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DSpace User Group Program at the International Conference on Open
Repositories, 2007

Call for Presentations

The DSpace User Group Program Committee invites you to submit
presentation proposals for the DSpace program track of the 2007
International Conference on Open Repositories (San Antonio, Texas, USA -
January 23-26). The DSpace program sessions will be held January 23-24,
2007. Please submit an abstract (in English) of no more than 500 words
by Friday, October 27. The Program Committee will select the conference
presentations from these submissions. Selected speakers will receive an
email by November 20, 2006 with guidelines for their presentation. 
Presentations will be limited to no more than 45 minutes, including
10-15 minutes for questions.

Important Dates

Friday, October 27, 2006 -- Extended abstract, less than 500 words
November 20, 2006 -- Notification of acceptance January 8, 2007 -- Final
presentation due January 23-26, 2007 -- Open Repositories 2007
Conference

Author Info

Authors, please use the submission site <http://www.easychair.org/OR07/>
powered by EasyChair.
Select the submission category "DSpace User Group" toward the bottom of
the submission screen.

Conference Themes

Abstracts should focus on the conference themes specific to DSpace. 
Proposals not specific to DSpace should be submitted to the
International Conference's program committee under the "general
conference" category.
When submitting abstracts, authors should consider the following
suggested themes for the DSpace program:

Infrastructure Developments and Value-added Services --document
versioning --access control --searching / mining / querying tools
--repository metrics / usage analysis --user interface developments
--self-organizing collections --federation, virtualization, and
replication --scalability issues (hardware / load balancing /
redundancy)
-- alternatives to handles for persistent identifiers --other
architecture developments

Innovative Adaptations
--e-portfolios
--learning and multimedia objects
--data management/curation
--archival materials
--researcher pages

Integration and Repurposing
--integration with other end user applications --workflow integration
--syndicating content to portals and web sites --automated submission of
content residing in other information systems

Digital Preservation
--trusted digital repositories and certification --archives and
long-term record management --format migration/emulation --asset and
collection authentication

Interoperability for DSpace Repositories --standards-based approaches
--metadata schemas (descriptive, structural, technical, policy, rights)
--automated metadata extraction --customizable schema --digital object
packaging (METS, SCORM, MPEG21-DID, RDF) --semantic web, RDF, ontologies
--service frameworks (e.g., web services) --protocols (e.g., OAI-PMH)
--import/export of objects and collections --integrating platforms (e.g.
DSpace with Fedora, EPrints, Greenstone, SRB, etc.)

Security and Access Control
--authorization policies for administrators --authorization policies for
users --attribute-based access control --fine-grained authorization for
users and administrators

Management and Policy Issues
--gaining institutional support and "buy-in"
--business, financial and legal models
--national and international context
--certification
--sustainability of DSpace repositories
--standards integration processes
--mandating policies
--community-driven evolution of the code base

DSpace Governance
--governance issues and developments
--legal issues
--distributed software development issues --long-term sustainability of
DSpace