[GOAL] Open Repositories Steering Committee - Call for Nominations

[Elin Stangeland]

The Open Repositories Steering Committee (ORSC) is pleased to announce that we 
are opening nominations for standing members to join the OR Steering Committee.
ORSC manages the annual Open Repositories conference and consists of a maximum 
of 12 standing members (who serve three-year terms) as well as the chairs of 
the host and program committees for the annual conferences. We have three open 
slots for standing members, and we are inviting nominations, including 
self-nominations. The nomination deadline is July 24th 2020.
 The nomination form is available here: https://forms.gle/F6hQhd6wM7kjf7QbA

Nominees should have participated in at least one previous OR conference, 
ideally have been a member of a program or host committee for an OR conference, 
and have extensive experience with repositories and the international 
repository community. Some type of experience with the Open Repositories 
conference is necessary to join the ORSC.

 ORSC members are expected to take part in a range of activities throughout the 
year, as well as those specifically related to the conference. Examples of 
member activities include:
*   Regular attendance at OR if at all possible. We note that for some 
potential members this can be difficult due to cost, travel, and schedules; the 
OR SC cannot provide funding for members to attend.
*   Participating in the majority of the monthly committee meetings, 
including the in-person meeting that takes place at the conference every year.
*   Participation in ad hoc or standing committees (e.g. Scholarship, Code 
of Conduct, Finance, etc.).
*   Serving specific conference roles such as Program Chair or Poster Chair.
*   Reflecting OR news and announcements (e.g. Calls for Papers, 
Expressions of Interest) via mailing lists and through social media.
*   Timely participation in all discussions, in-person and online.
*   Reviewing conference proposals and submissions.
*   Reviewing conference host bids.
*   Selecting new standing members for the ORSC.

We strongly recommend that potential nominees refer to the conference handbook 
for more information about the role of the ORSC: 
https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/or11/Open+Repositories+Conference+Handbook.
When submitting a nomination (and self-nominations are welcome) you will be 
asked to submit the following information:
1.  Personal information: name, email, institution affiliation, and a brief 
description of the nominee's role.
2.  An indication that your nominee has attended at least one OR in the 
previous four years.
3.  Statement of interest, e.g. why the nominee wants to join the Steering 
Committee.
4.  Statement of qualifications, e.g. what specific experiences the nominee 
would bring to the Steering Committee.

The OR Steering Committee will elect new members in August. Successful new 
members will be expected to join the ORSC in September for a three-year period. 
See https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/or11/Membership+Policy for our membership 
policy. Current members are listed here: 
https://www.openrepositories.org/steering-committee/.
 If you have questions about the OR Steering Committee, please feel free to 
contact any of the current standing members listed here: 
https://www.openrepositories.org/steering-committee/ or to reach out to the 
Chair, Sarah Shreeves, at sshree...@arizona.edu 
or Claire Knowles, Vice-Chair at 
c.knowl...@leeds.ac.uk.
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[GOAL] Call for EoIs for OR 2021 - extended deadline until May 17th

[Elin Stangeland]

View this text online: https://www.openrepositories.org/2019/02/25/eoi-2021/

The Open Repositories Steering Committee seeks Expressions of Interest (EoI) 
from candidate host organizations for the 2021 Open Repositories Annual 
Conference series. Proposals from the Americas will be given first 
consideration.

Important dates

The Open Repositories Steering Committee is accepting Expressions of Interest 
(EoI) to host the OR2021 conference until May 17th, 2019 (extended). 
Shortlisted sites will be notified by the end of May 2019 and invited to submit 
a full proposal.

Background

Candidate institutions must have the ability to host at least a four-day 
conference with up to 450 attendees (see the list of past 
conferences<https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/or11/Open+Repositories+Conference+Handbook#OpenRepositoriesConferenceHandbook-OpenRepositories:Past,Present,andFuture>
 which includes the number of attendees where available). This includes 
appropriate access to conference facilities, lodging, and transportation, as 
well as the ability to manage a range of supporting services (food services, 
internet services, and conference social events; conference website; management 
of registration and online payments; etc.). The candidate institutions and 
their local arrangements committee must have the means to support the costs of 
producing the conference through attendee registration and independent 
fundraising. In addition, candidate institutions should consider the OR 
Statement on Inclusion and 
Openness<https://www.openrepositories.org/2018/02/27/open-repositories-statement-on-inclusion-and-openness/>
 as well as our Code of 
Conduct<https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/or11/Open+Repositories+Code+of+Conduct>
 to determine whether there are conditions in the local environment that might 
conflict with these positions or prevent travel for large portions of the 
attendees.

Fuller guidance is provided in the Open Repositories Conference 
Handbook<https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/or11/Open+Repositories+Conference+Handbook>
 on the Open Repositories 
wiki<https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/or11/OR+Steering+Committee+Home>.

Expressions of Interest Guidelines

Organisations interested in proposing to host the OR2021 conference should 
follow the steps listed below:

  1.  Expressions of Interest (EoIs) must be received by May 17th, 2019 
(extended). Please direct these EoIs and any enquiries to OR Steering Committee 
Chair Elin Stangeland - elin.stangeland at ub.uio.no.
  2.  As noted above, the Open Repositories wiki has a set of pages at Open 
Repositories Conference 
Handbook<https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/or11/Open+Repositories+Conference+Handbook>
 which offers guidelines for organising an Open Repositories conference. 
Candidate institutions should pay particular attention to the pages listed at 
"Preparing a bid" before submitting an EoI.
  3.  The EoI should be fairly brief (1-2 pages, or email length), and must 
include:
 *   the name of the institution (or institutions in the case of a joint 
bid)
 *   an email address for the first point of contact
 *   the proposed location for the conference venue with a brief paragraph 
describing the local amenities that would be available to delegates, including 
its proximity to a reasonably well-served airport
  4.  The OR Steering Committee will review proposals and may seek advice from 
additional reviewers. Following the review, one or more institutions will be 
invited to submit a detailed proposal.
  5.  Invitations to submit a detailed proposal will be issued by the end of 
May 2019; institutions whose interest will not be taken up will also be 
notified at that time. The invitations sent out will provide a timeline for 
submitting a formal proposal and details of additional information available to 
the shortlisted sites for help in the preparation of their bid. The OR Steering 
Committee will be happy to answer specific queries whilst proposals are being 
prepared.

About Open Repositories

Since 2006 Open Repositories has hosted an annual conference that brings 
together users and developers of open digital repository platforms. For further 
information about Open Repositories and links to past conference sites, please 
visit the OR home page: https://www.openrepositories.org.



Subscribe to announcements about Open Repositories conferences by joining the 
OR Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/open-repositories.



Please feel free to reflect this call for Expressions of Interest out through 
your communities.



Thank you!

Elin Stangeland and Sarah Shreeves

for the Open Repositories Steering Committee


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[GOAL] Open Repositories 2019: Conference Program available, Early Bird registration closing on April 23.

[Elin Stangeland]

Open Repositories 2019: Conference Program available, Early Bird registration 
closing on April 23.

The complete program of Open Repositories 2019 (OR2019), to be held in Hamburg 
from 10 June to 13 June, is now available online at:
https://www.conftool.net/or2019/sessions.php

Click on any day or session to see all scheduled talks. From the session view 
you can see related abstracts.
Please note that the program is still subject to change.

The reduced Early Bird registration fee for the conference will be available 
until Tuesday, April 23rd.

Please make sure that you register as soon as possible to take advantage of the 
lower price.
The registration is done online following the instructions on this page:

http://or2019.net/registration/ 

Outline Program:
Monday (June 10) https://bit.ly/2CV4ylG
workshops: please sign-up during registration as places are limited.

Tuesday (June 11) https://bit.ly/2UpP8zT
opening keynote from Jeff Gotthelf, designer, agile practitioner and one of the 
leading voices in the UX community and an expert on Lean UX
conference sessions during the day
evening minute madness and poster reception

Wednesday (June 12) https://bit.ly/2WK4oF1
conference sessions all day
evening Conference Dinner (please sign-up during registration, places are 
limited, self-paid)

Thursday (June 13) https://bit.ly/2OPm67t
conference sessions
closing keynote from Heather Piwowar, longtime advocate for Open Science and 
cofounder of Impactstory, the nonprofit company behind the Unpaywall database 
for Open Access discovery

Friday
Informal meet-ups for different communities

There is more information about the conference at the conference website: 
http://or2019.net
Keep up to date via our Twitter feed at https://twitter.com/or2019 the hashtag 
for this year's conference is #OpenRepo2019.

We are looking forward to seeing you all in Hamburg,

Jyrki Ilva, Jessica Lindholm and Torsten Reimer
Chairs of the Program Committee OR19

Iris Vogel, Juliane Jacob, Hagen Peukert and Kai Wörner
Local Hosts OR19 Universität Hamburg



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[GOAL] OR2019 Registration Now Open and Jeff Gothelf Confirmed as Keynote

[Elin Stangeland]

Open Repositories 2019 registration is open!

We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the 14th 
International Conference on Open Repositories, OR2019: All the User Needs, June 
10-13th, 2019 in Hamburg, Germany.
http://or2019.net/registration/

Early Bird fee is €300 (until April 21, 2019)
Please sign up for workshops after registering, http://or2019.net/workshops.

We are also proud to announce our keynote speakers for OR 2019!

Opening Keynote - Jeff Gothelf
Jeff Gothelf  is a designer, agile practitioner and a sought-after 
international speaker. Jeff is one of the leading voices in the UX community 
and an expert on Lean UX, which combines UX with agile principles.  Jeff is the 
author of the O’Reilly book, ”Lean UX: Applying lean principles to improve user 
experience”.

Closing Keynote - Heather Piwowar
Heather Piwowar is a cofounder of Impactstory, the nonprofit company behind the 
Unpaywall database for Open Access discovery.  A longtime advocate for Open 
Science, Dr. Piwowar is also a leading researcher in research data availability 
and reuse, including a seminal paper measuring the citation benefit of publicly 
available research data.


Conference website: http://or2019.net/
Hashtag: #OpenRepo2019

We are looking forward to seeing you all in Hamburg,

Jyrki Ilva, Jessica Lindholm and Torsten Reimer
Chairs of the Program Committee OR19

Iris Vogel, Juliane Jacob, Hagen Peukert and Kai Wörner
Local Hosts OR19 Universität Hamburg


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[GOAL] Call for Expressions of Interest in hosting the annual Open Repositories Conference in 2021

[Elin Stangeland]

Apologies for cross posting. View this text online: 
https://www.openrepositories.org/2019/02/25/eoi-2021/

The Open Repositories Steering Committee seeks Expressions of Interest (EoI) 
from candidate host organizations for the 2021 Open Repositories Annual 
Conference series. Proposals from the Americas will be given first 
consideration.

Important dates

The Open Repositories Steering Committee is accepting Expressions of Interest 
(EoI) to host the OR2021 conference until April 30th, 2019. Shortlisted sites 
will be notified by the end of May 2019 and invited to submit a full proposal.

Background

Candidate institutions must have the ability to host at least a four-day 
conference with up to 450 attendees (see the list of past 
conferences<https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/or11/Open+Repositories+Conference+Handbook#OpenRepositoriesConferenceHandbook-OpenRepositories:Past,Present,andFuture>
 which includes the number of attendees where available). This includes 
appropriate access to conference facilities, lodging, and transportation, as 
well as the ability to manage a range of supporting services (food services, 
internet services, and conference social events; conference website; management 
of registration and online payments; etc.). The candidate institutions and 
their local arrangements committee must have the means to support the costs of 
producing the conference through attendee registration and independent 
fundraising. In addition, candidate institutions should consider the OR 
Statement on Inclusion and 
Openness<https://www.openrepositories.org/2018/02/27/open-repositories-statement-on-inclusion-and-openness/>
 as well as our Code of 
Conduct<https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/or11/Open+Repositories+Code+of+Conduct>
 to determine whether there are conditions in the local environment that might 
conflict with these positions or prevent travel for large portions of the 
attendees.

