OPEN REPOSITORIES 2008: CALL FOR PAPERS & PANELS
http://www.openrepositories.org/2008
Repositories are being deployed in a variety of settings (research,   
scholarship, learning, science, cultural heritage) and across a range  
of scales (subject, national, regional, institutional, project, lab,  
personal). The aim of this conference is to address the technical,  
managerial, practical and theoretical issues that arise from diverse  
applications of repositories in the increasingly pervasive  
information environment.

A programme of papers, panel discussions, poster presentations,  
workshops, tutorials and developer coding sessions will bring  
together all the key stakeholders in the field. Open source software  
community meetings for the major platforms (EPrints, DSpace and  
Fedora) will also provide opportunities to advance and co-ordinate  
the development of repository installations across the world.

We invite developers, researchers and practitioners to submit papers  
describing novel experiences or developments in the construction and  
use of repositories. Submissions of up to 4 pages in length are  
requested in PDF or HTML format. Detailed submission instructions  
will be made available from this page.

Submissions for panel discussions are also requested.

IMPORTANT DATES AND CONTACT INFO
Submission Deadline: Friday 7th December 2007
Notification of Acceptance: Monday January 21st 2008
Submission of DSpace/EPrints/Fedora User Group Presentations: TBA
Conference: April 1-4, 2008. University of Southampton, UK.

Enquiries to: Program Committee Chair ([log in to unmask]) or General  
Chair ([log in to unmask])

CONFERENCE THEMES
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The themes of the conference include the following:

TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE IN THE KNOWLEDGE WORKPLACE
- Embedding repositories in business processes and individual workflow.
- Change Management
- Advocacy and Culture Change
- Policy development and policy lag.

PROFESSIONALISM AND PRACTICE
- Professional Development
- Workforce Capacity
- Skills and Training
- Roles and Responsibilities

SUSTAINABILITY
- Economic sustainability and new business models,
- Technical sustainability of a repository over time, including  
platform change and migration.
- Technical sustainability of holdings over time. Preservation.  
Audit, certification. Trust. Assessment tools.
- Managing sustainability failure - when a repository outlives its  
organisation or its organisational commitment.

LEGAL ISSUES
- Embargoes
- Licensing and Digital Rights Management
- Mandates
- Overcoming legislative barriers
- Contractual relationships - facilitating and monitoring
- International and cross-border issues

SUCCESSFUL INTEROPERABILITY
- Content standards - discipline-specific vs general
- Metadata standards and application profiles
- Quality standards and quality control processes
- Achieving interchange in multi-disciplinary or multi-institutional  
environments
- Semantic web and linked data
- Identifier management for data and real world resources
- Access and authentication

MODELS, ARCHITECTURES AND FRAMEWORKS
- Beyond OAIS
- Federations
- Institutional Models - uber- or multi-repository environments
- Adapting to changing e-infrastructure: SOA, services, cloud computing
- Scalability

VALUE CHAINS and SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATIONS
- Multi-stakeholder value: preservation, open access, research,  
management, admninistratiion
- Multi-agenda, multi-function, multi-purpose repositories
- Usefulness and usability
- Reference, reuse, reanalysis and repurposing of content
- Citation of data / learning objects
- Changes in scholarly practice
- New benchmarks for scholarly success
- Repository metrics
- Bibliometrics: usage and impact

SERVICES BUILT ON REPOSITORIES
- OAI services
- User-oriented services
- Mashups
- Social networking
- Commentary / tagging
- Searching / information discovery
- Alerting
- Mining
- Visualisation
- Integration with Second life and Virtual environments

USE CASES FOR REPOSITORIES
- E-research/E-science (e.g., data and publication; collaborative  
services)
- E-scholarship
- Institutional repositories
- Discipline-oriented repositories
- Scholarly Publishing
- Digital Library
- Cultural Heritage
- Scientific repositories / data repositories
- Interdisciplinary, cross-disciplinary and cross-sectoral repositories