Ithaca, NY From strategies for managing and disseminating big data to end-to-end repository solutions, eResearch platforms, lightweight technical strategies and new concepts for making culturally significant multimedia durable and accessible the recent OR09 Conference in Atlanta was host to a lively 4-day exchange of far-reaching ideas in hallways, general sessions, user group meetings, during a developer challenge and even after hours. Presentations from the conference including user group and poster sessions will be available from Georgia Tech’s SMARTech institutional repository: http://smartech.gatech.edu by mid June.

Here are four community presentations currently available from presenters’ web sites:

Islandora: a Drupal/Fedora Repository System
Mark A Leggott
http://loomware.typepad.com/docs/Islandora.pdf

Research 2.0: Evolving Support for the Research Landscape
Mark A Leggott
http://loomware.typepad.com/docs/Research2.0.pdf

aDORe djatoka: An Open-Source Jpeg 2000 Image Server and Dissemination Service Framework
Ryan Chute, Lyudmila Balakireva, Stephan Dresher
http://apps.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/djatoka/index.php?title=Main_Page#Presentations

Disseminating Broadcast Archives: Exposing WGBH Materials for Scholarly Use
Courtney Michael, Chris Beer
http://openvault/pdf/or09.pdf

Thank you to everyone who has already provided their presentations. To include your presentation in the SMARTech OR09 Collection please forward files and/or links to Sara Fuchs <sara.fuchs@library.gatech.edu>, Digital Initiatives Librarian Scholarly Communication & Digital Services, Georgia Tech Library.