[Pasig-discuss] NEWS RELEASE OR2014 Updates: Developer Challenge and Workshop Registration

[Carol Minton Morris]

*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*

May 29, 2014
Read it online: http://bit.ly/1mqhL4W

*OR2014 Updates: Developer Challenge and Workshop Registration*

*Helsinki, FI*  Breaking news from the upcoming Open Repositories
Conference June 9-13 includes a look at how to participate in this year’s
Developer Challenge for software developers, and registration information
for pre-conference Workshops, Tutorials and Meetings.

*Developer Challenge*

The goal of the Developer Challenge at Open Repositories is to provide
growth opportunities for software developers who attend, and show support
and appreciation by providing them with an event that is both fulfilling
and also valuable for the Open Repositories community.

Read the full Developer Challenge description *here.
<http://or2014.helsinki.fi/?page_id=756>*

The Developer Challenge showcases new and exciting technology ideas that
have the potential to enhance the richness of a repository ecosystem. At
this year's conference Developer Challenge participants will:

*Build or enhance a repository ecosystem, in line with this year’s
conference themes that include:*

• Unconventional approaches to repository-like services
• Interconnection between publishers and repositories
• Researcher-centered design for scholarly workflows
• Adaptations to support curation lifecycle management, e.g., for research
data
• Real-world scalability and performance stories: working at web-scale,
with big data for global usage
• Requirements for holding restricted or classified data in repositories
• Infrastructure to accommodate national and international mandates for
data management and open access
• Positioning repositories closer to (local, consortial, or cloud-based)
cyberinfrastructure for data processing
• Leveraging connections to external services including:
• Remote identifier services (e.g., DOI, ORCID)
• (Re-)using repository data/metadata in new and unexpected ways, including
integrated discovery
• Scholarly social media services, such as for annotation, review, comment,
reputation, citation, and altmetrics
• CRIS and research management systems
• Digital preservation tools, services & infrastructure
• Community and sustainability in an open world

Specific challenges/prizes will be offered by sponsors. Information about
these challenges will be added *here
<http://or2014.helsinki.fi/?page_id=756>* as they are available.

Come up with an idea, or, pick up one of the other ideas that someone has
proposed and go for it if you are a developer. If you're not a developer
propose an idea anyway:

• Tweet your idea with the hashtag #OR2014Idea;
• *Submit your idea using this form
<http://or2014.helsinki.fi/?page_id=801>* on the Open Repositories 2014
website, or;
• Email your idea to the Dev Challenge team through OR2014 mail box:
or-2014 at helsinki.fi

Developers will be encouraged to work on all the ideas. You can also join
the team if you wish to help with documentation and presentation of the
idea.

*Registration for pre-conference Workshops, Tutorials and Meetings NOW OPEN*

In addition to the Developer Challenge, the pre-conference sessions of Open
Repositories 2014 will be held at the University of Helsinki main campus
area and will include as many as 19 workshops, tutorials or meetings on a
large variety of topics. It is important that you register for any of these
events that you will attend. There are separate registration forms for the
morning, afternoon and evening sessions below:

• Registration form for morning sessions *here.
<https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/51809/lomake.html>*
• Registration form for afternoon sessions *here.
<https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/51807/lomake.html>*
• Registration form for evening sessions *here.
<https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/51773/lomake.html>*

-- 
Carol Minton Morris
DuraSpace
Director of Marketing and Communications
cmmorris at DuraSpace.org
Skype: carolmintonmorris
607 592-3135
Twitter at DuraSpace <http://twitter.com/duraspace>
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