News 2006-09

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2nd International Digital Curation Conference

Registration is now open for the 2nd International Digital Curation Conference, 21-22 November 2006, Hilton Glasgow, Glasgow, UK

http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/dcc-2006/

The 2nd International Digital Curation Conference will explore the topic of Digital Data Curation in Practice.

Keynote speeches will be made by Dr Hans F Hoffmann, CMS Team Leader, CERN and Clifford Lynch, Director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI).

A comprehensive programme of papers, posters and demos will take place over two days along with an conference banquet at the City Chambers in the centre of Glasgow.

A full programme and further information about registration can be found at: http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/dcc-2006/

Bridget Robinson 2006-09-13

Open Scholarship 06

Open Scholarship 2006: Registration closes 30th September

Open Scholarship 2006: New Challenges for Open Access Repositories is a companion European Conference to the OAI meetings at CERN in Geneva, and to the Nordic Scholarly Communication Conferences, and is aimed at Librarians, University Administrators, funders, academics and technical specialists.

This should be an excellent conference with many of the key figures in European repository development speaking or attending. It offers a great opportunity for networking and for exchanging ideas, comparing work and keeping up to speed with the latest developments from across Europe.

Please note that the early bird registration closed on the 31 August (150) and the registration fee has now risen to 180 from the 1st of September. Details of registration are available at:

http://www.lib.gla.ac.uk/openscholarship/registration.html

Conference Update

Opportunities are still available to promote your work in open access and scholarly communication in the poster session of OPEN SCHOLARSHIP 2006: NEW CHALLENGES FOR OPEN ACCESS REPOSITORIES

Key themes for posters include: 

   * Repository Developments
   * Added Value Services
   * Quality Assessment
   * Policies and Implementation
   * Sustainability

Posters should be submitted by the end of September 2006 for consideration by the Organising Committee. Please provide your contact details, as well as the poster title and a brief abstract (250 words max). Accepted posters will be displayed as part of a posters slot in the programme and enable participants to discuss their posters and work with conference attendees.

Poster proposals can be submitted online at:

http://www.lib.gla.ac.uk/openscholarship/posters.html

We are also delighted that a fourth tutorial on the "EPrints Application Profile" will be available in the Tutorials session on Wednesday, 18th of October.

This tutorial, run by Julie Allinson (UKOLN, University of Bath) and Andy Powell (Eduserv Foundation) offers an introduction to the Eprints Application Profile, a Dublin Core metadata profile developed to facilitate the creation and sharing of a richer set of metadata for describing scholarly works (eprints) than currently offered by simple Dublin Core. The Profile makes use of the Dublin Core Abstract Model and FRBR to group together descriptions of different expressions of a work.

The application profile has been developed with funding from JISC and is hoped to form the basis for the UK eprint search engine currently being developed by Intute. The tutorial will be of use to anybody with an interest in metadata, particularly the metadata used to describe scholarly works in institutional, and other, repositories. Those for whom this tutorial may be of special interest include repository managers or administrators; developers or implementers of repository software; librarians; and developers of aggregator services. Those interested in implementing the Eprints Application Profile in their own repository are particularly encouraged to attend.

The updated programme for the conference is available here:

http://www.lib.gla.ac.uk/openscholarship/programme.html

We look forward to meeting you in Glasgow in October.

Yours sincerely,

Open Scholarship 2006 Organising Committee

Julie Allinson 2006-09-05

DPC/DCC OAIS 5 Year Review workshop

The Digital Preservation Coalition and Digital Curation Centre are holding a workshop to discuss the OAIS 5 Year Review on 13th October 2006 in the Wolfson Suite, Edinburgh University Library, Edinburgh.

This workshop will prepare a joint comment, on behalf of members of the Digital Curation Centre Associates Network and members of the Digital Preservation Coalition, for submission to the OAIS (Open Archival Information Systems Reference Model) 5 year review. The workshop is open to members of both organisations who are familiar with details of the standard and actively implementing or preparing to implement an OAIS.

In compliance with, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS) procedures, the Open Archival Information Systems Reference Model (OAIS): ISO 14721:2003 must be reviewed every five years and a determination made to reaffirm, modify, or withdraw the existing standard. The comment process for this review is now open with recommendations for updates that will reduce ambiguities or improve missing or weak concepts sought by 30 October 2006.

This event is open to DPC members and DCC Associates Network members only and is free. The day will run from 10.00 - 16.30 and lunch will be provided.

Online registration for this event is available via the DCC website: http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/oais-fyr-2006/

Julie Allinson 2006-9-01

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