Fuller guidance is provided in the Open Repositories Conference 
Handbook<https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/or11/Open+Repositories+Conference+Handbook>
 on the Open Repositories 
wiki<https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/or11/OR+Steering+Committee+Home>.

Expressions of Interest Guidelines

Organisations interested in proposing to host the OR2021 conference should 
follow the steps listed below:

  1.  Expressions of Interest (EoIs) must be received by April 30th, 2019. 
Please direct these EoIs and any enquiries to OR Steering Committee Chair Elin 
Stangeland – elin.stangeland at ub.uio.no.
  2.  As noted above, the Open Repositories wiki has a set of pages at Open 
Repositories Conference 
Handbook<https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/or11/Open+Repositories+Conference+Handbook>
 which offers guidelines for organising an Open Repositories conference. 
Candidate institutions should pay particular attention to the pages listed at 
“Preparing a bid” before submitting an EoI.
  3.  The EoI should be fairly brief (1-2 pages, or email length), and must 
include:
 *   the name of the institution (or institutions in the case of a joint 
bid)
 *   an email address for the first point of contact
 *   the proposed location for the conference venue with a brief paragraph 
describing the local amenities that would be available to delegates, including 
its proximity to a reasonably well-served airport
  4.  The OR Steering Committee will review proposals and may seek advice from 
additional reviewers. Following the review, one or more institutions will be 
invited to submit a detailed proposal.
  5.  Invitations to submit a detailed proposal will be issued by the end of 
May 2019; institutions whose interest will not be taken up will also be 
notified at that time. The invitations sent out will provide a timeline for 
submitting a formal proposal and details of additional information available to 
the shortlisted sites for help in the preparation of their bid. The OR Steering 
Committee will be happy to answer specific queries whilst proposals are being 
prepared.

About Open Repositories

Since 2006 Open Repositories has hosted an annual conference that brings 
together users and developers of open digital repository platforms. For further 
information about Open Repositories and links to past conference sites, please 
visit the OR home page: https://www.openrepositories.org.



Subscribe to announcements about Open Repositories conferences by joining the 
OR Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/open-repositories.



Please feel free to reflect this call for Expressions of Interest out through 
your communities.



Thank you!

Elin Stangeland and Sarah Shreeves

for the Open Repositories Steering Committee
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[GOAL] Open Repositories 2019 Update: Deadline for Proposals Extended Until January 16

[Elin Stangeland]

For immediate release
07 January 2019

Open Repositories 2019 Update: Deadline for Proposals Extended Until January 16

The final deadline for submitting proposals for the 14th International 
Conference on Open Repositories (OR2019) has been extended until Wednesday, 
January 16, 2019.
The conference will be held on June 10th-13th, 2019 in Hamburg, Germany.

The main theme for Open Repositories 2019 is "All the User Needs". You may 
review the full Call for Proposals here:

http://or2019.net/cfp/

Submit your proposals at https://www.conftool.net/or2019/ by January 16, 2019.

There are also a small number of fellowships available: 
http://or2019.net/fellowships/

We look forward to seeing you at OR2019!

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

Jyrki Ilva, National Library of Finland
Jessica Lindholm, Chalmers University of Technology
Torsten Reimer, British Library
Contact: or19-program-cha...@googlegroups.com

LOCAL HOSTS

Universität Hamburg
Center for Sustainable Research Data Management
Contact: or2019@uni-hamburg.de

WEBSITE AND SOCIAL MEDIA

Conference website: http://or2019.net/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pg/ORConference/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/OpenRepos
Hashtag: #OpenRepo2019

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[GOAL] Open Repositories 2019: now accepting fellowship applications

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For immediate release
02 January 2019

NOW ACCEPTING FELLOWSHIP APPLICATIONS

The Open Repositories Steering Committee is now accepting 
applications for fellowships to attend 
OR2019 in Hamburg, Germany.
The purpose of the fellowship programme is to allow a limited number of 
qualified librarians, repository managers, developers, or researchers in 
digital libraries or related fields to participate in the conference.
The fellowship covers travel, accommodation, and full conference registration, 
including the poster reception and conference banquet.

Applicants will be asked to address the following:
1) Financial need;
2) How participating in Open Repositories will support your professional and/or 
educational goals; and
3) Willingness to participate in the conference as evidenced by 
note-taking/live-blogging and/or a presentation or poster submission.

Application deadline:  19 January 2019
Notifications:  early February 2019
Apply now:  https://goo.gl/forms/Q6brQ81StYYf87LI3.

PROGRAM CHAIRS

Jyrki Ilva, National Library of Finland
Jessica Lindholm, Chalmers University of Technology
Torsten Reimer, British Library
Contact: 
or19-program-cha...@googlegroups.com

LOCAL HOSTS

Universität Hamburg
Center for Sustainable Research Data Management
Contact: or2019@uni-hamburg.de

WEBSITE AND SOCIAL MEDIA

Conference website: http://or2019.net/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pg/ORConference/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/OpenRepos
Hashtag: #OpenRepo2019
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[GOAL] Open Repositories 2019: Heather Piwowar to be a keynote, conference system open for submissions

[Elin Stangeland]

For immediate release
14 December, 2018

HEATHER PIWOWAR CONFIRMED AS A KEYNOTE SPEAKER 

We are delighted to announce that one of the keynote speakers at Open 
Repositories 2019 will be Dr. Heather Piwowar.

Heather Piwowar is a cofounder of Impactstory, the nonprofit company behind the 
Unpaywall database for Open Access discovery.  Unpaywall's collection of 20 
million Open Access links is used by Europe PMC, Web of Science, the British 
Library, and thousands of libraries worldwide. The free browser extension is 
used by more than 150,000 people, and the API gets a million calls a day. 

A longtime advocate for Open Science, Dr Piwowar is also a leading researcher 
in research data availability and reuse, including a seminal paper measuring 
the citation benefit of publicly available research data.  Dr Piwowar has a 
bachelor's and master's degree from MIT in electrical engineering, 10 years of 
experience as a software engineer, and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Informatics.

SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSALS BY JANUARY 9, 2019!

The 14th International Conference on Open Repositories, OR2019, will be 
organized in Hamburg, Germany, June 10-13, 2019. 

This year's conference theme is "All the User Needs". The aim is to provide the 
attendees an opportunity to explore and reflect on the ways repositories 
interact with their users. In addition to the overall user-centered theme there 
are also a number of sub-themes, which address many of the current issues 
related to digital repositories and their role in open scholarship and open 
cultural heritage.

The Call for Proposals for OR2019 is available at http://or2019.net/cfp/. We 
are looking for proposals for several different tracks: presentations, panels, 
24x7s, developer track presentations & demos, posters, workshops and tutorials.

The submission system for proposals is now open (see 
https://www.conftool.net/or2019/). The deadline for the submissions is 
Wednesday, January 9, 2019.

SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE

OR2019 will again run a Scholarship Programme which will enable us to provide 
support for a small number of fully funded places for the conference in 
Hamburg. The programme is open to librarians, repository managers, developers 
and researchers in digital libraries and related fields. Applicants submitting 
a proposal for the conference will be given priority consideration for funding. 

Full details and an application form will be available on the conference web 
site (http://or2019.net/) shortly.

We look forward to seeing you in Hamburg in June!

PROGRAM CHAIRS

Jyrki Ilva, National Library of Finland
Jessica Lindholm, Chalmers University of Technology Torsten Reimer, British 
Library
Contact: or19-program-cha...@googlegroups.com 
 

LOCAL HOSTS

Universität Hamburg
Center for Sustainable Research Data Management
Contact: or2019@uni-hamburg.de  

WEBSITE AND SOCIAL MEDIA

Conference website: http://or2019.net/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pg/ORConference/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/OpenRepos
Hashtag: #OpenRepo2019

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[GOAL] Call for Proposals - Open Repositories 2019: All the user needs

[Elin Stangeland]

CALL FOR PROPOSALS OPEN REPOSITORIES 2019 CONFERENCE (also available online at 
http://or2019.net/cfp)

The 14th International Conference on Open Repositories, OR2019, will be held 
June 10-13th, 2019 in Hamburg, Germany. The organisers are pleased to invite 
you to contribute to the program. This year's conference theme is:

ALL THE USER NEEDS

Repository services are developed and maintained for the benefit of their 
users. In a global digital research environment this requires interoperable 
services designed around user needs. In order to create the backbone of a 
successful open science environment, repositories need to move beyond 
stand-alone systems and articulate an exciting vision for the future of 
research globally. This requires us to combine a realistic understanding of the 
potential of technology with an assessment of the policy environment and an 
engagement with the needs of our users. Researchers and other content providers 
need our help to make their work visible and to make an impact on society. 
Easy, straightforward access to and reusability of information are driving 
forces for repositories, open access, open data and open cultural heritage.

Not all of our users are human. In addition to people we are now working with 
increasingly smart machines to organise and discover knowledge. To make this 
cooperation as seamless and effective as possible, we need interfaces that are 
easy to understand and easy to use. In light of recent research on artificial 
intelligence, we may need to reinterpret our prior ideas of the core 
competencies and skills required for the repository mission to succeed.

INVITATION TO PARTICIPATE

OR2019 will provide an opportunity to explore and reflect on the ways 
repositories interact with their users. We hope that this discussion will give 
the participants new insights and new inspiration, which will help them to play 
a key role in developing, supporting and sharing an open agenda and open tools 
for research and scholarship.

We welcome proposals on the overall user-centered theme, but also on other 
theoretical, practical, organisational or administrative topics related to 
digital repositories. We are particularly interested in the following themes:

1. Understanding user needs and user experience

* User research and engagement
* User experience design for repository services
* Better user experience through data and workflow integration
* Improving repository user interfaces

2. Discovery, use and impact

* Increasing content visibility in search engines and discovery systems
* Open access discovery, research data discovery
* Tools for researchers, interfaces for machines
* The role of aggregation services
* Measuring use and impact

3. Repositories - evolution or revolution?

* Beyond the repository: using repository platforms for purposes not originally 
intended
* Convergence with other types of systems (e.g. current research information 
systems, digital asset management systems, journal publishing platforms, 
library service platforms)
* Interoperability vs integration: will repositories survive as stand-alone 
systems?
* The developing role of repositories in the scholarly communications and 
research information systems ecosystem (e.g. the Next Generation 
Repositories vision)
* New models for scholarly sharing (e.g. blockchain)
* Data mining, artificial intelligence and machine learning

4. Supporting open scholarship and cultural heritage

* Providing access to different types of materials (e.g. research data, 
scholarly articles, pre prints and overlay journals, open access monographs, 
theses and dissertations, educational resources, archival and cultural heritage 
materials, audiovisual materials, software, interactive publications and 
emerging formats)
* Workflows and support services for the repository users
* Training, communication and outreach
* Long-term access and preservation
* Repositories as digital humanities and open science platforms
* Working with large and complex data sets

5. Open and sustainable

* Service and business models that meet user needs
* Local systems vs repository as a service
* The expanding role of service providers in the repository landscape, pros and 
cons?
* Sustainability of the open source community model
* Securing long-term funding for open infrastructures
* Open business models and open governance for open infrastructures

6. Policies, licensing and the law

* Impact of GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) and copyright laws
* Publisher policies, embargoes and rights retention
* Licenses, use and re-use of content
* 'Closed' material in 'open' repositories
* Compliance and impact of funder policies (e.g. Plan 
S) on repositories

7. How can metadata and standards help our users?

* Development and standardisation of repository metadata
* Data models and entities
* Linked open data and repositories
* Persistent 

[GOAL] Save the Date for Open Repositories 2020, 1-4 June in Stellenbosch, SA

[Elin Stangeland]

Save the Date for Open Repositories 2020



The Open Repositories Steering Committee and Stellenbosch University is 
delighted to announce that the 15th Open Repositories Conference will be held 
in Stellenbosch, South Africa, from 1-4 June 2020. The conference will be 
organised by Stellenbosch University Library and Information Service who looks 
forward to welcoming delegates to the first Open Repositories Conference (OR) 
on the African continent.



