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Edinburgh Repository Fringe
2009: Beyond the Repository Fringe
Edinburgh, Scotland
A two-day event at the award-winning Informatics Forum at the University of Edinburgh. View pictures of the venue.
Thursday July 30 & Friday 31st, 2009
Registration is free - sign up here!
Introduction
An invitation to all repository developers, managers, researchers, administrators and onlookers: come and join in Edinburgh's newest and entirely unofficial festival!
- see what's been developed, and still developing in the Repository Landscape
- learn new techniques and discover new ideas
- participate: be heard
Research data, social networking, bibliographic services or desktop integration? Whatever your interest and problems, come and run a discussion, kickstart some activity or work on a demonstration.
Programme Info
- The Plan - view the evolving schedule and how we think this is going to work
- The Sessions - this is where you sign up for various types of 'performance'
- The Challenge - See the challenge issued by our Keynote speaker
Keynote and Plenary
The Opening Keynote will be given by Ben O'Steen and Sally Rumsey from the Oxford University Library Services.
Registration, Travel, Contacts
- Please register for the event as soon as you know you can come to help the organisers plan the event!
- Accommodation and Travel - Information about university and other accomodation, maps, travel info. (Please note: each participant must book their own accomodation in addition to registering.)
- This year's venue: Informatics Forum
- Contacts - Email enquiries, organising committee.
Propaganda and Links
- Check detailed info on this wiki but we have a website 'splash page' for show.
- Check out pictures from last year's RepoFringe event on Flickr, and a summary of the event in the University of Edinburgh IT newsletter, BITS.
- 2008 repository fringe presentations are available in ERA, the Edinburgh Research Archive.
- Check out the inspiration for this event, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, 7-31 August. (Two-for-one preview tickets will be available for some shows beginning Monday 3rd August; we will be on the lookout for any performances and shows on at the end of July! Here's some info about year-round Fringe venues in Edinburgh.)
- The Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival will be starting up as we close down (31 July - 9 August).
- Thanks to the JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme for generous sponsorship of this event.
- We are promoting the event on the following lists:
- SPARC-IR
- JISC-Repositories
- Research DataMan
- DCC-Associates
- IASSIST
- Open Science list
- DSpace
- Fedora
- EPrints [EP-Tech]
If there are others you think we should target, please let us know.
