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Open Repositories Conference, Jan 23-26, 2007, San
Antoni
Here are the highlights from the upcoming Open Repositories
conference, which I think will be of interest to many CNI-announce
subscribers.
Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI
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November 30,
2006
FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE
Preview of the Open
Repositories Conference 2007, January 23-26, 2007/San Antonio,
Texas
<http://openrepositories.org/>
Last January the Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories
gathered visionaries for the first time in Sydney <
http://www.apsr.edu.au/Open_Repositories_2006/> to share
information about how Dspace, Fedora, and Eprints repositories were
changing the nature of scholarly and commercial information
communities of practice. The upcoming Open Repositories Conference
will bring user communities and others a step closer to understanding
the pivotal role that repositories play in the emerging information
landscape. Institutions such as universities, research
laboratories, publishers, libraries, and commercial organizations are
creating innovative repository-based systems that address the entire
lifecycle of information-from supporting the creation and management
of digital content, to enabling use, re-use, and interconnection of
information, to ultimately ensuring long-term preservation and
archiving. Open Repositories 2007 (OR07) will bring global
stakeholders together again to discuss the challenges inherent in the
conference tagline, "Achieving Interoperability in an Open
World." What are the policy issues that are implied in an
open world? What are the technical challenges in achieving
interoperability across heterogenesous repositories and related
services? How can advanced repository-based systems enable the
collaborative processes around "e-science" and scholarly
communication? What are the challenges in enabling users
to discover and access information across distributed repositories?
What does open access to content mean across cultures? These are just
some of the questions that attendees will ponder during the three-day
conference scheduled for January 23-26, 2007 in San Antonio,
Texas.
Dspace, Fedora, and Eprints User Group meetings will be held on Jan.
23 and 24, followed by combined conference plenary sessions on Jan. 25
and 26. The conference reception and poster session will take place on
Jan. 24.
James Hilton, Vice President and Chief Information Officer at the
University of Virginia, and Tony Hey, Corporate Vice President for
Technical Computing, Microsoft, will discuss the opportunities and
challenges in making human knowledge accessible and interoperable in
an open world in keynote addresses on January 24 and January 26.
The Conference plenary program focuses on presentations in six
categories that offer new ideas and solutions for online collaborative
science and scholarship, along with insights into how to manage policy
and decisions for the creation and preservation of distributed
institutional knowledge
<http://openrepositories.org/program/presentations>.
MANAGEMENT STRATEGY AND POLICY
The ARROW Project at 3 years: Looking Backwards, Aiming
Forwards.
< http://arrow.edu.au/>
Since 2003 Arrow has been funded by the Australian Commonwealth
Department of Education, Science and Training to identify and test
solutions for best institutional repository practices. Andrew Treloar,
Monash University, will offer an analysis of how their objectives have
evolved, views on repository technology then and now, software
development issues, and implementation decisions culled from three
years of practice using Fedora.
How the Principles and Activities of Digital Curation Guide
Repository Management and Operations
< http://www.lib.virginia.edu/digital/>
Leslie Johnson, University of Virginia Library, will share four
overarching principles of digital curation that have been successful
in making it easier to build trusted discovery and delivery services
and tools for the use of digital objects. Principles for Selection,
Principles for the Use of Standards, Principles for Trustworthiness,
and Principles for Preservation and Sustainability are local
principles that have provided a model for the creation of collection
development policies, the identification of service goals for a
repository and related policies and activities.
CURATOR: Its Developmental Strategy
<
http://mitizane.ll.chiba-u.jp/curator/index_e.html>
How do you enable indexing of Japanese character strings for
searching? This presentation describes practical and strategic
approaches adopted by Japan's first institutional repository launched
by a university library-Chiba University's Repository for Access to
Outcome from Research (CURATOR).
PRESERVATION
Policy Frameworks for Institutional Repositories
As repositories begin to federate and interoperate at a large
scale, the inability to express local policies as part of the context
of the digital collections becomes more problematic. MacKenzie Smith,
MIT and Reagan Moore, SDSC, will report on work by the MIT Libraries
and the University of California, San Diego Supercomputer Center on
the PLEDGE project (PoLicy Enforcement in Data Grid Environments). The
project is funded by the US National Archives and Records
Administration.
