Was an attendee list not made available this year? This would be very helpful... even now.

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Alice Platt: Oh, thanks! I hadn't even bothered to open the thumb drive. *blushes*

Kristi Park: No problem!

Robin Rice: I was told the same thing, but just looked and thumb drive is blank. Thanks for putting on website but wish it had emails.

This crowdvine discussion is for: *ENTERING THE CHALLENGE! (name, where you work, the name of the entry and if possible a URI to more information about your entry) * Discussing the challenge * Sharing ideas * Looking for team members * Expressions of interest in submitting a challenge * Getting interest in your entry * Getting feedback and advice about your entry

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Sam Adams: Sam Adams (University of Cambridge) I'll present my view on the future of repositories, and how we've addressed some of the issues in Chempound - our semantic repository for linked chemical (and other scientific) data.

Rebecca Sutton Koeser: I'm working on dynamic deep zoom with djatoka for images and collections of images - both with Ajax Seadragon and with Microsoft Pivot Viewer. The prototype is fedora-based, but should transfer fairly well to anything else using djatoka.

Rebecca Sutton Koeser: Rebecca Sutton Koeser, Emory University Libraries Dynamic Deep-Zoom images and collections with Djatoka This is a prototype for doing dynamic deep-zoom on images and collections of images in Fedora, using the Djatoka image service and Python/Django t... [read more]

Are you a librarian who's responsible for BOTH your library's repository and their digital library collections? I serve as the Digital Initiatives and Scholarly Communications (DISCo) Librarian at West Virginia University. I'd love to chat with any other dual-role librarians about how you integrate the two. I'm also curious if anyone is using a single software solution for both their repository and digital library. We have to switch to new softwa... [read more]

Here in the Developer Challenge Lounge (Carillion Dining - Private Rooms 1 and 2) (where the cool delegates reside) we thought it would be a good idea to start a play list for the conference. I will start: Stevie Wonder - Superstition Please respond to this, and we will create a play list - probably Spotify, or something similar, a permanent memento of the conference! It will be played at least in the lounge on my laptop.

Hardy Pottinger: Cool, I have to say, anything by Gotan Project (my current favorite soundtrack to writing code), but "Diferente" would be my track suggestion.

Mahendra Mahey: Hey at least you replied, so we have two tracks.

Dorothea Salo: "White Collar Holler," Stan Rogers.

Bright sun outside and and cool temperatures inside greeted more than 30 participants in the Hydra Workshop offered by Matt Zumwalt, Media Shelf, with a lot of help from his friends. Almost half the people in the room has done work on Hydra code and almost everyone was running, or had helped to develop at least one production repository. Zumwalt began the session by asking the audience for help in understanding more about potential use cases that... [read more]

Find out what issues are important for some of the judges of the Developer Challenge this year, see: http://devcsi.ukoln.ac.uk/blog/2011/06/07/devcsi-developer-challenge-or11-the-judges/

Managing a repository? Interested in talking with other repository managers? Jennifer Laherty (http://scholarworks.iu.edu/) and I (http://smartech.gatech.edu/) are keen to meet with other repository managers attending the conference. If you’re going to be there and have time during Wednesday’s lunch to gather together to chat, we’d be delighted to meet you. Jennifer will wear a very orange t-shirt and should be easy to spot. The lunch runs from 1... [read more]

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Meghan Frazer: I second Andy - great idea. See you all Wednesday!

Fang Wang: Would like to be there!

Amy Rushing: Sounds great!

The Open Repositories DSpace Pre-Conference session, a gathering of committers, DCAT members and other enthusiasts kicked off with an inspiring brainstorm. Participants were challenged to think outside of the current context of DSpace and throw out their observations of what a modern repository could mean for an institution and how it should technically evolve to achieve this meaning. Robin Taylor (University of Edinburgh), the DSpace 1.8 release... [read more]

Hi all, I wonder if there is anyone coming to the conference who is interested in talking about CERIF? I am interested in this and would be interested in having a chat with anyone who is working with it, or is interested. I suggest meeting me in the Developer lounge, during lunch on Wed or Thu? Cheers Mahendra

There is still space available for our pre-conference workshop tomorrow morning from 10 to Noon. We'll be teaching people to use Python to access Fedora. In 2 hours, we'll go through creating a Django webapp for basic Fedora content management (ingest, editing Dublin Core, etc.) using eulfedora - ( https://github.com/emory-libraries/eulfedora ).

Please join colleagues, friends and representatives from DuraSpace -- DSpace, Fedora, and DuraCloud -- communities at the DuraSpace Reception at OR11. We look forward to spending an evening of relaxation and networking with members of our open source communities in celebration of another great year. We hope that you can join us! Light appetizers and cocktails will be served. DuraSpace Reception at OR11 6 PM - 8 PM, Tuesday, June 7 University of T... [read more]

He all, what's the best way to travel around Austin for the week?

Mark Wood: So far the city bus system (www.capmetro.org) seems convenient. But the routes seem to have changed downtown since the schedule book was printed! They also operate the UT campus shuttles, and I hope my 7-day pass works for those too.

The Islandora team is doing a 1/2-day pre-conference session on Tuesday June 7 from 8 AM to Noon. We have a couple of spots left, so if you would like to join us just let me know: mleggott@upei.ca.

