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International Conference on Developing Digital Institutional Repositories – Program

 

 

 Schedule


Day 1 (December 9, 2004)
8:00 am Buses leave from conference hotels to the HKUST campus
8:30-9:15 Registration (local & international attendees)
9:15-9:25 Welcome

  • Prof. Paul Ching-Wu Chu, President, HKUST
  • Samson Soong, University Librarian, HKUST
9:25-9:45 Keynote Speech Institutional Repositories: Preparing for the Future[doc]

Why and How to Create Digital Repositories (Part I)
9:45-10:30 Eric Van de Velde, California Institute of Technology – CODA, an Eprints Open Digital Archive[ppt]
10:30-11:00 Break / Interaction with Speakers
11:00-11:45 Thornton Staples, University of Virginia – FEDORA (Flexible and Extensible Digital Object and Repository Architecture)[ppt]
11:45-12:30 MacKenzie Smith, Massachusetts Institute of Technology – DSpace Institutional Repository[ppt]
12:30-2:00 Lunch / Interaction with Speakers
Why and How to Create Digital Repositories (Part II)
2:00-2:45 Catherine Candee, University of California – eScholarship Repository[ppt]
2:45-3:30 Diana Chan/K.T. Lam, HKUST – Digital Institutional Repository[ppt1] [ppt2]
3:30-3:50 Break / Interaction with Speakers
3:50-4:35 Peter Morgan, Cambridge University – DSpace@Cambridge[ppt]
4:35-5:20 Conference Reception
5:30 pm Buses leave from the HKUST campus to conference hotels
Day 2 (December 10, 2004)
8:00 am Buses leave from conference hotels to the HKUST campus
9:00-10:00 Discussion Session 1 – Standards (file formats, metadata, interoperability) for digital content management

  • Discussion Leaders: Mackenzie Smith and Thornton Staples
10:00-11:00 Discussion Session 2Strategies on Acquiring Content[ppt1] [ppt2]

  • Discussion Leaders: Diana Chan and Kimberly Douglas
11:00-11:30 Break / Interaction with Speakers
11:30-12:30 Discussion Session 3 – Gate-keeping, withdrawing and other policy issues 

  • Discussion Leaders: Catherine Candee and Peter Morgan
12:30-2:00 Lunch / Interaction with Speakers
2:00-3:00 Discussion Session 4 – The Near Future: Likely IR developments Discussion Leaders: Mackenzie Smith and Peter Morgan
3:00-4:00 Discussion Session 5 – Wrap-up and review of major points from the early implementers

  • Discussion Leaders: Eric Van de Velde, Thornton Staples, Mackenzie Smith and Catherine Candee
4:00-5:00 HKUST Library Tour (4 separate groups)
5:15 pm Buses leave from the HKUST campus to conference hotels

 


List of Speakers/Discussion Leaders (alphabetically by institution)

California Institute of Technology / CODA, an Eprints Open Digital Archive
Kimberly Douglas, University Librarian, California Institute of Technology Libraries
Eric Van de Velde, Director of Library Information Technology, California Institute of Technology Libraries
Cambridge University / DSpace@Cambridge
Peter Morgan, Project Director, Cambridge University Libraries
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology / Digital Institutional Repository
Diana Chan, Head of Reference, HKUST Library
K.T. Lam, Head of Library Systems, HKUST Library
Massachusetts Institute of Technology / DSpace Institutional Repository
MacKenzie Smith, Associate Director for Technology, MIT Libraries
University of California / eScholarship Repository
Catherine Candee, Director, Publishing and Strategic Initiatives, Office of Scholarly Communication, California Digital Library
University of Virginia / Flexible Extensible Digital Object Repository Architecture
Thornton Staples, Director of Digital Library Research and Development, University of Virginia Libraries
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