Link to online version of this text: http://or2020.sun.ac.za/



Stellenbosch University, located in the historical town of Stellenbosch, 
approximately 50 km from Cape Town, strives to be Africa's leading 
research-intensive university, globally recognised as excellent, inclusive and 
innovative where knowledge is advanced in service of society.



The Library and Information Service has been playing an active role in the 
African and international Open Access community for a number of years and one 
of its strategic objectives is to develop and maintain collaborative 
relationships with a range of external and internal stakeholders by advancing 
local, national and international initiatives with regards to open scholarship.



Having chosen Stellenbosch as the venue, the annual OR Conference continues its 
objective to bring practitioners working at the interface of technology and 
scholarship together. Participants at OR come from higher education, 
government, libraries, archives and museums to share their experiences and 
knowledge about repository infrastructure, tools, services, and policies. We 
hope you will join us in Stellenbosch in 2020!



For the local organizing committee:

Ellen Tise & Mimi Seyffert-Wirth

Stellenbosch University Library and Information Service

ms...@sun.ac.za<mailto:ms...@sun.ac.za>



For the Open Repositories Steering Committee:

Elin Stangeland

University of Oslo Library

elin.stangel...@ub.uio.no<mailto:elin.stangel...@ub.uio.no>
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[GOAL] Open Repositories 2018 Early Bird closing 22nd April

[Elin Stangeland]

Early Bird registration for the Open Repositories Conference 2018 closes on 
22nd April.


https://www.conftool.net/or2018/sessions.php


Outline Program:

* Sunday, informal meet-ups from mid afternoon

* Monday, workshops please sign-up during registration as places are 
limited, Ideas Challenge reception and launch in the evening

* Tuesday, opening keynote from Casey Fiesler, Assistant Professor in 
the Department of Information Science at University of Colorado Boulder, 
conference sessions during the day, and evening poster reception.

* Wednesday, conference sessions all day and evening Gala Dinner

* Thursday, conference sessions and closing keynote from Asaf Bartov, 
Wikimedia Foundation.


Please note the Program Committee and Local Hosts reserve the right to update 
the conference schedule, therefore times and dates of sessions may change.


There is more information about the conference at the conference 
website. Keep up to date via our Twitter feed at 
https://twitter.com/OR2018MT the hashtag for this year's conference is 
#OpenRepo2018.


We look forward to seeing you in Bozeman.


Best regards,


Claire Knowles and Evviva Weinraub

Program Committee Co-Chairs

On behalf of the Program Committee 
and Local Hosts


Code of Conduct http://www.or2018.net/code-of-conduct/
Openness Statement 
http://www.or2018.net/open-repositories-statement-on-inclusion-and-openness/


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[GOAL] Open Repositories 2018 Program now online!

[Elin Stangeland]

We are excited to announce the full program for Open Repositories 2018 in 
Bozeman, Montana.


https://www.conftool.net/or2018/sessions.php


Outline Program:

* Sunday, informal meet-ups from mid afternoon

* Monday, workshops please sign-up during registration as places are 
limited, Ideas Challenge reception and launch in the evening

* Tuesday, opening keynote from Casey Fiesler, Assistant Professor in 
the Department of Information Science at University of Colorado Boulder, 
conference sessions during the day, and evening poster reception.

* Wednesday, conference sessions all day and evening Gala Dinner

* Thursday, conference sessions and closing keynote from Asaf Bartov, 
Wikimedia Foundation.


Please note the Program Committee and Local Hosts reserve the right to update 
the conference schedule, therefore times and dates of sessions may change.


Early bird registration 
closes on 22nd April.


There is more information about the conference at the conference 
website. Keep up to date via our Twitter feed at 
https://twitter.com/OR2018MT the hashtag for this year's conference is 
#OpenRepo2018.


We look forward to seeing you in Bozeman.


Best regards,


Claire Knowles and Evviva Weinraub

Program Committee Co-Chairs

On behalf of the Program Committee 
and Local Hosts


Code of Conduct http://www.or2018.net/code-of-conduct/
Openness Statement 
http://www.or2018.net/open-repositories-statement-on-inclusion-and-openness/

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[GOAL] Call for Expressions of Interest in hosting the annual Open Repositories Conference 2020 - Final reminder

[Elin Stangeland]

Call for Expressions of Interest in hosting the annual Open Repositories 
Conference 2020 - Final reminder

The Open Repositories Steering Committee seeks Expressions of Interest (EoI) 
from candidate host organizations for the 2020 Open Repositories Annual 
Conference series. Proposals from all geographic areas will be given 
consideration.

Link to online version: http://www.openrepositories.org/2017/11/30/calleoi/

Important dates

The Open Repositories Steering Committee is accepting Expressions of Interest 
(EoI) to host the OR2020 conferences until February 28th, 2018. Shortlisted 
sites will be notified by the end of March 2018 and invited to submit a full 
proposal.

Background

Candidate institutions must have the ability to host at least a four-day 
conference with up to 500 attendees (OR2016 held in Dublin, Ireland drew about 
500 people and OR2017 held in Brisbane, Australia drew around 330). This 
includes appropriate access to conference facilities, lodging, and 
transportation, as well as the ability to manage a range of supporting services 
(food services, internet services, and conference social events; conference web 
site; management of registration and online payments; etc.). The candidate 
institutions and their local arrangements committee must have the means to 
support the costs of producing the conference through attendee registration and 
independent fundraising. Fuller guidance is provided in the Open Repositories 
Conference 
Handbook<https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/or11/Open+Repositories+Conference+Handbook>
 on the Open Repositories 
wiki<https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/or11/OR+Steering+Committee+Home>.

Expressions of Interest Guidelines

Organisations interested in proposing to host either the OR2020 conference 
should follow the steps listed below:

1.Expressions of Interest (EoIs) must be received by February 28, 2018. 
Please direct these EoIs and any enquiries to OR Steering Committee Chair Elin 
Stangeland - elin.stangel...@ub.uio.no<mailto:elin.stangel...@ub.uio.no>.

2.As noted above, the Open Repositories wiki has a set of pages at Open 
Repositories Conference Handbook which offer guidelines for organising an Open 
Repositories conference.  Candidate institutions should pay particular 
attention to the pages listed at "Preparing a bid" before submitting an EoI.

3.The EoI should be fairly brief (1-2 pages, or email length), and must 
include:

a. the name of the institution (or institutions in the case of a joint bid)

b.an email address as a first point of contact

c. the proposed location for the conference venue with a brief paragraph 
describing the local amenities that would be available to delegates, including 
its proximity to a reasonably well-served airport

1.The OR Steering Committee will review proposals and may seek advice from 
additional reviewers.  Following the review, one or more institutions will be 
invited to submit a detailed proposal.

2.Invitations to submit a detailed proposal will be issued by the end of 
March 2018; institutions whose interest will not be taken up will also be 
notified at that time.  The invitations sent out will provide a timeline for 
submitting a formal proposal and details of additional information available to 
the shortlisted sites for help in the preparation of their bid.  The OR 
Steering Committee will be happy to answer specific queries whilst proposals 
are being prepared.

About Open Repositories

Since 2006 Open Repositories has hosted an annual conference that brings 
together users and developers of open digital repository platforms. For further 
information about Open Repositories and links to past conference sites, please 
visit the OR home page: http://www.openrepositories.org/

Subscribe to announcements about Open Repositories conferences by joining the 
OR Google Group<http://groups.google.com/group/open-repositories>.

Please feel free to reflect this call for Expressions of Interest out through 
your communities.

Thank you!

Elin Stangeland and Sarah Shreeves

for the Open Repositories Steering Committee




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[GOAL] OR2018 Registration Now Open

[Elin Stangeland]

Open Repositories 2018 registration is open!


We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for Open Repositories 
2018: Sustaining Open. 4th - 8th June 2018, Bozeman, Montana, USA


http://www.or2018.net/registration-is-now-open/


Early registration is $375 until April 20, 2018.

Regular registration is $425 April 21st to May 25th, 2018.

Late registration is $475 after May 25th, 2018.


Student registration will be $275 for current full time students, increasing to 
$325.


Please sign-up for workshops when registering.


We are also pleased to announce our keynote speakers for OR 2018!


Opening Keynote - Casey Fiesler, JD, Ph.D.


Casey Fiesler is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information 
Science at University of Colorado Boulder. A social computing researcher and 
legal scholar, she holds a Ph.D. in Human-Centered Computing from the Georgia 
Institute of Technology and a JD from Vanderbilt University Law School. Fiesler 
studies governance in socio-technical systems, with an emphasis on copyright in 
online communities, technology ethics, and social norms.

Fiesler previously interned for Creative Commons, and is a member of the legal 
committee for the Organization for Transformative Works, which is behind the 
open source fanfiction site Archive of Our Own. A portion of her research is 
current funded under the large National Science Foundation PERVADE project, 
dedicated to empirical studies of research ethics for pervasive human data.

Closing Keynote - Asaf Bartov


Asaf Bartov is a senior program officer at the Wikimedia Foundation, the 
non-profit operating Wikipedia around the world.  His work focuses on capacity 
building with emerging volunteer communities all over the world, with 
particular emphasis on India, sub-Saharan Africa, Brazil, and eastern Europe.  
While his academic background is in Greek and Latin language and literature, he 
has a strong professional background in software development, and an abiding 
volunteer interest in digital libraries. He is the founder, chief technologist, 
and chief editor of Project Ben-Yehuda, an award-winning volunteer-run digital 
library of public domain Hebrew works.  He is also a structured and linked data 
enthusiast, and previously served as an invited expert on the W3C's Library 
Linked Data Incubator Group.  He frequently teaches introductory classes on 
Wikidata, the Wikimedia Foundation's linked open data project, and on querying 
Wikidata with the SPARQL language.
.

From Claire Knowles and Evviva Weinraub,

Program Committee Co-Chairs

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[GOAL] Call for Expressions of Interest in hosting the annual Open Repositories Conference 2020 - Reminder

[Elin Stangeland]

Call for Expressions of Interest in hosting the annual Open Repositories 
Conference 2020 - Reminder

The Open Repositories Steering Committee seeks Expressions of Interest (EoI) 
from candidate host organizations for the 2020 Open Repositories Annual 
Conference series. Proposals from all geographic areas will be given 
consideration.

Link to online version: http://www.openrepositories.org/2017/11/30/calleoi/

Important dates

The Open Repositories Steering Committee is accepting Expressions of Interest 
(EoI) to host the OR2020 conferences until February 28th, 2018. Shortlisted 
sites will be notified by the end of March 2018 and invited to submit a full 
proposal.

Background

Candidate institutions must have the ability to host at least a four-day 
conference with up to 500 attendees (OR2016 held in Dublin, Ireland drew about 
500 people and OR2017 held in Brisbane, Australia drew around 330). This 
includes appropriate access to conference facilities, lodging, and 
transportation, as well as the ability to manage a range of supporting services 
(food services, internet services, and conference social events; conference web 
site; management of registration and online payments; etc.). The candidate 
institutions and their local arrangements committee must have the means to 
support the costs of producing the conference through attendee registration and 
independent fundraising. Fuller guidance is provided in the Open Repositories 
Conference 
Handbook<https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/or11/Open+Repositories+Conference+Handbook>
 on the Open Repositories 
wiki<https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/or11/OR+Steering+Committee+Home>.

Expressions of Interest Guidelines

Organisations interested in proposing to host either the OR2020 conference 
should follow the steps listed below:

1. Expressions of Interest (EoIs) must be received by February 28, 2018. 
Please direct these EoIs and any enquiries to OR Steering Committee Chair Elin 
Stangeland - elin.stangel...@ub.uio.no<mailto:elin.stangel...@ub.uio.no>.

2. As noted above, the Open Repositories wiki has a set of pages at Open 
Repositories Conference Handbook which offer guidelines for organising an Open 
Repositories conference.  Candidate institutions should pay particular 
attention to the pages listed at "Preparing a bid" before submitting an EoI.

