Event: Beyond the Repository Fringe - RF09
Date: Thursday, July 30, 2009 at 9:30 AM - Friday, July 31, 2009 at 4:00
PM (GMT)
Location:
Informatics Forum
Crichton Street
Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City Of EH8 9AB
United Kingdom
Over 70 registered attendees to date!
For more information : http://wiki.repositoryfringe.org/
Registration : http://beyondtherepositoryfringe.eventbrite.com/
Opening speaker: Ben O'Steen & Sally Rumsey
Abstract: Institutional repositories have come a long way since they
went on general release early this century and they have been subject to
a rapidly changing landscape and numerous challenges in their brief
existence. These include exponentially growing remits and scope,
unremitting technical developments, a wide range of users with an
equally wide range of expectations (ranging from the predictable to the
frankly impossible), user disinterest and apathy, together with a whole
host of disparate influences that affect repository development and
content. We'll be taking a sneak preview at what we think will be the
A-list stars of future repositories both in terms of blockbuster
technical developments and of the cultural drivers behind them. We're
mainly familiar with repositories aimed at the research community in
higher education, but the developments we'll talk about are relevant to
anyone, anywhere, involved with digital repositories
Closing speaker: Clifford Lynch
Clifford Lynch will present the closing keynote and wrap-up complete
with observations from the proceedings.
Clifford has been the Director of the Coalition for Networked
Information (CNI) since July 1997. CNI, jointly sponsored by the
Association of Research Libraries and EDUCAUSE, includes about 200
member organizations concerned with the use of information technology
and networked information to enhance scholarship and intellectual
productivity.
--
Ian Stuart.
Bibliographics and Multimedia Service Delivery team,
EDINA,
The University of Edinburgh.
http://edina.ac.uk/
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