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From: Leslie Carr <lac -- ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: January 29, 2008 5:04:54 PM EST (CA)
To: JISC-REPOSITORIES -- JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: OR08: Call for Repository Case Histories
Reply-To: Leslie Carr <lac -- ecs.soton.ac.uk>
OR08: Call for Repository Case Histories
Submission deadline: February 29th 2008.
Further information:
http://or08.ecs.soton.ac.uk/histories.html
The OR08 Program Committee invites submissions of Repository
Case Histories from the managers of established repositories,
to be collected by the conference for sharing among the
community of repository managers.
Repositories are being deployed in a variety of a business
settings (learning, science, research, cultural heritage) and
across a range of scales (subject, national, regional,
institutional, project, laboratory, personal). A key aim of the
OR08 conference is to address the managerial, practical and
professional issues that arise from these diverse repositories
as they contribute to an increasingly pervasive information
environment.
The intention is create an evidence base to inform good
practice, encourage discussion, facilitate networking and help
raise the profile of the emerging profession. The collection of
case histories will be used as a resource for discussion in the
OR08 repository managers' meeting (see below), and disseminated
publicly as a part of an ongoing collection of repository
histories that can also be studied and analysed by information
science students and researchers.
Each submission should describe a repository from multiple
perspectives, including some of the following:
- organisational context
- the repository's mission
- building a business case
- overview of current contents
- overview of current deposit activity
- developmental phases
- institutional embedding
- faculty engagement
- policy formulation
- hosting and support
- service sustainability
- measuring and demonstrating success
- key challenges faced
- major achievements
- important unresolved issues
The challenge of a good case history is to incorporate open and
honest reflection of lessons learned. There is no set format or
page limit for submissions; the important consideration is to
capture as much detail as you think relevant and to be as
thorough as the tight deadline allows you. The community will
benefit more from a brief 1-page submission than from an
unfinished, unsubmitted 4-page masterpiece! Each case history
will undergo a light-touch peer-review process by the Programme
Committee to ensure relevance; since the call is not
competitive the acceptance notification will be given within
two working days of the individual submission.
** A Repository Manager Meeting and Reception will take place
after the final plenary paper presentation on Wednesday April
2nd. This will be a chance for networking, discussion and
debate followed by food, wine and a chocolate fountain. The
event will be facilitated by the JISC Repository Support
Project and the UK Council of Research Repository managers
(UKCoRR), but in the style of an Unconference the agenda will
be set by
the attendees.
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