3. The EoI should be fairly brief (1-2 pages, or email length), and must 
include:

a. the name of the institution (or institutions in the case of a joint bid)

b. an email address as a first point of contact

c. the proposed location for the conference venue with a brief paragraph 
describing the local amenities that would be available to delegates, including 
its proximity to a reasonably well-served airport

1. The OR Steering Committee will review proposals and may seek advice from 
additional reviewers.  Following the review, one or more institutions will be 
invited to submit a detailed proposal.

2. Invitations to submit a detailed proposal will be issued by the end of 
March 2018; institutions whose interest will not be taken up will also be 
notified at that time.  The invitations sent out will provide a timeline for 
submitting a formal proposal and details of additional information available to 
the shortlisted sites for help in the preparation of their bid.  The OR 
Steering Committee will be happy to answer specific queries whilst proposals 
are being prepared.

About Open Repositories

Since 2006 Open Repositories has hosted an annual conference that brings 
together users and developers of open digital repository platforms. For further 
information about Open Repositories and links to past conference sites, please 
visit the OR home page: http://www.openrepositories.org/

Subscribe to announcements about Open Repositories conferences by joining the 
OR Google Group<http://groups.google.com/group/open-repositories>.

Please feel free to reflect this call for Expressions of Interest out through 
your communities.

Thank you!

Elin Stangeland and Sarah Shreeves

for the Open Repositories Steering Committee


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[GOAL] Open Repositories 2018: Sustaining Open, final call for papers and scholarships closing dates

[Elin Stangeland]

The 13th International Conference on Open Repositories, OR2018, will be held on 
June 4th-7th, 2018 in Bozeman, Montana, USA.

Call for papers http://www.or2018.net/call-for-papers/ closes on Monday 15th 
January 2018.
Scholarship applications has been extended http://www.or2018.net/scholarships/ 
closes on Wednesday 31st January 2018.
The theme for Open Repositories 2018 is Sustaining Open.

Research and Cultural Heritage communities have embraced the idea of Open; open 
communities, open source software, open data, scholarly communications, and 
open access publications and collections. These projects and communities 
require different modes of thinking and resourcing than purchasing vended 
products.  While open may be the way forward, mitigating fatigue, finding 
sustainable funding, and building flexible digital repository platforms is 
something most of us are striving for.  Submissions this year should focus on 
the how, why, and what it will take to make open sustainable.

While not limited to the below topics, we're focusing our attention on issues 
around the sustainability of:
·  Open source software - sustainability of software developed locally and 
large open source systems, legacy code
·  Community - reaching out to new audiences, developing a community, governance
·  Content - research data, digital preservation, persistent urls, archiving
·  Teams/People - staff and knowledge within the community, contingency 
planning, training and development, and succession planning
·  Projects - sustainability of projects beyond the grant, maturing communities
·  Infrastructure/Integrations - integrations between systems, changing 
technical environments
·  Policy - national, international, local and community policy and decisions
·  Challenges of sustainability - funding, local, technical, community
·  Rights and Copyright - including Data Protection, sharing and storing of 
content
·  Reuse, standards, and reproducibility - for example: software, data, content 
types
·  New open technologies and standards

Submission Process
Accepted proposals in all categories will be made available through the 
conference's web site https://www.conftool.net/or2018, and later they and 
associated materials will be made available in an open repository. Some 
conference sessions may be live streamed or recorded, then made publicly 
available.

Interest Groups
This year there are no separate interest groups for the different repository 
systems, instead if your 24x7 or presentation submission is related to a 
specific repository system please indicate so in your proposal.

Presentations
Presentation proposals are expected to be two to four pages (see below for 
submission templates). Successful submissions in past years have typically 
described work relevant to a wide audience and applicable beyond a single 
software system.

Presentations are 30 minutes long including questions.

Panels
Panel proposals are expected to be two to four pages (see below for submission 
templates). Successful submissions in past years have typically described work 
relevant to a wide audience and applicable beyond a single software system. All 
panels are expected to include at least some degree of diversity in viewpoints 
and personal background of the panelists. Panel sessions are expected to 
include a short presentation from each panel member followed by a discussion. 
Panels may take an entire session or may be combined with another submission.

Panels can be 45 or 90 minutes long.

Discussion Question and Answer
Discussion Q proposals are expected to be two to four pages (see below for 
submission templates). This is your opportunity to suggest members of the 
community to join in a Q discussion on various proposed topics.  This is 
meant to be a deep-dive into why a decision was made, how projects got started, 
where an idea came from, or anything else that you want to know more about. 
Imagine this as a 45 - 90 minute grilling at a cocktail party but on a stage in 
front of your peers. Q may take an entire session or may be combined with 
another submission. This session will not be video recorded.

Discussion Q can be 45 or 90 minutes long.

24×7 Presentations
24×7 presentations are 7 minute presentations comprising no more than 24 
slides. Successful 24x7 presentations have a clear focus on one or a few ideas 
and a narrower  focus than a 25 minute presentation. Similar to Pecha 
Kuchas or Lightning Talks, these 24×7 
presentations will be grouped into blocks based on conference themes, with each 
block followed by a moderated question and answer session involving the 
audience and all block presenters. This format will provide conference goers 
with a fast-paced survey of like work across many institutions. Proposals for 
24×7 presentations should be one to two pages (see below for submission 
templates).

24x7 presentations are 7 minutes long.

Posters
We invite one-page proposals 

[GOAL] Call for Papers extension - Open Repositories 2018: Sustaining Open

[Elin Stangeland]

The 13th International Conference on Open Repositories, OR2018, will be held on 
June 4th-7th, 2018 in Bozeman, Montana, USA.



Call for papers and scholarships have been extended until the 15th January 2018.



The theme for Open Repositories 2018 is Sustaining Open.



http://www.or2018.net/call-for-papers/



Research and Cultural Heritage communities have embraced the idea of Open; open 
communities, open source software, open data, scholarly communications, and 
open access publications and collections. These projects and communities 
require different modes of thinking and resourcing than purchasing vended 
products.  While open may be the way forward, mitigating fatigue, finding 
sustainable funding, and building flexible digital repository platforms is 
something most of us are striving for.  Submissions this year should focus on 
the how, why, and what it will take to make open sustainable.



While not limited to the below topics, we’re focusing our attention on issues 
around the sustainability of:

·  Open source software - sustainability of software developed locally and 
large open source systems, legacy code

·  Community - reaching out to new audiences, developing a community, governance

·  Content - research data, digital preservation, persistent urls, archiving

·  Teams/People - staff and knowledge within the community, contingency 
planning, training and development, and succession planning

·  Projects - sustainability of projects beyond the grant, maturing communities

·  Infrastructure/Integrations - integrations between systems, changing 
technical environments

·  Policy - national, international, local and community policy and decisions

·  Challenges of sustainability - funding, local, technical, community

·  Rights and Copyright - including Data Protection, sharing and storing of 
content

·  Reuse, standards, and reproducibility - for example: software, data, content 
types

·  New open technologies and standards

Submission Process

Accepted proposals in all categories will be made available through the 
conference’s web site https://www.conftool.net/or2018, and later they and 
associated materials will be made available in an open repository. Some 
conference sessions may be live streamed or recorded, then made publicly 
available.



Interest Groups

This year there are no separate interest groups for the different repository 
systems, instead if your 24x7 or presentation submission is related to a 
specific repository system please indicate so in your proposal.

Presentations

Presentation proposals are expected to be two to four pages (see below for 
submission templates). Successful submissions in past years have typically 
described work relevant to a wide audience and applicable beyond a single 
software system.



Presentations are 30 minutes long including questions.

Panels

Panel proposals are expected to be two to four pages (see below for submission 
templates). Successful submissions in past years have typically described work 
relevant to a wide audience and applicable beyond a single software system. All 
panels are expected to include at least some degree of diversity in viewpoints 
and personal background of the panelists. Panel sessions are expected to 
include a short presentation from each panel member followed by a discussion. 
Panels may take an entire session or may be combined with another submission.



Panels can be 45 or 90 minutes long.



Discussion Question and Answer

Discussion Q proposals are expected to be two to four pages (see below for 
submission templates). This is your opportunity to suggest members of the 
community to join in a Q discussion on various proposed topics.  This is 
meant to be a deep-dive into why a decision was made, how projects got started, 
where an idea came from, or anything else that you want to know more about. 
Imagine this as a 45 - 90 minute grilling at a cocktail party but on a stage in 
front of your peers. Q may take an entire session or may be combined with 
another submission. This session will not be video recorded.



Discussion Q can be 45 or 90 minutes long.

24×7 Presentations

24×7 presentations are 7 minute presentations comprising no more than 24 
slides. Successful 24x7 presentations have a clear focus on one or a few ideas 
and a narrower  focus than a 25 minute presentation. Similar to Pecha 
Kuchas or Lightning Talks, these 24×7 
presentations will be grouped into blocks based on conference themes, with each 
block followed by a moderated question and answer session involving the 
audience and all block presenters. This format will provide conference goers 
with a fast-paced survey of like work across many institutions. Proposals for 
24×7 presentations should be one to two pages (see below for submission 
templates).



24x7 presentations are 7 minutes long.

Posters

We invite one-page proposals for posters that showcase current work (see below 

[GOAL] Save the date for Open Repositories 2019 AND Call for expressions of interest in hosting the annual Open Repositories Conference 2020

[Elin Stangeland]

Save the Date for Open Repositories 2019

The Open Repositories Steering Committee in conjunction with Universität 
Hamburg is very pleased to announce that the 14th Open Repositories Conference 
will be held in Hamburg, Germany from 10-13 June 2019 at Universität Hamburg.

Link to online version of this text: http://or2019.blogs.uni-hamburg.de/?p=23

Universität Hamburg<https://www.uni-hamburg.de/en.html> is the largest research 
and educational institution in northern Germany. As one of the country's 
largest universities, it offers a diverse range of taught programs coupled with 
excellent research. The institution is committed to sustainable science and 
scholarship and its faculties pursue the concept of sustainability in its 
broadest sense in both research and teaching.

The annual Open Repositories Conference<http://www.openrepositories.org/> is a 
practitioner based conference that brings together people from higher 
education, government, libraries, archives and museums to focus on repository 
infrastructure, tools, services, and policies. The Conference provides a forum 
for delegates from around the world to explore the challenges and opportunities 
that arise at the interface of technology and scholarly publishing and practice.

More information will be available at Open Repositories 
2018<http://www.or2018.net/> to be held in Montana June 4-7.

Contact information OR2019: http://or2019.net

For the Open Repositories Steering Committee:
Elin Stangeland
University of Oslo Library
elin.stangel...@ub.uio.no<mailto:elin.stangel...@ub.uio.no>

For the local organizing committee:
Kai Wörner
Center for Sustainable Research Data Management
Universität Hamburg
kai.woer...@uni-hamburg.de<mailto:kai.woer...@uni-hamburg.de>

Call for Expressions of Interest in hosting the annual Open Repositories 
Conference, 2020

The Open Repositories Steering Committee seeks Expressions of Interest (EoI) 
from candidate host organizations for the 2020 Open Repositories Annual 
Conference series. Proposals from all geographic areas will be given 
consideration.

Link to online version: http://www.openrepositories.org/2017/11/30/calleoi/

Important dates

The Open Repositories Steering Committee is accepting Expressions of Interest 
(EoI) to host the OR2020 conferences until February 28th, 2018. Shortlisted 
sites will be notified by the end of March 2018 and invited to submit a full 
proposal.

Background

Candidate institutions must have the ability to host at least a four-day 
conference with up to 500 attendees (OR2016 held in Dublin, Ireland drew about 
500 people and OR2017 held in Brisbane, Australia drew around 330). This 
includes appropriate access to conference facilities, lodging, and 
transportation, as well as the ability to manage a range of supporting services 
(food services, internet services, and conference social events; conference web 
site; management of registration and online payments; etc.). The candidate 
institutions and their local arrangements committee must have the means to 
support the costs of producing the conference through attendee registration and 
independent fundraising. Fuller guidance is provided in the Open Repositories 
Conference 
Handbook<https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/or11/Open+Repositories+Conference+Handbook>
 on the Open Repositories 
wiki<https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/or11/OR+Steering+Committee+Home>.

