From rhmcdona at indiana.edu Fri Feb 1 10:39:10 2013 From: rhmcdona at indiana.edu (McDonald, Robert H.) Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 15:39:10 +0000 Subject: [Rdap] Reminder: ACM/IEEE JCDL2013 Paper Submissions Due Feb 4, 2013 Message-ID: <0C54A0DA8FB7EF41ACE5011BADA1FEFB1718B997@IU-MSSG-MBX106.ads.iu.edu> This is just a reminder that full paper submissions for the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries @JCDL2013 are due on Monday Feb 4, 2013 by 11:59 UTC. For more on submissions - http://www.jcdl2013.org/call-for-papers @JCDL2013 is a major international forum focusing on digital libraries and associated technical, practical and social issues. This year's conference will be held in Indianapolis, IN from July 22-26. We welcome submissions on the wide range of topics of interest in Digital Libraries worldwide. On behalf of the JCDL 2013 Planning Committee, Best, Robert ********************************** Robert H. McDonald Associate Dean for Library Technologies Deputy Director-Data to Insight Center, Pervasive Technology Institute Indiana University 1320 East 10th Street Herman B Wells Library 234 Bloomington, IN 47405 Phone: 812-856-4834 Email: rhmcdona at indiana.edu Skype: rhmcdonald AIM: rhmcdonald1 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cmmorris at fedora-commons.org Fri Feb 1 12:11:05 2013 From: cmmorris at fedora-commons.org (Carol Minton Morris) Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 12:11:05 -0500 Subject: [Rdap] Second Call for Proposals: Open Repositories 2013; Keynote Speaker Message-ID: *=== From OR 2013 program co-chairs: Jon W. Dunn, Indiana University Bloomington* *and Sarah L. Shreeves, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ===* * * *Read it online: *bit.ly/14D6U0x *OR2013 2nd Call for Proposals and Keynote Announced!* *Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, CA* This year?s Open Repositories conference takes place in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada between Monday, July 8 and Friday, July 12. Registration is now open at http://or2013.net - register early and reserve your accommodation as soon as you can! We are very pleased to announce that the opening keynote this year will be Victoria Stodden of Columbia University and co-founder of http://www.runmycode.org/. See more about Dr. Stodden here: http://www.stodden.net/. We invite you to contribute to the conference program. The deadline (Feb 22) is quickly approaching! This year?s conference theme is *Use, Reuse, Reproduce.* One of the most important roles of repositories is to enable greater use and reuse of their contents? whether those contents are library collections, scholarly articles, research data, or software?and metadata. The notion of use and reuse can be extended to repository infrastructure as well. Many repositories are based on open source software that can be freely reused and adapted to serve local needs; other efforts are also emerging both in conjunction with and outside traditional repository platforms to encourage discipline or community specific reuse and sharing of software, services, and infrastructure. In addition there is a growing interest and need to document and share the code and workflows used to produce research results - particularly in computationally intensive fields - in order to promote reproducible research. Some specific areas of interest for OR2013 are: ? Effective re-use of content--particularly research data--enabled by embedded repository tools and services ? Effective re-use of software, services, and infrastructure to support repository development ? Facilitation of reproducible research through access to data, workflows, and code ? Services making use of repository metadata ? Focused, disciplinary or community-based software, services, and infrastructure for use and reuse of content ? Integration of data, including linked data, and external services with repositories to provide solutions to specific domains ? Added-value services for repositories ? Long-term preservation of repositories and their contents ? Role and impact of repositories in the research ecosystem The aim of the Open Repositories Conference is to bring those responsible for the development, implementation and management of digital repositories together with stakeholders, such as researchers, librarians, publishers and others, to address theoretical, practical, and strategic issues across the entire lifecycle of information, from the creation and management of digital content, to enabling use, re-use, and interconnection of information, and ensuring long-term preservation and archiving. The current economic climate dictates that repositories operate across administrative and disciplinary boundaries and to interact with distributed computational services and social communities. Submissions can take the form of proposals for presentations, panels, posters, demonstrations, and workshops. We will consider any submission that seems to us sufficiently original and repository-related to merit attention at this event, but we?ll give preference to submissions that address our primary theme. In some cases, papers submitted to the general conference may be referred to user groups if appropriate. * Key dates and contacts:* ? 22 February 2013: Deadline for submissions ? 