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<p style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:13.0pt;background:white"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Open Repositories 2013 - Deadline for Proposals Extended to March 4th!</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">This year’s Open Repositories conference takes place in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada between Monday, July 8 and Friday, July 12. Registration is now open at <a href="http://or2013.net%2C/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#2e6173">http://or2013.net</span></a> - register
early and reserve your <a href="http://or2013.net/content/loc/accommodations" target="_blank"><span style="color:#2e6173">accommodation</span></a> as soon as you can! <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">We invite you to contribute to the conference program. The deadline has been extended until Monday, March 4th!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">This year’s conference theme is<span> </span><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Use, Reuse, Reproduce</span></strong>. One of the most
important roles of repositories is to enable greater use and reuse of their contents— whether those contents are library collections, scholarly articles, research data, or software—and metadata. The notion of use and reuse can be extended to repository infrastructure
as well. Many repositories are based on open source software that can be freely reused and adapted to serve local needs; other efforts are also emerging both in conjunction with and outside traditional repository platforms to encourage discipline or community
specific reuse and sharing of software, services, and infrastructure. In addition there is a growing interest and need to document and share the code and workflows used to produce research results - particularly in computationally intensive fields - in order
to promote reproducible research. We are very pleased to announce that the opening keynote this year will be Victoria Stodden of Columbia University and co-founder of <a href="http://www.runmycode.org/CompanionSite/home.do" target="_blank"><span style="color:#2e6173">http://www.runmycode.org/</span></a>.
See more about Dr. Stodden here: <a href="http://www.stodden.net/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#2e6173">http://www.stodden.net/</span></a><br>
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Some specific areas of interest for OR2013 are:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Effective re-use of content--particularly research data--enabled by embedded repository tools and services<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Effective re-use of software, services, and infrastructure to support repository development<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Facilitation of reproducible research through access to data, workflows, and code<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Services making use of repository metadata<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Focused, disciplinary or community-based software, services, and infrastructure for use and reuse of content<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Integration of data, including linked data, and external services with repositories to provide solutions to specific domains<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Added-value services for repositories<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Long-term preservation of repositories and their contents<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Role and impact of repositories in the research ecosystem<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The aim of the Open Repositories Conference is to bring those responsible for the development, implementation and management of digital repositories together with stakeholders, such
as researchers, librarians, publishers and others, to address theoretical, practical, and strategic issues across the entire lifecycle of information, from the creation and management of digital content, to enabling use, re-use, and interconnection of information,
and ensuring long-term preservation and archiving. The current economic climate dictates that repositories operate across administrative and disciplinary boundaries and to interact with distributed computational services and social communities.<br>
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Submissions can take the form of proposals for presentations, panels, posters, demonstrations, and workshops. We will consider any submission that seems to us sufficiently original and repository-related to merit attention at this event, but we’ll give preference
to submissions that address our primary theme. In some cases, papers submitted to the general conference may be referred to user groups if appropriate.<br>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Key dates and contacts</span></strong><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">EXTENDED to 4 March 2013: Deadline for submissions<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">12 April 2013: Submitters notified of acceptance to general conference<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">19 April 2013: Submitters notified of acceptance to user groups<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">8-12 July 2013: OR2013 conference:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">8 July 2013: Pre-conference workshops<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">9-11 July 2013: General Conference<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">11-12 July 2013: DSpace, EPrints, and Fedora user group meetings<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Submission process</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><br>
<em><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Conference Papers and Panels</span></em><br>
We welcome two- to four-page proposals for presentations or panels that deal with organizational, theoretical, practical, or administrative issues of digital repositories and repository services that are not specific to a particular technical platform. Abstracts
of accepted papers will be made available through the conference’s web site, and later they and associated materials will be made available in a repository intended for current and future OR content. In general, sessions are an hour and a half long with three
papers per session; panels may take an entire session. Relevant papers unsuccessful in the main track will automatically be considered for inclusion, as appropriate, as a User Group presentation.<span> </span><br>
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<em><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">User Group Presentations</span></em><br>
One to two-page proposals for presentations or panels that focus on use of one of the major repository platforms (EPrints, DSpace and Fedora) are invited from developers, researchers, repository managers, administrators and practitioners describing novel experiences
or developments in the construction and use of repositories involving issues specific to these technical platforms.<br>
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<em><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">24x7 Presentation Proposals</span></em><br>
We welcome one- to two-page proposals for 7 minute presentations comprising no more than 24 slides. Similar to Pecha Kuchas or Lightning Talks, these 24x7 presentations will be grouped into blocks based on conference themes, with each block followed by a moderated
discussion / question and answer session involving the audience and whole block of presenters. This forum will provide conference goers with a fast-paced survey of like work across many institutions, and presenters the chance to disseminate their work in more
depth and context than a traditional poster.<br>
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<em><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Posters and Demos</span></em><br>
We invite developers, researchers, repository managers, administrators and practitioners to submit one-page proposals for posters and demonstrations. Posters provide an opportunity to present work that isn’t appropriate for a paper; you’ll have the chance to
do a 60-second pitch for your poster or demo during a plenary session at the conference.<br>
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<em><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Workshops and Tutorials</span></em><br>
One- to two-page proposals for Workshops and Tutorials addressing theoretical or practical issues around digital repositories are welcomed. Workshops and tutorials will take place on the Monday before the conference. Please address the following in your proposal:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The subject of the event and what knowledge you intend to convey<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">A brief statement on the learning outcomes from the session<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Anything else you believe is pertinent to carrying out the session<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Developer Challenge<br>
Each year a significant proportion of the delegates at Open Repositories are software developers who work on repository software or related services, and once again OR2013 will feature a Developer Challenge. An announcement will be made in the future with more
details on the Challenge. Developers are also encouraged to make submissions to the other tracks--including posters, demonstrations, and 24x7 presentations--to present on recently completed work and works-in-progress.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">If you have any requests that fall outside of the call, such as satellite meetings, please contact the local conference chair, Mark Leggott, University of Prince Edward Island, at <a href="mailto:mleggott@upei.ca" target="_blank"><span style="color:#2e6173">mleggott@upei.ca</span></a>.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">PLEASE submit your paper, poster, demo or workshop proposal through the conference system. PDF format is preferred. Please include presentation title, authors’ names and affiliations
in the submission. The conference system is linked from the conference web site (<a href="http://or2013.net/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#2e6173">http://or2013.net/</span></a>).<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<em><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Program Co-Chairs:</span></em><br>
Jon W. Dunn, Indiana University Bloomington,<span> </span><a href="mailto:jwd@iu.edu" target="_blank"><span style="color:#2e6173">jwd@iu.edu</span></a><br>
Sarah L. Shreeves, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,<span> </span><span style="color:#2e6173"><a href="mailto:sshreeve@illinois.edu" target="_blank">sshreeve@illinois.edu</a></span></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal">
<u></u></p></div></div><div><br></div><br>Carol Minton Morris<br>DuraSpace<br>Director of Marketing and Communications<br>cmmorris@DuraSpace.org<br>Skype: carolmintonmorris<br><a href="tel:607%20592-3135" value="+16075923135" target="_blank">607 592-3135</a><br>
<a href="http://twitter.com/duraspace" target="_blank">Twitter@DuraSpace</a><br>
<a href="http://twitter.com/duracloud" target="_blank">Twitter@DuraCloud</a><br><a href="http://DuraSpace.org" target="_blank">http://DuraSpace.org</a>
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