Category Archives: 2008 SPARC Digital Repositories

SPARC wrap-up

By mitcheet | Published: November 19, 2008

For me, this conference touched some big ideas including the implications of complex objects and data sets, the need to redefine what ‘publishing’ and information access means, and how to, on a large scale basis, create and deploy systems to enable collection, collaboration, and dissemination of these resources. It was interesting to attend a conference [...]

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Open Access

By mitcheet | Published: November 19, 2008

Day 2 of SPARC began with a discussion of Open Access polices. Presenters included representatives from Europe, Japan, and the US and in all 3 cases demonstrated that this is still a developing area. In conversations with attendees I have heard two themes emerge relating to OA – first, that OA is a tangential concept [...]

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Institutional Repository Services

By mitcheet | Published: November 17, 2008

This afternoon there was a set of presentations about services that are developed and offered for Institutional Repositories. I have tried to aggregate & summarize the services below from the work of Joan Giesecke , Paul Royster, Hideki Uchijima, and Norbert Lossau:

Permissioning – figuring out for faculty what the access permissions on their publications are. [...]

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SPARC-DR – It’s all about (meta)data and services

By mitcheet | Published: November 17, 2008

The morning session of the SPARC DR conference were very interesting. I was thoroughly enjoying the discussion of open access and the implications that access restrictions have on data by John Wilbanks when out of the blue he started talking about the semantic web (one of my favorite topics)! Wilbanks cited several examples of how [...]

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SPARC Digital repositories in B-more

By mitcheet | Published: November 17, 2008

After an early morning drive to the airport and an unexpected re-route to Detroit (where yes. . .it is already winter), I wound up in Baltimore MD for a two day conference on digital repositories and scholarly publishing. Since I will probably spend the rest of my time here tirelessly ‘conferencing’, I decided to take [...]

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