Return-Path: Sender: To: CNI-ANNOUNCE@cni.org Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 14:25:06 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from [192.100.21.10] ([192.100.21.10] verified) by cni.org (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.8) with ESMTPS id 15352440 for cni-announce@cni.org; Wed, 04 Oct 2006 17:30:58 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Original-Message-Id: X-Original-Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 14:34:18 -0700 X-Original-To: cni-announce@cni.org From: Clifford Lynch Subject: Open Repositories 2007 Meeting Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" This meeting will be of interest to CNI-announce readers; note that the call for abstracts has been extended. CNI is a collaborating organization on this meeting. Clifford Lynch Director, CNI ------------------------------ 2nd International Conference on Open Repositories "Achieving Interoperability in an Open World" San Antonio, Texas USA January 23-27, 2007 www.openrepositories.org ***Submission of Extended Abstracts and Advance Registration for ***Open Repositories 2007 is now available at the conference website. Open Repositories 2007 will continue the very successful format of Open User Group meetings for DSpace, Fedora, and EPrints, followed by general conference sessions that cover cross-cutting and overarching issues. This year, the user groups will partition their programs into Plenary, Technical Issues, and Management Issues, and the partitions will be staggered so that IT directors can attend all plenary sessions and technical staff can attend all technical sessions. The User Group meetings are open to all attendees. The general conference program will be organized around the following themes: * Open access and strategic context (social and technical) for repositories * Value- added services to enhance particular repositories * Achieving interoperability for repositories * Repositories and IT infrastructure * Open source software * Digital preservation * Use cases for repositories * Modeling for digital objects and repositories * Management and policy issues * Metrics OR07 is pleased to announce the keynote speakers for the general conference. The opening keynote for the general conference will be given by James L. Hilton, Vice President and Chief Information Officer at the University of Virginia. The closing keynote will be given by Tony Hey, Corporate Vice President for Technical Computing at Microsoft. Please see the website for more details. Important Dates ============ October 9, 2006 Extended abstract, less than 500 words, double spaced November 6, 2006 Notification of acceptance January 8, 2007 Final presentation due January 23- 26, 2007 Open Repositories 2007 Conference