Managers of Institutional Repositories in India:
You might wish to submit your case histories to OR08. ,
Best wishes.
Arun
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From: Leslie Carr
To: JISC-REPOSITORIES@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Sent: Wednesday, 30 January, 2008 3:34:54 AM
Subject: OR08: Call for Repository Case Histories
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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