Expressions of Interest Guidelines

Organisations interested in proposing to host either the OR2020 conference 
should follow the steps listed below:

1.Expressions of Interest (EoIs) must be received by February 28, 2018. 
Please direct these EoIs and any enquiries to OR Steering Committee Chair Elin 
Stangeland - elin.stangel...@ub.uio.no<mailto:elin.stangel...@ub.uio.no>.

2.As noted above, the Open Repositories wiki has a set of pages at Open 
Repositories Conference Handbook which offer guidelines for organising an Open 
Repositories conference.  Candidate institutions should pay particular 
attention to the pages listed at "Preparing a bid" before submitting an EoI.

3.The EoI should be fairly brief (1-2 pages, or email length), and must 
include:

a. the name of the institution (or institutions in the case of a joint bid)

b.an email address as a first point of contact

c. the proposed location for the conference venue with a brief paragraph 
describing the local amenities that would be available to delegates, including 
its proximity to a reasonably well-served airport

1.The OR Steering Committee will review proposals and may seek advice from 
additional reviewers.  Following the review, one or more institutions will be 
invited to submit a detailed proposal.

2.Invitations to submit a detailed proposal will be issued by the end of 
March 2018; institutions whose interest will not be taken up will also be 
notified at that time.  The invitations sent out will provid

[GOAL] Call for Papers - Open Repositories 2018: Sustaining Open

[Elin Stangeland]

The 13th International Conference on Open Repositories, OR2018, will be held on 
June 4th-7th, 2018 in Bozeman, Montana, USA.


Open Repositories 2018 is now calling for proposals around the theme of 
Sustaining Open.



http://www.or2018.net/call-for-papers/


Research and Cultural Heritage communities have embraced the idea of Open; open 
communities, open source software, open data, scholarly communications, and 
open access publications and collections. These projects and communities 
require different modes of thinking and resourcing than purchasing vended 
products.  While open may be the way forward, mitigating fatigue, finding 
sustainable funding, and building flexible digital repository platforms is 
something most of us are striving for.  Submissions this year should focus on 
the how, why, and what it will take to make open sustainable.


While not limited to the below topics, we’re focusing our attention on issues 
around the sustainability of:

·  Open source software - sustainability of software developed locally and 
large open source systems, legacy code

·  Community - reaching out to new audiences, developing a community, governance

·  Content - research data, digital preservation, persistent urls, archiving

·  Teams/People - staff and knowledge within the community, contingency 
planning, training and development, and succession planning

·  Projects - sustainability of projects beyond the grant, maturing communities

·  Infrastructure/Integrations - integrations between systems, changing 
technical environments

·  Policy - national, international, local and community policy and decisions

·  Challenges of sustainability - funding, local, technical, community

·  Rights and Copyright - including Data Protection, sharing and storing of 
content

·  Reuse, standards, and reproducibility - for example: software, data, content 
types

·  New open technologies and standards

Submission Process

Accepted proposals in all categories will be made available through the 
conference’s web site, and later they and associated materials will be made 
available in an open repository. Some conference sessions may be live streamed 
or recorded, then made publicly available.


Interest Groups

This year there are no separate interest groups for the different repository 
systems, instead if your 24x7 or presentation submission is related to a 
specific repository system please indicate so in your proposal.

Presentations

Presentation proposals are expected to be two to four pages (see below for 
submission templates). Successful submissions in past years have typically 
described work relevant to a wide audience and applicable beyond a single 
software system.


Presentations are 30 minutes long including questions.

Panels

Panel proposals are expected to be two to four pages (see below for submission 
templates). Successful submissions in past years have typically described work 
relevant to a wide audience and applicable beyond a single software system. All 
panels are expected to include at least some degree of diversity in viewpoints 
and personal background of the panelists. Panel sessions are expected to 
include a short presentation from each panel member followed by a discussion. 
Panels may take an entire session or may be combined with another submission.


Panels can be 45 or 90 minutes long.


Discussion Question and Answer

Discussion Q proposals are expected to be two to four pages (see below for 
submission templates). This is your opportunity to suggest members of the 
community to join in a Q discussion on various proposed topics.  This is 
meant to be a deep-dive into why a decision was made, how projects got started, 
where an idea came from, or anything else that you want to know more about. 
Imagine this as a 45 - 90 minute grilling at a cocktail party but on a stage in 
front of your peers. Q may take an entire session or may be combined with 
another submission. This session will not be video recorded.


Discussion Q can be 45 or 90 minutes long.

24×7 Presentations

24×7 presentations are 7 minute presentations comprising no more than 24 
slides. Successful 24x7 presentations have a clear focus on one or a few ideas 
and a narrower  focus than a 25 minute presentation. Similar to Pecha 
Kuchas or Lightning Talks, these 24×7 
presentations will be grouped into blocks based on conference themes, with each 
block followed by a moderated question and answer session involving the 
audience and all block presenters. This format will provide conference goers 
with a fast-paced survey of like work across many institutions. Proposals for 
24×7 presentations should be one to two pages (see below for submission 
templates).


24x7 presentations are 7 minutes long.

Posters

We invite one-page proposals for posters that showcase current work (see below 
for submission templates). OR2018 will feature physical posters only. Posters 
will be on 

[GOAL] Open Repositories 2017 Final registration reminder

[Elin Stangeland]

Open Repositories 2017 Final registration reminder!



Don't forget to register for the Open Repositories Conference taking place in 
Brisbane June 26th to 30th. Registration will close on June 21st.



The full program is available online: https://or2017.net/program/. In 
particular, notice our excellent keynotes Sir Timothy Gowers and Dr Xiaolin 
Zhang: https://or2017.net/speakers/.



Find details about registration and visa applications here: 
https://or2017.net/attending/.





We look forward to seeing you in Brisbane at this year's Open Repositories 
conference!


Host Organising Committee
Linda O'Brien, Griffith University
Maureen Sullivan, Griffith University
Lousie Howard, Griffith University
Bob Gerrity, The University of Queensland
Heather Todd, The University of Queensland
Lori Bowe, Griffith University
Susanne Osborne, Griffith University

Contact: or2...@qut.edu.au<mailto:or2...@qut.edu.au>

OR 2017 Program Committee Co-Chairs
Linda O'Brien, Griffith University
Andrea Schweer, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
Elin Stangeland, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Contact: 
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[GOAL] Open Repositories 2017 - Register Now

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The Twelfth International Conference on Open Repositories
26 - 30 June 2017
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

OR2017 Registration Opens

We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the 12th 
International Conference on Open Repositories, to be held on June 26-30, 2017 
in Brisbane, Australia. Full registration details and a link to the 
registration form may be found here<https://or2017.net/registration/>.

OR 2017 is co-hosted by The University of Queensland (UQ), Queensland 
University of Technology (QUT) and Griffith University.

OR2017 Registration and Fees

An early bird registration fee of $720 AUD will be available until April 21. 
After April 21, the registration fee will increase to $780 AUD.

This registration fee covers participation in general conference sessions, 
interest group sessions, University site tours, the Welcome Reception as well 
as the Conference gala event. For further details see the registration page:  
https://or2017.net/registration/

For a draft outline of the conference schedule, please click 
here<https://or2017.net/program/>.

Please note: Pre-Conference Workshops are not included in the registration fee. 
To view the Pre-Conference Workshops, please click 
here<https://or2017.net/pre-conference-workshops/>.

Accommodation

The Conference will take place at the Hilton Brisbane. We have negotiated 
discounted Conference rates available exclusively to OR 2017 delegates at 
Hilton Brisbane, Next Hotels, Ibis Styles, Oaks Charlotte Towers and Mantra 
Midtown. More information can be found here<https://or2017.net/accommodation/>.

Bookings can be made during the registration process up until 24 May 2017 or 
until sold out. If you would like to extend your stay outside of the available 
dates or have already registered and would like to add accommodation please 
email us at: or2...@qut.edu.au<mailto:or2...@qut.edu.au> and we will be happy 
to arrange this for you.

Travelling & Visa Applications

All international visitors to Australia (the sole exception being citizens of 
Australia and New Zealand traveling ?on Australian and New Zealand passports) 
must obtain a visa in advance. Online applications should be made by 13 May 
2017. For information on how and where to apply for a visitor's visa to 
Australia please visit http://www.border.gov.au/.

Further information on Travelling & Visas can be found on the Conference 
website, here<https://or2017.net/travelling-visas/>.

Keynotes

Keynote speakers for OR 2017 have been announced! We're excited to have Sir 
Timothy Gowers and Dr Xiaolin Zhang join us for this years conference. Please 
Click here<https://or2017.net/speakers/> to see their full bios.

We look forward to seeing you at OR 2017!
Host Organising Committee
Sue Hutley, Queensland University of Technology (QUT)
Linda O'Brien, Griffith University
Maureen Sullivan, Griffith University
Lousie Howard, Griffith University
Bob Gerrity, The University of Queensland
Heather Todd, The University of Queensland
Lori Bowe, Griffith University
Susanne Osborne, Griffith University

Contact: or2...@qut.edu.au<mailto:or2...@qut.edu.au>

OR 2017 Program Committee Co-Chairs
Sue Hutley, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia
Andrea Schweer, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
Elin Stangeland, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

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[GOAL] Final reminder: OR 2017 submission deadline November 30th; Closing keynote Dr. Xiaolin Zhang

[Elin Stangeland]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

29 November, 2016



Final reminder: OR2017 submission deadline November 30th


The final deadline for submitting proposals and scholarship programme 
applications to the Twelfth International Conference on Open Repositories 
(@OR2017aus and #or2017) closes on Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2016. The conference is 
scheduled to take place June 26-30 in Brisbane, Australia and is being hosted 
by The University of Queensland (UQ), Queensland University of Technology (QUT) 
and Griffith University.


The theme this year is "Open : Innovation | Knowledge | Repositories."  You may 
review the call for proposals here: http://or2017.net/call-for-proposals/



The OR2017 Scholarship Programme enables us to provide support for a small 
number of full registered places (including the poster reception and banquet) 
for the conference in Brisbane. The programme is open to librarians, repository 
managers, developers and researchers in digital libraries and related fields. 
Applicants submitting a paper for the conference will be given priority 
consideration for funding. Please note that the programme does not cover costs 
such as accommodation, travel and subsistence. It is anticipated that the 
applicant's home institution will provide financial support to supplement the 
OR Scholarship Award.



* Submit your proposal here: https://conftool.com/or2017 by Nov. 30, 2016 *



* Find out more and submit your application at 
http://or2017.net/2016/11/23/2017-scholarship-programme/ by Dec. 31, 2016 *


Closing Keynote

We are excited to announce that Dr. Xiaolin Zhang is the former Director 
(2004-2015), National Science Library (NSL), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), 
will be our closing keynote speaker for OR 2017. With a Physics degree, a 
Master of Science degree and a DLS degree, Dr. Zhang brings with him a wealth 
of knowledge in the areas of digital libraries, knowledge organization, 
data-driven knowledge discovery, and open access. For further information 
please go to the OR17 Speakers webpage: http://or2017.net/speakers/


We look forward to seeing you at OR2016!

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

Sue Hutley, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia
Andrea Schweer, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
Elin Stangeland, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Contact: 
or17-program-cha...@googlegroups.com<mailto:or17-program-cha...@googlegroups.com>

LOCAL HOSTS

The University of Queensland (UQ); Queensland University of Technology (QUT); 
Griffith University

Contact: or2...@qut.edu.au<mailto:or2...@qut.edu.au>

CONFERENCE WEBSITE AND SOCIAL MEDIA
FAQs about OR2017: http://or2017.net/frequently-asked-questions/
Web site: or2017.net
Twitter: @OR2017aus Tag: #OR2017
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ORConference/


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[GOAL] Open Repositories Conference: 2017 Scholarship Programme

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Open Repositories Conference: 2017 Scholarship Programme

The Open Repositories Steering Committee invites applications for the Open 
Repositories 2017 Scholarship Programme. Scholarships provide support for a 
small number of full registered places for the 2017 conference in Brisbane 
through a competitive application process. It is open to librarians, repository 
managers, developers, and researchers in digital repositories, open 
scholarship, and related fields. Applicants submitting a presentation proposal 
will be given priority consideration for funding. Please provide details of 
your submission in the application form.

