Call for Presentations
The DSpace, Fedora, and Eprints user groups are responsible for putting together their program components and will be issuing their own calls through their user groups.
The Program Committee for the general conference invites you to submit an extended abstract of no more than 500 words by October 2, 2006. The contributions must be written in English and should be double spaced. The Program Committee will select relevant submissions. Selected speakers will receive an email by November 6, 2006 with guidelines for their presentation. Presentations will be limited to 20 minutes.
The general conference program will be organized around the following themes:
- Metadata
- schemas (descriptive, structural, technical, policy, rights)
- packaging (METS, DIDL, MARC21, RDF)
- vocabularies (ontologies, semantic web)
- transport (OAI-PMH, OAISIS)
- Value-added services
- aggregation, federation (OAI)
- analysis tools (provenance)
- annotation
- technologies (e.g. data mining)
- service frameworks (web services)
- reuse (repackaging, linking)
- simulation
- Metrics
- bibliometrics: usage and impact
- repository-metrics
- Strategic IT infrastructure
- identification and naming (naming papers, journals, institutions, authors)
- access control (e.g. shibboleth)
- networking (e.g. Grid)
- versioning
- preservation
- Interfaces
- branding
- browsing/searching
- visualization
- Repository Types
- e-research (data/literature repositories and services) and cyberinfrastructure
- institutional
- subject
- project
- national and international
- Modeling
- repositories
- complex objects
- storage
- workflows
- Cross-cutting Issues
- open access
- validation/verification
- scalability
- Management and Policy
- Business, financial and legal models
- National and international contexts
- Certification
- Sustainability
- Mandates
Important Dates
| October 2, 2006 | Extended abstract, less than 500 words, double spaced |
| November 6, 2006 | Notification of acceptance |
| January 8, 2007 | Final presentation due |
| January 23-26, 2007 | Open Repositories 2007 Conference |