[Dspace-general] 'DSpace Day' at OR09 Proposals: Deadline extended to March 13th.

[Rea Devakos]

Call for 'DSpace Day' at OR09 Proposals

DSpace<http://www.dspace.org/> invites presentation proposals for the next DSpace User Group Meeting, to be held in Atlanta, Georgia on May 20-21, 2009. The meeting is in conjunction with the Open Repositories 2009<https://or09.library.gatech.edu/> conference. We invite repository managers, developers and researchers to submit presentations proposals describing their experiences implementing, using, customizing and developing DSpace. The DSpace program committee is soliciting proposals of both a practical (tutorials, case studies, best practices) and theoretical nature.

REQUIREMENTS:
A title and an abstract of up to 400 words.
Full papers are NOT required.

DEADLINES:
Paper Submission Deadline: Friday, March 13, 2009
Notification of Acceptance: Friday, April 3, 2009
DSpace User Meeting: May 20-21, 2009. Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Open Repositories 2009: May 18-21, 2009.

THEMES include, but are not limited to:

 *   Incorporating video and audio in your repository
 *   Value added services for your DSpace repository
 *   Utilization of Statistics for your repository
 *   Lessons learned upgrading to 1.5
 *   Managing ETD workflows
 *   Increasing searching, promotion and visibility through data mining or other means
 *   Interoperability: among repositories, with other systems, with the Web
 *   Object reuse and exchange (OAI-ORE)
 *   Supporting eresearch, data and local communities
 *   Workflow integration
 *   Digital preservation environments, policies and issues
 *   New use cases for DSpace outside of a traditional IR
 *   Developing / customizing the interface for your repository: Manakin etc.
Submission: via the Open Repositories author submission site powered by Open Conference Systems at http://conferences.library.gatech.edu/or/or09/user/account?source=&requiresPresenter
For further information, please contact rea.devakosATutoronto.ca

Rea Devakos
Coordinator, Scholarly Communication
University of Toronto Libraries

e:rea.devakos at utoronto.ca
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Toronto ON Canada M5S 1A5

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