12 April 2013: Submitters notified of acceptance to general conference ? 19 April 2013: Submitters notified of acceptance to user groups ? 8-12 July 2013: OR2013 conference: ? 8 July 2013: Pre-conference workshops ? 9-11 July 2013: General Conference ? 11-12 July 2013: DSpace, EPrints, and Fedora user group meetings *Submission process * ? Conference Papers and Panels We welcome two- to four-page proposals for presentations or panels that deal with organizational, theoretical, practical, or administrative issues of digital repositories and repository services that are not specific to a particular technical platform. Abstracts of accepted papers will be made available through the conference?s web site, and later they and associated materials will be made available in a repository intended for current and future OR content. In general, sessions are an hour and a half long with three papers per session; panels may take an entire session. Relevant papers unsuccessful in the main track will automatically be considered for inclusion, as appropriate, as a User Group presentation. ? User Group Presentations One to two-page proposals for presentations or panels that focus on use of one of the major repository platforms (EPrints, DSpace and Fedora) are invited from developers, researchers, repository managers, administrators and practitioners describing novel experiences or developments in the construction and use of repositories involving issues specific to these technical platforms. ? 24x7 Presentation Proposals We welcome one- to two-page proposals for 7 minute presentations comprising no more than 24 slides. Similar to Pecha Kuchas or Lightning Talks, these 24x7 presentations will be grouped into blocks based on conference themes, with each block followed by a moderated discussion / question and answer session involving the audience and whole block of presenters. This forum will provide conference goers with a fast-paced survey of like work across many institutions, and presenters the chance to disseminate their work in more depth and context than a traditional poster. ? Posters and Demos We invite developers, researchers, repository managers, administrators and practitioners to submit one-page proposals for posters and demonstrations. Posters provide an opportunity to present work that isn?t appropriate for a paper; you?ll have the chance to do a 60-second pitch for your poster or demo during a plenary session at the conference. ? Workshops and Tutorials One- to two-page proposals for Workshops and Tutorials addressing theoretical or practical issues around digital repositories are welcomed. Workshops and tutorials will take place on the Monday before the conference. Please address the following in your proposal: ? The subject of the event and what knowledge you intend to convey ? Length of session (e.g., 1-hour, 2-hour? half a day? whole day?) ? How many attendees you plan to accommodate ? Technology and facility requirements ? Any other supplies or support required ? A brief statement on the learning outcomes from the session ? Anything else you believe is pertinent to carrying out the session ? Developer Challenge Each year a significant proportion of the delegates at Open Repositories are software developers who work on repository software or related services, and once again OR2013 will feature a Developer Challenge. An announcement will be made in the future with more details on the Challenge. Developers are also encouraged to make submissions to the other tracks--including posters, demonstrations, and 24x7 presentations--to present on recently completed work and works-in-progress. If you have any requests that fall outside of the call, such as satellite meetings, please contact the local conference chair, Mark Leggott, University of Prince Edward Island, at mleggott at upei.ca . PLEASE submit your paper, poster, demo or workshop proposal through the conference system. PDF format is preferred. Please include presentation title, authors? names and affiliations in the submission. The conference system is linked from the conference web site (http://or2013.net/). -- Carol Minton Morris DuraSpace Director of Marketing and Communications cmmorris at DuraSpace.org Skype: carolmintonmorris 607 592-3135 Twitter at DuraSpace Twitter at DuraCloud http://DuraSpace.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jandrade at fsu.edu Tue Feb 5 13:23:01 2013 From: jandrade at fsu.edu (Andrade, Jordon) Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 18:23:01 +0000 Subject: [Rdap] RDAP 13 Program--SPREAD THE WORD! Message-ID: Dear RDAP community: The RDAP Planning Team would like to announce the program lineup for RDAP 13! The program has been finalized and can be found at https://www.asis.org/rdap/program/. Please keep in mind that the program may be amended over the next couple of months due to unforeseen changes in the schedules of our current participants. Though, at this point in time we do have a finalized lineup advertised at the link provided above. Additionally, we've added an FAQ section to the registration tab which can be found at https://www.asis.org/rdap/faq/. The FAQs are compiled from a rather consistent set of questions which have been received from participants and attendees alike. Please direct individuals to this link should they have questions. Additionally, should you have questions that are not answered by the FAQ page please contact the RDAP 13 co-chairs Stacy Konkiel (skonkiel at indiana.edu) and/or Jordon Andrade (jandrade at admin.fsu.edu). For additional information concerning the RDAP 13 Summit please visit the RDAP 13 site at https://www.asis.org/rdap/. Thank you for being part of the RDAP community and we look forward to seeing you at RDAP 13! Jordon Andrade and Stacy Konkiel Florida State University 215 Dirac Science Library 110 North Woodward Avenue Tallahasse, FL. 32306-4140 Office: (850) 645-9597 jandrade at admin.fsu.