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From: Joy Davidson [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 28 February 2005 09:55
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Subject: Forthcoming digital repository meetings, 6-8 July 2005,
Cambridge, UK
With apologies for cross-posting
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Dear Colleagues,
Dates for your diary: 6/7/8 July 2005 at the University of Cambridge
This is an initial announcement to let you know of two related meetings
that you might wish to attend.
The Digital Curation Centre is planning to hold a DCC workshop in the UK
at the University of Cambridge on Wednesday 6 July 2005.
Immediately following this, a second DSpace Federation User Group
meeting will be held, also at the University of Cambridge, on
Thursday-Friday, 7-8 July 2005.
The DCC workshop will be a training event on the long-term curation and
preservation of institutional
repositories (regardless of software platform). The DSpace meeting
will
focus on issues specific to the use of the DSpace repository platform.
As
some participants will want to attend both events, the organisers of the
two meetings will co-ordinate registration and other arrangements as far
as possible.
Some preliminary information on the two events follows below.
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Digital Curation Centre workshop
The Digital Curation Centre (DCC) was launched in November 2004
following a recommendation in the JISC Continuing Access and Digital
Preservation Strategy (October 2002). The current partners of the DCC
are the University of Edinburgh, University of Glasgow, UKOLN and the
Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils (CCLRC). The
DCC is not itself a data repository, nor do we attempt to impose
policies and practices of one branch of scholarship upon another.
Rather, based on insight from a vibrant research programme that
addresses wider issues of data curation and long-term preservation, we
will develop and offer programmes of outreach and practical services to
assist those who must curate data. Rather than duplicate effort, we seek
to complement and contribute to the endeavours of related organisations.
Curation and preservation issues are integral to all digital
repositories - regardless of platform. As such, the DCC are cooperating
with DSpace to convene a one-day workshop to examine some of the major
issues involved with the long-term access to and re-use of data held
within digital repositories from a range of perspectives - including the
HE/FE and e-science communities. Themes for this event may include:
* workflow and business models for the long-term curation and
sustainability of digital repositories * certification of digital
repositories * roles and responsibilities * interoperability * metadata
* policies
These issues will be explored through a mixture of panel discussions,
presentations, case studies and breakout sessions. The DCC is committed
to nurturing strong community relationships and a major aim for this
event is to create a forum for the sharing of experiences and ideas
between a wide range of stakeholders.
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2nd DSpace Federation User Group meeting
The 1st DSpace Federation User Group meeting was held in Boston, USA, in
March 2004. Organised by the DSpace team at MIT Libraries, it was a
very successful open 2-day meeting and was attended by approximately 120
delegates drawn from ten different countries. It included several
plenary
sessions and two parallel tracks, one focussing on technical issues and
the other on organisational policy. (For presentations and a summary
report, see http://dspace.org/conference/conference.html)
In the post-meeting evaluation it was concluded that many of the policy
issues were essentially platform-independent and not specific to DSpace
users, and that future discussion of such topics would be more
appropriate in a broader forum of those interested in digital
repositories. It followed that future meetings of the DSpace Federation
- the international community of DSpace code contributors and users -
should focus on issues that were more specific to the architecture and
functionality of the DSpace platform.
The 2nd DSpace Federation User Group meeting is now being planned with
this in mind. MIT Libraries have passed organisational responsibility
for the meeting to colleagues at Cambridge University working on the
DSpace@Cambridge project, a joint Cambridge-MIT initiative funded by the
Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI). The July 2005 meeting, which will be
partly sponsored by CMI, will reflect both the need for a
DSpace-specific agenda and the international character of the DSpace
Federation.
The formal Call For Papers and invitation to register will be issued
shortly.
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Peter Morgan
Project Director, DSpace@Cambridge
Cambridge University Library
West Road
Cambridge
CB3 9DR
UK
email: [log in to unmask]
tel: +44 (0)1223 333130
fax: +44 (0)1223 339973
Joy Davidson
DCC Training Coordinator and ERPANET British Editor Humanities Advanced
Technology and Information Institute (HATII) George Service House, 11
University Gardens, University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QJ Scotland
Tel: +44(0)141 330 8592
Fax: +44(0)141 330 3788
email: [log in to unmask]
http://www.dcc.ac.uk
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