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RSP Repository Software Day 2009

19 March 2009, Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester

The one day event will be an opportunity for software vendors to demonstrate their latest repository software to the wider repository community allowing delegates in the first instance to meet software providers, receive help and support and network with other repository users

Outline Programme

Plenary & Parallel Sesssion 1

Introduction - Amber Thomas, JISC Programme Manager, Information Environment [Slides]
Keynote: Repositories – Past, Present and Future - Professor Tony Hey C.B.E., Corporate Vice President of External Research, Microsoft Research [Slides]
Case Study: The Microsoft Research Repository Platform - Lee Dirks, Director- Education & Scholarly Communications & Alex Wade, Senior Program Manager – Scholarly Communication, Microsoft Research [Slides]
Case Study: TARA: Trinity’s Access to Research Archive - Niamh Brennan, Assistant Librarian, Trinity College Dublin [Slides]
Case Study: PURE: History and current status - Bo Alrø Product Director, Atira A/S [Handout]
Case Study: Imperial College, DSpace and Symplectic: A model for strengthening meta-data in repositories - Daniel Hook, Product Director, Symplectic Ltd. [Slides]
Q&A Panel Session: How will repository software develop to meet future challenges? - Chair: Bill Hubbard, RSP Project Manager  
Closing Remarks - Bill Hubbard, RSP Project Manager  
User Group: EPrints  

Parallel Session 2

EPrints Appointments Surgery - Adam Field, EPrints Contributor  
Case Study: Building and Sustaining Successful Institutional Repository Programmes - Russ Hunt, Product Specialist, OCLC CONTENTdm [Slides]
Case Study: Using IntraLibrary for a Social Services Learning Object Repository - Ian Watson, Knowledge & Information Manager, & Paul Hart, Multimedia Developer, IRISS [Slides]
Case Study: Your content is the platform for Equella - Gary Pesticcio, Regional Sales Director, The Learning Edge Europe [Slides]
Case Study: OpenRepository: A hosted solution for building institutional repositories from BioMed Central - Maria Romano, Sales Manager, BioMed Central  
User Group: DSpace  

Parallel Session 3

DSpace Drop-in Surgery - Chris Yates, RSP Technical Support Officer  
Case Study: How cute is MrCute? - Peter Kilcoyne, Project Manager, MrCute/ Director of ILT at Worcester College of Technology [Slides]
Case Study: The Language Box - Dr. David Millard, Principle Investigator & Patrick McSweeney, Lead Developer, FAROES, Learning Societies Lab, University of Southampton [Slides]
Case Study: SNEEP - Richard Davis, SNEEP, Project Manager/ Digital Archives Specialist, ULCC [Handout]
Case Study: FeedForward - supporting the personal information environment - Scott Wilson, Assistant Director, CETIS [Slides]

Contact

For further information on this event, please contact Hannah Payne (email: hep@aber.ac.uk).

Alternatively, email support@rsp.ac.uk or phone 0845 257 6860.