From: "Mercer, Holly" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 13:08:19 +0000

Open Repositories 2013 - Reminder: Deadline for proposals is Monday, March 4!

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 http://or2013.net - register early and
reserve your accommodation as soon as you can! An outline of the
conference schedule is now available on the conference website at
http://or2013.net/program/session-schedule

We invite you to contribute to the conference program. The final
deadline for proposals is Monday, March 4.

This year’s conference theme is Use, Reuse, Reproduce. 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 http://www.runmycode.org/. See more about Dr. Stodden
here: http://www.stodden.net/

Some specific areas of interest for OR2013 are:

* Effective re-use of content--particularly research data--enabled by
embedded repository tools and services

* Effective re-use of software, services, and infrastructure to
support repository development

* Facilitation of reproducible research through access to data,
workflows, and code

* Services making use of repository metadata

* Focused, disciplinary or community-based software, services, and
infrastructure for use and reuse of content
Integration of data, including linked data, and external services with
repositories to provide solutions to specific domains

* Added-value services for repositories

* Long-term preservation of repositories and their contents

* Role and impact of repositories in the research ecosystem

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.

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.

Key dates and contacts

EXTENDED to 4 March 2013: Deadline for submissions
12 April 2013: Submitters notified of acceptance to general conference
19 April 2013: Submitters notified of acceptance to user groups
8-12 July 2013: OR2013 conference:

8 July 2013: Pre-conference workshops
9-11 July 2013: General Conference
11-12 July 2013: DSpace, EPrints, and Fedora user group meetings

Submission process
Conference Papers and Panels

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.

User Group Presentations

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.

24x7 Presentation Proposals

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.

Posters and Demos

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.

Workshops and Tutorials

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:

The subject of the event and what knowledge you intend to convey
Length of session (e.g., 1-hour, 2-hour? half a day? whole day?)
How many attendees you plan to accommodate
Technology and facility requirements
Any other supplies or support required
A brief statement on the learning outcomes from the session
Anything else you believe is pertinent to carrying out the session

Developer Challenge

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.

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 [log in to unmask]

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
(http://or2013.net/).

Program Co-Chairs:
Jon W. Dunn, Indiana University Bloomington, [log in to unmask]
Sarah L. Shreeves, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
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