EPrints User Group meeting (OR07): Call for Presentations

[Stevan Harnad <harnad@ecs.soton.ac.uk>]

(Apologies for cross-posting)

You are invited to participate in an EPrints User Group meeting 
at the Open Repositories conference (San Antonio, January 2007) 
at which EPrints v3.0 will be formally launched. A wide range of 
potential themes and topics (technical and managerial) is 
suggested below. Proposals for presntations, panels and 
discussions are invited for submission by ** Monday, November 13 
**.

For full details, including submission instructions, see http:// 
www.openrepositories.org/call/eprints

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Les Carr

EPrints has a reputation for ease of building a repository, 
whilst maintaining enough flexibility to be adaptable to many 
different requirements - scientific data repositories, image 
collections, teaching and learning repositories as well as Open 
Access peer- reviewed research publications. These isues are 
reflected in the themes that we suggest covering:

Embedding EPrints within an Institution
- Interoperability between EPrints and Other Systems
- Portals
- Management Information Systems
- Research Assessment Procedures
- Realistic Costings: how many people does it take to run an EPrints
   repository?
- Policy Development and Enforcment

Marketing Your Organisation and Its Research
- Branding Your Repository
- Tracking Article Usage (e.g. Google Analytics)
- Co-ordinating Deposits with Press Releases

Practical Experiences and War Stories
- Content Growth: how to stimulate regular deposits
- Gaining Support from Faculty and Senior Management
- Mandates and Recommendations: what works where?
- Best Practice and Otherwise
- Repository Management
- Optimizing Workflows
- Versioning
- Keeping Data and Metadata Fresh and Relevant
- Implementing Achievable Preservation Policies
- Technical Solutions for De-duplication, Metadata Improvement and
   other Information Updates

Critical Success Factors: what makes a good repository
- Diversifying your EPrints Repository
- Extending the EPrints biodiversity: image collections, theses, data
   collections, e-portfolios, teaching/learning collections
- Managing diversification

Technical Issues and Enhancements
- Web 2.0: Social Tagging and Social Networking?
- Better User Interfaces and Improved User Experience
- Repository Architectures
- Your Improvements and Your Wish List for future features
- NB: EPrints Version 3 will be launched on the second day of the
   workshop.

The above themes are not exhaustive - presentations on other issues
relevant to EPrints users are welcomed

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