[OAI-eprints] Call for Submissions: Open Repositories 2007 Conference (fwd)

[Stevan Harnad]

        ** Apologies for Cross-Posting **

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Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 16:26:38 +0100
From: Leslie Carr <lac at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
To: AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM at LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG

http://openrepositories.org/

The Steering Committee is pleased to invite your participation in the
Second International Conference on Open Repositories, January 23-26,
2007 in San Antonio, Texas. The conference will be hosted by Texas
A&M University Libraries, The University of Texas Libraries, and The
Texas Digital Library. Submissions in the form of an extended
abstract (no more than 500 words) are invited by October 2, 2006.

The general conference program will be organized around the following
themes:

- Open Access and the strategic context (social and technical) for
repositories
- Value-added services to enhance particular repositories
- Achieving interoperability for repositories
- Repositories and IT infrastructure
- Open source software
- Digital preservation
- Use cases for repositories
- Modeling for digital objects and repositories
- Management and policy issues
- Metrics

Open Repositories 2007 will continue the very successful format of
Open User Group meetings for DSpace, Fedora, and EPrints, followed by
general conference sessions that cover cross-cutting and overarching
issues.

For more details, please see the call at the conference web site:
http://openrepositories.org/call

--
Les Carr
OR07 Steering Group