The DSpace User Group Meeting will be in Gothenburg, Sweden on October 14-16, 2009. The Program Committee for the DSUG 2009 in Gothenburg, Sweden invites proposals and posters in all areas relevant to the use of DSpace by June 30.

Suggested and example topics
• DSpace extensions developed within the community
• Utilization of statistics and metrics for your repository
• Interoperability: among repositories, with other systems, with the Web
• Incorporating video and audio in your repository
• Value added services for your DSpace repository
• Managing and integrating workflows (ETDs)
• Increasing searching, promotion and visibility through data mining or other means
• Object reuse and exchange (OAI-ORE)
• Digital preservation environments, policies and issues
• Lessons learned upgrading to 1.5
• New use cases for DSpace outside of a traditional IR

Important deadlines
2009-06-30: Submission of Proposals
2009-07-15: Notification of acceptance, Proposals
2009-08-15: Submission of Posters and Demonstrations
2009-09-01: Notification of acceptance, Posters and Demonstrations