Applicants will be asked, "What is it about Open Repositories that interests 
you/" and "What do you expect to gain from attending the conference?"
You may wish to prepare answers to these before completing the form as the 
responses to these will be critical to the success of your application.

Please note: the scholarship provides funding for a full conference 
registration only (including the conference banquet and poster reception). It 
does not cover other costs such as accommodation, travel, and subsistence. It 
is anticipated that the applicant's home institution will provide financial 
support to supplement the OR scholarship award.

Submit your application here:   https://goo.gl/forms/ubNcqRuPmID2cmZw2  by 31 
December 2016.

The Twelfth International Conference on Open Repositories is scheduled to take 
place June 26-30 in Brisbane, Australia. The theme this year is "Open: 
Innovation | Knowledge | Repositories."

We look forward to seeing you at OR2017!




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[GOAL] Open Repositories Conference Update: OR2017 Proposal Deadline Extended

[Elin Stangeland]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 17, 2016
Brisbane, Australia


Open Repositories Conference Update: OR2017 Proposal Deadline Extended

The final deadline for submitting proposals for the Twelfth International 
Conference on Open Repositories (@OR2017aus and #OR2017) has been extended 
until Wednesday, November 30, 2016. The conference is scheduled to take place 
June 26-30 in Brisbane, Australia and is being hosted by The University of 
Queensland (UQ), Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and Griffith 
University.

The theme this year is "Open : Innovation | Knowledge | Repositories."  You may 
review the call for proposals here: http://or2017.net/call-for-proposals/

Submit your proposal here: https://www.conftool.net/or2017/ by November 30, 2016

We look forward to seeing you at OR2017!


PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

Sue Hutley, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia
Andrea Schweer, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
Elin Stangeland, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Contact: 
or17-program-cha...@googlegroups.com<mailto:or17-program-cha...@googlegroups.com>

LOCAL HOSTS

The University of Queensland (UQ); Queensland University of Technology (QUT); 
Griffith University

Contact: or2...@qut.edu.au<mailto:or2...@qut.edu.au>

CONFERENCE WEBSITE AND SOCIAL MEDIA
FAQs about OR2017: http://or2017.net/frequently-asked-questions/
Web site: or2017.net
Twitter: @OR2017aus Tag: #OR2017
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ORConference/

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[GOAL] Call for Proposals for Open Repositories 2017 – now open for online submissions

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 the conference. Instructions for 
preparing the digital posters will be distributed to authors of accepted poster 
proposals prior to the conference.

DEVELOPER TRACK: TOP TIPS, CUNNING CODE AND IMAGINATIVE INNOVATION

Each year a significant proportion of the delegates at Open Repositories are 
software developers who work on repository software or related services. OR2017 
will feature a Developer Track that will provide a focus for showcasing work 
and exchanging ideas.

Building on the success of the Developer Track at OR2015 and OR2016, where we 
encouraged live hacking and audience participation, we invite members of the 
technical community to share the features, systems, tools and best practices 
that are important to you. Presentations can be as informal as you like, but 
once again we encourage live demonstrations, tours of code repositories, 
examples of cool features and the unique viewpoints that so many members of our 
community possess. Submissions should take the form of a title and a brief 
outline of what will be shared with the community.

Developers are also encouraged to contribute to the other tracks.

IDEAS CHALLENGE

OR2017 will also again include the popular Ideas Challenge. Taking part in this 
competition provides an opportunity to take an active role in repository 
innovation, in collaboration with your peers and in pursuit of prizes. The 
Ideas Challenge is open to all conference attendees - developers, 
non-developers, and everyone in between. Further details and guidance on the 
Ideas Challenge will be forthcoming.

WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS

One to two-page proposals for workshops and tutorials addressing theoretical or 
practical issues around digital repositories are welcomed (see online for 
Proposal Templates). Please address the following in your proposal:


· The subject of the event and what knowledge you intend to convey

· Length of session (e.g.,2 hours, half a day or a whole day)

· A brief statement on the learning outcomes from the session

· The target audience for your session and how many attendees you plan 
to accommodate

· Technology and facility requirements

· Any other supplies or support required

· Anything else you believe is pertinent to carrying out the session

PROPOSAL TEMPLATES

The OR2017 proposal templates help you prepare an effective submission. 
Submission templates are available for download on the web site for this call: 
http://or2017.net/call-for-proposals/  Templates are available in Microsoft 
Word, Plain Text and RTF.

SUBMISSION  SYSTEM

The conference system is now open for submissions. PDF format is preferred.

https://www.conftool.net/or2017/

REVIEW PROCESS

All submissions will be peer reviewed and evaluated according to the criteria 
outlined in the call for proposals, including quality of content, significance, 
originality, and thematic fit.

CODE OF CONDUCT

The OR2017 Code of Conduct and Anti-Harassment Policy are available at 
http://or2017.net/code-of-conduct/

SCHOLARSHIP  PROGRAMME

OR2017 will again run a Scholarship Programme which will enable us to provide 
support for a small number of fuII registered places (including the poster 
reception and conference dinner) for the conference in Brisbane. The programme 
is open to librarians, repository managers, developers and researchers in 
digital libraries and related fields. Applicants submitting a proposal for the 
conference will be given priority consideration for funding. Please note that 
the programme does not cover costs such as accommodation, travel and 
subsistence. It is anticipated that the applicant's home institution will 
provide financial support to supplement the OR Scholarship Award. Full details 
and an application form will shortly be available on the conference website.

Scholarship Programme Application Deadline: 14 December 2016
Successful Applicants Notified: 10 February 2017

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

Sue Hutley, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia

Andrea Schweer, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

Elin Stangeland, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Contact: 
or17-program-cha...@googlegroups.com<mailto:or17-program-cha...@googlegroups.com>

LOCAL HOSTS

The University of Queensland; Queensland University of Technology (QUT); 
Griffith University

Contact: or2...@qut.edu.au<mailto:or2...@qut.edu.au>

CONFERENCE WEBSITE AND SOCIAL MEDIA

FAQs about 0R2017: http://or2017.net/frequently-asked-questions/

Web site: or2017.net

Twitter: @0R2017aus Tag: #OR2017

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ORConference/

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[GOAL] Call for Open Repositories Conference 2017 Proposals

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 of accepted poster 
proposals prior to the conference.

DEVELOPER TRACK: TOP TIPS, CUNNING CODE AND IMAGINATIVE INNOVATION

Each year a significant proportion of the delegates at Open Repositories are 
software developers who work on repository software or related services. OR2017 
will feature a Developer Track that will provide a focus for showcasing work 
and exchanging ideas.

Building on the success of the Developer Track at OR2015 and OR2016, where we 
encouraged live hacking and audience participation, we invite members of the 
technical community to share the features, systems, tools and best practices 
that are important to you. Presentations can be as informal as you like, but 
once again we encourage live demonstrations, tours of code repositories, 
examples of cool features and the unique viewpoints that so many members of our 
community possess. Submissions should take the form of a title and a brief 
outline of what will be shared with the community.

Developers are also encouraged to contribute to the other tracks.

IDEAS CHALLENGE

OR2017 will also again include the popular Ideas Challenge. Taking part in this 
competition provides an opportunity to take an active role in repository 
innovation, in collaboration with your peers and in pursuit of prizes. The 
Ideas Challenge is open to all conference attendees - developers, 
non-developers, and everyone in between. Further details and guidance on the 
Ideas Challenge will be forthcoming.

WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS

One to two-page proposals for workshops and tutorials addressing theoretical or 
practical issues around digital repositories are welcomed (see online for 
Proposal Templates). Please address the following in your proposal:


* The subject of the event and what knowledge you intend to convey

* Length of session (e.g.,2 hours, half a day or a whole day)

* A brief statement on the learning outcomes from the session

* The target audience for your session and how many attendees you plan 
to accommodate

* Technology and facility requirements

* Any other supplies or support required

* Anything else you believe is pertinent to carrying out the session

PROPOSAL TEMPLATES

The OR2017 proposal templates help you prepare an effective submission. 
Submission templates are available for download on the web site for this call: 
http://or2017.net/call-for-proposals/  Templates are available in Microsoft 
Word, Plain Text and RTF.

SUBMISSION  SYSTEM

The conference system will be open for submissions by 30 September 2016. PDF 
format is preferred.

REVIEW PROCESS

All submissions will be peer reviewed and evaluated according to the criteria 
outlined in the call for proposals, including quality of content, significance, 
originality, and thematic fit.

CODE OF CONDUCT

The OR2017 Code of Conduct and Anti-Harassment Policy are available at 
http://or2017.net/code-of-conduct/

SCHOLARSHIP  PROGRAMME

OR2017 will again run a Scholarship Programme which will enable us to provide 
support for a small number of fuII registered places (including the poster 
reception and conference dinner) for the conference in Brisbane. The programme 
is open to librarians, repository managers, developers and researchers in 
digital libraries and related fields. Applicants submitting a proposal for the 
conference will be given priority consideration for funding. Please note that 
the programme does not cover costs such as accommodation, travel and 
subsistence. It is anticipated that the applicant's home institution will 
provide financial support to supplement the OR Scholarship Award. Full details 
and an application form will shortly be available on the conference website.

Scholarship Programme Application Deadline: 14 December 2016
Successful Applicants Notified: 10 February 2017

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

Sue Hutley, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia

Andrea Schweer, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

Elin Stangeland, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Contact: or17-program-cha...@googlegroups.com

LOCAL HOSTS

The University of Queensland; Queensland University of Technology (QUT); 
Griffith University

Contact: or2...@gut.edu.au

CONFERENCE WEBSITE AND SOCIAL MEDIA

FAQs about 0R2017: http://or2017.net/freguently-asked-guestions/

Web site: or2017.net

Twitter: @0R2017aus Tag: #OR2017

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ORConference/


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[GOAL] Reminder: Call for Expressions of Interest in hosting the annual Open Repositories Conference: 2018 and 2019

[Elin Stangeland]

The Open Repositories Steering Committee seeks Expressions of Interest (EoI) 
from candidate host organizations for the 2018 and 2019 Open Repositories 
Annual Conference series. The call is issued for two years this time to enable 
better planning ahead of the conferences and to secure a good geographical 
distribution over time. Proposals from all geographic areas will be given 
consideration.

Important dates

The Open Repositories Steering Committee is accepting Expressions of Interest 
(EoI) to host the OR2018 and 2019 conferences until September 23rd, 2016. 
Shortlisted sites will be notified by the end of October 2016.

Background

Candidate institutions must have the ability to host at least a four-day 
conference of approximately 300-500 attendees (OR2016 held in Dublin, Ireland 
drew more than 450 people). This includes appropriate access to conference 
facilities, lodging, and transportation, as well as the ability to manage a 
range of supporting services (food services, internet services, and conference 
social events; conference web site; management of registration and online 
payments; etc.). The candidate institutions and their local arrangements 
committee must have the means to support the costs of producing the conference 
through attendee registration and independent fundraising. Fuller guidance is 
provided in the Open Repositories Conference Handbook: 
https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/or11/Open+Repositories+Conference+Handbook 
on the Open Repositories wiki: 
https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/or11/OR+Steering+Committee+Home.

