Disciplinary Repository workshop at JCDL2011 - Call for presentations
ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2011: Workshop on Disciplinary Repositories and Field-Specific Digital Libraries *** Call for Presentations *** Disciplinary repositories (DR) are a very particular instance of digital libraries, focused on collections of documents (and increasingly additional material) pertinent to a particular subject area or discipline. Several disciplinary repositories have grown to be cornerstones of the scientific workflows of scholars in the areas they serve, more successfully than broadband tools such as the freely accessible Google Scholar or subscription based services such Web of Knowledge, SCOPUS, and INSPEC. The large user bases of disciplinary repositories (sometimes all the scholars of a discipline) and their large corpuses (sometimes all scientific articles in a field) makes them unique computer science, information science and social laboratories. This workshop will be held at JCDL 2011 (http://www.jcdl2011.org) from 1pm Thursday 16 June through 12noon Friday 17 June. The workshop will be of interest to anyone running or planning a DR, and anyone interested in data mining DR corpora. It will share secrets for success; allow discussions of technology, services, interoperability, and the engagement of users; and foster communication within the DR community. We call for proposals for short or lightening presentations on all aspects of disciplinary repositories and field-specific digital libraries. Some slots for longer talks may be made available for talks of particular interest and relevance for the audience. Topics may include: * DR architecture, infrastructure and maintenance * Social aspects: populating and growing DRs * Sustainability through open access, proprietary access and hybrid models * User interaction, interface design and usability * Value-added and innovative services * Interaction and integration with IRs, other DRs and proprietary systems * DR as research corpus and platform for experiments Please submit one page proposals in PDF to jcdl2011.dr.works...@gmail.com by 1 May 2011. Notification of acceptance will follow by 9 May 2011 with indication of talk length (lightening or longer contribution). At that time a timetable will be posted on the workshop website (https://indico.cern.ch/event/JCDL2011-DR). All accepted proposals will be collected with outcomes from the workshop in a summary article outlining the status of digital repositories. The workshop will have no proceedings. Workshop chairs: C. Lee Giles (Pennsylvania State University), Salvatore Mele (CERN), Simeon Warner (Cornell University)
OAI7 Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication
Colleagues Apologies for cross-postings OAI7, the 7th Cern Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication, at http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?ovw=TrueconfId=103325, is being held on 22-24 June 2011 in the University of Geneva. OAI Workshops are THE Open Access event in Europe in the year in which they are held. They bring together a community of librarians, IT specialists, publishers, funders and researchers and are a real community occasion. A full programme of papers and posters has been prepared by the Organising Committee for this event. A new development for OAI7 is the introduction of a session on Open Access publishing, the first time this subject has received such treatment at OAI Workshops. The full programme of Tutorials and Papers can be found athttp://indico.cern.ch/conferenceTimeTable.py?confId=103325#20110622. Registrations are proceeding apace and we encourage you to register quickly at http://indico.cern.ch/confRegistrationFormDisplay.py?confId=103325 to ensure you have a place at the event. There is a Social Programme to accompany OAI7, which will include a visit to the Cern Laboratories, with the opportunity to tour some of the exhibitions there, as well as a buffet and the now-traditional drinks sharing, where every attender is invited to bring something to drink and share which represents their home country. A second social occasion will be the drinks aperitif on the rooftop of the University buildings, giving panoramic views across the city. We look forward to meeting you in Geneva in June. OAI7 Workshop Organising Committee David C Prosser PhD Executive Director, RLUK Tel: +44 (0) 20 7848 2737 Mob: +44 (0) 7825 454586 www.rluk.ac.uk RLUK Twitter feed: RL_UK Director's Twitter feed: RLUK_David Maughan Library and Information Services Centre, King's College London, Chancery Lane,  London WC2A 1LR Registered Company no: 2733294 Registered Charity no: 1026543
