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<h1><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Open
Repositories 2012 Call for Proposals</span></h1>
<h4><a moz-do-not-send="true"
name="OR12CallforParticipation-Jan2012-OpenRep"></a>Open
Repositories 2012 – “Open
Services for Open Content: Local In/Global Out”</h4>
<p>This year’s Open Repositories conference takes place in
Edinburgh, Scotland
between July 9th 2012 and July 13th. We’re now inviting you to
consider what
you can contribute to the conference programme.</p>
<p>Repositories are established in many ways as systems, as
services, and as
infrastructure for many types of content in an increasingly varied
range of
institutions. They now demonstrate how action on a local scale can
have global
consequences – for the institutions hosting repositories, for
those who deposit
content in them, and for society as a whole. Some actions,
however, are only
effective when coordinated at national, domain or global scale.
Understanding
the change repositories can bring about, the changes they
themselves need to
undergo, and the areas in which local action is sufficient are key
themes of
this year’s conference. We’re interested in hearing about:</p>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal">Augmented content – and mediation and
ownership of augmentation</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Delivery of non-traditional content</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Embedded repository service components</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Shared and collaborative repository
infrastructure and services</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Open services that feed, support and consume
repository services and content, such as identification services</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Enabling content re-use</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Long-term preservation in and of
repositories and their content</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Lessons learned about the difficulties of
creating global services from local roots</li>
</ul>
<p>and any other topic that you think is relevant to our major
themes.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Submissions can take the form of abstracts, posters, demos and
workshops –
more details are given below. We will consider any submission that
seems to us
sufficiently original and repository-related to merit attention at
this event,
but we’ll give preference to submissions that address our primary
theme.</p>
<p>The programme will also include the developer challenge and space
for
sessions in the spirit of Edinburgh’s successful ‘Repository
Fringe’ (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://repositoryfringe.org">http://repositoryfringe.org</a>)
event.
Further details of these segments of the programme will be
announced nearer the
time; they will include substantial aspects of the un-conference –
an event
whose format is controlled by its attendees.</p>
<h4><a moz-do-not-send="true"
name="OR12CallforParticipation-Jan2012-Submiss"></a>Submission
process</h4>
<p><em>Conference papers</em><br>
We welcome two- to four-page proposals for presentations or panels
that deal
with organizational, theoretical, practical, or administrative
issues of
digital repositories and repository services that are not specific
to a
particular technical platform. Abstracts of accepted papers will
be made
available through the conference’s web site, and later they and
associated
materials will be made available in a repository intended for
current and future
OR content. Relevant papers unsuccessful in the main track will
automatically
be considered for inclusion, as appropriate as a User Group
presentation.</p>
<p><em>User Group Presentations</em><br>
Two- to four-page proposals for presentations or panels that focus
on use of
one of the major repository platforms (EPrints, DSpace and Fedora)
are invited
from developers, researchers, repository managers, administrators
and
practitioners describing novel experiences or developments in the
construction
and use of repositories involving issues specific to these
technical platforms.</p>
<p><em>Posters and demos</em><br>
We invite developers, researchers, repository managers,
administrators and
practitioners to submit one-page proposals for posters and
demonstrations.
Posters provide an opportunity to present work that isn’t
appropriate for a
paper; you’ll have the chance to do a 60-second pitch for your
poster or demo
during a plenary session at the conference.</p>
<p><em>Workshops and Tutorials</em><br>
Workshops will take place before and after the conference; they
will require
proposals and can be closely or loosely attached to the
conference. Closely
attached workshops will have registration & venues arranged by
OR2012
organisers; loosely attached workshops are the responsibility of
the
organizers, but OR2012 will co-promote them if they are accepted.</p>
<p>PLEASE submit your paper, poster, demo or workshop proposal
through the
conference system. The conference system will be linked from the
conference web
site (<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://or2012.ed.ac.uk/">http://or2012.ed.ac.uk/</a>)
and will
be available for submissions in January 2012.</p>
<h4><a moz-do-not-send="true"
name="OR12CallforParticipation-Jan2012-Keydate"></a>Key dates
and contacts</h4>
<p>2012-02-20 Deadline for papers, workshops & user group
sessions<br>
2012-03-31 Deadline for posters and demos<br>
2012-04-06 Workshop/paper submitters notified<br>
2012-05-11 Poster/demo submitters notified<br>
2012-07-09 Conference pre-workshops begin</p>
<p>Get these dates in your diary, and start thinking now about what
your
contribution will be and the change you want to make. We look
forward to
welcoming you to Edinburgh in July.</p>
<p>Kevin Ashley<br>
On behalf of the programme committee & the local organising
committee of
OR2012<span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""></span></p>
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