Pre-Conference Workshops
Updated information about the workshops
1. Publishing with the CDL's eXtensible Text Framework (XTF)
Kirk Hastings, Martin Haye, Lisa Schiff, California Digital
Library, US
Time: June 25, 9 am - 12:30 pm
Room : TBA
The California Digital Library's (CDL) eXtensible Text Framework (XTF) provides a powerful, flexible platform for providing access to digital content. It consists of Java and XSLT 2.0 code that indexes, queries, and displays digital objects. The software is actively maintained and supported by CDL developers and is in use at institutions across the U.S. and abroad.
XTF is designed to support highly customized implementations so that content can be made available in the manner most appropriate to the target audience of users. Because XTF is so configurable and relies on widely used standardized languages and technologies (XSLT and XML), developers in a given institution need only acquire expertise in a single platform (XTF) in order to create vastly differing applications.
This workshop will briefly profile the range of applications which CDL has implemented using XTF; will walk participants through the default implementation of XTF that highlights how to build popular features such as faceted browsing, dynamic alpha browse lists, and similar item searches; and will include time for brainstorming and troubleshooting around specific projects that users may want to build using XTF.
Specifics to be covered include:
*Downloading and installing XTF
*Overview of XTF
*Feature suite supported by XTF
*Suggested workflow for application development
*Overview of default application
*Supported encoding formats, both structured and unstructured
*Default metadata sources and possible alternatives
*Indexing review
*Stylesheets (XSLT) used by XTF
*Customizing search and search results
*Customizing display of object
2. Open Journal Systems: Working with Different Editorial and Economic
Models
Kevin Stranack, Simon Fraser University Library, Canada
John Willinsky, Stanford University, US
Time: June 25, 9 am - 12:30 pm
Room : TBA
Objective:
This session will provide an introduction to the Public Knowledge Project
and an overview of the Open Journal Systems (OJS) online publication management
software (http://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs). It will include an examination of the
publishing process, peer review and editorial workflow, web site management,
and tips for increasing journal visibility. This half-day, hands-on workshop
is aimed at editors, publishers, librarians, and others interested in learning
about this free, open source software that is being used by over 1000 journals
around the world. Participants will come away with the ability to start
up and operate their own online journal management system.
3. Repositories that Support Research Management
Leslie Carr, Southampton
University, UK
Time: June 25, 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Room : TBA
Objectives:
Participants will learn about (discuss, reflect upon) the issues
relevant to providing repository support to
institutional management for research management and assessment. The workshop
will provide participants with a checklist on the issues and recommendations
for repository managers, based on particles experiences drawn from various repository
managers.
Format:
Experience with preparing for research assessment
Presentations & discussions based on position papers
Discussions of issues arising
Recommendations for practical progress.
4. Opening Scholarship: Strategies for Integrating Open Access and Open
Education
Mark Surman, Shuttleworth Foundation, Canada / South Africa
Melissa Hagemann, Open Society Institute, USA
Time: June 25, 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Room : TBA
Optimal Size:
Ideally, we will have 20 - 30 people interested in
developing practical strategies for linking open access and open
education. Attendees should be active or interested in getting
involved in one of these areas.
Objectives:
1. Inform publishers and scholars involved
in open access about recent developments in open education, including
the Cape Town Declaration.
2. Identify lessons from the success of the open access publishing
movement that can be applied to open education, and brainstorm
opportunities for action based on these lessons.
3. Surface opportunities for long term synergies and interconnection
between open access and open education, feeding into the broader
agenda of open scholarship.
Format:
This workshop will include presentations, large group mapping and
visioning and small group action planning sessions. These techniques
will ensure that all participants have a chance to a) learn about
the pieces of the open access / open edu universe that they are
not yet aware of and b) contribute to charting the future course
of action and collaboration within both of these movements. After
the conference is over, the materials produced through the visioning
and small group sessions will be compiled into a short article
by the workshop facilitators.