Monthly Archives: January 2007

Open Repositories 2007 – Friday Morning

This morning sees the conclusion of icor2007 & begins with presentations on application profiles, repository interoperability, and OSA models. The final Keynote session revisited the ideas introduced in the SPARC discussion touching on future directions in scholarly communication and implications … Continue reading

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Scholarly Publishing – Thursday afternoon at Open Repositories

While Thursday afternoon included a number of interesting sessions, two in particular stood out for me because they emphasized the Open Access and Scholarly Publishing movements. . . . The first came from Eric Larson at the University of Wisconsin … Continue reading

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Institute of Texan Cultures

It is worth pointing out that today finally saw sunny skies & 60+ degree weather. During lunch I headed down to the Institute of Texan Cultures – (Great virtual tour here) which was launched during the 1968 Worlds Fair. The … Continue reading

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Open Repositories 2007 – Emerging themes & Thursday

Yesterday during the opening keynote, Dr. James Hilton touched on a number of familiar themes from the recently released report on Software and Collaboration in Higher Education. It was interesting to hear him discuss the differing approaches to developing and … Continue reading

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Open Repositories 2007 – Wednesday

More rain this morning. . .cold rain & lots of it (The AAA book talked about the dry warm conditions in TX!) The conference kicks off again today with more user group sessions. I’m hoping to skip around a bit … Continue reading

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