The Northeast Institutional Repository Day 2024 (NIRD24) Program Committee is pleased to issue its Call for Proposals <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdmu6cGVH9suyxy4T4XvPniRL5aRP1cowN_2HMiaAeq2esF1Q/viewform> for the sixth annual Northeast Institutional Repository Day <https://zenodo.org/communities/nird/about>, a free event that brings together those in the Northeast (and beyond!) who manage or are interested in institutional repositories, digital collections, and digital preservation. With the success of our recent events and in an effort to continue to make NIRD available to as many participants as possible, all presentations will be delivered virtually.
December 5th and 6th, 2024 Time: 12/5 afternoon ET (UTC -5); 12/6 morning ET (UTC -5) Virtual event *(Zoom link will be provided to registrants) * The NIRD24 Program Committee welcomes any proposal related to institutional repositories, especially work that can be applicable to other institutions, even those working on different platforms. Tell us what helped or hindered your work in these or other areas: - IR metadata interoperability, ingest, or maintenance; - Stewardship of digital files in various formats; - Repository migration or updates; - Building relationships with IR depositors or contributors; - IRs as library publishing platforms; - Improving accessibility, equity, and inclusion for IR contributors and users; - IR policies; - Experiences with artificial intelligence Proposals that are platform agnostic are particularly encouraged. The Program Committee is not accepting proposals from vendor representatives for NIRD24. The Program Committee is requesting that proposals fall into the following formats: - Lightning Talk (5-7 min) - a brief, free-standing presentation, with or without slides - Presentation (20 min) - a more comprehensive, free-standing presentation or panel Important dates: - Deadline for submission: September 30, 2024 - Notification of acceptance: October 31, 2024 *Please submit your proposal using **this form* <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdmu6cGVH9suyxy4T4XvPniRL5aRP1cowN_2HMiaAeq2esF1Q/viewform> *. * In keeping with the collaborative and platform-agnostic spirit of the NIRD community, all forthcoming conference content will be hosted on Zenodo <https://zenodo.org/communities/nird/about>. Content from the 2019-2023 NIRD conferences will continue to be hosted and available from UMass Chan Medical School’s institutional repository, eScholarship@UMassChan <https://repository.escholarship.umassmed.edu/handle/20.500.14038/51366>. If you have questions about NIRD24 programming, please contact one of the Program Committee members: If you have questions about NIRD24 programming, please contact one of the Program Committee members: Laura Vavrosky, University of Minnesota Duluth (Chair) ([email protected]) Denise Brush, Rowan University ([email protected]) Michael Burke, Berklee College of Music ([email protected]) Sadie Roosa, MIT ([email protected]) Jessica Ryan, Smith College ([email protected]) Peter Whiting, University of Southern Indiana ([email protected]) -- All messages to this mailing list should adhere to the Code of Conduct: https://www.lyrasis.org/about/Pages/Code-of-Conduct.aspx --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DSpace Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/dspace-community/1946cb81-77a2-46ae-9331-1001ab0a4061n%40googlegroups.com.
