[Dspace-general] Reg: Speakers announced for SPARC repositories conference

Thu Sep 11 14:16:02 EDT 2008

Michele and Dspace community: For those of you who attend SPARC you may 
want to continue your stay in Baltimore and attend the Preservation 
Archive Special Interest Group (which is attended by DSpace users and 
community, along with others). Please forgive the broad posting, but if 
you are interested please see below details
Thanks
Gail Truman, Sun Microsystems, Open Archive product manager

Details:
The venue for the next Sun Preservation and Archiving Special Interest 
Group (PASIG) has now been set. It will be at the Baltimore Hilton 
November 19-21. The event will start with a reception on *Tuesday, 
November 18th and will end midday on Friday, November 21st.* Receptions 
will also be held on Wednesday and Thursday evenings.

1) Location and Registration: Baltimore was chosen as the venue for 
November's meeting in order not to compete with the SPARC Digital 
Repositories Conference (http://www.arl.org/sparc/meetings/ir08) on 
Monday and Tuesday. We heard from Sun PASIG members that there was a 
conflict, so we decided to optimize both conferences by allowing cross 
fertilization in Baltimore. The Summer PASIG meeting in June will shift 
back to Europe.

The Hilton hotel room rate is $194.00. We will have the registration 
open on the www.sun-pasig.org mid-next week.

Though Sun is defraying most of the costs for the event, there will be a 
registration fee for the PASIG conference. Education, non-profit, and 
Government customers will be charged a $100.00 Early Bird Special 
through October 17 and $200.00 afterwards. Sun partners and commercial 
entities will be charged $500.00 per person and Sun employees will be 
charged $400.00. Partners may bring literature for distribution at the 
conference.

2) The Agenda: We will be maintaining the focus on previous working 
group topics - Enterprise Repository Architectures, Preservation, 
Longterm Data Management and Storage, and Data Curation. But any ideas 
for content, presentations, or an additional working group topic are 
welcome! We will be taking input from the Advisory Group and also the 
registration forms we receive in the first month in order to 
collaboratively craft the agenda with the community. So, iterations of 
the agenda will be sent out with the final agenda appearing mid-October. 
But we will keep the basic structure of plenaries, panels, working group 
break outs, 1-1 architectural sessions, etc. that has been successful.

Michele Kimpton wrote:
> SPARC ANNOUNCES INTERNATIONAL SPEAKER ROSTER
> FOR NOVEMBER REPOSITORIES MEETING
>
> Early bird registration deadline is September 15, 2008
>
> Washington, DC – September 11, 2008 – SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing 
> and Academic Resources Coalition) has announced a prominent slate of 
> speakers for the SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting 2008 in Baltimore 
> on November 17 and 18. The gathering, organized by SPARC in 
> cooperation with SPARC Europe and SPARC Japan (a Japan National 
> Informatics Institute initiative), will examine how open online 
> archives may be enhanced to further serve scholars, institutions, and 
> the public. 
>
> Leaders, innovators, and practitioners from North America, Europe, and 
> Asia will explore new frontiers in building and supporting online open 
> archives. Four timely discussion tracks bring together speakers with 
> far-reaching experience: 
>
> New Horizons (Monday, November 17, morning)
>
> Speakers: Norbert Lossau (Director, Goettingen State and University 
> Library and a leader of Europe’s DRIVER Project, Germany), Jennifer 
> Campbell-Meier (Doctoral Student, Communication and Information 
> Sciences, University of Hawaii, USA), Shawn Martin (Scholarly 
> Communication Librarian, University of Pennsylvania, USA).
>
> Developing Value-Added Services (Monday, November 17, afternoon)
>
> Speakers: Sayeed Chodhury (Associate Dean for Library Digital 
> Programs, Johns Hopkins University, USA), Joan Giesecke (Dean of 
> Libraries) and Paul Royster (Coordinator of Scholarly Communications, 
> University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA), Hideki UCHIJIMA (Librarian, 
> Kanazawa University Library, Japan).
>
> The Policy Environment (Tuesday, November 18, morning)
>
> Speakers: Bernard Rentier (Rector, University of Liège, Belgium), Syun 
> Tutiya (Professor of Cognitive and Information Sciences, Chiba 
> University, Japan), Bonnie Klein (Information Collection and Copyright 
> Specialist, Defense Technical Information Center, USA). 
>
> Campus Publishing Strategies (Tuesday, November 18, morning)
>
> Speakers: Rea Devakos (T-Space Service Coordinator, University of 
> Toronto, Canada), Catherine Mitchell (Director, eScholarship 
> Publishing Group, California Digital Library, USA), Teresa Fishel 
> (Library Director) and Janet Sietmann (DigitalCommons Project Manager, 
> Macalester College, USA).
>
> Filling out the extensive program will be a marketing practicum for 
> repository advocates, an innovation fair, and keynote talks by John 
> Wilbanks, Vice President for Science at Creative Commons and director 
> of the Science Commons program; Bob Witeck, CEO and co-founder of 
> Witeck-Combs Communications, a renowned marketing communications and 
> public relations agency in Washington, DC; and David Shulenburger, 
> Vice President for Academic Affairs at the National Association of 
> State University and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC).
>
> For program detail, see the conference Web site 
> at http://www.arl.org/sparc/ir08. 
>
> The SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting 2008 is supported by major 
> contributions from Microsoft (Conference Sponsor); Berkeley Electronic 
> Press, BioMed Central, and EPrints, (Coffee Break Sponsors); and by 
> additional contributions from: Association of College and Research 
> Libraries (ACRL), Association of Research Libraries (ARL), CRKN 
> (Canadian Research Knowledge Network), DSpace Foundation, Fedora 
> Commons, Greater Western Library Alliance, HP, the Japanese 
> Coordinating Committee for University Libraries, JISC, and NISO. 
>
> This meeting is a follow up to SPARC’s popular 2004 institutional 
> repositories conference, which drew hundreds of participants from 
> around the globe and set the stage for some of the key developments in 
> open access of the past four years.
>
> To register for the SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting 2008, visit the 
> conference Web site at http://www.arl.org/sparc/ir08. Early Bird 
> Registration is available only until midnight on Monday, September 15. 
>
> #
>
> 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 athttp://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).
>
>
>
> -- 
> --------------------------
> Jennifer McLennan
> Director of Communications
> SPARC
> (The Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition)
> http://www.arl.org/sparc
> **************************
> Save the date: The SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting 2008
> November 17  18, 2008 | Baltimore, MD
> **************************
> (202) 296-2296 ext 121
> jennifer at arl.org
>
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