DSpace User Group Meeting: 20 - 21 April 2006

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Wednesday 19 April

1615-1700 (Optional) DSpace User Group Meeting Advanced Registration
1745 Assemble in conference venue foyer to be guided to the drinks reception (walking trip)
1830-1930 Drinks Reception courtesy of Bergen City Council at Fløien Folkerestaurant

Thursday 20 April - DSUG Day 1

0830-0900 Registration and coffee
0900-0930 Opening Session - Introduction and Welcome
0930-1000 Main Room - Stuart David Lewis: OAI-PMH and METS for automated export of items from DSpace [PPT (1.9Mb)]
1000-1030 Main Room - Eloy Rodrigues, Ângelo Miranda: Development of usage statistics for RepositóriUM [PPT (580Kb)]
1030-1100 Refreshment break
1100-1230 Tutorial/B.O.F Sessions - Feedback from groups is available on the DSpace Wiki
Administrative Technical
- Collection Structuring
- Licencing
- User groups and policies
- Submission and Workflow
- AddOn and patch writing
- Install, Deploy and Configuration
- Network APIs
1230-1330 Lunch
1330-1400 Main Room - Lieven Droogmans, Ben Bosman: Customizing DSpace for a large research university [Windows ZIP (16.3Mb)][Mac ZIP (14.3Mb)]
1400-1430 Main Room - Jim Downing: Chemistry in DSpace [in DSpace@Cambridge]
1430-1500 Main Room - Andrea Bollini, Federico Meschini: DSpace: Evolution from an Intelligent Design [PPT (1.3Mb)]
1500-1520 Refreshment break and discussion
1520-1550 Main Room - Jonas Gilbert, Peter Nilén: The implementation of DSpace at universities in Sweden [PPT (2.1Mb)]
1550-1620 Main Room - Marianne Josserand: Open Repository: A hosted Dspace solution from BioMed Central [PPT (1.2Mb)]
1620-1630 Main Room - Summary and Closing Remarks
1630-1700 (Optional) Preliminary meeting of the UK DSpace User Group
1815 Assemble in conference venue for boat trip
1830 Departure by boat for conference dinner

Friday 21 April - DSUG Day 2

0900-0930 Main Room - Peter Morgan, Julie Walker: Federation and Community Update [PPT (81Kb)]
0930-1000 Main Room - Community Discussion Session
1000-1030 Main Room - Marco Cesarano: Customizing and adapting the DSpace package in the context of cultural heritage [PPT (456Kb)]
1030-1100 Refreshment break
1100-1130 Main Room - William Reilly: Technical Introduction To and Initial Use Of the Lightweight Network Interface (LNI) [PPT (1.1Mb)]
1130-1200 Main Room - Richard Jones: DSpace AddOn and Component Management System [in BORA][ODP (417Kb)]
1200-1230 Main Room - Claire Knowles: Institutional Repositories for Research Assessment (IRRA) project [PPT (1.3Mb)]
1230-1330 Lunch
1330-1445 Break-out Session
1445-1520 Refreshment break
1520-1550 Main Room - Richard Rodgers: DSpace Contributing and Development [PPT (75Kb)]
1550-1630 Main Room - Closing session