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From michael at psu.edu Wed Feb 6 15:35:30 2013 From: michael at psu.edu (Michael J. Giarlo) Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2013 15:35:30 -0500 Subject: [Rdap] Job: Data Services Manager Message-ID: <5112BE92.6010909@psu.edu> Feel free to share this with interested parties. (Please excuse the cross-posting.) Digital Library Technologies (DLT), a unit within Information Technology Services at Penn State University, is seeking a Data Services Manager to lead the development of new data services to support teaching, research and outreach at Penn State. The Data Services Manager will be responsible for the development of services to support data throughout its lifecycle, including long-term archival data storage, preservation, and management, the management of restricted data, and database hosting. The Data Services Manager will collaborate with diverse constituencies at Penn State (ITS, the IT Leadership Council, the University Libraries, and researchers/faculty) and with our peers nationally, to design, develop, and implement sustainable data services that meet existing and emerging needs. This job will be filled as a level 3, or level 4, depending upon the successful candidate's competencies, education, and experience. Typically requires a Master?s degree or higher plus four years of related experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience for a level 3. Additional experience and/or education and competencies are required for higher level jobs. The successful candidate will demonstrate knowledge of and experience with data management infrastructure, specifically storage and repository technologies, standards, and practices; maintain an awareness of emerging trends and developments in the data storage and repository domains; have knowledge of information management practices and principles such as metadata, data lifecycle, and digital preservation practices. The Data Services Manager will be passionate about working hands-on with technology; have excellent problem-solving skills; demonstrate proven ability to lead complex and cross-organizational projects; provide outstanding customer service; and have excellent interpersonal communication and relationship-building skills. Apply here: https://app2.ohr.psu.edu/Jobs/External/EVMS2_External/currentap1.cfm#38716 -Mike From skonkiel at indiana.edu Mon Feb 11 13:41:41 2013 From: skonkiel at indiana.edu (Konkiel, Stacy Rose) Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:41:41 +0000 Subject: [Rdap] Keynote and Program Announced for Research Data Access & Preservation Summit 2013 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <94D6DEA28A662B43A1AA80EF50E4F623012C6845@IU-MSSG-MBX110.ads.iu.edu> **** Please distribute, sorry for cross-postings **** On behalf of the Planning Committee and ASIS&T, we would like to invite you to the fourth annual Research Data Access and Preservation Summit. Join data managers, curators, scientists and many more professionals in a wide range of fields united by the issues in access, maintenance and preservation of research data. RDAP13 is a two day Summit featuring expert panel presentations curated by our RDAP planning committee, an interactive poster session, and lightning talks. Visit our website to learn more and register for the event. Event Details April 4-5, 2013 Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Baltimore, MD USA Event website http://www.asis.org/rdap/ Program http://www.asis.org/rdap/program/ Registration & FAQ http://www.asis.org/rdap/faq/ 2013 Curated Panel Themes Institutional Repositories Data Citation and altmetrics Data Infrastructure Linked Data and Metadata Data Use and Reuse Keynote Steven Morales, Executive Director, Digital Preservation Network (DPN) In this talk by DPN Executive Director, Steven Morales, he will discuss the latest developments in the DPN architecture as well as the proposed DPN services to ensure reliable, long-term digital preservation through a federated network of diverse, non-overlapping preservation strategies sustained by committed institutions of higher education. The DPN through cross-institutional collaboration of more than 50 institutions of higher education seeks to mitigate the threat of a single point of failure - organizational, technical, physical, or political - jeopardizing centuries of scholarship. This presentation will discuss progress toward the first technical implementation of DPN and opportunities to engage in the effort. Thank you for being part of the RDAP community and we look forward to seeing you at RDAP 13! