The Repositories Support Project (RSP) is hosting a series of free webinars featuring various interesting topics for librarians and repository managers. The webinars titles are “Advocacy using campaign materials” (June 26^th), “A way of demonstrating the importance of institutional research” (July 3^th) and “Advocacy for the arts” (July 16^th). All webinars are held at 11am GMT, a booking is mandatory on the RSP event page.

The webinar “Advocacy using campaign materials” on the July 26^th will feature a discussion about advocacy issues for repositories including presentations about how marketing campaigns can be used to present advantages of repositories and about the use of social media for repositories managers. The webinar is hosted by Yvonne Budden, University of Warwick and Misha ...

The call for papers for the Sixth International Conference on Metadata and Semantic has been published. The MTSR'12 targets researchers and practitioners from the fields of metadata and semantics research as well as applications of the semantic web and related technologies. The conference topic is metadata and their relationships with Ontologies, Semantic Web, Knowledge Management and Software Engineering. Several different tracks are organized to be held in the conference program like for example a Track on Metadata & Semantics for Open Access Repositories, Research Information Systems and Infrastructures or a Track on Linked data. The conference proceedings will be published in the Springer’s Communication in Computer and Information Science series. All interested in presenting ...

The Call for Papers for the sixth and first time abroad Open-Access-Tage 2012 (Open-Access-Days 2012) has been published. Only one session has been open for submitted presentations the previous years, but this years conference in Vienna will be completely based on proposals. Until May 24th is time to submit abstracts to the program committee. The main language of the conference will be German, but English presentations are welcome.

The Call for Papers name the following themes as focus of the conference: e-Infrastructures for Open Access, Opportunities and Challenges in Data Sharing, <span ...

The Open Repository Conference 2012 will come back to Europe after this year?s visit in Austin/Texas: It has been officially announced that the Seventh International Conference on Open Repositories (OR12) will take place at the University of Edinburgh on July 9-13th July, 2012. The theme and title of the conference is ?Open Services for Open Content: Local In for Global Out? which ?reflects the current move towards open content, augmented content, distributed systems, microservices and data delivery infrastructures.? A call for proposals will be published soon on the conference website.

The conference takes place every year in rotation between Europe or America and offers a mixture of presentations and users session of the repositories DSpace, <link ...

The "Resource Description and Access"(RDA) has recently detached the "Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules" as standard for the cataloguing of library-related materials. But there is still the need to talk about implementation and performance of the new standard. Two information events will inform about RDA in November.

The DMCI/RCA Taskforce of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative holds the webinar The RDA Vocabularies: Implementation, Extension, and Mapping on 16.11.11. The online event will present the current status of the review process of the metadata standard and will point out the requirements for application profiles. Speaker will be Diane Hillmann, partner in the consulting firm Metadata Management Associates and co-chair of the DCMI/RDA Task Group. The webinar with costs will be take place at the 11/16/11 at 1pm ...