHALLENGES FOR OPEN ACCESS REPOSITORIES
	
	Key themes for posters include:
	
	    * Repository Developments
	    * Added Value Services
	    * Quality Assessment
	    * Policies and Implementation
	    * Sustainability
	    * Legal Issues
	
	Posters should be submitted by the end of September 2006 for
consideration by the Organising Committee. Please provide your contact
details, as well as the poster title and a brief abstract (250 words
max). Accepted posters will be displayed as part of a posters slot in
the programme and enable participants to discuss their posters and work
with conference attendees.
	
	Poster proposals can be submitted online at:
	
	http://www.lib.gla.ac.uk/openscholarship/posters.html
	
	We are also delighted that a fourth tutorial on the "EPrints
Application Profile" will be available in the Tutorials session on
Wednesday, 18th of October.
	
	This tutorial, run by Julie Allinson (UKOLN, University of Bath)
and Andy Powell (Eduserv Foundation) offers an introduction to the
Eprints Application Profile, a Dublin Core metadata profile developed to
facilitate the creation and sharing of a richer set of metadata for
describing scholarly works (eprints) than currently offered by simple
Dublin Core.  The Profile makes use of the Dublin Core Abstract Model
and FRBR to group together descriptions of different expressions of a
work.
	
	The application profile has been developed with funding from
JISC and is hoped to form the basis for the UK eprint search engine
currently being developed by Intute.  The tutorial will be of use to
anybody with an interest in metadata, particularly the metadata used to
describe scholarly works in institutional, and other, repositories.
Those for whom this tutorial may be of special interest include
repository managers or administrators; developers or implementers of
repository software; librarians; and developers of aggregator services.
Those interested in implementing the Eprints Application Profile in
their own repository are particularly encouraged to attend.
	
	The updated programme for the conference is available here:
	
	http://www.lib.gla.ac.uk/openscholarship/programme.html
	
	We look forward to meeting you in Glasgow in October.
	
	Yours sincerely,
	
	Open Scholarship 2006 Organising Committee 
	
	
	Paul Ayris, MA, Ph.D.
	Director of UCL Library Services and UCL Copyright Officer
	UCL (University College London)
	Gower Street
	London
	WC1E 6BT

	Tel. +44 (0) 20-7679-7834 (Internal Ext: 37834)
	Fax  +44 (0) 20-7679-7373

	Mobile: 07771974051
	E-mail: p.ayris at ucl.ac.uk

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20060927/a24bbb4c/attachment.htm