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lyle at umich.edu Fri Feb 15 15:15:59 2013 From: lyle at umich.edu (Jared Lyle) Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 15:15:59 -0500 Subject: [Rdap] Announcing the Sloan-ICPSR Challenge Grants Program Message-ID: ICPSR is pleased to announce a Challenge Grants program funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Through this program, ICPSR will fund innovative projects to promote open access to data, support research transparency, improve data citation, and more generally build good practice in data management and stewardship. Possible topics include but are not limited to training for researchers in data management, editorial workflows that integrate data management and access, and research on data replication practices. ICPSR expects to award three to five grants of up to $20,000 each. Proposals are due on April 15, 2013. You can read more about the Challenge Grants program here: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/files/datamanagement/sloan-challenge-2013.pdf. Individuals interested in applying may want to attend the upcoming Webinar on "Improving Data Citation and Data Management: The Sloan-ICPSR Challenge Grants Program" to learn more about the program and how to apply. This Webinar will be offered on Friday, February 22, at 12pm EST. To register, please go to https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/729908986. Jared Lyle ICPSR, University of Michigan Phone: 734-763-6075 Email: lyle at umich.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cmmorris at fedora-commons.org Mon Feb 18 10:32:11 2013 From: cmmorris at fedora-commons.org (Carol Minton Morris) Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 10:32:11 -0500 Subject: [Rdap] DEADLINE EXTENDED: Open Repositories 2013 Proposals Now Due on Mar. 4th! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: *From Sarah Shreeves, OR2013 Program co-chair*** ** ** *Open Repositories 2013 - Deadline for Proposals Extended to March 4th!***** This year?s Open Repositories conference takes place in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada between Monday, July 8 and Friday, July 12. Registration is now open at http://or2013.net - register early and reserve your accommodation as soon as you can! **** We invite you to contribute to the conference program. The deadline has been extended until Monday, March 4th!**** This year?s conference theme is *Use, Reuse, Reproduce*. One of the most important roles of repositories is to enable greater use and reuse of their contents? whether those contents are library collections, scholarly articles, research data, or software?and metadata. The notion of use and reuse can be extended to repository infrastructure as well. Many repositories are based on open source software that can be freely reused and adapted to serve local needs; other efforts are also emerging both in conjunction with and outside traditional repository platforms to encourage discipline or community specific reuse and sharing of software, services, and infrastructure. In addition there is a growing interest and need to document and share the code and workflows used to produce research results - particularly in computationally intensive fields - in order to promote reproducible research. We are very pleased to announce that the opening keynote this year will be Victoria Stodden of Columbia University and co-founder of http://www.runmycode.org/. See more about Dr. Stodden here: http://www.stodden.net/ Some specific areas of interest for OR2013 are:**** **? **Effective re-use of content--particularly research data--enabled by embedded repository tools and services**** **? **Effective re-use of software, services, and infrastructure to support repository development**** **? **Facilitation of reproducible research through access to data, workflows, and code**** **? **Services making use of repository metadata**** **? **Focused, disciplinary or community-based software, services, and infrastructure for use and reuse of content**** **? **Integration of data, including linked data, and external services with repositories to provide solutions to specific domains**** **? **Added-value services for repositories**** **? **Long-term preservation of repositories and their contents**** **? **Role and impact of repositories in the research ecosystem**** The aim of the Open Repositories Conference is to bring those responsible for the development, implementation and management of digital repositories together with stakeholders, such as researchers, librarians, publishers and others, to address theoretical, practical, and strategic issues across the entire lifecycle of information, from the creation and management of digital content, to enabling use, re-use, and interconnection of information, and ensuring long-term preservation and archiving. The current economic climate dictates that repositories operate across administrative and disciplinary boundaries and to interact with distributed computational services and social communities. Submissions can take the form of proposals for presentations, panels, posters, demonstrations, and workshops. We will consider any submission that seems to us sufficiently original and repository-related to merit attention at this event, but we?ll give preference to submissions that address our primary theme. In some cases, papers