Fedora User Group Program
at Open Repositories 2007

Call for Presentations

The Fedora Project invites you to submit proposals for the next Fedora User Group Meeting, to be held in conjunction with the Open Repositories 2007 conference. The Fedora program committee is currently soliciting proposals for 30 minute presentations. The program session will be held January 23-24, 2007.

Important Dates

November 15, 2006 Extended abstract, less than 500 words, double spaced
November 27, 2006 Notification of acceptance
January 8, 2007 Final presentation due
January 23-26, 2007 Fedora Users and 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 Submission Info

Please submit your proposal to the author submission site powered by EasyChair. Select the submission category of "Fedora User Group."

Themes

Technical Solutions and Innovations: Topics include, but are not limited to:

  • New services in the Fedora Service Framework
  • Supporting data repositories and e-science
  • Building collaborative workspaces on top of Fedora
  • RDF, semantic web technologies, triplestores
  • Digital preservation and Fedora
  • Federating Fedora repositories
  • Repository backup, mirroring, and recovery strategies
  • Security and access control
  • Integrating workflow with Fedora
Organizational Perspectives and Applications: Topics include, but are not limited to:
  • Why choose Fedora? Feature analysis of Fedora for different use cases
  • Building awareness and nurturing Fedora community development
  • Fedora for institutional repository
  • Fedora for digital preservation and archiving
  • Fedora for digital collections and digital library
  • Fedora for publishing (scholarly, open access, etc.)
  • Fedora for knowledge management (e.g., semantic technologies)
  • Fedora for "e-scholarship" and "scholarly workbenches"