[Rdap] OR2016 keynotes, accepted contributions announced; Early bird deadline is April 13

[Carol Minton Morris]

April 6, 2016


Read it online: Accepted contributions:
http://or2016.net/accepted-contributions; Speakers:
http://or2016.net/keynote-speakers; Registration:
http://or2016.net/registration-submissions-2/


*OR2016 keynotes and accepted contributions announced; Early bird deadline
is April 13*


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/
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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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