[Dspace-general] Controversy at the Fringe!

[Robin Taylor]

Apologies for cross-posting.


	The organising committee of the Edinburgh Repository Fringe
(www.repositoryfringe.org) is pleased to announce two compelling keynote
speakers to challenge the community and stimulate discussion and direction
for the future.
	
	Opening Keynote:  Le IR, c'est mort. Vive le IR!  (Dorothea Salo)
	Closing Plenary: How Repositories can avoid Failing like the Grid
(Professor David De Roure)
	
	Dorothea Salo is an experienced repository administrator who
understands that the job is not easy and that repository software has to
take its share of the blame. We hope that her call for "serious
reconsideration of repository missions, goals and means" will open the
fringe agenda as we mean to go on - with a message to get repositories in
touch with the needs and realities of academic life on both sides of the
ingest interface!
	
	Professor David De Roure is a leading e-Science and Semantic Web
researcher who has been using technology to enable new research in multiple
disciplines. His experience of the technologies and communities delivering
Web, Web 2.0, Web 3.0 and the Grid gives him a unique perspective on what
developments have been effective, and what have resulted in stagnant and
obscure systems.
	
	For further information, please see the Repository Fringe web site
(www.repositoryfringe.org) and the Repository Fringe Wiki
(wiki.repositoryfringe.org).
	---
	Les Carr and Theo Andrew, Repository Fringe Co-chairs
	On behalf of the Repository Fringe Organising Committee
	




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