submitted to the general conference may be referred to user groups if appropriate. *Key dates and contacts***** **? **EXTENDED to 4 March 2013: Deadline for submissions**** **? **12 April 2013: Submitters notified of acceptance to general conference**** **? **19 April 2013: Submitters notified of acceptance to user groups**** **? **8-12 July 2013: OR2013 conference:**** **? **8 July 2013: Pre-conference workshops**** **? **9-11 July 2013: General Conference**** **? **11-12 July 2013: DSpace, EPrints, and Fedora user group meetings**** *Submission process* *Conference Papers and Panels* We welcome two- to four-page proposals for presentations or panels that deal with organizational, theoretical, practical, or administrative issues of digital repositories and repository services that are not specific to a particular technical platform. Abstracts of accepted papers will be made available through the conference?s web site, and later they and associated materials will be made available in a repository intended for current and future OR content. In general, sessions are an hour and a half long with three papers per session; panels may take an entire session. Relevant papers unsuccessful in the main track will automatically be considered for inclusion, as appropriate, as a User Group presentation. *User Group Presentations* One to two-page proposals for presentations or panels that focus on use of one of the major repository platforms (EPrints, DSpace and Fedora) are invited from developers, researchers, repository managers, administrators and practitioners describing novel experiences or developments in the construction and use of repositories involving issues specific to these technical platforms. *24x7 Presentation Proposals* We welcome one- to two-page proposals for 7 minute presentations comprising no more than 24 slides. Similar to Pecha Kuchas or Lightning Talks, these 24x7 presentations will be grouped into blocks based on conference themes, with each block followed by a moderated discussion / question and answer session involving the audience and whole block of presenters. This forum will provide conference goers with a fast-paced survey of like work across many institutions, and presenters the chance to disseminate their work in more depth and context than a traditional poster. *Posters and Demos* We invite developers, researchers, repository managers, administrators and practitioners to submit one-page proposals for posters and demonstrations. Posters provide an opportunity to present work that isn?t appropriate for a paper; you?ll have the chance to do a 60-second pitch for your poster or demo during a plenary session at the conference. *Workshops and Tutorials* One- to two-page proposals for Workshops and Tutorials addressing theoretical or practical issues around digital repositories are welcomed. Workshops and tutorials will take place on the Monday before the conference. Please address the following in your proposal:**** **? **The subject of the event and what knowledge you intend to convey**** **? **Length of session (e.g., 1-hour, 2-hour? half a day? whole day?)**** **? **How many attendees you plan to accommodate**** **? **Technology and facility requirements**** **? **Any other supplies or support required**** **? **A brief statement on the learning outcomes from the session*** * **? **Anything else you believe is pertinent to carrying out the session**** Developer Challenge Each year a significant proportion of the delegates at Open Repositories are software developers who work on repository software or related services, and once again OR2013 will feature a Developer Challenge. An announcement will be made in the future with more details on the Challenge. Developers are also encouraged to make submissions to the other tracks--including posters, demonstrations, and 24x7 presentations--to present on recently completed work and works-in-progress.**** If you have any requests that fall outside of the call, such as satellite meetings, please contact the local conference chair, Mark Leggott, University of Prince Edward Island, at mleggott at upei.ca.**** PLEASE submit your paper, poster, demo or workshop proposal through the conference system. PDF format is preferred. Please include presentation title, authors? names and affiliations in the submission. The conference system is linked from the conference web site (http://or2013.net/).**** *Program Co-Chairs:* Jon W. Dunn, Indiana University Bloomington, jwd at iu.edu Sarah L. Shreeves, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, sshreeve at illinois.edu ** Carol Minton Morris DuraSpace Director of Marketing and Communications cmmorris at DuraSpace.org Skype: carolmintonmorris 607 592-3135 Twitter at DuraSpace Twitter at DuraCloud http://DuraSpace.