Expressions of Interest Guidelines

Organisations interested in proposing to host either the OR2018 or OR2019 
conference should follow the steps listed below:

1.Expressions of Interest (EoIs) must be received by September 23rd, 2016. 
Please direct these EoIs and any enquiries to OR Steering Committee Chair 
William Nixon <william.ni...@glasgow.ac.uk>.
2. As noted above, the Open Repositories wiki has a set of pages at Open 
Repositories Conference Handbook which offer guidelines for organising an Open 
Repositories conference.  Candidate institutions should pay particular 
attention to the pages listed at "Preparing a bid" before submitting an EoI.
3. The EoI should be fairly brief (1-2 pages, or email length), and must 
include:
a. the name of the institution (or institutions in the case of a joint 
bid)
b. an email address as a first point of contact
c. the proposed location for the conference venue with a brief 
paragraph describing the local amenities that would be available to delegates, 
including its proximity to a reasonably well-served airport
d. Preferred year, if applicable
4. The OR Steering Committee will review proposals and may seek advice from 
additional reviewers.  Following the review, one or more institutions will be 
invited to submit a detailed proposal.
5. Invitations to submit a detailed proposal will be issued by the end of 
October 2016; institutions whose interest will not be taken up will also be 
notified at that time.  The invitations sent out will provide a timeline for 
submitting a formal proposal and details of additional information available to 
the shortlisted sites for help in the preparation of their bid.  The OR 
Steering Committee will be happy to answer specific queries whilst proposals 
are being prepared.

About Open Repositories

Since 2006 Open Repositories has hosted an annual conference that brings 
together users and developers of open digital repository platforms. For further 
information about Open Repositories and links to past conference sites, please 
visit the OR home page: http://openrepositories.org

Subscribe to announcements about Open Repositories conferences by joining the 
OR Google Group:http://groups.google.com/group/open-repositories.

Please feel free to reflect this call for Expressions of Interest out through 
your communities.

Thank you!

William Nixon and Elin Stangeland
for the Open Repositories Steering Committee

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[GOAL] OR2016 keynotes and accepted contributions announced; Early bird deadline is April 13th

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Open Repositories 2016 - to be held in Dublin, Ireland June 13th-16th - is 
pleased to announce our opening and closing keynote speakers - Laura 
Czerniewicz and Rufus Pollock. Read below for more information about both.





Please note that early bird registration for Open Repositories 2016 will close 
on April 13th. Register at http://or2016.net/   to take 
advantage of the early bird registration, make your hotel reservation, and book 
sightseeing tours.





The accepted contributions are also now listed on the OR2016 Website here: 
http://or2016.net/accepted-contributions 
 . We are currently working on the 
detailed program schedule, but you can find the general outline here: 
http://or2016.net/conference-at-a-glance/ 
 .





Laura Czerniewicz will kick off Open Repositories 2016 with her opening keynote 
titled "Which knowledge online? Reflections on networked scholarly 
communication practices in a global age" on the morning of Tuesday, June 14th. 
The current digitally-mediated networked age promises global digital cultures 
with flattened power relations, given the affordances of information and 
communication technologies to collapse distance, enable easier cross-country 
collaborations and create new opportunities for knowledge production and 
sharing. Drawing on case studies of local knowledge production, communication, 
visibility and discoverability, this talk will raise issues regarding how the 
reconfiguration of relationships and power is occurring in practice.





Associate Professor Czerniewicz is the director of the Centre for Innovation in 
Learning and Teaching at the University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa. Prior 
to that position, she ran the OpenUCT Initiative spearheading the university's 
open scholarship agenda including the development of the Open Access policy and 
the repository as well as the integration of open education. She blogs 
intermittently at http://lauraczerniewicz.uct.ac.za/ 

  and can be followed at https://twitter.com/czernie on Twitter.





Dr. Rufus Pollock will deliver the closing keynote the afternoon of Thursday, 
June 16th. Dr Pollock is Founder and President of Open Knowledge, an 
international non-profit using advocacy, technology and training to unlock 
information and see it used to create insight that drives change. He was 
formerly a Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow and a Mead Fellow in Economics at 
Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge and is currently an adviser on open 
data to several governments. He has worked extensively as a scholar, activist 
and technologist on the social, legal and technical challenges around the 
creation and sharing of knowledge. See more about Dr. Pollock at 
http://rufuspollock.org/   and follow him on Twitter 
at https://twitter.com/rufuspollock.





We look forward to seeing you in Dublin this June!





Dermot Frost



Chair, OR2016 Host Committee





David Minor, Matthias Razum, and Sarah Shreeves



Co-Chairs, OR2016 Program Committee



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[GOAL] DEADLINE fast approaching: OR2016 Proposals due Feb 1

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>From the Open Repositories Conference 2016 organizers


January 20, 2016
Read it online: http://or2016.net/call-for-papers/

Call for Proposals for Open Repositories 2016: Illuminating the World

The Eleventh International Conference on Open Repositories, OR2016, will be 
held on June 13th-16th, 2016in Dublin, Ireland. The organizers are pleased to 
issue this call for contributions to the program.

As previous Open Repositories have demonstrated, the use of digital 
repositories to manage research, scholarly and cultural information is well 
established and increasingly mature. Entering our second decade, we have an 
opportunity to reflect on where we've been and, more importantly, where we're 
heading. New development continues apace, and we've reached the time when many 
organizations are exploring expansive connections with larger processes both 
inside and outside traditional boundaries. Open Repositories 2016 will explore 
how our rich collections and infrastructure are now an inherent part of 
contemporary scholarship and research and how they have expanded to touch many 
aspects of our academic and cultural enterprises.

The theme of OR2016 is "Illuminating the World." OR2016 will provide an 
opportunity to explore the ways in which repositories and related 
infrastructure and processes:

* bring different disciplines, collections, and people to light;
* expose research, scholarship, and collections from developing 
countries;
* increase openness of collections, software, data and workflows;
* highlight data patterns and user pathways through collections; and
* how we can organize to better support these - and other - 
infrastructures.

We welcome proposals on these ideas, but also on the theoretical, practical, 
technical, organizational or administrative topics related to digital 
repositories.  Submissions that demonstrate original and repository-related 
work outside of these themes will be considered, but preference will be given 
to submissions which address them. We are particularly interested in the 
following themes.

1.  Supporting Open Scholarship, Open Data, and Open Science

Papers are invited to consider how repositories can best support the needs of 
open science and open scholarship to make research as accessible and useful as 
possible, including:

* Open access, open data and open educational resources
* Scholarly workflows, publishing and communicating scientific 
knowledge
* Exposure of research and scholarship from developing countries 
and under-resourced communities and disciplines
* Compliance with funder mandates

2. Repositories and Cultural Heritage

Papers are invited to consider how repositories and their associated 
infrastructures best support the needs of cultural heritage collections, 
organizations, and researchers. Areas of interest include:

* Impact of aggregation on repository infrastructure and management
* Exposure of collections and cultural heritage from developing 
countries and under-resourced communities and disciplines
* Special considerations in access and use of cultural heritage 
collections
* Reuse and analysis of content.

3. Repositories of high volume and/or complex data and collections

Papers are invited to consider how we can use tools and processes to highlight 
data patterns and user pathways through large corporas including:

* Data and text mining
* Entity recognition
* Linked data
* Standardized interfaces
* Interaction with large-scale computation and simulation processes
* Issues of scale and size beyond traditional repository contexts

4. Managing Research Data, Software, and Workflows

Papers are invited to consider how repositories can support the needs of 
research data and related software and workflows. Areas of interest are:

* Curation lifecycle management, including storage, software and 
workflows
* Digital preservation tools and services
* Reuse and analysis of scientific content
* Scholarly workflows, publishing and communicating scientific 
knowledge

5. Integrating with the Wider Web and External Systems

Papers are invited to explore, evaluate, or demonstrate integration with 
external systems, including:

* CRIS and research management systems
* Notification and compliance tracking systems
* Identifier services
* Preservation services and repositories
* Publisher systems
* Collection management systems and workflows

6. Exploring Metrics, Assessment, and Impact

Papers are invited to present experiences on metrics and assessment services 
for a range of content, including:

* Bibliometrics
* Downloads (e.g. COUNTER compliance)
* Altmetrics 

[GOAL] CALL for Proposals for Open Repositories 2016

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>From the Open Repositories Conference 2016 organizers



December 1, 2015

Read it online: http://or2016.net/call-for-papers/



Call for Proposals for Open Repositories 2016: Illuminating the World



The Eleventh International Conference on Open Repositories, OR2016, will be 
held on June 13th-16th, 2016in Dublin, Ireland. The organizers are pleased to 
issue this call for contributions to the program.



As previous Open Repositories have demonstrated, the use of digital 
repositories to manage research, scholarly and cultural information is well 
established and increasingly mature. Entering our second decade, we have an 
opportunity to reflect on where we've been and, more importantly, where we're 
heading. New development continues apace, and we've reached the time when many 
organizations are exploring expansive connections with larger processes both 
inside and outside traditional boundaries. Open Repositories 2016 will explore 
how our rich collections and infrastructure are now an inherent part of 
contemporary scholarship and research and how they have expanded to touch many 
aspects of our academic and cultural enterprises.



The theme of OR2016 is "Illuminating the World." OR2016 will provide an 
opportunity to explore the ways in which repositories and related 
infrastructure and processes:



* bring different disciplines, collections, and people to light;

* expose research, scholarship, and collections from developing 
countries;

* increase openness of collections, software, data and workflows;

* highlight data patterns and user pathways through collections; and

* how we can organize to better support these - and other - 
infrastructures.



We welcome proposals on these ideas, but also on the theoretical, practical, 
technical, organizational or administrative topics related to digital 
repositories.  Submissions that demonstrate original and repository-related 
work outside of these themes will be considered, but preference will be given 
to submissions which address them. We are particularly interested in the 
following themes.



1.  Supporting Open Scholarship, Open Data, and Open Science



Papers are invited to consider how repositories can best support the needs of 
open science and open scholarship to make research as accessible and useful as 
possible, including:



* Open access, open data and open educational resources

* Scholarly workflows, publishing and communicating scientific 
knowledge

* Exposure of research and scholarship from developing countries 
and under-resourced communities and disciplines

* Compliance with funder mandates



2. Repositories and Cultural Heritage



Papers are invited to consider how repositories and their associated 
infrastructures best support the needs of cultural heritage collections, 
organizations, and researchers. Areas of interest include:



* Impact of aggregation on repository infrastructure and management

* Exposure of collections and cultural heritage from developing 
countries and under-resourced communities and disciplines

* Special considerations in access and use of cultural heritage 
collections

* Reuse and analysis of content.



3. Repositories of high volume and/or complex data and collections



Papers are invited to consider how we can use tools and processes to highlight 
data patterns and user pathways through large corporas including:



* Data and text mining

* Entity recognition

* Linked data

* Standardized interfaces

* Interaction with large-scale computation and simulation processes

* Issues of scale and size beyond traditional repository contexts



4. Managing Research Data, Software, and Workflows



Papers are invited to consider how repositories can support the needs of 
research data and related software and workflows. Areas of interest are:





* Curation lifecycle management, including storage, software and 
workflows

* Digital preservation tools and services

* Reuse and analysis of scientific content

* Scholarly workflows, publishing and communicating scientific 
knowledge



5. Integrating with the Wider Web and External Systems



Papers are invited to explore, evaluate, or demonstrate integration with 
external systems, including:



* CRIS and research management systems

* Notification and compliance tracking systems

* Identifier services

* Preservation services and repositories

* Publisher systems

* Collection management systems and workflows



6. Exploring Metrics, Assessment, and Impact



Papers are invited to present experiences on metrics and assessment services 
for a range of content, including:



* Bibliometrics

* 

[GOAL] REMINDER: Expressions of Interest in Hosting OR2016 Due by Aug. 24

[Elin Stangeland]

Aug. 14, 2014

Read it online: http://bit.ly/1rE2cKe

CALL for Expressions of Interest in Hosting the Annual Open Repositories 
Conference, 2016

The Open Repositories Steering Committee seeks Expressions of Interest from 
candidate host organizations for the 2016 Open Repositories Annual Conference. 
Proposals from all geographic areas will be given consideration.

Important dates
The Open Repositories Steering Committee is accepting Expressions of Interest 
to host the OR2016 conference until August 24th 2014. Shortlisted sites will be 
notified before the end of September 2014.

Background
Candidate institutions must have the ability to host a four-day conference of 
approximately 300-500 attendees (OR2014 http://or2014.helsinki.fi/  held 
recently in Helsinki, Finland drew more than 450 people). This includes 
appropriate access to conference facilities, lodging, and transportation, as 
well as the ability to manage a range of supporting services (food services, 
internet services, and conference social events; conference web site; 
management of registration and online payments; etc.). The candidate 
institutions and their local arrangements committee must have the means to 
support the costs of producing the conference through attendee registration and 
independent fundraising. Fuller guidance is provided in the Open Repositories 
Conference Handbook 
https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/or11/Open+Repositories+Conference+Handbook 
 on the Open Repositories wiki.

