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</font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">May 29, 2014</font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#000000"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Read it online: </font><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><a href="http://bit.ly/1mqhL4W" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/1mqhL4W</a></span></font></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000" size="4">OR2014 Updates: Developer Challenge and Workshop Registration</font></b></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><i>Helsinki, FI</i> 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.</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>Developer Challenge</b></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br>
</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">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.</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">Read the full Developer Challenge description <b><a href="http://or2014.helsinki.fi/?page_id=756" target="_blank">here.</a></b></font></div>
<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">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:</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><b><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">Build or enhance a repository ecosystem, in line with this year’s conference themes that include:</font></b></div>
<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">• Unconventional approaches to repository-like services</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">• Interconnection between publishers and repositories</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">• Researcher-centered design for scholarly workflows</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">• Adaptations to support curation lifecycle management, e.g., for research data</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">• Real-world scalability and performance stories: working at web-scale, with big data for global usage</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">• Requirements for holding restricted or classified data in repositories</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">• Infrastructure to accommodate national and international mandates for data management and open access</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">• Positioning repositories closer to (local, consortial, or cloud-based) cyberinfrastructure for data processing</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">• Leveraging connections to external services including:</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">• Remote identifier services (e.g., DOI, ORCID)</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">• (Re-)using repository data/metadata in new and unexpected ways, including integrated discovery</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">• Scholarly social media services, such as for annotation, review, comment, reputation, citation, and altmetrics</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">• CRIS and research management systems</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">• Digital preservation tools, services & infrastructure</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">• Community and sustainability in an open world</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">Specific challenges/prizes will be offered by sponsors. Information about these challenges will be added <b><a href="http://or2014.helsinki.fi/?page_id=756" target="_blank">here</a></b> as they are available.</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">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:<br>
</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span style="line-height:21px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">• Tweet your idea with the hashtag #OR2014Idea;</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">• <b><a href="http://or2014.helsinki.fi/?page_id=801" target="_blank">Submit your idea using this form</a></b> on the Open Repositories 2014 website, or;</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">• Email your idea to the Dev Challenge team through OR2014 mail box: <a href="mailto:or-2014@helsinki.fi" target="_blank">or-2014@helsinki.fi</a></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">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. <br>
</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><b><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">Registration for pre-conference Workshops, Tutorials and Meetings NOW OPEN</font></b></div>
<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">In addition to the Developer Challenge, the <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">pre-conference sessions of Open Repositories 2014 will be held at the University of Helsinki main campus area and</span> 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:</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">• Registration form for morning sessions <b><a href="https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/51809/lomake.html" target="_blank">here.</a></b></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">• Registration form for afternoon sessions <b><a href="https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/51807/lomake.html" target="_blank">here.</a></b></span><br>
</font></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">• Registration form for evening sessions <b><a href="https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/51773/lomake.html" target="_blank">here.</a></b></font></span></div>
</div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><font color="#000000">-- <br>Carol Minton Morris<br>DuraSpace<br>Director of Marketing and Communications<br>cmmorris@DuraSpace.org<br>Skype: carolmintonmorris<br>607 592-3135<br>
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