Mark your 2012 calendars!
Kind regards,
Carol Minton Morris on behalf of the OR Steering Committee
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DuraSpace
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The University of Edinburgh Information Services, EDINA, and the Digital
Curation Centre are delighted to announce that the University of Edinburgh
has been selected to host the Seventh International Conference on Open
Repositories (OR12) July 9-13th July, 2012.
The call for proposals will be available from the conference web site
soon: or2012.ed.ac.uk
The University George Square Campus is located in the centre of Edinburgh a
short distance from the iconic Edinburgh Castle in the Old Town and
numerous attractions, venues, restaurants and pubs.
Open Repositories is run by an international steering committee of experts,
and has been the pre-eminent conference for repository managers,
researchers and developers to share developments across national boundaries
and technical platforms since 2006. OR 2011 was hosted at the University of
Texas, Austin USA; OR 2010 was hosted in Madrid.
The theme and title of the 2012 conference at Edinburgh - Open Services for
Open Content: Local In for Global Out - reflects the current move towards
open content, ‘augmented content’, distributed systems, microservices and
data delivery infrastructures. Kevin Ashley, Director of the Digital
Curation Centre (DCC) will chair the Programme Committee.
The conference will feature both general conference sessions and user group
meetings for the three main open source repository platforms: DSpace,
Fedora, and EPrints. There will also be a strand for the popular
‘Repository Fringe’, an informal, creative gathering of repository managers
and developers which has been hosted at the University of Edinburgh each
year since 2008 – to coincide with the internationally well known Edinburgh
Fringe Festival.
Whether integrated into external research, or teaching and learning
workflows, repositories form a key component to ensure that digital output
within academic institutions can be accessed more widely. They are changing
the nature of scholarly communication across universities, research
laboratories, libraries and publishers. Repositories are now being deployed
across sectors (education, research, science, cultural heritage) and at all
levels (national, regional, institutional, project, lab, personal). The aim
of the Open Repositories Conference is to bring those responsible for the
development, implementation and management of digital repositories together
with stakeholders to address theoretical, practical, and strategic issues:
across the entire lifecycle of information, from the creation and
management of digital content, to enabling use, re-use, and interconnection
of information, and ensuring long-term preservation and archiving. The
current economic climate dictates that repositories operate across
administrative and disciplinary boundaries and to interact with distributed
computational services and social communities.
The University of Edinburgh retains a unique position in the UK’s
repository landscape, serving as home to:
- The Digital Curation Centre, the UK’s leading hub of expertise and
national focus for research and development into digital curation. The DCC
promotes good practice and training in the management of all research
outputs in digital format. See http://www.dcc.ac.uk/ for more.
- EDINA, the JISC-funded national data centre at the University,
supporting all universities and colleges across the UK. EDINA delivers a
range of online data services including a number of repository initiatives:
Open Access Repository Junction, OpenDepot.org, and ShareGeo Open. See
http://edina.ac.uk/ for more.
- The Digital Library Section and Edinburgh University Data Library
serve researchers and students at the University as part of its Information
Services. See
http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/information-services/about/organisation
- The Data Library provides research data support for university
researchers and hosts the Edinburgh DataShare repository service for
researchers to deposit and share research data.
- DLS supports repositories of research publications to support the
University’s Open Access Publications Policy and is currently
implementing
a Current Research Information System (CRIS). DLS also provides technical
and administrative support to the Scottish Digital Library Consortium
(SDLC), which provides repository services to universities
across Scotland.
- The University’s School of Informatics supports IDEALab, a virtual
laboratory that facilitates prototyping of novel applications of
state-of-art informatic technologies, forming part of the New Institute for
eResearch. See http://idea.ed.ac.uk/IDEA/Welcome.html for more.
For further information visit URL: or2012.ed.ac.uk or email:
or2...@ed.ac.uk; Google Groups:
http://groups.google.com/group/open-repositories
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