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Posted September 28, 2007: The European Library

http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/portal/index.html

What is The European Library?
The European Library is a non-commercial organisation. It provides the services of a physical library and the opportunity to benefit from a virtual environment in 20 languages.

This website allows to search through the resources of 30 of the 47 national libraries involved in The European Library. Resources can be both digital or bibliographical (books, posters, maps, sound recordings, videos, etc.).

Currently The European Library gives access to 150 million entries across Europe. The amount of referenced digital collections is constantly increasing. Quality and reliability are guaranteed by the 47 collaborating national libraries of Europe.

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International Internet Preservation Consortium Opens Membership for 2008

The International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) is now accepting 2008 membership applications from institutions engaged in or very interested in web archiving activities. The IIPC is an organization dedicated to collecting and preserving Internet content and fostering the development and use of common tools, techniques and standards that enable the creation of international archives.

Formed in 2003 and led by the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the consortium expanded in 2007 to 26 libraries, archives, museums and cultural heritage institutions. A complete list of members is located at http://netpreserve.org/about/members.php.
General information about the IIPC can be found at http://www.netpreserve.org

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Thomas, Chuck & McDonald, Robert H. (2007) Measuring and Comparing Participation Patterns in Digital Repositories: Repositories by the Numbers, Part 1.
D-lib Magazine 13 (9/10)
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september07/mcdonald/09mcdonald.html
doi:10.1045/september2007-mcdonald

EXCERPT: "As for mandatory-deposit repositories, the limited available data indicate authors represented in such repositories tend to contribute more of their intellectual output. Sale (2006) predicted institutions establishing deposit mandates were likely to see such results within three years of implementing these policies... This study's findings only reinforce such predictions and arguments favoring institutional mandates. As the data in this article show, a mandate is arguably the "tipping point" described by Gladwell (2000) that can make depositing behavior among scholars not just widespread, but also more of an ingrained and complete behavior."

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The Open Society Institute has awarded a grant to support the production and distribution of the Open Access Documentary Project, a collection of online videos celebrating the benefits of open access to scientific and medical research. Intelligent Television and BioMed Central are co-producers of the Project.

The Open Access Documentary Project will facilitate the ongoing work of BioMed Central and Intelligent Television in promoting open access to science and medicine in fields as diverse as malaria research and particle physics.
http://www.arl.org/sparc/partner/07-0926bmc.html

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OPEN REPOSITORIES 2008: CALL FOR PAPERS & PANELS
http://www.openrepositories.org/2008

Repositories are being deployed in a variety of settings (research, scholarship, learning, science, cultural heritage) and across a range of scales (subject, national, regional, institutional, project, lab, personal). The aim of this conference is to address the technical, managerial, practical and theoretical issues that arise from diverse applications of repositories in the increasingly pervasive information environment.

A programme of papers, panel discussions, poster presentations, workshops, tutorials and developer coding sessions will bring together all the key stakeholders in the field. Open source software community meetings for the major platforms (EPrints, DSpace and
Fedora) will also provide opportunities to advance and co-ordinate the development of repository installations across the world.

We invite developers, researchers and practitioners to submit papers describing novel experiences or developments in the construction and use of repositories. Submissions of up to 4 pages in length are requested in PDF or HTML format. Detailed submission instructions will be made available from this page.

Submissions for panel discussions are also requested.

IMPORTANT DATES AND CONTACT INFO
Submission Deadline: Friday 7th December 2007 Notification of Acceptance: Monday January 21st 2008 Submission of DSpace/EPrints/Fedora User Group Presentations: TBA
Conference: April 1-4, 2008. University of Southampton, UK.

Enquiries to: Program Committee Chair (e.lyon-- ukoln.ac.uk) or General Chair (lac -- ecs.soton.ac.uk)

CONFERENCE THEMES
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The themes of the conference include the following:

TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE IN THE KNOWLEDGE WORKPLACE
- Embedding repositories in business processes and individual workflow.
- Change Management
- Advocacy and Culture Change
- Policy development and policy lag.

PROFESSIONALISM AND PRACTICE
- Professional Development
- Workforce Capacity
- Skills and Training
- Roles and Responsibilities

SUSTAINABILITY
- Economic sustainability and new business models,
- Technical sustainability of a repository over time, including platform change and migration.
- Technical sustainability of holdings over time. Preservation.
Audit, certification. Trust. Assessment tools.
- Managing sustainability failure - when a repository outlives its organisation or its organisational commitment.

