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 --- 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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