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Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 09:46:27 +0000
From: Leslie Carr <lac AT ecs.soton.ac.uk>
To: AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM AT LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG
Subject: Reminder: 9th Dec deadline for Open Repositories 2008 CFP

OPEN REPOSITORIES 2008: Deadline 9th Dec 2007 for Papers & Panels
(Calls for Posters and User Group Participation to follow later)
http://www.openrepositories.org/2008

We invite developers, researchers and practitioners to submit papers
describing novel experiences or developments in the construction and
use of digital repositories. Submissions of UP TO 4 pages in length
are requested for review. See the CFP page at the conference site for
submission instructions. Submissions for panel discussions are also
requested.

Repositories are being deployed in a variety of settings (research,
scholarship, learning, science, cultural heritage) and across a range
of scales (subject, national, regional, institutional, project, lab,
personal). The aim of this conference is to address the technical,
managerial, practical and theoretical issues that arise from diverse
applications of repositories in the increasingly pervasive information
environment.

A programme of papers, panel discussions, poster presentations,
workshops, tutorials and developer coding sessions will bring together
all the key stakeholders in the field. Open source software community
meetings for the major platforms (EPrints, DSpace and Fedora) will
also provide opportunities to advance and co-ordinate the development
of repository installations across the world.

IMPORTANT DATES AND CONTACT INFO
Paper Submission Deadline: Friday 7th December 2007
Notification of Acceptance: Monday January 21st 2008
Submission of DSpace/EPrints/Fedora User Group Presentations: TBA
Submission of Posters: Monday 4th February 2008
Conference: April 1-4, 2008. University of Southampton, UK.

Enquiries to: Program Committee Chair (e.lyon AT ukoln.ac.uk) or General
Chair (lac AT ecs.soton.ac.uk)

CONFERENCE THEMES
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The themes of the conference include (but are not limited to) the
following:

TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE IN THE KNOWLEDGE WORKPLACE
- Embedding repositories in business processes and individual workflow.
- Change Management
- Advocacy and Culture Change
- Policy development and policy lag.

PROFESSIONALISM AND PRACTICE
- Professional Development
- Workforce Capacity
- Skills and Training
- Roles and Responsibilities

SUSTAINABILITY
- Economic sustainability and new business models,
- Technical sustainability of a repository over time, including
platform change and migration.
- Technical sustainability of holdings over time. Preservation. Audit,
certification. Trust. Assessment tools.
- Managing sustainability failure - when a repository outlives its
organisation or its organisational commitment.

LEGAL ISSUES
- Embargoes
- Licensing and Digital Rights Management
- Mandates
- Overcoming legislative barriers
- Contractual relationships - facilitating and monitoring
- International and cross-border issues

SUCCESSFUL INTEROPERABILITY
- Content standards - discipline-specific vs general
- Metadata standards and application profiles
- Quality standards and quality control processes
- Achieving interchange in multi-disciplinary or multi-institutional
environments
- Semantic web and linked data
- Identifier management for data and real world resources
- Access and authentication

MODELS, ARCHITECTURES AND FRAMEWORKS
- Beyond OAIS
- Federations
- Institutional Models - uber- or multi-repository environments
- Adapting to changing e-infrastructure: SOA, services, cloud computing
- Scalability

VALUE CHAINS and SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATIONS
- Multi-stakeholder value: preservation, open access, research,
management, admninistratiion
- Multi-agenda, multi-function, multi-purpose repositories
- Usefulness and usability
- Reference, reuse, reanalysis and repurposing of content
- Citation of data / learning objects
- Changes in scholarly practice
- New benchmarks for scholarly success
- Repository metrics
- Bibliometrics: usage and impact

SERVICES BUILT ON REPOSITORIES
- OAI services
- User-oriented services
- Mashups
- Social networking
- Commentary / tagging
- Searching / information discovery
- Alerting
- Mining
- Visualisation
- Integration with Second life and Virtual environments

USE CASES FOR REPOSITORIES
- E-research/E-science (e.g., data and publication; collaborative
services)
- E-scholarship
- Institutional repositories
- Discipline-oriented repositories
- Open Access
- Scholarly Publishing
- Digital Library
- Cultural Heritage
- Scientific repositories / data repositories
- Interdisciplinary, cross-disciplinary and cross-sectoral repositories