Using OAI- PMH Resource Harvesting and MPEG- 21 DIDL for Digital
Preservation
< http://www.modoai.org>
To successfully preserve a web site, its resources must be crawled and
the structure and relationships among the resources must be
maintained. Joan Smith and Michael Nelson, Old Dominion University,
propose involving the web server in the preservation process through
"mod_oai", an Apache module to harvest a web site packaged
with its associated metadata thereby contributing to its long-term
preservation.
CRiB: Preservation Services for Digital Repositories
< http://crib.dsi.uminho.pt/>
The active lifespan of digital materials is much longer than the
lifetime of individual storage media, hardware and software
components, as well as the formats in which the information is
encoded. As hardware and software become obsolete, digital materials
become prisoners of their own encodings. Miguel Ferreira, Ana Alice
Baptista, and Jose Carlos Ramalho from the University of Minho,
Portugal will present the CRiB recommendation service that is designed
to help institutions determine optimal migration strategies within a
range of choices to preserve authentic materials.
USER SERVICES AND WORKFLOW
Making Fedora Easier to
Implement with Fez-A Free Open Source Content Model and Workflow
Management Front-end to Fedora
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/fez/>
The University of
Queensland, Australia has developed Fez, a world-leading
user-interface and management system for Fedora-based institutional
repositories, which bridges the gap between a repository and
users. Christiaan Kortekaas, Andrew Bennett and Keith Webster will
review this open source software that gives institutions the power to
create a comprehensive repository solution without the
hassle.
Real-time Duplicate and
Plagiarism Detection
<http://arxiv.org/
>
While electronic access to
documents provides unprecedented opportunity for plagiarism, it also
provides an unprecedented opportunity to automate the detection of
plagiarism. Simeon Warner, Cornell University, will describe the
implementation and the underlying algorithm of a service to compare
the full-text of each new submission against all existing submissions
in real-time used in managing the arXiv.org repository. ArXiv contains
over 390,000 articles, and will grow by more than 10% in the next
year.
An Ethnographic Study of
Institutional Repository Librarians: Their Experiences of
Usability
<http://nzdl.sadl.uleth.ca/cgi-bin/library>
The usability of current
repository software and its tools is largely unknown when it comes to
understanding whether they are adequate and appropriate for the tasks
performed by repository managers. Sally Jo Cunningham, Dave
Nichols, Dana McKay and David Bainbridge from the University of
Waikato, New Zealand, will share their observations based on their
ethnographic study of local librarians who support the inclusion of
new material in institutional repositories.
SEMANTIC WEB AND WEB 2.0
Realizing the Role of
Digital Repositories in Educational Applications: Supporting Content
and Context
<http://teachingboxes.org/>
DLESE Teaching Boxes are
customizable, digital replicas of the traditional collections that
most educators create, store (in boxes), re-use and improve on during
their years of teaching. Huda Khan and Keith Maull from DLESE: Digital
Library for Earth System Education, will review development of the
Teaching Box Builder application and discuss questions raised with
respect to repository integration with real-time Web 2.0 technologies
as well as how this application design provides support for educators'
creation and adaptation of pedagogical content and
context.
Cross-Repository Semantic
Interoperability: the MIT SIMILE Project
<http://simile.mit.edu/>
Many questions are raised as
previously unreachable digital content is found in and among new
repositories--is each repository an island or a separately searchable
resource? SIMILE (Semantic Interoperability of Metadata and
Information in Unlike Environments) has developed an extensive 'tool
chain' for gathering and manipulating data assets. Richard Rodgers and
MacKenzie Smith, MIT, will demonstrate how tools developed by the
SIMILE project can be used as powerful instruments for the federation,
discovery, exploration, and curation of metadata.
The BibApp-Enabling Rapid
Repository Population
<http://oscp.library.wisc.edu/response.html#libraries>
The University of
Wisconsin-Madison Libraries recently launched the Office of Scholarly
Communication and Publishing (OSCP) and uses BibApp to consolidate
campus directory information with citation data gathered by
librarians, departments and research centers into a single online
interface. Eric Larson will describe how BibApp alerts OSCP to content
that may be suitable for fast "mashup" repository ingest.
OSCP has prepared 1,200+ papers for ingest using BibApp.