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From skonkiel at indiana.edu Mon Feb 18 14:52:01 2013 From: skonkiel at indiana.edu (Konkiel, Stacy Rose) Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 19:52:01 +0000 Subject: [Rdap] FW: North American Data Documentation Initiative (NADDI) Conference In-Reply-To: References: <1C7C2AEBACED484083B41CF2AF964291664BE4CF@EXCH10-MBX-03.home.ku.edu> Message-ID: <94D6DEA28A662B43A1AA80EF50E4F6230134D687@IU-MSSG-MBX110.ads.iu.edu> The first annual North American Data Documentation Initiative (NADDI) Conference will be held April 2-3, 2013 in Lawrence, Kansas. Details including agenda and online registration are available at: http://www.ipsr.ku.edu/naddi/. Please register by March 5, 2013. A reduced registration rate is available for a limited number of graduate students. Following the conference, on April 4th, there will be a full day of training on the use of DDI. More information about the training is available at: http://www.ipsr.ku.edu/naddi/training.shtml DDI is an international data standard for the observation and measurement of human activity. Although primarily used by quantitative social scientists, an increasing number of scientists in other disciplines are embracing DDI to document and manage their data and metadata. More information about DDI is available at: http://www.ddialliance.org/. This year's keynote speaker will be Dr. Jay Greenfield From mweaver at asis.org Thu Feb 21 11:39:58 2013 From: mweaver at asis.org (Melissa Weaver) Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 08:39:58 -0800 Subject: [Rdap] RDAP13 Early bird registration price ending Feb 22 Message-ID: Research Data Access and Preservation Summit April 4-5, 2013 We hope you have had a chance to review this year's RDAP13 Summit program and consider registration, please note that our early bird discount ends Friday, February 22nd. We're excited to welcome panelists, lightning talks and posters for this two day event in Baltimore, MD. Please spread the word about the event to your colleagues and share our program with them. http://www.asis.org/rdap/program/ Registration information and FAQs http://www.asis.org/rdap/faq/ 2013 Tracks include 1. Institutional approaches/IRs and domain repositories 2. Data citation and altmetrics 3. Global scientific data infrastructure 4. Linked data and metadata 5. Data use and reuse?sharing and open data success stories If you have any questions please contact rdapinfo at asis.org Thank you! Misty Melissa Weaver RDAP13 Planning Committee -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rhill at asis.org Fri Feb 22 15:04:25 2013 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 15:04:25 -0500 Subject: [Rdap] Register for the March 14 PASIG Webinar: The Cloud - A Better Alternative for Long-term Preservation or Too Good to Be True? In-Reply-To: <5123288C.6020909@oracle.com> References: <5123288C.6020909@oracle.com> Message-ID: <201302222004.r1MK4MOu008259@mail.asis.org> We had a very successful inaugural PASIG webinar (Tom Cramer on Digital Preservation in Theory and Practice) with over 170 attendees earlier this month. You can access it at http://www.preservationandarchivingsig.org/index.html. We will have the next PASIG webinar on March 14 at 8:30am PT. Chris Wood has consistently been one of the most popular and thought-provoking speakers at PASIG events. His insights on current infrastructure technologies and future trends have been very helpful to PASIG members over the years. This webinar will provide listeners with an opportunity to dive deeper on the subject of the Cloud than is normally possible during the conferences. The webinar is free for ASIS&T members and $20 for non-ASIS&T members. To register, go to: http://www.asis.org/Conferences/webinars/Webinar-Wood-3-14-2013-register.htm l ------------------------ Title: The Cloud - A Better Alternative for Long-term Preservation or Too Good to Be True? Tired of receiving another End Of Life notice from your vendor? Performing disk migrations every five years? Managing persnickety software interoperability from multiple vendors? Being monkey in the middle diagnosing multi-vendor problems? Spending all your time and money on sustaining your infrastructure vs. innovating? Go to the Cloud! Today?s latest and greatest panacea for IT indigestion. Pack up your data and your troubles and ship it out to someplace else. Sign me up! I think? I wonder if they have a 100 year contract? When they migrate my data, will my indexing application still find it? Do they really protect it? Will they support older OS versions for me? For how long? Will they sort out multi-vendor problems? Mr. Wood will discuss the current infrastructure technology and procedures required for long term preservation and then compare and contrast them with the typical business model employed by most cloud providers. Are we headed to the altar or divorce court? Tune in and find out.? Mr. Leighton C. ?Chris? Wood Jr. Mr. Wood, Director of Product Management at Oracle is responsible for product management of the Pillar Axiom family of storage systems as well as managing future development requirements for the next generation Axiom. Mr. Wood also is responsible for providing product and strategy support to the Oracle direct sales force. Earlier, Mr. Wood was the Director of Product Marketing at Pillar Data Systems and was responsible for all aspects of delivering Pillar products into the market. This included, but is not limited to, defining product requirements, developing both a direct and channel distribution strategy and insuring that all required collateral and technical documentation is available at product launch. Oracle acquired Pillar Data in 2011 Prior to Pillar, Mr. Wood was the Chief Storage Technologist for Sun?s Global Storage Solutions Practice; responsible for identifying and