OR09 will be in Atlanta, Georgia!
Mark your calendars Open Repositories 2009 will be in Atlanta, Georgia on May 18‑21. Check back soon for more details.
Welcome to Open Repositories
Repositories increasingly play a pivotal role in the emerging information landscape. Through the format of blending open user group meetings for DSpace, Fedora, and Eprints, followed by general conference sessions that cover cross-cutting and overarching issues, Open Repositories attempts to create an opportunity to explore the challenges faced by user communities and others in today's world
The many repository platforms available today are changing the nature of scholarly communication. Institutions such as universities, research laboratories, publishers, libraries, and commercial organizations are creating innovative repository-based systems that address the entire lifecycle of information-from supporting the creation and management of digital content, to enabling use, re-use, and interconnection of information, to ultimately ensuring long-term preservation and archiving.
Project Spotlight :: The Arrow Project
Since 2003 Arrow has been funded by the Australian Commonwealth Department of Education, Science and Traning to identify and test solutions for the best institutional repository practices. Andrew Treloar, Manoash University , will offer an analysis of how their objectives have evolved, views on repository technology then and now, software development issues, and implementation decisions culled from three years of practice using Fedora.
URL: arrow.edu.au
PDF: treloar.pdf