INTEROPERABILITY
The OAI Object Re-Use and
Exchange (ORE) Initiative
<http://www.openarchives.org/ore/>
There are numerous examples
of the need to re-use objects across repositories in scholarly
communication. Carl Lagoze, Cornell University and Herbert Van de
Sompel, Los Alamos National Laboratory, will discuss the ORE (Object
Re-Use and Exchange) Initiative that seeks to implement an
interoperable fabric consisting of service interfaces shared across
repositories, and some shared infrastructure. Repository federation
efforts such as aDORe, CORDRA, the Chinese DSpace Federation, DARE,
and Pathways (NSF IIS-0430906) suggest that such object re-use is
achievable and will create the building blocks of a global scholarly
communication federation in which each individual digital object will
fuel a variety of applications.
Repository Deposit
Service Description
<http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/programme_rep_pres.aspx>
Rachel Heery, Julie
Allinson, Jim Downing, Christopher Gutteridge and Martin Morrey,
UKOLN, University of Bath, will update attendees on a three-year UK
program that is developing repository infrastructure aimed at
increasing open access to scholarly material, while improving
management of assets in higher education institutions. This effort is
designed to ensure that the emerging network of JISC (Joint
Information Services Committee) Digital Repositories is well populated
with content. They will present their work towards defining a
lightweight Common Repository Deposit Service Description.
An Analysis of Digital Repository Scenarios, Use Cases and
Workflows
This presentation will set out the preliminary results of a study
for a cross-section of the diverse repository developments ongoing in
the United Kingdom. To date, over 80 scenarios and 20 use cases have
been collected covering contexts such as: delineating the community
dimensions of learning object repositories, depositing geospatial
data, storing versions of content in a repository, developing metadata
workflow in a laboratory repository holding research data, and adding
digital rights information. Mahendra Mahey, Rachel Heery, Julie
Allinson and Robert John Robertson UKOLN, University of Bath, will
present the methodology developed to collect, compare and analyze
scenarios, use cases and workflows for the identification of common
functional internal components and interactions with external services
in the information landscape.
e-SCIENCE AND e-SCHOLARSHIP
The Eprints Application Profile: A FRBR Approach to Modeling
Repository Metadata
Julie Allinson, Pete Johnston and Andy Powell, UKOLN, University
of Bath, present recent work on developing a Dublin Core Application
Profile (DCAP) for describing 'scholarly publications' (eprints). They
will explain why the Dublin Core Abstract Model is well suited to
creating descriptions based on entity-relational models such as the
FRBR-based (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) Eprints
data model. The ePrints DCAP highlights the relational nature of the
model underpinning Dublin Core and illustrates that the Dublin Core
Abstract Model can support the representation of complex data
describing multiple entities and their relationships.
EsciDoc-a Scholarly Information and Communication Platform for the
Max Planck Society
< http://www.escidoc-project.de/homepage.html>
Digital libraries have become tools for everyday work. But are they
ready for e-Scholarship? Scholarship produces additional types of
information that are not curated by traditional libraries such as
primary data, simulations, informal results, and annotations. Matthias
Razum, FIZ Karlsruhe, will discuss eSciDoc, a joint project of the Max
Planck Society and FIZ Karlsruhe that will create a next-generation
platform for communication and publication in research
organizations.
ChemXSeer: A Chemistry Web Portal for Scientific Literature and
Datasets
ChemXSeer portal is designed to be a hub for research in chemistry
by facilitating search and access to both scientific literature and
experimental datasets, while bridging these information sources in a
unified framework. Levent Bolelli, Xiaonan Lu, Ying Liu, Anuj Jaiswal,
Kun Bai, Isaac Councill, Prasenjit Mitra, James Z. Wang, Karl Mueller,
James Kubicki, Barbara Garrison, Joel Bandstra and C. Lee Giles,
Pennsylvania State University, will present an overview of ChemXSeer,
a portal for academic researchers in environmental chemistry that
integrates scientific literature with experimental, analytical and
simulation result datasets. The hybrid repository of ChemXSeer will be
comprised of information crawled from the web, manual submissions of
scientific documents, and user submitted datasets as well as
scientific documents and metadata provided by major
publishers.
Advance registration for
the conference is open until December 22, 2006. More information
including an at-a-glance conference schedule and plenary, keynote and
user group session descriptions is available at
<http://openrepositories.org/>.
--
Carol Minton
Morris
Communications Director
National Science Digital Library (NSDL)
http://NSDL.org
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