DEADLINE EXTENDED:Call for Papers for DSpace User Group Meeting at OR2009
March 4, 2009

The deadline for presentation proposals for the next DSpace User Group Meeting on May 20-21 has been extended to March 13. The DSUG Meeting will be held in conjunction with the Open Repositories 2009 Conference. We invite repository managers, developers and researchers to submit presentations proposals describing their experiences implementing, using, customizing and developing DSpace.

The DSpace program committee is soliciting proposals of both a practical (tutorials, case studies, best practices) and theoretical nature.

Requirements:
A title and an abstract of up to 400 words.
Full papers are NOT required.

Deadlines:
Paper Submission Deadline: Friday, March 13, 2009
Notification of Acceptance: Friday, April 3, 2009
DSpace User Meeting: May 20-21, 2009. Atlanta, Georgia, USA.Open Repositories 2009: May 18-21, 2009.
Full DSpace User Group Meeting at OR09 information available here.

Themes  include, but are not limited to:
Incorporating video and audio in your repository
Value added services for your DSpace repository
Utilization of Statistics for your repository
Lessons learned upgrading to 1.5
Managing ETD workflows
Increasing searching, promotion and visibility through data mining or other means
Interoperability: among repositories, with other systems, with the Web
Object reuse and exchange (OAI-ORE)
Supporting eresearch, data and local communities
Workflow integration
Digital preservation environments, policies and issues
New use cases for DSpace outside of a traditional IR

Submission: 

Via the Open Repositories author submission site powered by Open Conference Systems.

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