Please stop by the DuraSpace table next week where we will be conducting ongoing DuraCloud demonstrations. We look forward to greeting members of our open source communities in celebration of another great year. These DuraSpace-related presentations and informal discussions may be of interest: DuraCloud Workshop 2 PM - 5 PM Tuesday, June 7 Perry-Castaneda Library (PCL) Room 1.124 DuraCloud Panel Discussion 10:30 AM - Noon, Wednesday, June 8 AT&T ... [read more]

Before you get to Austin, follow us on Twitter @OR11_Austin and help us tweet the conference using the hashtag #or11.Share your photos and videos via TwitpicYou can also share your conference photos and videos via twitpic by uploading them with the @tag @OR11_Austin and the hashtag #or11. Or simply email your photo as an attachment to:OR11_Austin.4266 (at) twitpic (DOT) comUse the subject line to post a tweet with the photo. (Don't forget to incl... [read more]

Microsoft Research Connections will provide a half-day workshop covering several freely available tools from Microsoft and Microsoft Research, and will demonstrate how these can help enhance your current repository environment. Come learn more about how these Microsoft tools and technologies can help extend the reach and utility of your repository efforts. In addition to the Zentity 2.1 release, we will be presenting on a number of tools that can... [read more]

Join us Tuesday morning to learn more about Microsoft Academic Search. http://academic.research.microsoft.com/ Microsoft Academic Search (MAS) is an emergent service built on the data collected from millions of papers across multiple domains. Key features of Microsoft Academic Search include searching for papers, finding other related papers, exploring an author’s co-authorship graph, finding upcoming conferences’ Call for Papers deadline, simple... [read more]

Poster Reception The poster reception will be held on Wednesday, June 8, beginning at 5:00 PM in the Pre-Function Ballroom of the AT&T Conference Center. (The Pre-Function Ballroom is located on Level 3 just outside Salon C.) The reception provides an opportunity to view the conference posters displayed nearby in Conference Room 301. Dinner Reception sponsored by Microsoft Research Attendees are invited to attend a Conference Dinner held Thursday... [read more]

A preliminary program for the main conference sessions June 8-11 is available here.Information about pre-conference workshops and meetings and the Developer Challenge can be found on Crowdvine and at the following locations:Pre-conference Workshops and MeetingsDeveloper Challenge

Open Repositories LinkedIn Group has been changed to Open Membership and Management has been turned over to existing members of Open Repositories Steering Committee http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=3532894&trk=anet_ug_hm

Hello Crowdvine Community, As preparation for the upcoming Open Repositories 2011 Expert Discussion Panel on the Benefits of DSpace with Fedora inside, we will be polling the larger Institutional Repository community with a number of questions via LinkedIn in the coming weeks. Through these poll questions we hope achieve an overall community viewpoint with comments and positions concerning on the value of "DSpace with Fedora Inside". Our first qu... [read more]

The JISC funded DevCSI project, managed by UKOLN is proud to announce that it is again organising the Open Repositories Developer Challenge at the Sixth International Conference on Open Repositories in Austin, Texas - Open Repositories 2011 (#or11dev #devcsi). Microsoft Research are kindly sponsoring this year's challenge. The Challenge is: Show us the future of repositories There are two addtional prizes, one for the most innovative use of... [read more]

The DuraCloud Workshop will familiarize attendees with the DuraCloud service offering and open source technology, as well as demonstrate the options available for integrating DuraCloud with both the DSpace and Fedora repository systems. The majority of the workshop will focus on DSpace-DuraCloud and Fedora-DuraCloud integration options and strategies. More info: http://duraspace.org/duracloud-workshop-open-repositories-2011

If you'll be in Austin on June 6th and have the day free, do consider attending CURATEcamp! CURATEcamp is a series of unconference-style events focused on connecting practitioners and technologists interested in digital curation. CURATEcamp #OR11 will focus on data curation tools and microservices, exploring such issues as: community consensus on the tools, specifications, and microservices that are most needed; use cases for those tools, specs, ... [read more]

Curious about the topics to be covered at this year's Open Repositories conference? Check out our Presentations page, where the papers, panels, posters, and other presentations that will be part of the OR11 program have begun to appear.Stay tuned for an official program in the days ahead.

The theme for this year's conference is  "Collaboration and Community," and OR11 organizers want to provide as many ways as possible for attendees to interact, find common ground, and make the contacts necessary to make collaboration possible. One opportunity for this interaction is through the OR11 Crowdvine community, which makes it possible to network and interact with other attendees before, during, and after the conference. The OR11 Crowdvin... [read more]

We are expecting an exciting program of presentations, posters, and meetings at OR11 in June. Join us here on Crowdvine to network and discuss, and stay tuned to the OR11 conference site for news about the conference program as it becomes available. We're looking forward to seeing everyone in Austin!

May 13 is the final day to get the OR2011 room rate at the AT&T Conference Center hotel.  After that, rates will go up significantly and there is no guarantee rooms will be available.  It's a very busy time in Austin and hotel rooms are at a premium! Click HERE to go to the hotel information page.

OR11 is offering an exciting line-up of pre-conference events that will take place on the UT Austin campus.These events take place on Monday, June 6 and Tuesday, June 7 and fall outside the scope of main conference registration.For more information about registering for these events and making sure you have wireless access on the UT campus, go here. 

Register by Friday, May 13, to get the special conference rate at the AT&T Conference Center and Hotel. Use booking code ORELEV0611 to obtain room rate of $129/night. Just steps away from the center's meeting and dining facilities, the hotel offers 276 guest rooms and 21 suites with inspiring views of the university's Main Building Tower, the State Capitol, or a serene central courtyard. PLEASE NOTE: The conference rate is available beginning the... [read more]