Open Repositories 2008: CFP

[Leslie Carr <lac.--.ecs.soton.ac.uk@lists.yale.edu>]

[CROSS-POSTED]

OPEN REPOSITORIES 2008: CALL FOR PAPERS & PANELS
http://www.openrepositories.org/2008

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.

We invite developers, researchers and practitioners to submit 
papers describing novel experiences or developments in the 
construction and use of repositories. Submissions of up to 4 
pages in length are requested in PDF or HTML format. Detailed 
submission instructions will be made available from this page.

Submissions for panel discussions are also requested.

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

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

CONFERENCE THEMES

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The themes of the conference include 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
- Scholarly Publishing
- Digital Library
- Cultural Heritage
- Scientific repositories / data repositories
- Interdisciplinary, cross-disciplinary and cross-sectoral repositories