LEGAL ISSUES
- Embargoes
- Licensing and Digital Rights Management
- Mandates
- Overcoming legislative barriers
- Contractual relationships - facilitating and monitoring
- International and cross-border issues

SUCCESSFUL INTEROPERABILITY
- Content standards - discipline-specific vs general
- Metadata standards and application profiles
- Quality standards and quality control processes
- Achieving interchange in multi-disciplinary or multi-institutional environments
- Semantic web and linked data
- Identifier management for data and real world resources
- Access and authentication

MODELS, ARCHITECTURES AND FRAMEWORKS
- Beyond OAIS
- Federations
- Institutional Models - uber- or multi-repository environments
- Adapting to changing e-infrastructure: SOA, services, cloud computing
- Scalability

VALUE CHAINS and SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATIONS
- Multi-stakeholder value: preservation, open access, research, management, admninistratiion
- Multi-agenda, multi-function, multi-purpose repositories
- Usefulness and usability
- Reference, reuse, reanalysis and repurposing of content
- Citation of data / learning objects
- Changes in scholarly practice
- New benchmarks for scholarly success
- Repository metrics
- Bibliometrics: usage and impact

SERVICES BUILT ON REPOSITORIES
- OAI services
- User-oriented services
- Mashups
- Social networking
- Commentary / tagging
- Searching / information discovery
- Alerting
- Mining
- Visualisation
- Integration with Second life and Virtual environments

USE CASES FOR REPOSITORIES
- E-research/E-science (e.g., data and publication; collaborative
services)
- E-scholarship
- Institutional repositories
- Discipline-oriented repositories
- Scholarly Publishing
- Digital Library
- Cultural Heritage
- Scientific repositories / data repositories
- Interdisciplinary, cross-disciplinary and cross-sectoral repositories

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Call for papers: The IADIS e-Society 2008 conference aims to address the main issues of concern within the Information Society. This conference covers both the technical as well as the non-technical aspects of the Information Society. Broad areas of interest are eSociety and Digital Divide, eBusiness / eCommerce, eLearning, New Media and E-Society, Digital Services in eESociety, eGovernment /eGovernance, eHealth, Information Systems, and Information Management. These broad areas are divided into more detailed areas (see below). However innovative contributes that don't fit into these areas will also be considered since they might be of benefit to conference attendees. - Conference: Algarve, Portugal, 9 to 12 April 2008
* Secretariat: IADIS Secretariat - IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE E-SOCIETY 2008 Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3
1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal
E-mail: secretariat@esociety-conf.org/
Web site: http://www.esociety-conf.org/

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The program for the Second Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science has now been set, and you can see it at
http:// dhcs.northwestern.edu/index.html. The Colloquium will take place on Sunday and Monday, October 21-22, 2007 at Northwestern University.
This is an event jointly sponsored by the Illinois Institute for Technology, Northwestern University, and the University of Chicago.
Registration is free, and you are cordially invited to attend.

http:// dhcs.northwestern.edu/index.html

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Ninth International Conference on Grey Literature, "Grey Foundations in Information Landscape", House of the Province, Antwerp, Belgium, 10-11 December 2007. Register today and join delegates from more than 40 Organizations in over 15 Countries worldwide!

http://www.textrelease.com/gl9registation.html

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Second DELOS Conference on Digital Libraries
5-7 December 2007, Pisa, Italy
www.delos.info/ConferenceII

After four years of activities, DELOS, the Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries, funded by the European Union under the Sixth Framework Program, has reached the end of the funding period. Actually, the activities of DELOS, in a broad meaning, started many years ago, with the "DELOS Working Group" at the end of the nineties, and the DELOS Thematic Network, under the Fifth Framework Program, from 2001 to 2003. Since the beginning, the main objective of DELOS has always been that of advancing the state of the art in the field of Digital Libraries, by coordinating the efforts of the major European research teams carrying on activities in the technology fields of interest to Digital Libraries.

Digital Libraries represent the meeting point of a large number of technical areas within the field of informatics, i.e., data management, information retrieval, document management, information systems, the web, image processing, artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, mass-storage systems, and others. Moreover, Digital Libraries draw upon several other disciplines and fields beyond informatics, such as library sciences, museum sciences, archives, sociology, psychology, etc. In addition to providing substantial contribution to research in many of those fields, DELOS has also been successful in establishing a large European research community on this multi-faceted research field, and it is hoped that this community will continue in the future most of the main activities of DELOS, regardless of possible funding from the European Union.

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