[Dspace-general] SPARCE INNOVATION FAIR

[Michele Kimpton]

CREATIVE CAST TO AUDITION IDEAS AT SPARC REPOSITORIES MEETING  
INNOVATION FAIR

Washington, DC – October 16, 2008 – Diatomscapes, personal  
repositories, depositor reluctance, Amazon.com, and theses are a few  
of the themes repository champions will introduce at the SPARC Digital  
Repositories Meeting 2008 Innovation Fair. Twenty presenters from four  
countries will voice the creative and innovative tactics used to  
cement local support and bolster repository growth to more than 1,100  
sites worldwide. The SPARC meeting will be held November 17 and 18th  
at the Renaissance Harborplace Hotel in Baltimore, USA.

Inspired by Open Repositories’ “Minute Madness,” the Innovation Fair  
invites participants to present, in no more than two minutes, unusual  
approaches to: use of repository content; discovery of research  
outputs; value-added services; and repository promotion. Presenters  
were identified through a rigorous selection process led by the  
meeting program committee.

Presenters at the 2008 fair are:

•    Aaron Birkland, National Science Digital Library - Using Fedora  
3.0 CMA for the NSDL NCORE
•    Alex Wade, Microsoft Corporation - My Research: A cloud-based  
personal repository on every desktop
•    Allyson Mower, University of Utah - The University Scholarly  
Knowledge Inventory System
•    Alvin Hutchinson, Smithsonian Institution – Libraries’  
Institutional Bibliography: Using Tools to Circumvent Depositor  
Reluctance
•    Bill Branan, Fedora Commons - Web 2.0 on Fedora
•    Brenda Burk, IUPUI University Library - Streamlining the  
submissions
•    Chris Wilper, Fedora Commons - Using Amazon S3 for Fedora  
Repository File Storage
•    Eddie Shin, Fedora Commons - APP, SWORD, and ORE with the Fedora  
Repository
•    Guy McGarva & Robin Rice, University of Edinburgh - Two standards- 
compliant ways to geo-reference objects in DSpace repositories
•    Sean Thomas, MIT - SIMILE Project's Citeline: A new tool for  
bibliography publishing on the Web
•    Marianne Buehler, Rochester Institute of Technology - Harvest a  
College’s Scholarship?
•    Marilyn Billings, University of Massachusetts, Amherst -  
Negotiating with Publishers for Author Rights
•    Catherine Mitchell, University of California - Keywords in Context
•    Mary Betts-Gray & John Harrington, Cranfield University - Show  
your True Colors Advocacy Campaign
•    Tomonari Kinto, University of Tsukuba - SCPJ project: Promoting  
Japanese scholarly societies’ understanding of open access
•    Plato Smith II, Florida State University - P 3 D: Publishing,  
Publicizing, & Preserving Diatomscapes
•    Rhonda Marker, Rutgers University - Repository Faculty Tools
•    Shane Beers, George Mason University - Electronic Theses and  
Dissertations: An interdepartmental approach
•    Sue Kunda, Oregon State University - Scanning for Success: Oregon  
State University Libraries’ Digitization Program

In addition to the live presentations on November 17, presenters have  
posted their projects to the meeting Crowdvine Web site at http://sparc08.crowdvine.com 
, inviting the wider community of repository advocates and challengers  
to comment, build, and expand on the ideas constructively through  
their own posts and graphics.

The SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting is supported by a growing  
number of sponsors. The organizers are grateful for major  
contributions from Microsoft (Conference Sponsor); Berkeley Electronic  
Press, BioMed Central, DC Lab, and EPrints, (Breakfast & Luncheon  
Sponsors); and by additional contributions from sixteen coffee break  
and supporting sponsors.

Registration fees will increase to on-site rates on November 1. To  
register and for more details, visit the meeting Web site at http://www.arl.org/sparc/ir08 
.

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SPARC

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 http://www.arl.org/sparc.

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).
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