Events

From Art Pasquinelli, Oracle

Madrid, Spain The Fifth International Conference on Open Repositories with the theme “The Grand Integration Challenge” will be held in Madrid July 6-9, 2010. The detailed schedules for both the general conference and the user group meetings, including both DSpace and Fedora users are now available.

From Gail Truman, Truman Technologies, LLC

From Georgia Solomou, University of Patras, Greece

Ithaca, NY  User Group Meetings are a highlight of the annual Open Repositories Conference and often feature breakthrough research results and views into rapidly emerging trends in repository implementations from around the globe. For the first time DSpace and Fedora user group sessions have been combined and scheduled into a single DuraSpace track in order to enable participants who want to attend parts of each user group session to more easily plan their time at this year’s OR10 Conference.

Ithaca, NY BoF sessions will be held in conjunction with the Fifth International Open Repositories Conference in Madrid July 5-9, 2010. Slots are open for Tue. 6, Wed. 7, Thu. 8 and Fri. 9. Rooms and “comfy zones” with armchairs and coffee tables have been made available for BoF sessions in the same time slots as regular conference sessions and during lunches or down-times. There will be a special BoF evening session on Wednesday, after presentations end.

From Jennifer McLennan, Director of Programs & Operations, SPARC

From Josh Lieberman, Chair, OGC Geosemantics Domain Working Group
Silver Spring, MD On Monday afternoon, June 14, a Geosemantics Summit will be held in Silver Spring, MD. This session will be associated with the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) Technical Committee meeting, but is open to OGC members and non-members alike.

By Jennifer McLennan, Director of Programs & Operations, SPARC
Washington, DC SPARC, in partnership with SPARC Europe and SPARC Japan/National Institute of Informatics, announces the next installment of the popular SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting will be held November 8 & 9, 2010 at the Renaissance Harborplace Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland.

Ithaca, NY Registration for the Fifth International Conference on Open Repositories (OR10) to be held July 6-9, 2010 is now open. Standard registration which includes conference, registration, materials, lunches, refreshment breaks, poster reception and conference dinner is 315 euros ($398 USD). Options for one and two day registration packages are also available. Find more information here http://or2010.fecyt.es/.
Several meetings and events will be held in conjunction with OR10.