Re: Open Scholarship 2006: New Challenges for Open Access Repositories

["Anthony Watkinson" <anthony.watkinson@btopenworld.com>]

I have been following the development of institutional 
repositories with great interest. The first presentation I heard 
on the topic was from an MIT speaker who explained that the idea 
was to serve the Academy by providing a place to deposit and 
preserve material offered by faculty which would mainly be such 
e- content as reports, learning objects as suchlike. Many 
librarians I have met (I have just been talking to senior staff 
in a major Asian library) still seem to retain this 
understanding.

However, reading the program for the meeting and knowing quite a 
few of the speakers, I would guess this meeting is all about 
postprints, mandating and suchlike. Indeed one of the speakers in 
Glasgow told the Lund meeting that librarians who did not 
concentrate on this (narrow?) agenda were traitors to the cause.

Do librarians reading this list feel that repositories should be 
designed to serve faculty and their expressed needs or do they 
feel that a different agenda is more appropriate to their role in 
these matters?

Anthony

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Prosser" <david.prosser@bodley.ox.ac.uk>
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Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 10:34 PM
Subject: Open Scholarship 2006: New Challenges for Open Access Repositories

> ** Apologies for cross-posting **
>
> 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/>