[Dspace-general] FINAL CALL for Entries for the DuraSpace SPARC Open Access Week Contest

[Valorie Hollister]

Entries for the DuraSpace/SPARC Open Access Week Contest are due by  
Sep 28. We'd love to see more great "repository stories" from the  
DSpace community. Winners will receive some good exposure as well as  
$50 Amazon gift certificates. See below for more details.

Valorie Hollister
DuraSpace
Director of Community Development, DSpace Project
860-966-1937
val at dspace.org
Skype: vhollister



CALL for Entries for the DuraSpace SPARC Open Access Week Contest:
"Highlighting Repository Stories Worth Sharing"

Have you been a part of establishing or maintaining a unique digital  
repository that provides open access to a collection that was  
previously not used or under-used? Do you enjoy showcasing your  
repository?s content and the cool tools that encourage use of the  
materials? Do you have anecdotes about how access to
resources from your repository changed someone?s life, or their  
thinking on an issue, or contributed to a breakthrough idea? Please  
consider sharing your passion and knowledge of collecting, curating  
managing and sharing digital repository resources from every corner of  
the globe by entering the DuraSpace SPARC Open Access Week Contest and  
telling your story.

Of the more than 700 DuraSpace (http://DuraSpace.org/) repositories  
worldwide many provide open access to their online resources for users  
and patrons. The aim of the DuraSpace SPARC Open Access Week Contest  
is to celebrate your organization?s commitment to online development  
and dissemination of diverse?and often hidden?digital assets by  
describing unique cases and serendipitous uses that make remarkable  
things happen.

Judy Breck writes in her introduction to the "Golden Swamp" Web site  
(http://www.goldenswamp.com/) which highlights the virtual ecology  
that emerges in the open Internet: "A global golden age is trickling  
across our threshold and will very soon pour in through our doors and  
windows engulfing us all. This tsunami is grand news."

Please help DuraSpace share your ?grand news? by highlighting your  
hidden treasures and how they are used. Whether your repository  
features three-dimensional historic objects that turn in space,  
photographs and artworks, unique media collections, historic  
documents, scientific artifacts, out-of-print volumes or any other  
type of digital object please consider telling your story about how  
these culturally significant resources have helped to shape the global  
knowledge landscape.

Entries will be accepted at http://duraspace.org/contest.php beginning  
on Tuesday, September 1, 2009. through September 28, 2009. DuraSpace  
SPARC Open Access Week Contest winners will be announced on October 1,  
2009. Winners will receive $50 Amazon gift certificates and will be  
invited to tell their stories during the Sun/DuraSpace/SPARC "All  
About Repositories" Web Seminar on Oct. 14, 2009. This Web Seminar  
will be part of the DuraSpace SPARC Global Open Access Week  
(http://www.openaccessweek.org) package of materials that will be
available in honor of Open AccessWeek Oct. 19-23, 2009.

Contact Carol Minton Morris for more information.