Call for Proposals - SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting

[Jennifer McLennan <jennifer@arl.org>]

Registration now open for November event

(July 14, 2008) SPARC, in partnership with SPARC Europe and SPARC
Japan (an initiative of the National Institute of Informatics),
is hosting the SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting 2008, November
17 and 18, at the Renaissance Harborplace Hotel in Baltimore,
Maryland.

Librarians, researchers, funders, administrators, government
officials, publishers, and technologists from around the world
will share their experiences and best practices in building and
supporting institutional and disciplinary digital repositories.
The focus will be on effective engagement with scholars and
scientists to expand the sharing of research outputs via open
repositories.

The meeting program, being developed by a diverse and expert
program committee, will delve into four key areas: The Policy
Environment, New Horizons, Building Bridges: Campus Publishing
Strategies, and Value-Added Services. These tracks will be
supplemented with an Innovation Fair and a Practicum on marketing
and advocacy.

The organizers now invite proposals to the Innovation Fair. The
Innovation Fair is an event inspired by Open Repositories' Minute
Madness that invites participants to present, in no more than two
or three minutes, innovative or creative approaches to:

* Use of repository content (such as new publishing models, data
visualizations, data-mining, mash-ups, educational resources,
etc.)

* Discovery of research outputs (such as area-of-interest
profiling, peer-discovery channels, content recommendations,
research news integration, discipline aggregations or information
portals, etc.)

* Value-added services (such as author bibliographies, usage
reporting, research promotion, multi-target deposit, distributed
discovery channels, content of interest alerts, deposit rights
clearance, etc.)

* Repository promotion (such as creative marketing techniques,
slogans, graphics, elevator speeches, etc.)

Fair projects will be featured on the Crowdvine network for the
conference at http://sparc08.crowdvine.com, where presenters will
be asked to post their slide or graphic on the network in a blog
post. Meeting participants will be encouraged to constructively
comment, build, and expand upon them with new ideas through their
own posts and graphics.

For details and to submit a proposal to the Innovation Fair,
visit http://www.arl.org/sparc/ir08. Submissions must be received
no later than August 10.

The SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting 2008 is supported by major
contributions from Microsoft (Conference Sponsor), Berkeley
Electronic Press and BioMed Central (Coffee Break Sponsors), and
by additional contributions from a number of Supporting
Organizations.

This is the first North American SPARC digital repositories
conference since the organization's popular 2004 meeting, which
drew hundreds of participants from around the globe and set the
stage for some of the key developments of the past four years.

To register, book accommodation, and for more information, visit
the conference Web site at
http://www.arl.org/sparc/meetings/ir08/.

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SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition),
with SPARC Europe and SPARC Japan, is an international alliance
of more than 800 academic and research libraries working to
create a more open system of scholarly communication. SPARC's
advocacy, educational and publisher partnership programs
encourage expanded dissemination of research. SPARC is on the Web
at http://www.arl.org/sparc.

For more information:

Jennifer McLennan
Director of Communications, SPARC
(The Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition)
http://www.arl.org/sparc
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