Hosted Repository Software: A seminar for repository managers
March 27th 2008
SPLASH
University of Surrey, Guildford
http://www.rsp.ac.uk...Programme-Hosted.php
Do you use one of the following products? Digital Commons from BePress Digitool from Ex Libris E-Prints Services Fedora/VITAL IntraLibrary from Intrallect Open Repository from BioMed Cen... [More]

NISO Forum: Next Generation Discovery: New Tools, Aging Standards
March 27th 2008 - March 28th 2008
Chapel Hill, NC
http://www.niso.org/...rkshops/discovery08/
Discovering scholarly information and data is essential for research and use of the content that the information community is producing and making available. The development of knowledge bases, web sy... [More]

SAC 2008 - The 23rd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
March 16th 2008 - March 20th 2008
Fortaleza, Brazil
http://www710.univ-l...slim/sac2008-wt.html
The increasing popularity and advances in Web technologies (XML, Web services, semantic Web, etc.) are enabling the development of new classes of applications and new trends in the design of Informati... [More]

Digital Preservation: Planning Today for Tomorrow's Resources
March 14th 2008
Washington, DC
http://www.niso.org/...workshops/digpres08/
With the increasing number of digital objects—both those born digital and those that have been converted to digital formats to enhance access, delivery, and creative use of library collections—the nee... [More]

Image Management: New Directions
March 13th 2008
The Headley Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
http://www.ukeig.org...ntNewDirections.html
This workshop aims to help the non-specialist navigate successfully across this unfamiliar territory, pointing out useful shortcuts and pitfalls to avoid, and showcasing examples of good practice that... [More]

Metadata & Institutional Repositories : A beginners' guide
March 11th 2008
Learning Centre Seminar Room, University of Wolverhampton
http://www.rsp.ac.uk...ogramme-Metadata.php
Metadata is a challenging area for repository administrators and this event will take beginners through some of the basics using a series of presentations and practical exercises. This event forms par... [More]