Open Scholarship 2006: New Challenges for Open Access Repositories

["David Prosser" <david.prosser@bodley.ox.ac.uk>]

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Open Scholarship 2006: New Challenges for Open Access Repositories

*** Registration for Open Scholarship 2006 closes on 30 September 2006

Open Scholarship 2006: New Challenges for Open Access 
Repositories is a companion European Conference to the OAI 
meetings at CERN in Geneva, and to the Nordic Scholarly 
Communication Conferences, and is aimed at Librarians, University 
Administrators, funders, academics and technical specialists.

This should be an excellent conference with many of the key 
figures in European repository development speaking or attending. 
It offers a great opportunity for networking and for exchanging 
ideas, comparing work and keeping up to speed with the latest 
developments from across Europe.

Details of registration are available at:

<http://www.lib.gla.ac.uk/openscholarship/registration.html>

Please note: The Conference Hotels are now fully booked but if 
you provide your accommodation dates the Conference Office will 
organise accommodation on an individual basis.

Conference Update

Opportunities are still available to promote your work in open 
access and scholarly communication in the poster session of OPEN 
SCHOLARSHIP 2006: NEW CHALLENGES FOR OPEN ACCESS REPOSITORIES

Key themes for posters include:

     * Repository Developments
     * Added Value Services
     * Quality Assessment
     * Policies and Implementation
     * Sustainability
     * Legal Issues

Posters should be submitted by the end of September 2006 for 
consideration by the Organising Committee. Please provide your 
contact details, as well as the poster title and a brief abstract 
(250 words max). Accepted posters will be displayed as part of a 
posters slot in the programme and enable participants to discuss 
their posters and work with conference attendees.

Poster proposals can be submitted online at:

<http://www.lib.gla.ac.uk/openscholarship/posters.html>

We are also delighted that a fourth tutorial on the "EPrints 
Application Profile" will be available in the Tutorials session 
on Wednesday, 18th of October.

This tutorial, run by Julie Allinson (UKOLN, University of Bath) 
and Andy Powell (Eduserv Foundation) offers an introduction to 
the Eprints Application Profile, a Dublin Core metadata profile 
developed to facilitate the creation and sharing of a richer set 
of metadata for describing scholarly works (eprints) than 
currently offered by simple Dublin Core.  The Profile makes use 
of the Dublin Core Abstract Model and FRBR to group together 
descriptions of different expressions of a work.

The application profile has been developed with funding from JISC 
and is hoped to form the basis for the UK eprint search engine 
currently being developed by Intute.  The tutorial will be of use 
to anybody with an interest in metadata, particularly the 
metadata used to describe scholarly works in institutional, and 
other, repositories.  Those for whom this tutorial may be of 
special interest include repository managers or administrators; 
developers or implementers of repository software; librarians; 
and developers of aggregator services.  Those interested in 
implementing the Eprints Application Profile in their own 
repository are particularly encouraged to attend.

The updated programme for the conference is available here:

<http://www.lib.gla.ac.uk/openscholarship/programme.html>

We look forward to meeting you in Glasgow in October.

Yours sincerely,

Open Scholarship 2006 Organising Committee

David C Prosser PhD
Director
SPARC Europe
<http://www.sparceurope.org/>