Expressions of Interest Guidelines
Organisations interested in proposing to host the OR2016 conference should 
follow the steps listed below:
 
1. Expressions of Interest (EoIs) must be received by August 24th, 2014. Please 
direct these EoIs and any enquiries to OR Steering Committee Chair Carol Minton 
Morris cmmor...@duraspace.org. 

2.  As noted above, the Open Repositories wiki has a set of pages at Open 
Repositories Conference Handbook 
https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/or11/Open+Repositories+Conference+Handbook 
 which offer guidelines for organizing an Open Repositories conference. 
Candidate institutions should pay particular attention to the pages listed at 
Preparing a bid before submitting an EoI.

3.  The EoI must include:
* the name of the institution (or institutions in the case of a joint bid) * an 
email address as a first point of contact * the proposed location for the 
conference venue with a brief paragraph describing * the local amenities that 
would be available to delegates, including its proximity to a reasonably 
well-served airport

4. The OR Steering Committee will review proposals and may seek advice from 
additional reviewers.  Following the review, one or more institutions will be 
invited to submit a detailed proposal.

5.  Invitations to submit a detailed proposal will be issued before the end of 
September 2014; institutions whose interest will not be taken up will also be 
notified at that time. The invitations sent out will provide a timeline for 
submitting a formal proposal and details of additional information available to 
the shortlisted sites for help in the preparation of their bid. The OR Steering 
Committee will be happy to answer specific queries whilst proposals are being 
prepared.

About Open Repositories
Since 2006 Open Repositories has hosted an annual conference that brings 
together users and developers of open digital repository platforms. For further 
information about Open Repositories and links to past conference sites, please 
visit the OR home page: http://sites.tdl.org/openrepositories/.
Subscribe to announcements about Open Repositories conferences by joining the 
OR Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/open-repositories.
Please feel free to reflect this call for Expressions of Interest out through 
your communities.

Thank you!
The Open Repositories Conference Steering Committee

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[GOAL] CALL for Expressions of Interest in hosting the annual Open Repositories Conference, 2016

[Elin Stangeland]

Apologies for cross-posting

--

June 27, 2014

Read it online: http://bit.ly/1rE2cKe

-- CALL for Expressions of Interest in Hosting the Annual Open Repositories 
Conference, 2016 --

The Open Repositories Steering Committee seeks Expressions of Interest from 
candidate host organizations for the 2016 Open Repositories Annual Conference. 
Proposals from all geographic areas will be given consideration.

-- Important dates  --

The Open Repositories Steering Committee is accepting Expressions of Interest 
to host the OR2016 conference until August 24th 2014.
Shortlisted sites will be notified before the end of September 2014.

-- Background  --

Candidate institutions must have the ability to host a four-day conference of 
approximately 300-500 attendees (OR2014 held recently in Helsinki, Finland drew 
more than 450 people). This includes appropriate access to conference 
facilities, lodging, and transportation, as well as the ability to manage a 
range of supporting services (food services, internet services, and conference 
social events; conference web site; management of registration and online 
payments; etc.). The candidate institutions and their local arrangements 
committee must have the means to support the costs of producing the conference 
through attendee registration and independent fundraising. Fuller guidance is 
provided in the Open Repositories Conference Handbook on the Open Repositories 
wiki.

-- Expressions of Interest Guidelines  --

Organisations interested in proposing to host the OR2016 conference should 
follow the steps listed below:

1. Expressions of Interest (EoIs) must be received by August 24th, 2014. Please 
direct these EoIs and any enquiries to OR Steering Committee Chair Carol Minton 
Morris cmmor...@duraspace.org.

2.  As noted above, the Open Repositories wiki has a set of pages at Open 
Repositories Conference Handbook which offer guidelines for organizing an Open 
Repositories conference. Candidate institutions should pay particular attention 
to the pages listed at Preparing a bid before submitting an EoI.

3.  The EoI must include:

* the name of the institution (or institutions in the case of a joint bid)

* an email address as a first point of contact

* the proposed location for the conference venue with a brief paragraph 
describing * the local amenities that would be available to delegates, 
including its proximity to a reasonably well-served airport

4. The OR Steering Committee will review proposals and may seek advice from 
additional reviewers.  Following the review, one or more institutions will be 
invited to submit a detailed proposal.

5.  Invitations to submit a detailed proposal will be issued before the end of 
September 2014; institutions whose interest will not be taken up will also be 
notified at that time. The invitations sent out will provide a timeline for 
submitting a formal proposal and details of additional information available to 
the shortlisted sites for help in the preparation of their bid. The OR Steering 
Committee will be happy to answer specific queries whilst proposals are being 
prepared.

-- About Open Repositories --

Since 2006 Open Repositories has hosted an annual conference that brings 
together users and developers of open digital repository platforms. For further 
information about Open Repositories and links to past conference sites, please 
visit the OR home page:
http://sites.tdl.org/openrepositories/.

Subscribe to announcements about Open Repositories conferences by joining the 
OR Google Group:
http://groups.google.com/group/open-repositories.

Please feel free to reflect this call for Expressions of Interest out through 
your communities.

Thank you!

The Open Repositories Conference Steering Committee 

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[GOAL] NEWS RELEASE OR2014 Update: Scholarship Programme Recipients Selected

[Elin Stangeland]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

June 3, 2014
Read it online: http://bit.ly/1rGGsRG 

OR2014 Update: Scholarship Programme Recipients Selected

Helsinki, FI  Leading up to the kick-off of the Ninth International Conference 
on Open Repositories http://or2014.helsinki.fi/  (#OR2014) next week, the 
Open Repositories Steering Committee is pleased to announce that recipients of 
the 2014 Open Repositories Pilot Scholarship Programme have been selected. The 
Pilot Scholarship Programme is providing financial support for three first-time 
delegates to attend this year's conference in Helsinki, June 9-13. The 
recipients, who are from Estonia, Turkey, and the United Kingdom, were among a 
strong pool of applicants.

The Open Repositories Steering Committee instituted the Scholarship Programme 
to encourage participation by librarians, repository managers, developers and 
researchers in digital libraries and related fields, who might not otherwise 
have the resources to attend Open Repositories. The Scholarship Programme 
covers the cost of full registration, including the conference dinner. We look 
forward to welcoming the scholarship recipients, and all delegates, to Helsinki 
next week.


Elin Stangeland
Adviser, Digital Services
University of Oslo Library

elin.stangel...@ub.uio.no
Phone: +47-22844020



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[GOAL] NEWS RELEASE OR2014 Updates: Developer Challenge and Workshop Registration

[Elin Stangeland]

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-2...@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


*
Elin Stangeland
Adviser, Digital Services
University of Oslo Library

elin.stangel...@ub.uio.no
Phone: +47-22844020



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[GOAL] OR2014 UPDATES: Early Bird Registration Extended til May 9; Meet Our OR2014 Sponsors

[Elin Stangeland]

May 1, 2014
Read it online: http://bit.ly/1kth7m2

Early Bird Registration Extended til May 9; Meet Our OR2014 Sponsors

Helsinki, FI  The deadline for early bird registration for Open Repositories 
2014 has been extended until Friday, May 9. If you have already registered, 
thanks for doing so-we are looking look forward to seeing you in Helsinki. If 
you have not, register now to take advantage of the reduced conference fee:
http://or2014.helsinki.fi/?page_id=454

TRAVEL / ACCOMMODATION
Plan to arrange your travel and accommodation if you haven't yet done so. The 
second week of June will be a busy conference week in Helsinki, so it is 
advisable to book hotel or hostel rooms as early as possible. More information 
on accommodation options available in Helsinki may be found here: 
http://or2014.helsinki.fi/?page_id=194

CONFERENCE PROGRAM
The preliminary OR2014 program is available at 
https://www.conftool.com/or2014/sessions.php

. Click on any day or session to see all scheduled talks. From the session view 
you can see related abstracts. The program for all Interest Group 
sessions-DSpace, ePrints, Fedora, and Invenio-is also fully available.

MEET THE SPONSORS OF OR2014
Our sponsors make the Open Repositories conference possible each year. We would 
like to recognize and thank our generous supporters at all levels. Click on 
logos to learn more about the outstanding organizations that have helped us 
bring you this year's conference: http://or2014.helsinki.fi/?page_id=664



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[GOAL] OR2014 Conference Update: Registration Open; New Scholarship Programme

[Elin Stangeland]

A message from the Open Repositories 2014 Conference organizers

February 21, 2014
Read it online: http://bit.ly/1mwHBZx

Register for Open Repositories 2014
New scholarship programme aims to expand OR participation

Helsinki, FI  We are pleased to announce that registration for Open
Repositories 2014 http://or2014.helsinki.fi/  is now open. The five-day
conference will be held in Helsinki, the capital of Finland, from June 9 to
June 13, 2014. You will find full registration information on the following
page: http://or2014.helsinki.fi/?page_id=454.

Open Repositories 2014-registration and fees

The early registration fee, 320 EUR, will be available until May 4. After
May 4, the registration fee will be 400 EUR. The conference dinner will be
held on Wednesday, June 11, on Valkosaari Island in Helsinki Harbor (more
information here http://or2014.helsinki.fi/?p=420 ) and is priced
separately at 60 EUR. There is also a special Friday evening excursion to
Suomenlinna Sea Fortress (more information here
http://or2014.helsinki.fi/?p=432 ) available for those delegates who will
be staying in Helsinki until Saturday.

The full conference program is expected to be available in late April once
the review process is completed. An early draft version of the schedule
(subject to change) is available here:
https://www.conftool.com/or2014/sessions.php.

The registration process will be handled by TAVI Congress Bureau. If you
have questions related to conference registration, you can contact them
directly at or-2014[at]tavicon.fi http://tavicon.fi/ .

Pilot scholarship programme

A highlight of this year's conference is the availability of delegate
scholarships for the first time. The Open Repositories Steering Committee is
delighted to announce a pilot Scholarship Programme for OR2014. This
programme aims to expand participation by providing registration support for
a small number of delegates to this year's conference. The scholarship
programme is open to librarians, repository managers, developers and
researchers in digital libraries and related fields.

Please note: the OR2014 scholarship programme provides a full discount for
conference registration and the conference dinner. It does not cover other
costs including accommodation, travel and subsistence. It is anticipated
that the applicant's home institution will provide financial support to
supplement an OR scholarship award.

Only fully-completed applications will be accepted. The deadline for
applications is Sunday, March 14, 2014.

You may apply for funding here: http://or2014.helsinki.fi/?page_id=412
http://or2014.helsinki.fi/?page_id=412 


For more information or to nominate someone for a scholarship, please
contact the Scholarship Committee chair, William J Nixon
(william.ni...@glasgow.ac.uk).

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[GOAL] Open Repositories Conference Update: OR2014 Proposal Deadline Extended

[Elin Stangeland]

Open Repositories Conference Update: OR2014 Proposal Deadline Extended

A message from the Open Repositories 2014 Conference organizers

Helsinki, Finland. The final deadline for submitting proposals for the Ninth
International Conference on Open Repositories (#or2014) has been extended
until Monday, Feb. 10, 2014. The conference is scheduled to take place June
9-13 in Helsinki and is being hosted by University of Helsinki's twin
libraries: Helsinki University Library and the National Library of Finland.

The theme this year is Towards Repository Ecosystems emphasizing the
interconnected nature of repositories, institutions, technologies, data and
the people who make it all work together. You may review the call for
proposals here: http://or2014.helsinki.fi/?page_id=281.

This year the Open Repositories team will be operating a pilot programme to
offer a small number of 'registration fee only' scholarships for this
conference. Details will be announced on the conference website when
registration opens.

Submit your proposal here: https://www.conftool.com/or2014/ by Feb. 10,
2014.

We look forward to seeing you at OR2014!

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