Call for Proposals - Northeast Institutional Repository Day 2024 (NIRD24)

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Aug 19, 2024, 2:53:01 PM8/19/24

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The Northeast Institutional Repository Day 2024 (NIRD24) Program Committee is pleased to issue its Call for Proposals for the sixth annual Northeast Institutional Repository Day, a free event that brings together those in the Northeast (and beyond!) who manage or are interested in institutional repositories, digital collections, and digital preservation. With the success of our recent events and in an effort to continue to make NIRD available to as many participants as possible, all presentations will be delivered virtually.

December 5th and 6th, 2024

Time: 12/5 afternoon ET (UTC -5); 12/6 morning ET (UTC -5)

Virtual event (Zoom link will be provided to registrants)

The NIRD24 Program Committee welcomes any proposal related to institutional repositories, especially work that can be applicable to other institutions, even those working on different platforms. Tell us what helped or hindered your work in these or other areas:

IR metadata interoperability, ingest, or maintenance;
Stewardship of digital files in various formats;
Repository migration or updates;
Building relationships with IR depositors or contributors;
IRs as library publishing platforms;
Improving accessibility, equity, and inclusion for IR contributors and users;
IR policies;
Experiences with artificial intelligence

Proposals that are platform agnostic are particularly encouraged. The Program Committee is not accepting proposals from vendor representatives for NIRD24.

The Program Committee is requesting that proposals fall into the following formats:

Lightning Talk (5-7 min) - a brief, free-standing presentation, with or without slides
Presentation (20 min) - a more comprehensive, free-standing presentation or panel

Important dates:

Deadline for submission: September 30, 2024
Notification of acceptance: October 31, 2024

Please submit your proposal using this form.

In keeping with the collaborative and platform-agnostic spirit of the NIRD community, all forthcoming conference content will be hosted on Zenodo. Content from the 2019-2023 NIRD conferences will continue to be hosted and available from UMass Chan Medical School’s institutional repository, eScholarship@UMassChan.

If you have questions about NIRD24 programming, please contact one of the Program Committee members:

Laura Vavrosky, University of Minnesota Duluth (Chair) (vavr...@d.umn.edu)

Denise Brush, Rowan University (br...@rowan.edu)

Michael Burke, Berklee College of Music (mbu...@berklee.edu)

Sadie Roosa, MIT (sro...@mit.edu)

Jessica Ryan, Smith College (jr...@smith.edu)

Peter Whiting, University of Southern Indiana (pwhi...@usi.edu)

Erin Jerome, PhD

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Library Publishing & Institutional Repository Librarian

Music & Dance Department Liaison

University of Massachusetts, Amherst