Call for Submissions: Open Repositories 2007 Conference (fwd)

[Stevan Harnad <harnad@ecs.soton.ac.uk>]

         ** Apologies for Cross-Posting **

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