FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 14, 2010
Contact: Tom Cramer
*Open Repositories 2011: Collaboration & Community: The Social Mechanics of*
* Repository Systems*
*Austin, Texas* What is the role of social interactions within repository
technical communities in developing strong, distributed services and
cyberinfrastructure to create open access to and preservation of our shared
digital heritage? The Sixth Annual International Conference on Open
Repositories (OR11) communities will address that question in the state
capital of Texas, Austin, often billed as "The Live Music Capital of the
World,” from June 8-11, 2011 at the AT& T Conference Center. This popular
conference will be hosted by the University of Texas, featuring general
conference and user group sessions as well as workshops, poster sessions,
minute madness and new kinds of sessions designed to bring everyone into
this lively exchange of ideas.
Mark McFarland, this year's OR11 host organizing committee chair, has
announced that the conference web site is now open, and additional
registration and hotel information is now available.
You can view the OR11 website at: http://conferences.tdl.org/0R2011
To view accommodation options, please visit:
http://conferences.tdl.org/0R2011/
OR2011main/schedConf/accommodation
PROGRAM
As both social and technical constructs, digital repositories must blend
technology with the interests and efforts of developers, managers and users.
Repositories must connect their technologies and services to user
communities in order to provide value; technologists must collaborate with
other practitioners in order to integrate, enrich and sustain solutions.
Recognizing the ever-growing importance of social dynamics to repository
success, the primary theme of this year's Open Repositories conference is
Collaboration and Community: The Social M echanics of Repository Systems.
The program committee encourages proposals explore or demonstrate this
theme, including...
• building, scaling and sustaining inter-institutional efforts in digital
repository space
• user-focused service design, and models that align with scholarly and
research community practices
• sustainability and business models that support repository services over
the long term
• key success factors and common stumbling blocks in building collaborations
among technologists, users & managers
• tools, techniques and practices that build team with heterogeneous skill
sets
• training & skills development for repository developers and managers
• areas of opportunity and need for the repository community to collaborate
further
Proposals dealing with repository design, technology, infrastructure, and
data are also welcome, especially those dealing with recent developments,
novel approaches, theoretical frameworks, or practical advances in the
themes of...
• repository architectures
• interoperability of repositories with repositories, applications and
web-based services
• cloud-based applications, services, storage and computing (Software-,
Platform-, Infrastructure As A Service)
• integration with storage, infrastructure and middleware systems
• metadata standards, data modeling and linked data
• repositories in information lifecycle management, integration with
scholarly and publishing workflows
• data curation infrastructure, services & workflows
• case studies in particular domains
• operation at scale
• repository metrics, evaluation, and bibliometrics
Open Repositories is an annual conference that brings together an
international community of stakeholders engaged in the development,
management, and application of digital repositories. Through a program of
presentations, panels, posters, tutorials and workshops, attendees exchange
knowledge, best practices and ideas on strategic, technical, theoretical and
practical issues. International user group meetings of open repository
technologies (DSpace, EPrints, Fedora) will also take place in concert with
the main conference; agendas and details for these programs will be
announced later.
For repository communities Microservices have emerged as a way to find
alternatives to, or supplement repository platforms such as DSpace, Fedora,
and ePrints. A panel discussion of the role of microservices as an
alternative or a supplement to repository platforms such as DSpace, Fedora,
and ePrints, which many Open Repositories attendees do not use will be
offered at OR11 to encourage discussions in the the DSpace, Fedora, and
ePrints communities about microservices and their role in cross-repository
interoperability.
For the first time at OR11 a 90 minute Pecha Kucha session will be offered
featuring a series of six to nine 6 minute presentations, capped at 20
slides each, based on a common theme for each series. Taking advantage of a
presentation format that is both fast-paced and focused will compliment
minute madness poster session with another way to interact with current
repository projects and research. Pecha Kucha presentations will be followed
by a 20-30 minute Q&A / open discussion session.
Some candidate themes may be:
- demonstrate your cloud-based approach to repository solutions
- show a tool you've developed / found that can integrate into
others' repositories
- novel approaches to user interactions with repository systems
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
Interested parties can submit proposals for the conference using the online
submission system on the Open Repositories 2011 website. The deadline for
proposal submissions is *Feb. 28, 2011*.
To use the online submission system, go the Open Repositories
2011<http://conferences.tdl.org/0R2011/OR2011main/index>website and
select the Proposal Submission link on the right-hand side of
the page under Conference Information. You will be required to log into the
system to submit a proposal.
*1.) * *Log in to the conference website.*
After clicking on Proposal Submission, you will be taken to a login page. If
you already have an account for the website, you can enter your existing
account information. If you are new to the site, you must register by
creating a new user account.
Creating a new account requires filling in a few brief fields on a web form.
Be sure that the AUTHOR checkbox is selected at the end of the form and
click CREATE.
*2.) * *Make the submission.*
Once you have completed the form, you will be taken directly to the proposal
submission section.
Follow the instructions provided in the submission interface to submit your
proposal. Be sure to indicate the conference track for which you are
submitting a proposal.
If you have questions or difficulties in using the online submission system,
please contact the Helpdesk sponsored by the Texas Digital Library at
supp...@tdl.org.
SUBMISSION DEADLINES
All Submissions (Papers, Panels, Workshops, Posters, Pecha Kuchas, User
Groups)
Submission Date: *February 28, 2011*
Notification Date Papers and Panels: *April 4, 2011*
Notification Date Posters, Pecha Kucha, Workshops: *April 14, 2011*
Notification Date User Groups: *April 14, 2011*
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
OR11 Conference Program Chair, Tom Cramer, Stanford University Libraries,
has
announced that this year's keynote speakers are Jim Jagielski, President of
the Apache
Software Foundation (ASF) and Clifford Lynch, Executive Director of the
Coalition for
Networked Information (confirmation pending) (CNI). Cramer said, “ These two
individuals have contributed
to bringing together and sustaining significant open source communities in
support of
ongoing software improvements that benefit many, many communities and
initiatives."
CONTACT INFORMATION
Host Organizing Committee: Mark McFarland<mark%20m.mcfarl...@austin.utexas.edu>
Program Chair: Tom Cramer <tom%20tcra...@stanford.edu>
User Group Meetings:
- DSpace: Valorie Hollister <vhollis...@duraspace.org> (interim chair)
- EPrints: Les Carr <les%20...@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Fedora: Bess
Sadler<https://wiki.duraspace.org/pages/createpage.action?spaceKey=or11&title=Bess&linkCreation=true&fromPageId=23265799>
b...@stanford.edu
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