An invitation to all repository researchers, managers, administrators & developers: come and join in Edinburgh's newest and entirely unofficial festival!
brainstorm new and emerging repository issues
generate new ideas, new perspectives, new ways forward and new solutions
show off some new project results
meet up with repository managers, administrators, librarians and developers
Research data, social networking, bibliographic services or desktop integration?
Whatever your interest and problems, come and run a discussion,
kickstart some activity or work on a demonstration.
This programme contains links to a number of Powerpoint presentations from the event now located
in the Edinburgh Research
Archive, and also to streaming video of eight of the presentations, including the opening Keynote by Dorothea Salo,
and the closing plenary given by David de Roure. Enjoy.
Thurdsay 31st
Playfair
Raeburn
9.00 - 9.55
Registration + Coffee
10.00 - 10.55
Welcome and introduction to the event by Sheila Cannell, Director of Library Services at Edinburgh University Library, and Conference & keynote by
Dorothea Salo, University of Wisconsin: Le IR, c'est mort. Vive le IR!
11.00 - 11.55 Soapbox/Posters - See The_Sessions
for entries.
Group A (20 mins) followed by
Group B (20 mins) followed by
Group C (20 mins).
Approximately 7 soapboxes per group. Audience must choose which 3
performances to attend. (Repeated in afternoon.)
12.00 - 12.55 Group Improv.
Victoria Sheppard (Southampton) and Katharine Ellis (Institute of
Musical Research): The Challenges of Making Multimedia Repositories - new
media, new interactions and new metadata.
Sarah Currier (Intrallect Ltd): A New Educational Metadata Standard?:
The Dublin Core Education Community has been working on a new, modular
application profile - come along and give feedback and input into the
nearly-final draft, which will be presented at the Dublin Core Conference
in September.
13.00 - 13.55
Lunch
14.00 - 14.55 Soapbox/Posters - See The_Sessions
for entries.
Group A (20 mins) followed by
Group B (20 mins) followed by
Group C (20 mins).
Approximately 7 soapboxes per group. Audience must choose which 3
performances to attend. (Repeat of morning session.)
15.00 - 15.55 "An Audience With ..."
Andrew Girdwood (BigMouthMedia): The
worth of
information, key influencers and promoting intellectual property -
marketing in the commercial sector, and some ideas that can be used in the
Repository World.
Luis Martinez Uribe (Oxford): Repository Services
for Research Data Management - findings from interviews and workshop
to capture Oxford researchers' requirements for services to help them
manage their data
Steve Hitchcock (Southampton): How to make preservation into the
repository's friend. Steve chairs a session on preservation in digital
repositories and what is happening at the community and repository
software level to enable this.
Simon Coles (Southampton): Rate My Data! The
opportunities and challenges of open peer review in data and publication
repositories.
12.00 - 12.55
Lunch and Networking
13.00 - 13.55 Group Improv
Dorothea Salo (University of Wisconsin): Use Cases and Usability.
Who's using the repository? To do what? What do they need to do their job
with the least hassle and frustration possible? What can we learn about
usability from other software packages?
Les Carr (Southampton): How to take advantage of REF. Making the
institution's obsession with research management work for your repository
14.00 - 15.00 "An Audience With ..."
Richard Jones (HP Labs): Foresite:
constructing, parsing, manipulating and serializing OAI-ORE Resource Maps
Debra Morris and Jessie Hey (EdShare, Southampton): Repositories for
Teaching and Learning: encouraging the sharing of educational materials in
a repository environment. Does the Open Access model work? Is any metadata
too much metadata?
15.00 - 16.00
Closing_plenary
(David De Roure, Southampton) How Repositories can Avoid Failing like the
Grid
Still pictures from the event can be found on Flickr. If you would like to add others to the collection, please tag them with 'repofringe 08'
We would like to thank the following individuals in particular
for making this event a success: Theo Andrew, John Baird, Peter Burnhill,
Sheila Cannell, Les Carr, Daisy Carr, Alex Carter, Philip Hunter, Florance
Kennedy,
Claire Knowles, Stuart Macdonald, Andy MacGregor, Jenny McKeown, Colin
Morris,
Andy Pryde, Robin Rice, Eugen Stoica, Ian Stuart, Robin Taylor, and Clare
Whitaker.
We are grateful for support from the following organisations: JISC, The
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Library, University of
Edinburgh Applications Division, Edinburgh First, Blue Lizard, The University of Southampton, the DCC, and
EDINA.
