EPrints User Group Program
at Open Repositories 2007

Call for Presentations

The EPrints Program Committee invites you to submit proposals for the EPrints program track of the 2007 International Conference on Open Repositories (San Antonio, Texas, USA - January 23-26). The EPrints program sessions consist of 30 minute presentation slots and will be held January 23-24, 2007. See below for some of the themes that we will be covering.

Important Dates

November 15, 2006 Extended abstract, less than 500 words
November 27, 2006 Notification of acceptance
January 8, 2006 Final presentation due
January 23-24, 2007 EPrints Users Workshop
January 24, 2007 Launch of EPrints version 3.0

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 "EPrints User Group" toward the bottom of the submission screen.

Themes

EPrints has a reputation for ease of building a repository, whilst maintaining enough flexibility to be adaptable to many different requirements — scientific data repositories, image collections, teaching and learning repositories as well as Open Access peer-reviewed research publications. These isues are reflected in the themes that we will be covering:

  • Embedding EPrints within an Institution
    • Interoperability between EPrints and Other Systems
    • Portals
    • Management Information Systems
    • Research Assessment Procedures
    • Realistic Costings: how many people does it take to run an EPrints repository?
    • Policy Development and Enforcment
  • Marketing Your Organisation and Its Research
    • Branding Your Repository
    • Tracking Article Usage (e.g. Google Analytics)
    • Co-ordinating Deposits with Press Releases
  • Practical Experiences and War Stories
    • Content Growth: how to stimulate regular deposits
    • Gaining Support from Faculty and Senior Management
    • Mandates and Recommendations: what works where?
    • Best Practice and Otherwise
  • Repository Management
    • Optimizing Workflows
    • Versioning
    • Keeping Data and Metadata Fresh and Relevant
    • Implementing Achievable Preservation Policies
    • Technical Solutions for De-duplication, Metadata Improvement and other Information Updates
    • Critical Success Factors: what makes a good repository
  • Diversifying your EPrints Repository
    • Extending the EPrints biodiversity: image collections, theses, data collections, e-portfolios, teaching/learning collections
    • Managing diversification
  • Technical Issues and Enhancements
    • Web 2.0: Social Tagging and Social Networking?
    • Better User Interfaces and Improved User Experience
    • Repository Architectures
    • Your Improvements and Your Wish List for future features
    • NB: EPrints Version 3 will be launched on the second day of the workshop.
  • The above themes are not exhaustive — presentations on other issues relevant to EPrints users are welcomed