delivering the best technologies and solutions available that can address our customer?s complex data management problems. MaxStrat was acquired by Sun early in 1999. At MaxStrat, Mr. Wood, VP of Sales and Marketing, was responsible for worldwide sales, technical support and the development of key OEM and strategic alliances with major systems houses and integrators. Before joining MaxStrat, Mr. Wood was the Director of Open Systems Architecture for the Storage Systems Division (SSD) of IBM. Prior to that, Mr. Wood held numerous jobs at IBM in OEM sales, product development and support; primarily in the storage and SNA Networking areas. Mr. Wood graduated from Union College, Schenectady NY in 1970 with degrees in Economics and Electrical Engineering. He currently holds three patents in the area of RAID design, very large data object storage architecture and power optimized storage infrastructure (The MAID patent).? He is a member of IEEE and the SNIA Data Management Forum as well as other professional organizations. ? From oneiros at grace.nascom.nasa.gov Fri Feb 22 16:58:58 2013 From: oneiros at grace.nascom.nasa.gov (Joe Hourcle) Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 16:58:58 -0500 (EST) Subject: [Rdap] OMB memo on opening data & publications Message-ID: (appologies for cross-posting) There was an OBM memo today that might be of interest: http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/ostp_public_access_memo_2013.pdf And a response to the 'petition' website: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/response/increasing-public-access-results-scientific-research I've only skimmed the memo so far, but what I understand: * Affects agencies w/ more than $100M in R&D spending * Must give a plan in 6 months on how they're going to improve public access to publications & data * Can have an embargo after publication (baseline is 12 months) * No charges for access to the article metadata * Grants can include costs for data management & access * Interagency cooperation on workforce development (for data topics) ... it's only 6 pages, for those who haven't left for the day already. -Joe From cmmorris at fedora-commons.org Thu Feb 28 13:47:09 2013 From: cmmorris at fedora-commons.org (Carol Minton Morris) Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 13:47:09 -0500 Subject: [Rdap] REMINDER: OR2013 Deadline for Proposals is Monday, Mar. 4 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: *Open Repositories 2013 - Reminder: Deadline for proposals is Monday, March 4! * This year?s Open Repositories conference takes place in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada between Monday, July 8 and Friday, July 12. Registration is now open at http://or2013.net - register early and reserve your accommodation as soon as you can! *An outline of the conference schedule is now available on the conference website at http://or2013.net/program/session-schedule* We invite you to contribute to the conference program. The final deadline for proposals is *Monday, March 4*. This year?s conference theme is *Use, Reuse, Reproduce*. One of the most important roles of repositories is to enable greater use and reuse of their contents? whether those contents are library collections, scholarly articles, research data, or software?and metadata. The notion of use and reuse can be extended to repository infrastructure as well. Many repositories are based on open source software that can be freely reused and adapted to serve local needs; other efforts are also emerging both in conjunction with and outside traditional repository platforms to encourage discipline or community specific reuse and sharing of software, services, and infrastructure. In addition there is a growing interest and need to document and share the code and workflows used to produce research results - particularly in computationally intensive fields - in order to promote reproducible research. We are very pleased to announce that the opening keynote this year will be Victoria Stodden of Columbia University and co-founder of http://www.runmycode.org/. See more about Dr. Stodden here: http://www.stodden.net/ Some specific areas of interest for OR2013 are: - Effective re-use of content--particularly research data--enabled by embedded repository tools and services - Effective re-use of software, services, and infrastructure to support repository development - Facilitation of reproducible research through access to data, workflows, and code - Services making use of repository metadata - Focused, disciplinary or community-based software, services, and infrastructure for use and reuse of content - Integration of data, including linked data, and external services with repositories to provide solutions to specific domains - Added-value services for repositories - Long-term preservation of repositories and their contents - Role and impact of repositories in the research ecosystem The aim of the Open Repositories Conference is to bring those responsible for the development, implementation and management of digital repositories together with stakeholders, such as researchers, librarians, publishers and others, to address theoretical, practical, and strategic issues across the entire lifecycle of information, from the creation and management of digital content, to enabling