Call for Presentations

The DSpace, Fedora, and Eprints user groups are responsible for putting together their program components and will be issuing their own calls through their user groups.

The Program Committee for the general conference invites you to submit an extended abstract of no more than 500 words by October 9, 2006. The contributions must be written in English and should be double spaced. The Program Committee will select relevant submissions. Selected speakers will receive an email by November 6, 2006 with guidelines for their presentation. Presentations will be limited to 20 minutes, plus 10 minutes for questions.

Important Dates

Program Note

The conference organizers have made every attempt to schedule the EPrints, DSpace and Fedora sessions to allow delegates to move between them according to their combinations of interest.

Author Info

Authors, please use the submission site powered by EasyChair.

Conference Themes

Abstracts should focus on the conference themes, with a particular emphasis on repositories. When submitting abstracts, authors should consider the general conference program, which will be organized around the following themes:

• Strategic Context (Social and Technical) for Repositories
  • Changing attitudes and behaviors in research and scientific processes
  • Creation and management of information and knowledge
  • Enabling new models of scholarly communication
  • Repositories in a "Web 2.0" world
  • National and international initiatives (e.g., cyberinfrastructure, JISC repository program, JISC/DEST e-framework)
  • Open Access to scholarship (articles, research data, multimedia, etc.)
• Value-added services
  • Metadata harvesting, aggregation, federation (e.g., OAI)
  • Analysis tools (provenance)
  • Annotation
  • Data mining
  • Reuse (repackaging, linking)
  • Automatic metadata generation
  • Simulation
  • Browsing/searching
  • Visualization
  • Validation, verification, integrity checking
• Achieving Interoperability for Repositories
  • Standards-based approaches
  • Metadata schemas (descriptive, structural, technical, policy, rights)
  • Digital object packaging (METS, SCORM, MPEG21-DID, RDF)
  • Semantic web, RDF, ontologies
  • Service frameworks (e.g., web services)
  • Protocols (e.g., OAI-PMH)
  • Transport
  • Integrating platforms (e.g. DSpace, Fedora, EPrints, Greenstone, SRB, etc.)
• Repositories and IT infrastructure
  • Service-oriented architecture (SOA)
  • Authentication and Access Control (e.g. shibboleth, users/groups, xacml, xrml)
  • Identifiers and naming
  • Networks and distributed repositories (e.g. Grid)
  • Versioning
  • Storage
  • Workflow and process orchestration
  • Messaging
  • Scalability
• Open Source Software
  • Governing open source software products
  • Legal issues with open source
  • Distributed software development
  • Long-term sustainability of open source projects
• Digital Preservation
  • Trusted digital repositories
  • Data curation
  • Archives and long-term record management
  • Versioning
• 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
• Modeling for Digital Objects and Repositories
  • Complex object modeling
  • Metadata modeling
  • Information networks and relationship ontologies
  • Workflows and processes
• Management and Policy Issues
  • Gaining institutional support
  • Business, financial and legal models
  • National and international context
  • Certification
  • Sustainability for open-source repositories
  • Mandates
• Metrics
  • Bibliometrics: usage and impact
  • Repository-metrics
  • Performance and scalability measurement