Poster Session

A poster session reception will be held on Wednesday January 24 from 6:00-7:30 pm. immediately preceded by a minute Minute Madness plenary session from 5:30-6:00 pm.

Minute Madness

Minute Madness, a plenary session for advertising posters, is scheduled for Wednesday January 24 from 5:30-6:00 pm in Salon E for accepted poster presenters. Each poster must be presented in ONE MINUTE with the aid of a single PowerPoint slide! This session is a quick way to provide an overview of research highlights for all conference attendees while encouraging visits to specific posters during the reception for more complete explanations.

Minute Madness participants should submit slide templates with their information to Carol Minton Morris, clt6@cornell.edu, no later than January 15, 2007.

Best Poster Award

A $200 gift certificate for the 'Best Poster' will be awarded based on a vote by conference attendees. Please remember to cast your vote at the poster session reception "voting booth."

Note to Poster Creators

The conference organizers will provide an easel and a posterboard for your poster presentation. Please bring your poster on 2'x3' paper ready to attach to the posterboard. Poster presenters should go to Salon F anytime after 3:30 pm. on Jan. 24 to set-up. Posterboards and tape will be available in the registration area. Posters will not have any table space so please plan accordingly. Do not expect to have electrical outlets near your poster spaces. Poster numbers below will correspond to the assigned number on easels and posterboards.

List of Confirmed Posters

    1. Linking Repositories: technical and organisational models to support end-user oriented services across digital repositories
      Chris Awre and Alma Swan
    2. NSDL MatDL: Adding Context to Bridge Materials E-research and E-education
      Laura Bartolo, Cathy Lowe, Robert Tandy
    3. A Repository Integration and Interoperability Framework
      Chris Blackall
    4. Repository Statistics for Measuring Item Usage
      Sean Cochrane
    5. Repositories for Institutional Open Access: Mandated Deposit Policies
      Leslie Carr, Alma Swan, Arthur Sale, Charles Oppenheim, Tim Brody, Steve Hitchcock, Chawki Hajjem and Harnad Stevan
    6. SAMFS and QFS Technologies for digital preservation
      Sean Cochrane
    7. Format Conversion in DSpace using OpenOffice.org Tim Donohue
    8. Items, Authors and Publishers: Developing a Workflow Management System for an Institutional Repository
      Karen Estlund and Allyson Mower
    9. Metasearch engine for Academic Open Access Information: OA-Hermes.
      Egar Arturo Garcia Cardenas and Alberto Castro Thompson
    10. Progress Report for CiteSeerX: Version 2.0 of the CiteSeer Digital Library
      Isaac Councill and Lee Giles.
    11. Supporting Sustainability through Data Migration
      Caroline Drury
    12. Virtualisation at work
      Caroline Drury
    13. The Digitization Workflow Management System (DWMS)
      Fadi Edward, Dr. Noha Adly, Dr. Magdy Nagy and Mohamed Yakout
    14. The repository as service-oriented institutional infrastructure: the RepoMMan project and Fedora
      Richard Green, Chris Awre, Ian Dolphin and Robert Sherratt
    15. Repository Interoperability with the Hub and Spoke
      Thomas G. Habing, Timothy W. Cole and William H. Mischo
    16. Simple Preservation Services: towards Proactive Support for the Institutional Repository Manager
      Jessie Hey, Tim Brody, Steve Hitchcock and Leslie Carr
    17. What national repository infrastructure can do for global harvesting (the IRIScotland project)
      Philip Hunter
    18. A Standards-Based Approach to Federated Search and Submission With Open Tools and Content Management Systems
      Jeff Kahn and Jeff Merriman
    19. Commons of Geographic Data: building an Open-source and Open-access Working Model
      Marilyn Lutz, James Campbell, Harlan Onsrud, David McCurry and Kenton Williams
    20. IRs By the Numbers: A statistical analysis of institutional repositories in American academia
      Cat McDowell
    21. A DSpace Foundation for a Teaching & Research Commons: The Metadata Education and Research Information Center William Moen, Ingrid Hsieh-Yee and Sherry Vellucci
    22. Content Repositories with MyCoRe - Experiences and Goals
      Wiebke Oeltjen
    23. Implementing Embargoes for Electronic Dissertations Terry Owen
    24. The Role of User Interfaces in Achieving Interoperability
      Scott Phillips, Cody Green, Alexey Maslov, Adam Mikeal, John Leggett
    25. An easy and cost effective solution for setting up institutional repositories
      Maria Romano
    26. The Integrated Content Environment for Research and Scholarship: helping move repositories from Web 0.5 to Web 2.0
      Peter Sefton
    27. Federated Repositories for Education (FRED) project
      Peter Sefton and Caroline Drury
    28. Archives in the 21st Century: A Case Study in Processing Digital Manuscripts
      Catherine Stollar
    29. Who Is Contributing to E-Print Archives? An Analysis of Depositing Patterns in Selected Repositories
      Chuck Thomas and Robert H. McDonald
    30. How to leverage native metadata and search facilities, and StoreLets(tm), within the Sun "Honeycomb" storage.
      Gail Truman, Larry Robinson
    31. Institutional Repositories and the Need for "Value-added" Services: Perspectives from Two Universities
      Tyler Walters and Eric Morgan
    32. Building an African Studies Repository using Web 2.0 Principles
      Anna Winterbottom (poster session attended by Martha Dew)