use, re-use, and interconnection of information, and ensuring long-term preservation and archiving. The current economic climate dictates that repositories operate across administrative and disciplinary boundaries and to interact with distributed computational services and social communities. Submissions can take the form of proposals for presentations, panels, posters, demonstrations, and workshops. We will consider any submission that seems to us sufficiently original and repository-related to merit attention at this event, but we?ll give preference to submissions that address our primary theme. In some cases, papers submitted to the general conference may be referred to user groups if appropriate. *Key dates and contacts* - EXTENDED to 4 March 2013: Deadline for submissions - 12 April 2013: Submitters notified of acceptance to general conference - 19 April 2013: Submitters notified of acceptance to user groups - 8-12 July 2013: OR2013 conference: - 8 July 2013: Pre-conference workshops - 9-11 July 2013: General Conference - 11-12 July 2013: DSpace, EPrints, and Fedora user group meetings *Submission process* *Conference Papers and Panels* We welcome two- to four-page proposals for presentations or panels that deal with organizational, theoretical, practical, or administrative issues of digital repositories and repository services that are not specific to a particular technical platform. Abstracts of accepted papers will be made available through the conference?s web site, and later they and associated materials will be made available in a repository intended for current and future OR content. In general, sessions are an hour and a half long with three papers per session; panels may take an entire session. Relevant papers unsuccessful in the main track will automatically be considered for inclusion, as appropriate, as a User Group presentation. *User Group Presentations* One to two-page proposals for presentations or panels that focus on use of one of the major repository platforms (EPrints, DSpace and Fedora) are invited from developers, researchers, repository managers, administrators and practitioners describing novel experiences or developments in the construction and use of repositories involving issues specific to these technical platforms. *24x7 Presentation Proposals* We welcome one- to two-page proposals for 7 minute presentations comprising no more than 24 slides. Similar to Pecha Kuchas or Lightning Talks, these 24x7 presentations will be grouped into blocks based on conference themes, with each block followed by a moderated discussion / question and answer session involving the audience and whole block of presenters. This forum will provide conference goers with a fast-paced survey of like work across many institutions, and presenters the chance to disseminate their work in more depth and context than a traditional poster. *Posters and Demos* We invite developers, researchers, repository managers, administrators and practitioners to submit one-page proposals for posters and demonstrations. Posters provide an opportunity to present work that isn?t appropriate for a paper; you?ll have the chance to do a 60-second pitch for your poster or demo during a plenary session at the conference. *Workshops and Tutorials* One- to two-page proposals for Workshops and Tutorials addressing theoretical or practical issues around digital repositories are welcomed. Workshops and tutorials will take place on the Monday before the conference. Please address the following in your proposal: - The subject of the event and what knowledge you intend to convey - Length of session (e.g., 1-hour, 2-hour? half a day? whole day?) - How many attendees you plan to accommodate - Technology and facility requirements - Any other supplies or support required - A brief statement on the learning outcomes from the session - Anything else you believe is pertinent to carrying out the session Developer Challenge Each year a significant proportion of the delegates at Open Repositories are software developers who work on repository software or related services, and once again OR2013 will feature a Developer Challenge. An announcement will be made in the future with more details on the Challenge. Developers are also encouraged to make submissions to the other tracks--including posters, demonstrations, and 24x7 presentations--to present on recently completed work and works-in-progress. If you have any requests that fall outside of the call, such as satellite meetings, please contact the local conference chair, Mark Leggott, University of Prince Edward Island, at mleggott at upei.ca. PLEASE submit your paper, poster, demo or workshop proposal through the conference system. PDF format is preferred. Please include presentation title, authors? names and affiliations in the submission. The conference system is linked from the conference web site (http://or2013.net/). *Program Co-Chairs:* Jon W. Dunn, Indiana University Bloomington, jwd at iu.edu Sarah L. Shreeves, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, sshreeve at illinois.edu -- Carol Minton Morris DuraSpace Director of Marketing and Communications cmmorris at DuraSpace.org Skype: carolmintonmorris 607 592-3135 Twitter at DuraSpace Twitter at DuraCloud http://DuraSpace.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: