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Fedora Users' Group Meeting, in Association with Open Repositories 2008
Call for Proposals for Presentations
Deadline February 4th, 2008
Fedora Commons <http://www.fedora-commons.org/> invites you to submit
proposals for the next Fedora User Group Meeting, to be held in
conjunction with the Open Repositories 2008
<http://or08.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cfp.html> conference. We invite
developers, researchers and practitioners to submit proposals for
presentations describing their experiences implementing and using
Fedora, or developing software associated with Fedora. The Fedora
program committee is currently soliciting proposals for 20 minute
presentations.
You will need to provide a title and an abstract of up to 400 words for
your presentation. Full papers will not be required. Please submit your
proposal to the author submission
<http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=3DOR08> site powered by
EasyChair. Select the submission category of "Fedora User Group".
IMPORTANT DATES:
Paper Submission Deadline: Monday, February 4th, 2008
Notification of Acceptance: Monday, February 25th, 2008
Fedora User Meeting: April 3-4, 2008. University of Southampton, UK.
Open Repositories 2008: April 1-4, 2008.
THEMES
Technical Solutions and Innovations: Topics include, but are not limited
to:
* New services in the Fedora Service Framework
* Supporting e-research
* Building collaborative workspaces on top of Fedora
* RDF, semantic web technologies, triplestores
* Digital preservation and Fedora
* User interface development
* Storage solutions
* Security and access control
* Integrating workflow with Fedora
Organizational Perspectives and Applications: Topics include, but are
not limited to:
* Why the choice of Fedora for different use cases
* Building awareness and nurturing Fedora community development
* Sustainability strategies
* Developing and sharing content models and disseminators
* Fedora for publishing (scholarly, open access, etc.)
* Fedora for knowledge management (e.g., semantic technologies)
* Fedora for "e-research" and "community repositories"
* Mash-ups: Fedora plus public APIs (Fedorazon, Google Maps and
Fedora etc.)
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