The Twelfth International Conference on Open Repositories, OR2017, will be held on June 26th-30th, 2017 in Brisbane, Australia. The organisers are pleased to issue this call for contributions to the program, with submissions due by 20 November 2016.
In 2017 the Open Repositories conference returns to Australia, where the Open Repositories journey started in Sydney 2006. Repositories have come a long way in the intervening years, having emerged as critical systems for managing, preserving and sharing intellectual, artistic and scientific output. As such, repositories have found a firm placing within scholarly processes and are becoming an integral vehicle to moving towards true Open Science. The OR community has established itself as an important contributor in this space, something we would like to emphasise in Brisbane by promoting the community’s ability to always stay at the forefront of development of both infrastructure and good practice.
For OR2017 the theme is Open : Innovation | Knowledge | Repositories, aiming to reflect how the Open Repository community continues to be at the forefront of developments, sharing knowledge, and working as an enabler of scholarship and open science. OR2017 will provide an opportunity to:
- showcase innovative repository services as well as innovations in functionality and user experience of repository software;
- introduce innovative uses of repositories, for example to accommodate new types of content, serve new groups of users, or achieve new goals;
- analyse drivers for repository innovation, including evolving technologies, changes in scholarly communication processes, as well as policies around open access to research outputs at institutional, national and international levels; and
- explore and highlight innovation in the wider ecosystem around repositories.
We welcome proposals on these ideas, but also on other theoretical, practical, technical, organisational or administrative topics related to 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.
KEY DATES
Readers of this call for proposals who are familiar with the OR conference series will notice that it is issued somewhat earlier than in previous years. This is done to benefit international participants, aiming to provide earlier feedback on submissions in order to leave enough time in advance of the conference to make travel arrangements for a journey to Australia.
- By 30 September 2016: Submission system opens
- 20 November 2016: Deadline for submissions
- 14 December 2016: Deadline for Scholarship Programme applications
- 03 February 2017: Submitters notified of acceptance (except Interest Groups)
- 03 February 2017: Registration opens
- 10 February 2017: Submitters notified of acceptance to Interest Groups
- 10 February 2017: Scholarship Programme winners notified
- 21 April 2017: All presenters are encouraged to register by the close of Early Bird, 21 April 2017
- 26-30 June 2017: OR2017 conference
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.
