** with apologies for cross-posting ** DSUG Gothenburg 09: Call for Proposals
DSpace User Group Meeting, Gothenburg, Sweden, October 14-16, 2009 We are happy to invite the DSpace user community for a meeting that will bring together the international community. Representing one of the most successful open source platforms within academia with more than 500 installations worldwide, the aim is to share experiences from users, administrators and developers and to discuss the further possibilities for DSpace. The Program Committee of the DSUG 2009 invites you to submit proposals and posters in all areas relevant to the use of DSpace. Suggested and example topics • DSpace extensions developed within the community • Utilization of statistics and metrics for your repository • Interoperability: among repositories, with other systems, with the Web • Incorporating video and audio in your repository • Value added services for your DSpace repository • Managing and integrating workflows (ETDs) • Increasing searching, promotion and visibility through data mining or other means • Object reuse and exchange (OAI-ORE) • Digital preservation environments, policies and issues • Lessons learned upgrading to 1.5 • Use of DSpace outside of a traditional IR Important deadlines 2009-06-01: Submission of Proposals 2009-06-30: Notification of acceptance, Proposals 2009-08-15: Submission of Posters and Demonstrations 2009-09-01: Notification of acceptance, Posters and Demonstrations 2009-10-14 – 2009-10-16: User Group Meeting Author guidelines Proposals are invited for the following categories: Presentation (Title and abstract) Tutorial (Title and abstract) Workshop (Title and abstract) Poster (Title and abstract) Demonstration (Title) Abstracts max of 500 words. Submission details at: http://dsug09.ub.gu.se/ Contact details Gothenburg University Library [email protected] +46 31 7864422 -- Jonas Gilbert FM bibliotekarie / MLIS Librarian Digitala biblioteket / Digital library Göteborgs universitetsbibliotek / Gothenburg University Library Box 222, SE 405 30 Göteborg, SWEDEN Tel: +46 (0)31 7864422 Mobile: +46 (0)708474214 [email protected] _______________________________________________ Dspace-general mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general
