I think Jeremy means OCS (open conference system), which, clearly, is closely aligned with OJS (open journal system). To me, that integration is a meaningful advantage of using OCS, and I concur with Jeremy's insight that this might be more an issue of policy/practice, rather than the technology. -mz -- Michael Zimmer, PhD Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies Associate, Center for Information Policy Research University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee e: zimmerm@uwm.edu w: www.michaelzimmer.org On Oct 23, 2008, at 11:37 AM, jeremy hunsinger wrote:
Ben makes an interesting point. 'The imagination of the program chair' what what brought me oh prolly around 500 or so hours of labor over several years. In fact, it was the constant requirements of the reimagining of process of program chairs that forced the move to OJS from a custom system. The idea was that, we can no longer afford to invest in endless customization and specifically the endless re-imagination of the conference and the conference process. We need a fixed model, and OJS was what was supposed to help to enforce that fixedness, but really it doesn't seem to have accomplished that, so perhaps we should resolve the problem more through policy than through getting a new system? the system ojs system does seem to work for many different conferences.
On Oct 23, 2008, at 11:07 AM, Ben Anderson wrote:
On 22 Oct 2008, at 18:34, Ingbert Floyd wrote:
I think it would be interesting to see a group discussion of conference system requirements by internet experts.
one such 'requirement' is that the system can support the 'submission/review/response workflow' that the conference organizers want. My experience of the IR9 review process (others may disagree) was that whilst the progamme chair & reviewers had a view of the process they wanted, the system had a slightly different and rather 'fixed' model. This produced a certain amount of confusion.
If the IR10 programme chair/committee's mental model of the submission process is not yet defined then deciding on a tool will be a bit premature...(unless you are happy to adapt your process to what the tool(s) provide)
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