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DSpace Federation
2nd User Group meeting
Call for presentations
Submissions are invited from organizations using DSpace wishing to
present at the upcoming DSpace Federation User Group meeting.
The objective of the User Group meeting is to bring together the DSpace
open source community to share experiences and discuss the future developments
of the DSpace platform and Federation of adopters.
Submissions are invited for the following categories:
• Long presentations (20 - 30 minutes): organizations which are
leading large DSpace-related research projects or significant
DSpace initiatives.
• Short presentations (10 - 15 minutes): organizations/individuals
who have contributed new features, tools, or plug-ins or are addressing
specific technical issues.
• DSpace Around the World: short presentations (10 - 15 minutes)
from organizations worldwide who are using DSpace. Submissions
should highlight innovative uses of DSpace or DSpace policy,
implementation or other activities that are influenced by or
derived from local, regional or national issues or culture.
• Posters: forum for sharing project plans or results.
Presentation proposals:
– should be sent via email to Julie
Walker;
– should specify whether the submission is for the long, short,
Around the World, or poster category;
– should have taken the form of a brief (1 page) description of
the topic for presentation or poster;
– should include 50 word biographical sketch of the primary author;
and
– should have included mailing address, phone, fax, email for the
primary author.
Submissions are requested by 29 April 2005 and will be reviewed by members
of the
Programme Committee for acceptance notification by 20 May 2005. If
the presentation is accepted, final versions of the presentation must
be submitted electronically by 1 July 2005. We will not be seeking text
for publication, but will ask all authors for permission to post their
presentations on the DSpace Federation website after the meeting.
Further information can be obtained from the programme committee chair:
Julie Walker.
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