DSpace User Group Program
at Open Repositories 2007
Call for Presentations
The DSpace User Group Program Committee invites you to submit presentation proposals for the DSpace program track of the 2007 International Conference on Open Repositories (San Antonio, Texas, USA - January 23-26). The DSpace program sessions will be held January 23-24, 2007. Please submit an abstract (in English) of no more than 500 words by Friday, October 27. The Program Committee will select the conference presentations from these submissions. Selected speakers will receive an email by November 20, 2006 with guidelines for their presentation. Presentations will be limited to no more than 45 minutes, including 10-15 minutes for questions.
Important Dates
| November 10, 2006 | Extended abstract, less than 500 words |
| November 27, 2006 | Notification of acceptance |
| January 8, 2007 | Final presentation due |
| January 23-26, 2007 | Open Repositories 2007 Conference |
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. Select the submission category "DSpace User Group" toward the bottom of the submission screen.
Conference Themes
Abstracts should focus on the conference themes specific to DSpace. Proposals not specific to DSpace should be submitted to the International Conference's program committee under the "general conference" category. When submitting abstracts, authors should consider the following suggested themes for the DSpace program:
Infrastructure Developments and Value-added Services
- document versioning
- access control
- searching / mining / querying tools
- repository metrics / usage analysis
- user interface developments
- self-organizing collections
- federation, virtualization, and replication
- scalability issues (hardware / load balancing / redundancy)
- alternatives to handles for persistent identifiers
- other architecture developments
- e-portfolios
- learning and multimedia objects
- data management/curation
- archival materials
- researcher pages
- integration with other end user applications
- workflow integration
- syndicating content to portals and web sites
- automated submission of content residing in other information systems
- trusted digital repositories and certification
- archives and long-term record management
- format migration/emulation
- asset and collection authentication
- format registries
- digital preservation software
- standards-based approaches
- metadata schemas (descriptive, structural, technical, policy, rights)
- automated metadata extraction
- customizable schema
- digital object packaging (METS, SCORM, MPEG21-DID, RDF)
- semantic web, RDF, ontologies
- service frameworks (e.g., web services)
- protocols (e.g., OAI-PMH)
- import/export of objects and collections
- integrating platforms (e.g. DSpace with Fedora, EPrints, Greenstone, SRB, etc.)
- authorization policies for administrators
- authorization policies for users
- attribute-based access control
- fine-grained authorization for users and administrators
- gaining institutional support and "buy-in"
- business, financial and legal models
- national and international context
- certification
- sustainability of DSpace repositories
- standards integration processes
- mandating policies
- community-driven evolution of the code base
- governance issues and developments
- legal issues
- distributed software development issues
- long-term sustainability of DSpace
